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FEMALE NEWSREADER: LAURA SULLIVAN: MALE NEWSREADER: It’s a huge problem not just in the Latino community, but also in the Black community. LAURA SULLIVAN: This is a story about those hospitals, largely government-funded, whose primary mission is to care for the poor and uninsured. They’re called safety-net hospitals. BRAD SPELLBERG, M.D., Chief Med. Director, LAC+USC: Why are safety nets hit the hardest? Because our patients are vulnerable. We serve a community of working poor. We serve people who are working essential jobs. Buenos días, señor. Homeless patients. Patients with mental illness. Substance abuse addiction disorder. We are expected to care for the patients the other hospitals won’t care for.

Cutting corners in a crisis: Staffers at Fatima Hospital detail poor working conditions

Cutting corners in a crisis: Staffers at Fatima Hospital detail poor working conditions A new FRONTLINE documentary investigates how some for-profit hospitals are deepening health care disparities in the US By Alexa Gagosz Globe Staff,Updated May 18, 2021, 4:56 p.m. Email to a Friend Inside a COVID-19 intensive care unit at LAC-USC Medical Center.Nick Kraus/FRONTLINE (PBS) PROVIDENCE — The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on disparities in the American health care system, and highlighted the problems faced by for-profit hospitals as they struggle to serve low-income, working-class communities. Many of these so-called “safety net” hospitals have been in crisis for years.

Proposed deal involving for-profit Rhode Island hospitals sparks sharp battle

Proposed deal involving for-profit Rhode Island hospitals sparks sharp battle Published Thu Feb 25 2021 06:44:15 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) As Rhode Island’s two-largest hospital groups pursue a merger, a fierce battle is playing out over the control of the state’s third-biggest hospital group. CharterCARE Health Partners includes Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence and Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, which are among the largest employers and biggest taxpayers in their communities. by Ian Donnis Back in 2014, a California-based for-profit company, Prospect Medical Holdings, was described as a savior when it acquired two financially troubled Rhode Island hospitals, Our Lady of Fatima in North Providence and Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence.

Rich Investors Stripped Millions From a Hospital Chain and Want to Leave It Behind A Tiny State Stands in Their Way

Rich Investors Stripped Millions From a Hospital Chain and Want to Leave It Behind. A Tiny State Stands in Their Way. ProPublica 2/4/2021 ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In a David-and-Goliath battle, a group of Rhode Island officials and a union for hospital workers have so far stymied a multi-billion-dollar private equity fund’s attempt to unload its controlling stake in a national for-profit hospital chain. Investors led by the private equity firm, Leonard Green & Partners, previously extracted $645 million in dividends from the investment, and the firm now seeks to leave behind another $1.3 billion in financial obligations at the chain. In the face of more than a year of often-vehement public opposition in Rhode Island, the hospital chain suddenly agreed in the final days of December to pay $27.25 million to resolve a group of lawsuits they had previously refused t

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