Preview of article: Law360, New York (September 11, 2012, 1:44 PM ET) — A Texas federal judge unsealed a False Claims Act complaint Friday targeting Universal Health Services Inc. and several drugmakers, accusing the of the hospital chain of pocketing drug discounts it received from AstraZeneca PLC, Merck & Co. Inc. and other drugmakers instead […]
September 21, 2012
Doctors are demanding the resignation of Kevan Metcalfe, Corona Regional Medical Center’s Chief Executive Officer. Corona is owned by Universal Health Services, Inc., based in King of Prussia, Pa. Tensions have reached a boiling point at Corona’s hospital after physicians held an emergency meeting to ask the top administrator to resign because of what they […]
September 21, 2012
After Paul Harasim wrote about a patient’s complaint involving filth at Universal Health Services’ Summerlin Hospital, he was contacted by more than 40 people, mostly with similar complaints. Harasim writes: In June, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey ranked Summerlin and Desert Springs Hospital among the worst in the nation when it came to rate of deaths […]
September 21, 2012
Ivan Fankuchen says the lack of cleanliness and possible infection at at Universal Health Services’ Summerlin Hospital was so alarming, he called his personal doctor and got him to discharge him early. RN’s thanked him for his efforts to clean up the hospital, and Claude Wise, the hospital’s chief operating officer, gave him an apology. He […]
September 21, 2012
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