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Part 1:

Compartmentalization.

3 weeks following a cyberattack on health provider Ascension (19 states / 140 hospitals, 160000+ associates & 36000+ affiliated providers), more than 100 people have signed a petition circulating among medical staff at Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital (Michigan) seeking a reduction in elective surgeries and non-emergent patient admissions, as well as more training, during the ongoing fallout from a ransomware attack.
Their demands:

1. **Unit Shift Huddles**:

Implement daily unit shift huddles to ensure effective communication, coordination, and information sharing among healthcare professionals regarding patient care, safety protocols, and any emerging issues.

2. **Training Sessions**:

Conduct regular training sessions for staff members to enhance their knowledge and skills in navigating the challenges posed by the ongoing cyber hack incident and operating without access to electronic medical records.

3. **Weekly Progress Reports**: Provide weekly progress reports to update staff members on the status of efforts to resolve the cyber hack incident, restore access to electronic medical records, and address any safety concerns or staffing issues.

4. **4:1 Nurse-to-Patient Ratio**: Maintain a maximum 4:1 nurse-to-patient ratio until the matter is fully resolved to ensure that patients receive the level of care and attention they require, despite the challenges faced by our healthcare professionals.

My own experience going to an Ascension ER in Birmingham, AL. in 2018-'19. I found that when my disposition was qualified as "self pay" (no insurance or stated source of income) I did not receive adequate medical treatment and was told no injuries appeared in X-Rays and CT that show I had broken my skull (an injury I almost died from - see images in video). Furthermore, you can hear in recorded phone calls in my other videos the lengths other professional doctors will go to support this fallacy. Millionaires who went to college for 10 years to do their jobs risked their professional reputations versus correcting mistakes.

I encountered far larger issues of medical fraud and corruption in my dealings with medical staff and facilities around the Birmingham, Alabama area in recent years. I believe much of the fortunes and millions / billions of dollars in profit enjoyed by Ascension and their associates are underpinned by a mountain of wrongfully treated patients who suffered at the hands of this medical provider's care. I almost did not survive multiple misdiagnoses I encountered going into their ER and attempts to have Ascension account and correct it errors were met with denials and excuses as to their responsibility. I highlight many of these, even recording phone exchanges in other videos on my Youtube Channel.

I replay My October. 13th, 2021 phone call to Ascension CEO Joseph Impicciche who's hospital oversight network includes Ascension Saint Vincent’s East Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Transcript
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.
00:09All right, huge article out of Michigan Public, NPR National Public Radio, based out of Ann
00:18Arbor and the University of Michigan.
00:21Ascension staff petition for safety precautions amid ransomware attack.
00:27More than 100 people have signed a petition circulating among medical staff at Ascension
00:35Providence Rochester Hospital during the ongoing fallout from the ransomware cyber attack that
00:43hit Ascension May 8, 2024.
00:48The date on this report is May 27.
00:50Michigan Public writes, doctors and nurses throughout the state have been raising serious concerns
00:56about the impact of patient care.
00:59They still don't have access to patients' medical records.
01:02Safety protocols intended to reduce the risk of medication errors have been temporarily
01:08removed or disabled.
01:10Crucial lab and test results are taking hours or getting lost completely.
01:16And elective surgeries and patient transfers are still happening despite some staff's concerns.
01:23There's some real revelations in this petition language.
01:27It reads, we the members of Local 40 at Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital are deeply concerned
01:35about the current challenges faced by our healthcare professionals due to the cyber hack incident and
01:42subsequent lack of access to patients' electronic medical records.
01:47We demand that immediate safety precautions be implemented to ensure the well-being of both our members and the patients
01:56under our care.
01:58They want to implement daily unit shift huddles to ensure effective communication coordination and information sharing among healthcare professionals regarding
02:09patient care safety protocols and any emerging issues.
02:12It looks like Ascension is keeping staff in the dark on things.
02:17My own dealings as a patient with Ascension, highly compartmentalized.
02:22This goes for the mini-me outfits as well.
02:26You can see in some of the reviews of these places, the different levels of staff and management are not
02:32privy to what the other levels are doing.
02:36They don't share information.
02:38It's a need-to-know basis.
02:40This is a sign of high corruption.
02:42I ran into this in my own case.
02:44You go to their emergency department, your self-pay, no insurance, and they may tell you that you have a
02:51neck muscle pulled when in reality you broke your skull and had a life-threatening injury such as myself.
02:58Then after you spend a couple tens of thousands of dollars or something, they'll come back and give you a
03:04proper diagnosis.
03:07Each injury that you take into a hospital or doctor, they've got a price tag in their mind for how
03:13much it's going to take for them to tell you the truth about your injury and give you proper service.
03:21The petitioners are also asking for regular training sessions for staff members to enhance their knowledge and skills in navigating
03:31the challenges posed by the ongoing cyber hack.
03:34What this tells me is that Ascension and all their wisdom and $18 billion of cash reserves did not have
03:43a contingency plan in place, set up, and ready to implement to deal with this current crisis.
03:50You can see in my video I put up yesterday, the big shot doctors, millionaire doctors, and administrators, they're heaping
03:59the responsibility and risk on the lower level staff, including staff that don't have proper medical credentials.
04:08They're asking nurses who don't have training in a certain area to go and do jobs they don't know how
04:14to do.
04:14This stuff should be against the law.
04:16Back to the petition.
04:18They want Ascension to provide weekly progress reports to update staff members on the status of efforts to resolve the
04:28cyber hack incident, restore access to electronic medical records, and address any safety concerns or staffing issues.
04:37The petitioners are asking Ascension to maintain a maximum 4 to 1 nurse to patient ratio until the matter is
04:45fully resolved to ensure that patients receive the level of care and attention they require.
04:52All right, so here the staff are drawing attention to the fact that because of all the chaos from the
04:59cyber attack disrupting the just-in-time management system in place, they now don't have adequate nursing staff to tend
05:09to the patients.
05:10And in the best of times, prior to this cyber attack, you can see where Ascension already had staffing shortages.
05:19It's down to choice in order to streamline their business and profits.
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