Save Our Emergency Room from TeamHealth and Private Equity

How the commercialization of medicine is impacting hospitals in SE Michigan and Why the impending strike of Detroit Emergency Physicians effects us all

Patient Care

10-15 HOUR Wait Times for patients?  How is this permitted to go on?

Patient Safety

Clinicians trying to take care of Dozens of patients at a time during a single shift.

Reduced Staffing

Replacing Experienced ER doctors with residents and new physicians

Laws Not Enforced

There are laws against the corporate practice of medicine in MI. but….

Urgent – Safe Staffing Saves Lives

Learn What Is Really Happening in Our Emergency Rooms.

Watch the video. Private Equity Investment Group BLACKSTONE INC. owns TEAMHEALTH. The president of the TEAMHEALTH NE group, David Istvan, is also the president of St. John Emergency Services which staffs St. John Hospital. There’s more…..read on.

Urgent – Safe Staffing Saves Lives

it shouldn’t be about profit,

it should be about ‘YOU’!

Here’s the bottom line.  Private Equity funds like Blackstone are using companies like TeamHealth to buy up Emergency Room Management and Services all over the country.  Then, in places like California and North Carolina – they are accused of reducing staff, slashing costs and jacking up rates and billing on the most vulnerable among us in the name of increasing profits.  Now they’re coming after Ascenion St. John – but the physicians and PA’s are fighting back.  And are even ready to go on strike – if it means a safer, more efficient Emergency room that helps their patients.

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Urgent – Safe Staffing Saves Lives

Being a Physician has never been more challenging

Physicians and PA/NP’s believe there is a sacred relationship between physicians and patients that is in direct conflict with the goals of a corporate organization. And it’s only getting worse. See the numbers.

Physicians employed by corporate entities 74%
Of physicians say patients trust them less than they did a decade ago 87%
Of physicians reporting burnout in 2020 – an all time high 63%
of U.S. Medical and Nursing students do not intend to treat patients 58%
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Replacement ratio of physicians by non-physician practitioners in private-equity owned medical practices
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Americans facing financial hardship due to healthcare bills
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Worth of private equity transactions in healthcare over the past decade.

Urgent – Safe Staffing Saves Lives

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