ADVISORY/New SEIU Study Shows How Tenet Hospitals Put Patients at Risk.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday (Dec. 12) LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2002 leading health care expert will be joined by nurses, patient advocates, and health care union leaders at a press conference in Los Angeles Thursday, December 12, 2002, to release a study on the staffing and patient care practices that are putting patients at risk in Tenet Healthcare (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TCH TCH Trans-Canada Highway TCH Texas Children's Hospital (Houston, TX) TCH The Children's Hospital TCH Traffic Channel TCH Threshold Crossing Height TCH Toyota Camry Hybrid TCH Taurocholic Acid ) hospitals in California List of hospitals in California (U.S. state), grouped by county and sorted by hospital name. Alameda County
The study, "Tenet Hospitals: Corporate Conduct Puts Patients at Risk," will be presented by Howard S. Berliner, Sc. D, Professor of Health Management and Policy at the New School University of New York There is no institution of higher education in the State of New York or the United States of America that bears the name University of New York. However, in confusion, it is possible that such a reference may regard the following: Recent public attention has focused on the revenue side of Tenet's corporate abuse of the health care system. "This report tells the previously hidden story of how the cost-cutting side of Tenet's profit-maximization strategy adversely affects patients," says Berliner. Berliner will also provide an estimate of the unnecessary risks of patient deaths associated with Tenet's practices. At the press conference at 11:30 AM pacific standard time (Ronald Reagan State Building, 300 South Spring St, Los Angeles), Berliner will be joined by Lark Galloway-Gilliam, who will speak about her father's experience in a Tenet hospital, as well as Rose Sommer, RN, a former cardiac intensive care unit nurse at a Tenet-owned hospital in Los Angeles, and Luisa Blue, RN, president of the SEIU SEIU Service Employees International Union SEIU Special Education Intake Unit SEIU Secondary Education Interdisciplinary Unit SEIU Software Engineering Institute Union Nurse Alliance of Southern California. For more information or for a copy of the report, which is embargoed until Thursday, December 12, 11:30 AM PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there , call Dawn Le at 202-898-3487. |
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