albalfa t1_izmgug5 wrote on December 10, 2022 at 4:39 AM

Reply to comment by KCC416 in St. Vincent Hospital admits to inflating its charges for cardiac surgical procedures, agrees to pay feds $1.7M by outb0undflight

St. V's was bought by Vanguard and now is owned by Tenet, a for-profit company.

This puts it in a position of serving two masters.

Whether St. Vincent's qualifies as a Catholic hospital or not now seems to be in the eye of the beholder.

> St. Vincent Hospital is now owned by Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, but still qualifies as a Catholic hospital. “They are supposed to agree when they take over to continue to honor the ERDs” — an acronym for ethical and religious directives — “which is really what makes a hospital a Catholic hospital,”

WikiSummarizerBot t1_izmgvkn wrote on December 10, 2022 at 4:40 AM

Saint Vincent Hospital

>Saint Vincent Hospital is a 381-bed hospital located in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded by the Catholic Sisters of Providence of Holyoke in 1893, Saint Vincent's was named after the patron saint of the Sisters' order, Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1990, the hospital merged with the Fallon Healthcare System. Vanguard Health Systems purchased the hospital in 2005.

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KCC416 t1_iznwtd9 wrote on December 10, 2022 at 2:58 PM

But the original mission was for the ministry to serve the sick without all those nonsense $$$ politics. It is true that Saint Vincent’s does not perform abortions and won’t prescribe BCP on the campus from what I heard. There is actually a clause that the Catholic Church could buy back the hospital but it would be impossible $ wise. The whole point of going to the hospital and being treated like your family is long long gone due to short staffing and very heavy regulations. Up to including excessive duplicative charting.