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!
U.S. Navy spends taxpayer dollars building new high school in Federated States of Micronesia, 07JAN2019.
Construction of new wing of federally funded Maxwell Elementary and Junior High School on Maxwell Air Force Base.
U.S. Navy Band teaches ‘master class’ at Mission Bay High School, San Diego, 30JAN2019.
What happened to separation of church and state? U.S. Army personnel visited children at the South Christian Elementary School.
The U.S. Army directly targets ‘christian’ recruits at Saint Mary Catholic School, in Hagerstown, 28JAN2019.
Recruiting military volunteers thru school counselors. Kirkland Air Force Base held an event to win over local high school counselors, 18JAN2019, and convince them to convince students to join-up.
Religious favoritism for ‘christian’ military families as Richlands and Northside High School given a $906,121 grant to run a National Math and Science program that’s specifically for the College Readiness Program for Military Families. By the way, the award ceremony was held at a church.
Washington Army National Guard personnel help build a school in Imperial Thailand at the end of January, 2019, as part of taxpayer funded operation Cobra Gold.
U.S. Marines and Seamen volunteer to make food for people at the Akshaya Patra, Unlimited Food for Children Centralized Kitchen in Visakhapatnam, India.
California politicians serve food to Army and Marines personnel guarding the border with Mexico.
At Anderson Air Force Base personnel from the U.S. Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, British empire’s Royal Australian Air Force and silly-vilians packed 143 bundles of food, clothing and medical supplies, to be airdropped to 56 Micronesian islands throughout the Pacific.
Hawaii Air National Guard’s 154th Logistics Squadron, delivers a meal to a disabled resident, as part of meal-on-wheels program Kalihi.
Volunteers of America North Louisiana serve gumbo to homeless veterans during a Christmas party at the Safe Haven shelter in Shreveport.
At Barnes Air National Guard Base, the 104th Fighter Wing collect cash and food donations for local charities.
118th Wing, Tennessee Air National Guard, assemble food-boxes at Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, for school children who might not get anything to eat on days school is closed because of bad weather (implying that many kids in Tennessee rely on school lunch programs to get fed).
Mobile Observation Post (OP) looking into Mexico, near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry, 03APR2019.
Mobil Observation Post (OP) near the Fort Hancock Border Patrol Station, 09APR2019.
U.S. Army personnel continue to repair the border fencing, this time near the World Trade International Bridge in Laredo, 11APR2019.
Southwest of of Malpelo Island, Colombia, U.S. Coast Guard personnel capture bales of cocaine dumped by a drug boat they were chasing, 02DEC2018.
U.S. Coast Guard personnel assist Costa Rican Drug Police (Policia Control de Druga) in cataloging 1.7 tons of cocaine captured on a ‘fishing boat’, 05DEC2018.
U.S. Coast Guard captured this boat, full of drugs, 242 miles southeast of Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, 30DEC2018.
USS Vandergrift off-loads 8.5 tons of cocaine at Naval Base San Diego, 19DEC2018.
U.S. Coast Guard personnel off-load 2-thousand pounds of cocaine (and three smugglers) in Saint Thomas, 14DEC2018. Apparently it was captured after a ten hours chase of drug ‘fast boats’.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham inspects U.S. taxpayer funded Israeli border wall ops surrounding Gaza, 10MAR2019.
California’s Army National Guard trained for border ops alongside Jordanian troops at the ‘Peace Operations Training Center’. This is a pic from the graduation ceremony on 14MAR2019.
Even U.S. Army personnel stationed at Camp Arifjan are being prepared for border patrol by taking the Customs Border Clearance Agent Course. These Soldiers are class #1903.
The U.S. Army sold four recon RQ-11B Raven drones to the Central Asian country, supposedly for $23-million USD. The drones will be used in the fight to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
U.S. Army’s 610 Engineers (out of Washington state) reinforce the border wall near San Luis, 14MAR2019.
171 illegal migrants were caught at Yuma Sector, 17MAR2019.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inspect vehicle barriers at Yuma Sector, 28MAR2019. During World War Two similar barriers were called tank traps.
The U.S. Army’s 595th Sapper Company (out of Missouri) help maintain/patrol the wall near Campo.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers earth moving truck helps shore up the border wall near San Diego, 29MAR2019.
The U.S. Coast Guard says this human trafficking boat (captured near Pompano Beach) held 23 people from various countries including China, Guyana and Haiti.
At the beginning of March, Border Patrol personnel reported more than 120 migrants showed up at the El Paso Station, in just one day!
On 21MAR2019, at least 42 migrants were stopped at El Paso Station, but that was only the beginning of what was to come.
Hundreds of illegal immigrants being processed through an impromptu (field expedient) processing center under a bridge at El Paso Sector, 22MAR2019.
Because The Golden State is having problems with people going hungry, the U.S. Marines conducted a 9 mile Hike for the Hungry, transporting more than 8-thousand-6-hundred pounds of non-perishable food items in their rucks!
Bring a turkey to work day? That’s what Airmen stationed at Peterson Air Force Base did, donating turkeys for a food drive to help people in southern Colorado.
Salvation Army Disaster Responders hand out bottled water and prepared food to disaster survivors in Blountstown, Florida, at a FEMA/State Disaster Recovery Center following Hurricane Michael.
Volunteers with Servant Heart Disaster Relief, prepare Low Country Boil for the Apalachicola Seafood Festival to help panhandle residents gain some normalcy after Hurricane Michael.
The 3rd Battalion, 81st Armored Regiment, held a food drive for the Battle Buddy Resource Center at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Guam National Guard joined with Regular military forces, and FEMA, to deliver food, and other forms of help, to Super Typhoon Yutu ravaged Saipan.
Idaho Air National Guardsman, Technical Sergeant Mario A. Pile, doesn’t just cook-up food for fellow Guard personnel during drill weekends, he’s also the program manager for the Idaho Youth Ranch Hays House, a homeless shelter for teenagers.
U.S. Sailors help sort food at the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana as part of Shreveport/Bossier City Navy Week.
Fort Hood Soldiers volunteer to collect and separate food during the Central Texas Food for Families food drive, the one-day drive collected more than 2 million pounds of food for 20 food banks in 9 counties!
Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Sparks presents concepts for becoming better leaders to the Wyoming National Guard. Sparks currently works full-time for Central Arkansas Water, and previously worked for Tyson Foods.