00:00All right, as always, you can go to YouTube channel My Medical Nightmare and see 40 plus
00:07hours video on everything that happened to me. After a devastating cyber attack hit the computer
00:14systems of major U.S. health provider Ascension, 19 states, 140 hospitals, 160,000 associates,
00:2336,000 affiliated providers. Now, an interesting thing has happened in the public discourse
00:31following this cyber attack. As you can see, in over 60 to 60 hours of video documentation,
00:40recorded phone calls, uploaded medical records, and correspondence between Ascension, its affiliates,
00:48its partners, etc. on this YouTube channel. Ascension is a bad business. They're rife with
00:56corruption. They're responsible for damage to countless numbers of people. All right, July 25,
01:032024. Ascension's sell-off of assets continues. Word on the street is there are federal investigations
01:12into Ascension. It's going to be one of the biggest health care fraud cases in U.S. history.
01:20According to the Chicago Tribune newspaper, it was announced that Ascension is selling nine
01:27hospitals in the state of Illinois to California-based prime health care. According to the article,
01:36that's more than half of the hospitals Ascension operates in that state. The third largest city
01:42in America, Chicago, is located there. The price of the deal, not disclosed. University of
01:49Alabama at Birmingham, UAB, recently announced their intent to buy several large hospitals located
01:56around Birmingham, Alabama. A figure of $450 million was printed in the media. This falls news
02:05published by Crain's Chicago business newspaper in June of this year that following Ascension Illinois'
02:14decision to outsource hospitalist staff at 10 of its Chicago area hospitals to a private equity-backed
02:24staffing firm, more than one-third of those doctors and clinicians have left the organization.
02:32They estimate around 35 percent of the 110 full and part-time workers, including medical directors,
02:40doctors, physicians, assistants, walked away from Ascension when the outsourcing transition started
02:47on June 1st. Since hospitalists were first notified of the labor transition in January, some have been
02:55concerned about SEP Health's private equity ownership, a fact they have said will lead to larger patient
03:03caseloads at some Ascension hospitals as proposed under the staffing firm's contracts as it seeks to grow
03:11revenues. Hospitalists who previously spoke to Crain's argued more patient per provider and other changes
03:19of staffing models could worsen patient care quality. Hospitalists also stood to take pay cuts
03:27under SEP Health's contracts. The Chicago Medical Society, which represents more than 17,000 local physicians
03:38and the Illinois Nurses Association, raised concerns over this deal. It looks as if Ascension is trying to beat
03:48a hasty retreat. They're rushing to the exits. And one possibility here is that Ascension was in fact
03:57ordered to sell its assets and leave the marketplace. Others have accused Ascension of
04:05pumping dumps. They'll swoop into an area, buy up a group of hospitals and medical practices,
04:13and proceed to bleed them dry. Business ethics, medical ethics, morals and the law go on the back burner,
04:23an afterthought in the pure pursuit of amassing money and power. They start running into trouble
04:30with regulators and the law. They quickly sell off the hospitals and doctors. All right, so what's led to
04:38all the problems for Ascension? My own case dealing with this hospital as a patient, what I found was
04:46after I was misdiagnosed by Ascension doctors and employees, I found I had a life-threatening
04:55broken skull injury. Took this issue back to Ascension, the radiologists, etc. They denied any injury
05:04pre-existed in their own images and that would not help me get those analyses re-read and reversed.
05:14So trying to establish the truth of my injury from the outset, it became a pissing contest.
05:22And I think instances such as this, this is how Ascension is really running afoul.
05:28Because they do this to a couple different people, they're going to have quite a few bills and risk
05:34piling up. And I'll share my phone call to Ascension CEO Joseph Mpichike, outlining my own issues.
05:43You've reached the Ascension System Office General Mailbox. After the tone, leave a detailed message
05:48and someone will respond to your call. Thank you.
05:54I'm trying to reach CEO Joseph Mpichike, and he can contact me at that number.
06:00And I have a message that I would like to give to Ascension.
06:04Between 2018 and 2019, I was an emergency department patient at Ascension St. Vincent's East Hospital
06:11in Birmingham, Alabama. I believe I had broken my neck. I had an x-ray, two CT scans, and later an MRI
06:19looked at by Ascension St. Vincent's doctors. Each time they had told me I had no injuries in this area,
06:27I knew their diagnosis was an error as my condition worsened. The area became infected and infested with parasites.
06:35By summer 2019, I almost died. I obtained my medical records from your hospital along with the x-ray
06:41CT MRI imagery and discovered the truth of my injury. I had broken bone in the underside of my skull
06:48in the area of the condylar canal and occipital condyle. How the doctors could admit such a large
06:54and serious injury over multiple hospital visits is inexcusable. I believe some element of organized
06:59corruption may exist in this hospital. I have compiled over 10 hours of video documentation on
07:06what happened to me on my YouTube channel. And the name of the channel is My Medical Nightmare.
07:12I believe I may have been a victim of patient dumping in the course of my seeking treatment,
07:19which is a violation of EMTALA, E-M-T-A-L-A. When I told medical staff associated with Ascension about
07:26my discovery that I had been misdiagnosed repeatedly, I was personally attacked and my psychological state
07:34was challenged. And this is reflected in medical records I obtained later. I could not obtain proper
07:40treatment or diagnosis for this injury because doctors and nurses that I would subsequently have
07:49encounters with would only entertain what the erroneous Ascension ER findings were. My mother,
07:55who was a nurse for 20 years, had the misfortune of working in an Ascension hospital. When I questioned
08:02my MRR findings involving St. Vincent's Ambulatory Healthcare Network, LLC, and Dr. Michael Brandt
08:09Ruff, MD, radiologist, in March 2019. My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years and worked in the Ascension
08:16hospital, she was terminated from her job there around the same time. And so this phone call, I
08:23challenged the misdiagnosis of Ascension St. Vincent's East Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama, and I
08:30challenged the policy of this hospital. And Mr. Impeachike, I think you need to look into this,
08:37please. Please listen to my message, look into what I'm saying, and you're free to contact me. Thank you.
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