2 weeks following a cyberattack on health provider Ascension (19 states / 140 hospitals, 160000+ associates & 36000+ affiliated providers), INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana-based FOX59 TV reports nurses are resigning from their jobs with Ascension, as the chaos resulting from the attack has made working conditions unsafe. FOX59 has an interview with a nurse who quit his job (13 years) at the local Ascension St. Vincent Hospital after he caught many errors and potentially unsafe situations and was fed up with how poorly the hospital was handling the whole thing. Finally, when his bosses asked him to fill in some of the staffing gaps in a unit where he hadn’t had any training, he and another nurse said that was enough and walked out. "It’s not worth risking our own license as well in our professional career to take that assignment”.
“I just want to warn those patients that are coming to any of the Ascension facilities, there will be delays in care. There is potential for error and for harm."
The nurse heard it could take three to six months for things to go back to normal.
My own experience going to an Ascension ER in Birmingham, AL. in 2018-'19. I found that when my disposition was qualified as "self pay" (no insurance or stated source of income) I did not receive adequate medical treatment and was told no injuries appeared in X-Rays and CT that show I had broken my skull (an injury I almost died from - see images in video). Furthermore, you can hear in recorded phone calls in my other videos the lengths other professional doctors will go to support this fallacy. Millionaires who went to college for 10 years to do their jobs risked their professional reputations versus correcting mistakes.
A series of talking points underpinning the modus operandi of Ascension's patient dumping procedures in these facilities may be highlighted in this latest case.
I encountered far larger issues of medical fraud and corruption in my dealings with medical staff and facilities around the Birmingham, Alabama area in recent years. I believe much of the fortunes and millions / billions of dollars in profit enjoyed by Ascension and their associates are underpinned by a mountain of wrongfully treated patients who suffered at the hands of this medical provider's care. I almost did not survive multiple misdiagnoses I encountered going into their ER and attempts to have Ascension account and correct it errors were met with denials and excuses as to their responsibility. I highlight many of these, even recording phone exchanges in other videos on my Youtube Channel.
I replay My October. 13th, 2021 phone call to Ascension CEO Joseph Impicciche who's hospital oversight network includes Ascension Saint Vincent’s East Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.
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