The wealth of the Frist family, HCA’s founders and largest shareholders, recently surpassed $17 billion – a more than $1.5 billion increase in just two months when an independent report listed their wealth as of March 2021 at $15.6 billion and named them healthcare’s worst pandemic profiteers. Tens of thousands of frontline HCA healthcare workers… Continue reading BNB6: By The Numbers
Nation’s Largest Union of Healthcare Workers Take the Fight for PPE and Higher Wages to HCA Healthcare’s Hometown The morning of HCA’s annual shareholder meeting, the largest union representing frontline healthcare workers, SEIU, launched a major ad blitz in Nashville, Tennessee, blasting HCA for its staggering pay inequity and educating the public on HCA’s alleged… Continue reading BNB5: Driving The Week
Yesterday, a senior nurse with 19 years of service at her HCA hospital presented Proposal 5 at the annual HCA shareholder meeting, to tie executive pay — like CEO Sam Hazen’s $30 million salary — to patient care outcomes. The Frist family’s wealth recently passed $16 billion after more than doubling during the pandemic, while… Continue reading BNB5: By The Numbers
El Paso Times: Union’s Goal: $15 per Hour Minimum Wage at HCA’s Las Palmas, Del Sol Hospitals in El Paso ‘We continue to be appalled that a corporation that pays $30 million to (its) CEO hasn’t established $15 (per hour) as a starting wage for its workers across the nation., said Elsa Caballero, president of… Continue reading BNB4: Must Read Stories
Advocates Ring Alarm on Holliday’s Fitness as Chairman of Audit and Compliance Committee Ahead of the annual HCA shareholder meeting in Nashville, frontline healthcare workers and investor advocates are urging shareholders to vote against Charles O. Holliday, Jr., for chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee. They argue that $1 billion in Medicare overpayments may… Continue reading BNB4: Driving The Week
Recent evidence that HCA may have reaped $1 billion in potential overpayments from Medicare from 2014 to 2018 calls into question Charles O. Holliday, Jr.’s fitness for Chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee. HCA was investigated in the 1990s by the U.S. Department of Justice for healthcare fraud, pleading guilty to 14 criminal counts… Continue reading BNB4: By The Numbers
HCA has been forced to reconcile with their record on patient care, safety, and worker rights in the past week, as their latest expansion effort in a small town in Georgia became an unexpected lightning rod for major controversy. NBC News: CEOs of Public U.S. Firms Earn 320 Times as Much as Workers. Even Some… Continue reading BNB3: Must Read Stories
NBC News Spotlights Wage Inequality, Shocking Profits at Nation’s Largest For-Profit Hospital Corporation In a national NBC interview with Cynthia McFadden that aired on Wednesday, Jamelle Brown, an essential worker at an HCA hospital shared what it has been like working for poverty wages in a pandemic – and how he found hope in his… Continue reading BNB3: Driving The Week
HCA CEO Sam Hazen was paid $30.4 million last year, while HCA workers were paid poverty wages as low as $26,000 to care for patients in the pandemic. When frontline HCA hospital worker Jamelle Brown got sick with COVID-19 while working at his Kansas City HCA facility, HCA gave him a $6 coupon to recognize… Continue reading BNB3: By The Numbers
Excess Medicare Admissions Scandal HCA has been forced to reconcile with their record on patient care, safety, and worker rights in the past week, as their latest expansion effort in a small town in Georgia became an unexpected lightning rod for major controversy. Becker’s Hospital Review – Union Warns Against HCA’s Purchase of Rural Georgia… Continue reading BNB2: Must Read Stories