ALABAMA: Hospital Russell Medical suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people, blaming it on lack of revenues caused by Alabama’s version of ObamaCare.
ARIZONA: Upon exiting bankruptcy, Green Valley Hospital changed its name to Santa Cruz Valley Regional Hospital and immediately laid off about 60 people, blaming it on continued “significant financial difficulties”.
CALIFORNIA: In San Mateo County, bio-tech company Genentech suddenly laid off 223 people! Without warning California Medical Business Services shutdown, 59 jobs in Arcadia suddenly gone. Medical device maker DJO Global issued a layoff WARN for its operations in Vista, 187 jobs gone by October! IntraVenous (IV) products maker CODAN US Corporation issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Santa Ana, 98 jobs gone by mid-October.
COLORADO:Southwest Memorial Hospital suddenly laid off 40 people to “create greater efficiency”.
CONNECTICUT: Masonicare Partners Home Health and Hospice issued a shutdown WARN for its East Hartford location, undisclosed number of jobs lost in November.
FLORIDA: Molina Healthcare eliminating 28 jobs in Miami, by November. Nursing home Carlton Palms issued a shutdown WARN, 272 jobs gone by October! In Lake Worth, The Treatment Center of The Palm Beaches eliminating 58 jobs in September.
NEW YORK: Hologic shutting down its Cynosure ops in Hicksville, 30 jobs gone a week before Xmas. Healthcare services company GuildNet-Lighthouse Guild issued shutdown WARNs for its NYC and mid-Hudson region locations, at least 280 jobs gone by Xmas! Baxter Healthcare issued a mass layoff WARN for its Medina location, 421 jobs affected by outsourcing in 2019! Revival Pharmacy issued a shutdown WARN for its Citywide Pharmacy in Brooklyn-NYC, 62 jobs gone by Thanksgiving. CenterLight Health System issued a shutdown WARN for its Margaret Tietz Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 241 jobs gone by Thanksgiving due to the sale of the building! CenterLight Certified Home Health Agency issued a shutdown WARN for its home healthcare ops in Brooklyn-NYC, 77 jobs gone by Thanksgiving. Laboratory Corporation of America issued a mass layoff WARN for its Esoterix Genetics Laboratories-Integrated Oncology in NYC, date yet to be determined, 173 jobs affected! God’s own Catholic Charities Neighborhood Service issued a shutdown WARN for its Hillcrest Senior Center, to take place by November due to loss of contract.
OHIO: Hospital operator ProMedica suddenly laid off 1-hundred people and shutdown 60 vacant jobs saying its recent cost cutting efforts haven’t been enough to stop the financial bleeding! Northside Regional Medical Center issued a shutdown WARN, 468 jobs gone before Halloween!
PENNSYLVANIA: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia suffered a ‘sterilization breach’ infecting 23 babies and killing one. Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring suddenly shutdown, 62 jobs in Langhorne gone. Behavioral health company Merakey issued a mass layoff WARN for two locations, 171 jobs gone by Halloween!
TENNESSEE: Hospital operator Tennova eliminating an undisclosed number of jobs and canceled plans to build a new hospital in West Knoxville, as part of the company’s long-term consolidation of operations plan.
TEXAS: Huntsville Memorial Hospital suddenlyshutdown two clinics and “right sized” by laying off 40% of employees, the hospital is in so much financial trouble it hasn’t paid rent for several months!
WASHINGTON: Donation funded Shriners Hospitals for Children in Spokane suddenly laid off about 19 people and is outsourcing work as part of a plan to switch to out-patient care only.
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of June 2018.
“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018
$2-million USD worth of marijuana captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Key West.
5443 kilos (12-thousand pounds) of cocaine captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Port Everglades.
Do your research, you’ll find that Florida is the main dumping point for drugs ‘captured’ by the U.S. government. The federal government claims the drugs are used as evidence in court cases. or destroyed. Florida was also the cocaine dumping grounds for Oliver North’s Iran-Contra Affair.
As such, the Florida National Guard and local municipalities are struggling to fight illegal, and prescription, drug use through the Civil Operations Program (COP). Saint Johns County alone reported that they collected 943 pounds of prescription medication in just four hours, during national Take Back Day!
ILLINOIS: K9 Assists in $10 Million Drug Bust in ChicagoVideo, Customs & Border Patrol’s Perro the drug dog working Chicago O’Hare’s International Airport, finds DVD case containing drugs:
Video, Customs & Border Patrol unveils new laser device for determining type of drugs without opening the package:
11 Members of drug ring, including a cop, arrested: “This investigation started out as a narcotics investigation, but we came across information regarding something unique and that was a casino heist involving an active police officer.”-Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini
Pakistani citizen pleads guilty to drug trafficking, in NYC court: “He agreed to send huge amounts of deadly drugs to American streets and neighborhoods, which would have fueled the current opioid epidemic and facilitated addiction and abuse by supplying huge amounts of heroin to New York and nationwide. We are pleased he is facing American justice in a United States court of law.”-Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
The Texas National Guard was given a class on anti-drug ops by the Illinois National Guard, which makes sense because ever since Barack Obama became the President of the U.S., Chicago has been the heroin gateway to the United States.
The 180 crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon, homeported in Seattle, divide their illegal activity patrols (like illegal fishing by foreigners and drug smuggling) between the central American country of Guatemala and the U.S. state of Alaska.
Washington DC: The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that for April’s Take Back Day 430480-kilograms (474 U.S. tons) of drugs were collected nation wide. I’ve pointed out before that the phrase Take Back Day used by the government implies that it was the government that gave/sold you the drugs.
A report published by the Science Translational Medicine says at least 30 types of cancer cells are highly efficient protein recyclers.
The reason why cancerous tumors actually grow fast (contrary to outdated medical theories) is that they have an accelerated rate of recycling, also known as chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA).
Scientists hope to develop an anticancer drug by finding a chemical that would interfere with the recycling process.
“I hope that the United States is looking into this case, and the guilty party is properly punished for the crime against Brazil.”-Wilson Damasio, Social Defense Secretary of Brazil
Brazilian authorities have confiscated two containers with 45 tons of hospital waste from the U.S. They say they have info that another 14 containers are on their way from South Carolina. They are being illegally shipped as “cotton textiles with manufacturing defects”.
Inside the two containers were found used and bloodstained sheets, pillowcases, bath towels, robes, pajamas, diapers, syringes, hospital gloves, catheters, and bandages.
Brazilian officials are pushing for a formal complaint to be filed against the United States.
A team at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has been conducting research on a gene called TTF-1. It’s associated with lung cancer, adenocarcinoma, which is the hardest to treat among all lung cancers.
Now researchers say it also fights cancer. In healthy adults, where the TTF-1 gene has not gone renegade, researchers found that it produced a protein that prevents cancer metastasis (the spread of cancer from one part of the body to the rest of the body).
More research needs to be done to see how this double edged sword TTF-1 cancer gene can be used to stop cancer.
The Texas National Guard was given a class on anti-drug ops by the Illinois National Guard, which makes sense because ever since Barack Obama became the President of the U.S., 