A year-long NBC news investigation found that HCA hospitals across the country cut corners in “telemetry” staffing at the expense of patients’ heath, sometimes leading to death. This is all in the interest of boosting their profit according to doctors, nurses and administrators.
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I thought at one time being tech, but not now😢
Awesome story😁. There needs to be regulation! HCA definitely needs to held accountable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What’s an oath for if you’re not abiding by it! That’s lawlessness; & it’s just as bad a drug dealer on the street. He doesn’t care about your health either & all he wants is your money – same scenario except one goes to jail & the other gets bonuses, commissions, yadda yadda yadda – smh😖
Thank you for revealing this dangerous practice!
So true, sad but true.
they charge 60,000 for 3 days
I used to be a Scheduler for an HCA hospital. The decisions they make are almost only with profits in mind.
As a RN in the US system, this is not surprising to me at all. You've been running stories like this for years. We need to address our health care crises as a nation. Our system recently removed clinic lab techs and dumped the responsibility on the nurses. We have NO lab training whatsoever. You need to have enough bodies working on the floor to actually perform resuscitations.
In other news, water is wet
It's all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Oh no im so suprised, the usa has such a problem with healthcare… ._."
Name says it all- for profit, blah blah!
It’s okay in corporate America , all about CEOs making millions
Same for their residency programs. Full of lies and false promises
Thank you NBC for saying doctors and nurses pushed the covid vaxx for profits.. The "Conspiracy Theorists" were right all along and those yelling conspiracy theorists were the liars and tinfoil munchers. Time for Dems to takeoff the tinfoil hat and admit the truth
First of all, I am a nurse and not all patients are required to be on a telemetry monitor. Even when admitted on a telemetry floor. Finding the patient a bed and a room is more important despite it being called the telemetry floor. Telemetry monitoring is often implemented when a patient has a history of a cardiac problem and how far along their current diagnosis is. If the patient was ordered to receive cardiac monitoring and the monitor was not applied, you need to address the nursing staff. If the technician did not report the monitor alert, the problem is where the technician did not report it. Patient’s can have a heart attack at anytime during their hospital stay. I am very sorry she lost her husband but the hospital system is not perfect, there are policies in place for this. We just hope it is being followed.
All these foooking hospitals put profits before patients! Welcome to America!!!
Saw an investigation on this with a doctor who came out on HCA Hospitals a couple years ago…so still NO CHANGES??
Why HCA
not surprising. milking workers for all they got to save money for profits.
What a supris e a for profit healthsystem first priority is making money
This is what happens when hospitals are run like fortune 500’s. There is no reason why a single entity needs to own 16 hospitals, that’s disgusting. They’re being run like grocery store chains. My hospital was taken over by a larger system with 6 hospitals 6 years ago, now, they want to merge with an even larger system with 14 hospitals. Healthcare mergers aren’t about giving patients access to services, they’re about money.
I hope this investigation will save lives 🙏🏽‼️
6:00 What kind of question was that? Are you picking on them? If the evidence wasn’t there, there would be no story.
Whoever did Cynthia McFadden’s makeup for the nurse interview should never do makeup again 🥴
I work at HCA hospital and was floated to 4 different units in one shift because of the understaff . HCA is definitely a profit driven company overcharging the patients and underpaying the staff .
This is why I will never go to HCA hospital.