Loretto Hospital has treated and employed generations of people in the Austin community. The hospital has been an anchor in the predominantly Black neighborhood — an area that’s dealt with both historic and recent health disparities, including far higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths than the city as a whole. But over the last six months, controversies and questions linked to Loretto have .
Friends and associates of a former Loretto Hospital executive have been making money from the safety-net hospital a finding that comes shortly after the same executive resigned amid allegations of inappropriate COVID-19 vaccine distribution.