Prospect Medical Holdings, the for-profit owner of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, could soon sell its local assets to an Atlanta nonprofit.
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.
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Inside a COVID-19 intensive care unit at LAC-USC Medical Center.Nick Kraus/FRONTLINE (PBS)
PROVIDENCE â 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 âsafety netâ hospitals have been in crisis for years.
Roger Williams Medical, Fatima Hospital owner withdraws hospital conversion application
As part of the regulatory review process, the attorney general was to release a report Friday that would have detailed owner Prospect Medical Holdingsâ financial health. Instead, the review now ends.
By Alexa Gagosz Globe Staff,Updated April 30, 2021, 10:54 a.m.
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The attorney generalâs decision comes just a day after tensions between Prospect and Neronhaâs office quickly escalated when Prospect threatened to close Roger Williams Medical and Fatima Hospital.David Goldman/Associated Press
PROVIDENCE â As Lifespan Corporation and Care New England move forward with their merger, Prospect Medical Holdings, the owner of Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence, announced Friday morning that it has formally withdrawn its hospital conversions act and change in effective control applications from the state of R