Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns, crimes and taxpayer ripoffs in January 2019:
In Poland, the U.S. Army’s 64th Medical Detachment Veterinary Service Support, 30th Medical Brigade, conducted inspections of food storage areas for NATO operations.
USAID funded (and built by USN SeaBees) Ali Oune Medical Clinic, in Djibouti, opened on 31JAN2019.
U.S. tax dollars spent providing medical care in Honduras, one of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
ARIZONA: Nurse arrested in rape of woman who BECAME PREGNANT WHILE IN A COMA
CALIFORNIA: British empire Cayman Islands based Theravance Biopharma issued layoff WARNs, 50 people jobless by March. God powerless to stop the wildfire from shutting down Adventist Health Feather River, in Paradise, 1-thousand-331 jobs lost (supposedly temporarily)! In San Jose, Verity Health System issued a layoff WARN, 20 jobs gone in March. However, and also in San Jose, Verity Medical Foundation issued a shutdown WARN, 2-hundred jobs gone by the end of March! Germany owned bio-tech company Roche-Genentech issued a layoff WARN for South San Francisco, 67 people jobless by the end of March.
San Francisco based health-tech start-up uBiome cuts more than 50 jobs
California reaches nearly $1M settlement with Aetna over HIV data breach
COLORADO: British/Swedish empire drugs maker AstraZeneca is laying off more than 200 employees!
FLORIDA: Molina Healthcare issued layoff WARNs, 43 jobs gone by April.
Heart of Florida Health Center suddenly cuts 24 jobs
IDAHO: New Report Blasts the taxpayer funded Southwest Idaho Treatment Center
lawsuit to overturn voter-passed Medicaid expansion
BVA to acquire Saltzer Medical Group
ILLINOIS: PharMEDium issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Lake Forest, 41 jobs gone in March. Decatur Living Facility issued a shutdown WARN, 90 jobs gone starting in March.
Israel based Teva Pays $135M to Settle Illinois Medicaid Drug Price scam
INDIANA: Vibra Hospital to Lay Off 120!
IOWA: Genesis Health System issued a WARN, 196 people jobless by the end of June! Mahaska Health issued a WARN, 55 people jobless by the end of May.
LOUISIANA: Destrehan Pharmacy closing after more than 50 years in business
MARYLAND: At Aberdeen Proving Ground, the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Edgewood Chemical Biological Center signed a taxpayer funded deal with tech startup TrekReader, to create a pocket-sized instrument that will provide military personnel, silly-vilian first responders, and even school nurses, with the ability to detect biological and chemical warfare agents. (you gotta wounder what’s coming if the Army thinks even school nurses will need something like that)
Rite Aid in Mondawmin Mall shutting down
MASSACHUSETTS: Selecta Biosciences lays off staff as R&D cash crunch looms
MICHIGAN: God powerless to stop Trinity Health from issuing a shutdown WARN for its continuing care ops at the Huron Woods Facility, 119 jobs gone by the end of April!
Spectrum Health rejects woman’s heart transplant because she lacks a “secure financial plan”
MISSOURI: Troubled psychiatric hospital will close doors, layoff 129!
NEW JERSEY: As a result of a 2017 Congressional mandate, the U.S. Army joined forces with Cooper University Health Care Center in order to improve readiness for deployment to combat zones, and to find new military doctors: “As far as U.S. Army Medical Recruiting is concerned, this is the future of army medicine; our health care soldiers have this great opportunity to be professionally trained in civilian medicine which will ultimately provide better care for the soldiers in the field.”-Captain Blake Corbitt
Capital Health issued a WARN, 103 jobs in Trenton gone by March!
Angel Medical Systems files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
NEW YORK: Physician assistants who join the New York Army National Guard will get $60,000 up front to repay college loans and a $25,000 annual bonus for four years.
Saint Lawrence Health issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Ogdensburg, 72 jobs affected. Morrison Healthcare Food and Nutrition Services issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Erie Medical Center, 172 jobs affected! Independence Care System issued a shutdown WARN for its ops across NYC, about 3-hundred jobs affected! Senior Rehab Solutions-Norwegian Home and Health Center issued a layoff WARN, 22 jobs gone in February. CareConnect Insurance issued a shutdown WARN for its location in East Hills, 46 jobs affected. That Which Cannot be Named powerless to stop Metropolitan Jewish Home Care from issuing a layoff WARN, 112 jobs affected!
PENNSYLVANIA: Germany owned Bayer Closing Pittsburgh Site, Nearly 600 Jobs Eliminated!
UPMC Pinnacle will close its hospital in Lancaster and layoff 505 employees! UPMC Pinnacle also shutting down its ops in Lititz.
RHODE ISLAND: Emergency room doctors under investigation, essentially for incompetence
SOUTH CAROLINA: Palmetto Health eliminates 140 positions!
Tennessee based Community Health Systems plans to sell all of its hospitals in South Carolina
TENNESSEE: PharMEDium to layoff at least 225 employees due to failing U.S. FDA inspections!
Cumberland River Hospital shutting down, 146 jobs gone by 07:00 hours, 01MAR2019!
UTAH: University of Utah doctor killed in murder-suicide
VIRGINIA: Signify Health issued a shutdown WARN for its home healthcare ops in Dallas, 132 jobs gone in March!
WASHINGTON: Bellevue based Amazon is selling software that mines patient health records
WISCONSIN: Pepin Health and Rehab issued a shutdown WARN, 54 jobs gone by the end of March. God powerless to stop Unison-Interfaith Older Adult Programs from suddenly eliminating 53 jobs due to the “sudden and unexpected loss of contracts”.
ObamaCare Death Spiral, December 2018: FEDERAL JUDGE DECLARES OBAMACARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL!