CNN report on high mortality rate for babies at a Florida hospital leads to inquiry
Source: CNN
(CNN)The Federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched an investigation into deaths of babies following open heart surgeries at St. Mary's Medical Center in Florida.
The investigation came in response to a CNN story this week that showed between 2011 to 2013, the West Palm Beach hospital had a 12.5% mortality rate for open heart surgery, three times the national average.
"We take these allegations very seriously. CMS is actively investigating these complaints," Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, wrote in an email. The agency is investigating because most of the patients who had heart surgery at St. Mary's were Medicaid patients.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/health/st-marys-medical-center-investigation/index.html
Okay... having a hard time figuring this one out (via Google); WHO OWNS THIS "hospital"???? HCA???
For-profit healthcare in this country is an overwhelming success... for SHAREHOLDERS. It is an overwhelming FAILURE for everyone else.
THIS has GOT to be curbed.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)"Meaningful Use Stage 3".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_record#Meaningful_use
I dig where CMS and the Fed are coming from (the promotion of EMR/EHR), but the HOOPS they are making practices and providers jump thru in Stage 3 is ridiculous.
They should spend their time monitoring the for-profit entities (like HCA) that scam them out of billions every year.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)stated a majority of the deaths were medicaid patients. So were they not being provided the same level of care as private insurance patients or were they higher risk for other reasons?
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)It was heartbreaking. Apparently they bill 1/2M for each procedure thus they won't stop killing babies because they want the money.
DirtyHippyBastard
(217 posts)kath
(10,565 posts)Medical school, nor does it have a Pediatrics residency program. I would never recommend that a child be treated at such a place, especially for something as complex as cardiac surgery.
Yes, a lot of people examine you or your kid at a teaching hospital, which some can consider annoying. but such a system provides for OVERSIGHT.
pugetres
(507 posts)who takes on cases that are beyond his actual experience or who is so confident that he takes on cases that would usually be treated "medically" - as in "take your baby home and make her short life be filled with love". I've worked with cardiac surgeons who had those problems.
The medicaid part though, I'm not sure that is a factor. The hospital might see more medicaid and/or uninsured patients than average. And, after a baby is born ill and needing extensive treatment, social services might work to get uninsured infants onto medicaid.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)They own 30 hospitals across the country and many more urgent care facilities.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)They show:
ST. MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER, INC
Principal Address
1445 Ross Ave Ste 1400
Dallas, TX 75202
Changed: 01/23/2015
Mailing Address
1445 Ross Ave Ste 1400
Dallas, TX 75202
Changed: 01/23/2015
Registered Agent Name & Address
C T CORPORATION SYSTEM
1200 S. PINE ISLAND RD.
PLANTATION, FL 33324
Officer/Director Detail
Name & Address
Title P
CARBONE, DAVIDE M
1445 ROSS AVE STE 1400
DALLAS, TX 75202
Title S
MACK, KRISTINA A
1445 ROSS AVE STE 1400
DALLAS, TX 75202
Title T
MURPHY, TYLER C
1445 ROSS AVE STE 1400
DALLAS, TX 75202
C T CORPORATION SYSTEM
Principal Address
111 EIGHTH AVE
13TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10011
Changed: 04/07/2008
Mailing Address
111 EIGHTH AVE
13TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10011
Changed: 04/21/2006
Registered Agent Name & Address
THE CORPORATION COMPANY
1200 SOUTH PINE ISLAND RD.
PLANTATION, FL 33324
Address Changed: 01/31/1992
Officer/Director Detail
Name & Address
Title TCFO
NESTOR, THOMAS
111 EIGHTH AVE, 13TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10011
Title SEVP
GOLD, DEIDRA D
2700 LAKE COOK ROAD
RIVERWOODS, IL 60015
Title VPAT
HEALY, PETER F
2700 LAKE COOK ROAD
RIVERWOODS, IL 60015
THE CORPORATION COMPANY
Principal Address
1200 S. PINE ISLAND ROAD
PLANTATION, FL 33324
Changed: 04/24/2006
Mailing Address
1200 S. PINE ISLAND ROAD
PLANTATION, FL 33324
Changed: 04/24/2006
Registered Agent Name & Address C T CORPORATION SYSTEM
1200 SOUTH PINE ISLAND ROAD
PLANTATION, FL 33324
Name Changed: 07/21/1992
Address Changed: 07/21/1992
Officer/Director Detail Name & Address
Title SEVP
GOLD, DEIDRA D
2700 LAKE COOK ROAD
RIVERWOODS, IL 60015
Title PD
FLYNN, RICHARD F
111 8TH AVE 13TH FLOOR
NY, NY 10011
Title VPAT
HEALY, PETER F
2700 LAKE COOK ROAD
RIVERWOODS, IL 60015
Title DT
NESTOR, THOMAS
111 EIGHTH AVE, 13TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10011
I have to admire the circular nature of the corporate ownership - C T CORPORATION SYSTEM is owned by The Corporate Company which is owned by C T CORPORATION SYSTEM. And the name "The Corporate Company" has me in awe!
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)The news article said Tenet (not the linked one, but the earlier video) and there is a Tenet person sitting on their Executive board, but when I dug down they aren't listed on the Tenet website.
Interesting.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...Gordon Fucking Gekko.
grandpamike1
(193 posts)The state that elected a Governor who scammed Medicare in the HCA Medicare/Medicaid fraud, and they elect him. How incredible is that ?