Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes in June 2018:
Denmark based drugs maker Novo Nordisk eliminating 3-thousand jobs globally, blaming the “uncertain and unpredictable” U.S. healthcare system (ObamaCare-ACA)!
“…the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving more than $2 billion in false billings.”–National Health Care Fraud Takedown
New York Times: U.S. Emergency Rooms Run Out of Vital Drugs
Becker’s Hospital Review: 1 in 3 nurses have reported sexual harassment by physicians; no action taken 74% of the time
The Spokesman-Review: Google is training machines to predict when a patient will die
ALABAMA: Regional Medical Center Jacksonville shutdown, the property was donated to Jacksonville State University as a big tax write-off.
ARIZONA: Bankrupt busted Gilbert Hospital and Florence Hospital both suddenly shutdown, local news reports said employees and patients were notified one day before the shutdowns began.
CALIFORNIA: Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital threatened 45 med-techs with layoffs if they weren’t willing to work 12 hours shifts. Citrus Valley Health Partners accused of destroying competition through ‘doctor poaching’. Sonoma West Medical Center said despite recent layoffs and its slightly improved cash flow, it can’t cover its mountain of debts and operating costs, on top of that its minimum debt payment is expected to double to almost half-a-million dollars per month in Autumn, and wait there’s more as health insurance company Anthem is suing the hospital, so it will most likely shutdown by the end of the year. Coalinga Regional Medical Center suddenly shutdown, about 175 jobs gone due to lack of revenue! California Medical Business Services issued a shutdown WARN, 64 jobs in Arcadia gone by the end of August. Tri-City Healthcare issued a shutdown WARN for its Oceanside location, 80 jobs gone by the end of August. In Palmdale, Antelope Valley Hospital issued a layoff WARN, 137 jobs gone mid-August! In Long Beach, Molina Healthcare eliminating 106 jobs by July! In Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai suddenly laid off 187 people! Generic drugs maker Impax Laboratories issued a shutdown WARN for its Hayward factory, 533 jobs gone by August!
COLORADO: Non-profit Mental Health Partners suddenly laid off 17 people, blaming “continuing changes in the healthcare landscape”.
CONNECTICUT: Medical and drugs supplier McKesson shutting down its Rocky Hill facility, 105 jobs gone! Purdue Pharma laid off 350 people due to lawsuits over the opioid crisis: “Purdue has ended its sales force engagement with prescribers for all of its medicines…”-Bob Josephson
FLORIDA: Transitions Optical eliminating nine jobs in Pinellas Park.
GEORGIA: Former Georgia Medical Examiner Pleads Guilty to Opioid Conspiracy
Three Rite Aid locations shutdown in Hall County due to the take-over by British empire owned Walgreens Boots Alliance. Chestatee Regional Hospital shutting down at the end of July, to be sold-off to a competitor who in turn plans to sell it to state taxpayers (Georgia Board of Regents), resulting in 141 jobs killed!
GUAM: Doctor testifies that taxpayer funded Guam Memorial Hospital is ‘dysfunctional on all levels’
IDAHO: Lawsuit: Idaho Can’t Ignore Your Dying Wishes If You’re Pregnant
Idaho GOP panel passes resolution opposing Medicaid expansion
Idaho’s ObamaCare-ACA insurers ask for substantial individual market rate increases
Officials confirm Idaho’s first human plague case since 1992
ILLINOIS: Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog: Nurse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Drugs from Illinois Nursing Home
Pleasant Hill Healthcare issued a shutdown WARN for its Girard location, 66 jobs gone by September.
INDIANA: Saint Vincent Health suddenly laid off 85 people, the hospital operator laid off 75 people earlier in the year and 1-hundred people last year. Syneos Health issued a layoff WARN, 98 jobs gone by the end of July.
IOWA: After less than three years christian owned Keokuk Medical Center shutting down by the end of August, administrators say it was just a stop-gap clinic until bigger and better centers could be built. Mercy Medical Center eliminating 43 jobs as part of its consolidation ops. Wellmark eliminating 30 jobs in Des Moines, by August.
