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What does this mean for Watsonville patients and the the community?
According to Eileen Applebaum, an economist who studies private equity firms and the co-director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, “there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that patients are worse treated” at hospitals where private equity firms like Leonard Green are major investors in hospital companies, as is now the case in Watsonville.
”But what we do see is that [if the firm] thinks an operation is not paying its way, they will close it at that particular hospital,” she said, explaining that certain patient services might be reduced or shut down. “They will say: Well, there’s another hospital, it’s only another 50 miles [away]. [You] want to deliver your baby, go there.”
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WARREN TOWNSHIP Parents of a man shot to death outside a Warren Township bar in 2016 are still seeking information that would lead to solving the crime.
Charles and Margaret Poole of Akron are fighting to see justice in the April 2016 shooting death of James E. Dotson Jr., 33, of Perkinswood Boulevard SE in Warren. It occurred in the parking lot of the J&L Lounge, 1957 Highland Ave. SW.
“I’ve traveled to the health department to try to get a death certificate, and I am waiting to hear from the police sergeant who is handling the case. I just don’t know what to do next,” Charles Poole said. On the final day of 2020, Poole traveled to Trumbull County in an effort to get a copy, but found the office closed.