And probably owned by Cleveland Clinic, which kills patients every day without a care in the world. Can’t sue them, they’ve tied up all local lawyers. In our area, CC bought up the local hospitals and turned them into cash machines with diminished patient care.
Or University Hospitals.
UH bought Lake County Hospitals System where I live.
LHS had recently built a new hospital called Tri-Point, which had earned a really bad reputation for poor emergency room care, to the point of it being called Die-Point.
Smaller hospitals are being gobbled up by the big players all over.
But it isn’t all bad.
Large systems can give small struggling hospitals an infusion much needed of cash and better doctors.
A general practice doctor of my acquaintaince opened a solo practice in a strip mall, with weekend coverage from a couple of other local docs, and developed a list of patients for the next 20 years. Then the huge regional university hospital 18 miles away offered him a deal to put its name on his practice, and they would send him patients and take certain referrals for the next several years. He signed on, business boomed, and at the end of those several years, the big hospital invoked fine print “option” in the contract—and replaced him with a third-world doctor who would work for much less. He had to leave the premises and start over in his fifties.
Like what Starbucks and Walmart did to all the mom'n'pop coffee shops and small vendors when they took over the retail marketplace.