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North Carolina attorney general sues HCA for lapses at Mission Health (www.statnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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North Carolina’s attorney general is suing HCA Healthcare, alleging the for-profit hospital chain has “degraded” the formerly nonprofit Mission Health.

Attorney general Josh Stein’s complaint, filed Thursday, accuses the country’s largest hospital chain of failing to provide the emergency and cancer care it had promised to keep intact. Its nearly 60 pages describe a catastrophic state of dysfunction at Mission’s flagship Asheville hospital. They contain stunning allegations of patients being treated in waiting areas within full view of other patients, nurses emptying trash bins and delivering food, and patients found dead in emergency room beds hours after they died.

“For-profit HCA has broken its promise to the people of western North Carolina and to my office,” Stein said in a statement. “Quality health care is too important — in some cases, a matter of life and death. But HCA apparently cares more about its profits than its patients.”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The nightmare of NC hospitals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think it's more of an HCA for-profit thing. All my coworkers who have ever worked for HCA rarely had anything good to say about that company. Businesses that are for profit do not put patient care above all else. By trying to squeeze more profit out they cut staffing and quality equipment and increase mandatory overtime. In the end it's the staff and moreover the patients who suffer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah. For-profit healthcare needs to be outlawed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Good insight.