Tenet Healthcare, which is a partner of the Clinton Foundation, has an exceptionally high infant mortality rate of 12.5% in Florida, almost 3x the national average. Instead of trying to improve their care, Tenet healthcare paid Florida Governor Rick Scott $200,000 in campaign contributions and Scott then repealed all of Florida's pediatric heart surgery standards.
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Since Tenet Healthcare may be illegally harvesting organs it stands to reason that removing these heart surgery standards would only make their job even easier by removing even a pretense of responsibility.
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It bears mentioning that Tenet Healthcare also has a history of performing unnecessary heart surgeries and procedures and was once forced to pay a $395 settlement.
Tenet's proud recovery fell apart in October 2002. A market analyst and an insurer who was subcontracted to make Medicare payments for government both noted independently that Tenet's rejuvenated profits resulted from a massive growth in "outlier payments" when compared with competitors. These are extra payments made to hospitals for the care of high risk patients and for complex procedures. At the same time the FBI raided one of Tenet's most profitable hospitals accusing its doctors of carrying out large numbers of unnecessary heart procedures and surgical operations. These are the sort of procedures that attract outlier payments. Authorities simultaneously commenced an investigation into Tenet's merger practices
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Factfinder2 ago
It was 20% between 2012 and 2015 at Tenet's St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Pennsylvania! http://www.4-traders.com/TENET-HEALTHCARE-CORP-11877509/news/Tenet-Healthcare-Pa-reviews-infant-heart-deaths-N-Philly-program-to-reopen-24608868/
"The North Philadelphia hospital chose not to submit its patient data for the agency's previous report on pediatric heart surgery, issued in 2015. The hospital voluntarily stopped performing all non-emergency heart procedures in late January 2016 pending an internal review.
Hospital officials said Wednesday they were poised to resume offering the service this summer.
Soon after the stoppage last year, an Inquirer analysis found that 24 percent of newborns, defined as babies younger than 31 days, had died after heart surgery at St. Christopher's from 2009 through 2014. A month after that article was published, state investigators conducted a surprise three-day inspection of the facility, finding that the hospital failed to fully investigate why nine of its patients died after heart surgery."