Massive Failures at HCA Hospital and I Guarantee No One Will Get Fired
Many of you know how bad the Corporate Practice of Medicine or CPOM has become and have heard about HCA taking over Mission Hospital in NC. Here is the federal report on this disaster:
The long-awaited report by federal investigators takes the reader behind the curtains at HCA-owned Mission Hospital, and it’s a dismal scene: hours-long delays in critical tests, patients piled in hallways instead of rooms, families pleading for attention, overworked nurses, and doctors’ orders ignored.
The 384-page report, published in its entirety Thursday in Asheville Watchdog, provides an almost microscopic analysis of the serious medical, staffing and management issues that local nurses and patients have been decrying ever since HCA, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chain, took over the Mission Health system in 2019.
Beyond the headlines — four patients dead and dozens of others victimized in 2022 and 2023 by delays in care, neglect, long waits for lab work, unapproved and expired medications, and a litany of other failures by HCA and Mission management — the report by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services analyzes in detail how the hospital put patients in immediate jeopardy of harm, or even death.
Feel free to read the article above or the entire report but just know it won’t make a difference. I know you will get angry. You will get sad at the details. I get it but nothing will happen. The “smartest people in the room” or administrators will not get personally sued or even fired. Yes, the hospital will have to pay out a bit, but will that add more staffing to the ER? Probably not.
Here’s another article called:
HCA, responding to Stein lawsuit, says it never committed to quality care at Mission
Yes, you read that right. The “company challenges contract breach allegation, touts accomplishments.” Not only do they feel they didn’t do anything wrong but they are bragging. And let’s not forget the pay and bonuses these administrators get. See this report here which relates to the image above. FYI: Mission Hospital stopped reporting what they pay the administrators but they did raises prices 10% across the board.
Welcome to CPOM. This is Wall Street playing doctor with no repercussions and it will only get worse .
CEO pay is a problem across all industries. It’s become a perpetual motion machine where they clean they have to pay that much to attract talent. But most of us know CEOs and they’re not that much different than you and I. They just clawed their way to the top. Not much is going to change unless the system collapses and the government takes over for better or worse. Or the trial attorneys figure out how to win billions in punitive damages for malfeasance.
Sometimes I just wanna cry….
Sounds like the VA. “All that is unsustainable, ends.” Laurance J. Peter
Doug, you were right, it left me angry and sad. The paper on nonprofit hospital executive CEO’s pay was methodologically impressive. Any meaningful proposals for a system-wide solution?
Not right off the bat