Wealthiest Hospitals Got Billions in Bailout for Struggling Health Providers

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3. I looked it up and the hospital I work for has a venture capital fund

They have also furloughed nurses and other staff, decreased our staffing (higher number of patients to nurse ratios) even though we are reopening and have restarted electives (currently at 50% of previous elective surgery/procedure scheduling) and also have about 29 nursing home patients admitted (they are being moved to an area of the hospital that was previously closed down so will not be taking up previous acute care beds). There are a small number of Covid + patients admitted. There is no nursing shortage. These patients deserve better care. Nurses are calling in right and left to protest-- so they brought back the point system which was suspended in order to discourage people from coming in to work with symptoms and even the screening stations at the entrances are often unmanned.

I also found out that this Umbrella Corporation sold off a few non-performing hospitals to a horrible for profit company called Prime Healthcare Services in 2015. That company is known for hospital acquired infections, medicare fraud and inappropriate admissions from the ED (also closing down needed services like mental health). So there is a risk of that happening after they finish destroying everything that made my hospital a wonderful place for patients and employees. (High standards of evidence based care and supportive family like environment).

They keep whining about decrease revenue "lost money" yet they do have offshore accounts and a venture capital fund so can't be that sorry.