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Health provider Ascension (19 states / 140 hospitals) was hit by a cyberattack in early May, 2024. This created disruption in computer records systems and led to widespread service disruption. These types of incidents are not surprising after my own experience dealing with their medical services at St. Vincents East Hospital in Birmingham, AL.
I believe Ascension creates many enemies and unnecessary risk daily, through its corrupt business practices where profits and reputations come before patient care. Ascension has drawn out critics and the attention of investigation probes in the U.S. government and was called out recently by Senator Tammy Baldwin.

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.

These latest charges resonate with issues I encountered as a patient in recent years. 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.

Between 2018-2019 I was an emergency department patient at Ascension St. Vincent’s East Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. I believe I had broken my neck. I had an X-Ray, 2 CT scans and later an MRI looked at by Ascension Vincent's doctors, each time they told me I had no injuries in this area. I knew their diagnosis was in error as my condition worsened. The area became infected and infested with parasites by summer 2019. I almost died.

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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.
00:10All right, May 10th, 2024.
00:12According to the Associated Press, a cyber attack on the Ascension Health System operating
00:20in 19 states across the U.S.
00:24It's 140 hospitals and caused disruptions with this electronic record system.
00:31This caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records.
00:38They detected unusual activity Wednesday on its computer network systems.
00:44They refused to say whether this was a ransomware attack.
00:49Ascension operates the St. Vincent's Hospitals in the Birmingham, Alabama area.
00:56There's a lot I can say about this cyber attack.
00:59I was a patient repeatedly at Ascension facilities and doctors and nurses.
01:06I was patient dumped and misdiagnosed.
01:08Please go watch the 60 to 60 hours video documentation on what happened to me on my YouTube channel
01:18to understand some of the bad business practices of Ascension.
01:23I believe Ascension creates enemies daily through its corrupt business practices.
01:29Its medical staff generate unnecessary risk because they do bad business where profits and money
01:39come first, not the lives and care of the patients they deal with.
01:44In my own case, narcissistic millionaires and doctors turned trying to find out the truth
01:51of my injury into a pissing contest.
01:55Cyber attacks and investigation by the United States government, which is ongoing against
02:02Ascension, is no surprise.
02:04Ascension has many enemies.
02:07I had a close family member who worked at an Ascension hospital as a nurse for 20 years.
02:14A few weeks after I brought the details of my case, the first time to the attention of Ascension
02:23in St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, that family member lost their job.
02:29There's reports in the news media repeatedly where Ascension buys hospitals and other medical
02:36providers and bleeds them dry.
02:39They run the business into the ground.
02:41Services degrade and eventually they close those hospitals and practices.
02:48Ascension appears to be anti-union and they retaliate against nurses who go on strike by locking
02:55them out of their buildings.
02:58The list goes on and on and on.
03:00I tried to bring the details of my own situation to Ascension CEO Joseph Impechike in 2021 and
03:11my phone call was never returned.
03:14You've reached the Ascension System Office General Mailbox.
03:17After the tone, leave a detailed message and someone will respond to your call.
03:25I'm trying to reach CEO Joseph Impechike and he can contact me at that number and I have
03:31a message that I would like to give to Ascension.
03:35Between 2018 and 2019, I was an emergency department patient at Ascension St. Vincent's East Hospital
03:42in Birmingham, Alabama.
03:44I believe I had broken my neck.
03:46I had an x-ray, two CT scans, and later an MRI looked at by Ascension St. Vincent's doctors.
03:54Each time they had told me I had no injuries in this area, I knew their diagnosis was an error
04:00as my condition worsened.
04:02The area became infected and infested with parasites by summer of 2019.
04:07I almost died.
04:09I obtained my medical records from your hospital along with the x-ray, CT, MRI imagery and discovered
04:15the truth of my injury.
04:16I had broken bone in the underside of my skull in the area of the condylar canal and occipital
04:22condyle.
04:22How the doctors could admit such a large and serious injury over multiple hospital visits
04:27is inexcusable.
04:28I believe some element of organized corruption may exist in this hospital.
04:33I have compiled over 10 hours of video documentation on what happened to me on my YouTube channel.
04:40And the name of the channel is My Medical Nightmare.
04:44I believe I may have been a victim of patient dumping in the course of my seeking treatment,
04:50which is a violation of EMTALA, E-M-T-A-L-A.
04:54When I told medical staff associated with Ascension about my discovery that I had been misdiagnosed
05:00repeatedly, I was personally attacked and my psychological state was challenged.
05:06And this is reflected in medical records I obtained later.
05:09I could not obtain proper treatment or diagnosis for this injury because doctors and nurses that
05:17I would subsequently have encounters with would only entertain what the erroneous Ascension
05:23ER findings were.
05:25My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years, had the misfortune of working in an Ascension hospital
05:32when I questioned my MRR findings involving St. Vincent's Ambulatory Healthcare Network, LLC,
05:38and Dr. Michael Brandt Ruff, MD, radiologist, in March 2019.
05:44My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years and worked in the Ascension hospital,
05:48she was terminated from her job there around the same time.
05:52And so this phone call, I challenge the misdiagnosis of Ascension St. Vincent's
05:58East Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama, and I challenge the policy of this hospital.
06:04And Mr. Impechike, I think you need to look into this, please.
06:08Please listen to my message, look into what I'm saying, and you're free to contact me.
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