KANSAS: Blue Valley Hospital had its Medicare contract revoked, facing shutdown
Judge Strikes Down Kentucky’s Medicaid Work Rules
Pikeville Medical Center laid off 1-hundred people and forced another 30 to quit or be fired! Hospital administrators claim the decision was made 45 days prior: “So what happened is in 2016 we had the best year we ever had at the end of the 2016 year, but in 2017 we had the worst year we ever had.”-Donovan Blackburn, CEO
LOUISIANA: Tennessee based HCA Healthcare announced it will sell Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Lafayette. University Health Conway forced to temporarily shutdown clinic ops due to a broken water line.
MASSACHUSETTS: Flex Pharma eliminating 60% of its jobs due to the failure of one of its experimental drugs!
NEVADA: 4 charged for roles in health care fraud
NEW JERSEY: Healthcare executive goes to prison for $100M USD doctor bribery scheme
In Jersey City, Majestic Rehabilitation and Nursing Center eliminating 166 jobs by September!
NEW YORK: Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services’ troubled youth treatment center Hawthorne Cedar Knolls eliminating 107 jobs as part of its pending shutdown due to never ending security problems (like formerly sex trafficked children escaping almost daily)! Metro Athletic Medicine and Fitness issued a layoff WARN for its Brooklyn-NYC location, 54 jobs gone by September due to loss of contract. Millennium Medical Staffing shutting down ops in Bronx-NYC, 135 jobs gone by the end of August, due to being taken over by a competitor! First Care of New York, also in Bronx-NYC, eliminating 851 jobs by August, also due to being taken over by a competitor!
NORTH CAROLINA: Blue Cross Blue Shield accuses LifeBrite Community Hospital of overbilling
OHIO: Pharmacy middlemen are charging Ohio taxpayers three to six time going rate for drugs.
Premier Health’s 491 bed Good Samaritan Hospital, in Dayton, shutting down mid-July, 1-thousand-6-hundred jobs affected! Premier Health said it’s because it has another hospital just five miles from Good Samaritan.
OKLAHOMA: Tennessee based Community Health Systems selling AllianceHealth Deaconess, a 291 bed hospital in OK City, to a competitor.
OREGON: Oregon Prescription Drug Program accused of failing to issue rebates
PENNSYLVANIA: Half of hepatitis C patients with private insurance denied life-saving drugs
North Philadelphia Health System-Girard Medical Center laying off 1-hundred employees in an attempt to reduce operating costs!
SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota losing fight against resurgent sex diseases
TENNESSEE: Big South Fork Medical Center eliminating 20 jobs, admitting they’ve been overstaffed since their grand opening last year. Meharry Medical College suddenly laid off 55 employees.
TEXAS: The state Fire Marshal’s Office investigating the cause of an explosion at the construction site of Coryell Memorial Healthcare System, which killed one person and wounded 15! Medical supplies provider Arjo shutdown its San Antonio location, 54 jobs gone due to “A global decision has been made to co-localize research and development…” Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital warning of mass layoffs and bankruptcy due to $11-million USD of debts. Huntsville Memorial eliminating its Joe G. Davis School of Vocational Nursing due to increasing competition from area nursing schools. Stamford Healthcare System suddenly shutdown its Regional Services Department and laid off 29 people, directly blaming lack of ObamaCare-ACA insurance reimbursements: “Unfortunately, the refusal of insurance companies to pay for the healthcare services provided has decreased the viability of the program.”-statement made to Jones County Regional Healthcare System board of directors
WASHINGTON: Seattle based Qliance Medical Group/Qliance Management bankrupt busted after shutting down six ‘members only’ primary care clinics last year, due to lack of ‘membership’.
WISCONSIN: Roche Molecular Systems shutting down its ops in Madison, 79 jobs gone by June 2020.
WYOMING: Antidepressants May Be Less Effective At Higher Elevation
Active pharmaceutical ingredients maker Lannett-Cody Laboratories eliminating 50 jobs in Wyoming by moving them to New York, despite last year promising to expand Wyoming production.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral May 2018: “…WILL CREATE DEATHS. THIS WILL KILL PEOPLE. PEOPLE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF THIS.”