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2 weeks following a cyberattack on health provider Ascension (19 states / 140 hospitals, 160000+ associates & 36000+ affiliated providers), INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana-based FOX59 TV reports nurses are resigning from their jobs with Ascension, as the chaos resulting from the attack has made working conditions unsafe. FOX59 has an interview with a nurse who quit his job (13 years) at the local Ascension St. Vincent Hospital after he caught many errors and potentially unsafe situations and was fed up with how poorly the hospital was handling the whole thing. Finally, when his bosses asked him to fill in some of the staffing gaps in a unit where he hadn’t had any training, he and another nurse said that was enough and walked out. "It’s not worth risking our own license as well in our professional career to take that assignment”.

“I just want to warn those patients that are coming to any of the Ascension facilities, there will be delays in care. There is potential for error and for harm."

The nurse heard it could take three to six months for things to go back to normal.

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.

A series of talking points underpinning the modus operandi of Ascension's patient dumping procedures in these facilities may be highlighted in this latest case.

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.
00:10This news item is from Fox 59 WXIN television station out of Indianapolis, Indiana.
00:20Nurses fed up with Ascension healthcare security breach issues.
00:25The Channel News organization spoke with a nurse, 13 years working experience, who has
00:33employed Ascension St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis.
00:38And due to complications stemming from the cyber attack that occurred on May 8th, 2024,
00:47this nurse had to resign.
00:48He walked away from the job.
00:51He also described conditions and situation in the hospital as, quote, pure chaos, unquote.
00:59Major delays in services such as getting x-rays, CTs, MRIs, handwritten orders, and this nurse
01:07claims there are a lot of mistakes.
01:09He says he caught many errors.
01:11Orders are popping up several days after they were issued that many other nurses in the hospital
01:17have left.
01:19They have quit their job working for Ascension St. Vincent Hospital.
01:23He said his bosses asked him to fill in some of the staffing gaps in a unit where he had
01:29no experience or training.
01:31And that's when he decided, along with another nurse, that it was not worth the risk to patients,
01:39nor worth risking their medical licenses and professional career.
01:44The nurse said he wanted to warn patients that are coming in to any of the Ascension facilities
01:51that there will be delays in care and potential for error and harm.
01:56This nurse estimates it could take three to six months for things to get back to normal
02:01in the hospital.
02:02All right.
02:04And you want to see what happens as a patient when Ascension St. Vincent screws up the patients,
02:12catch the errors, and try to go back to the hospital and medical staff to get these corrected.
02:19Please listen to my 60, that's 6-0, plus hours video documentation.
02:28And you can hear all the excuses and recorded telephone calls that are in the videos,
02:33plus see the records that I obtained and scanned in.
02:38And this was some years prior to this latest cyber attack.
02:42Ascension and St. Vincent's, they're a bad business, rife with corruption.
02:49They do business in the wrong way.
02:51And it's all about making money.
02:53You can see in another video that I did, the system that many doctors and nurses working
02:59today are involved with, this is called Just in Time.
03:04And it deals with maximizing profits.
03:07You're a millionaire doctor.
03:09You want to get as many patients into your work day as possible.
03:14This is at the expense of spending quality time with patients and learning about their
03:21health condition and offering proper services.
03:25I did another video you can go look at in an urgent care in a moderate-sized American city.
03:31They brag about a gravy train of 100 patients in a 12-hour shift, $175 a pop.
03:42All right, that's in an urgent care.
03:44What happened in the Ascension hospitals and facilities?
03:47They have a just-in-time system in place.
03:51And the cyber attack came through, put a serious crimp in their money-making scheme.
03:56The doctors put pressure on the nurses in the best of times to abide by safety standards
04:03and protocols.
04:05This comes along and takes money away from big-shot, narcissistic doctors.
04:12And they put all the blame and work on the underlings, all right?
04:17So you're talking about nurses and non-licensed staff are ordered to do things
04:24they are not qualified to do.
04:27In my own experience dealing with Ascension, Ascension is a U.S. health provider operating
04:33in 19 states with 140 hospitals, 160,000 associates, and 36,000 affiliated providers.
04:43I tried to bring the details of my own situation to Ascension CEO Joseph Impechike
04:51in 2021, and my phone call was never returned.
04:58You've reached the Ascension System Office General Mailbox.
05:01After the tone, leave a detailed message, and someone will respond to your call.
05:09I'm trying to reach CEO Joseph Impechike, and he can contact me at that number.
05:15And I have a message that I would like to give to Ascension.
05:19Between 2018 and 2019, I was an emergency department patient at Ascension St. Vincent's
05:26East Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.
05:28I believe I had broken my neck.
05:30I had an X-ray, two CT scans, and later an MRI looked at by Ascension St. Vincent's doctors.
05:38Each time they had told me I had no injuries in this area, I knew their diagnosis was an error
05:44as my condition worsened.
05:46The area became infected and infested with parasites by summer of 2019.
05:51I almost died.
05:53I obtained my medical records from your hospital along with the X-ray, CT, MRI imagery,
05:58and discovered the truth of my injury.
06:00I had broken bone in the underside of my skull in the area of the condylar canal and occipital
06:06condyle.
06:06How the doctors could admit such a large and serious injury over multiple hospital visits
06:11is inexcusable.
06:12I believe some element of organized corruption may exist in this hospital.
06:17I have compiled over 10 hours of video documentation on what happened to me on my YouTube channel.
06:24And the name of the channel is My Medical Nightmare.
06:27I could believe I may have been a victim of patient dumping in the course of my seeking treatment,
06:34which is a violation of EMTALA, E-M-T-A-L-A.
06:38When I told medical staff associated with Ascension about my discovery that I had been misdiagnosed
06:44repeatedly, I was personally attacked and my psychological state was challenged.
06:49And this is reflected in medical records I obtained later.
06:53I could not obtain proper treatment or diagnosis for this injury because doctors and nurses
07:01that I would subsequently have encounters with would only entertain what the erroneous Ascension
07:07ER findings were.
07:09My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years, had the misfortune of working in an Ascension hospital
07:16when I questioned my MRR findings involving St. Vincent's Ambulatory Healthcare Network, LLC,
07:22and Dr. Michael Brandt Ruff, MD, radiologist, in March 2019.
07:28My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years and worked in the Ascension hospital,
07:32she was terminated from her job there around the same time.
07:35And so this phone call, I challenge the misdiagnosis of Ascension St. Vincent's East Hospital,
07:43Birmingham, Alabama, and I challenge the policy of this hospital.
07:48And Mr. Impechike, I think you need to look into this, please.
07:52Please listen to my message, look into what I'm saying, and you're free to contact me.
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