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When legal isn't right: McGuire's work for Providence is a prime exampleAnchorage Daily News Editorial - December 20, 2007Sen. Lesil McGuire's work for Providence may have been legal, but that doesn't make it right. Then-Rep. McGuire, now a state senator, was hired by Providence for $10,500 to help the hospital figure out how to win money from the state in a land deal involving the old Alaska Psychiatric Institute. This is a job Sen. McGuire should have declined.
APOC decides Sen. McGuire earned her consulting feesAnchorage Daily News - December 19, 2007A claim that Anchorage state Sen. Lesil McGuire did nothing to earn $10,500 in consulting fees from Providence Health System four years ago was unanimously dismissed Tuesday by the Alaska Public Offices Commission. But a commission member believes the work done by McGuire, R-Anchorage, amounted to lobbying the state for Providence and wasn't appropriate for a legislator.
Actress Alicia Cole Speaks Out About Surviving Flesh-Eating BacteriaInjuryBoard.com - December 12, 2007Actress Alicia Cole, 45, has become the poster child for hospital-acquired infections, which kill around 100,000 Americans each year. Cole went into Providence Saint Joseph Hospital in Burbank, California in 2006 for removal of two uterine fibroids, a routine procedure usually involving a two day hospital stay. After she contracted Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) also known as man-eating flesh disease, she spent four weeks in Intensive Care and had to undergo five additional surgeries. Federal estimates are 6 to 10% of hospital patients will contract some form of infection. About one-third of patients die unless the disease spreads to internal organs, as it did with Cole, then fatality rates rise to about 70 percent. As a consumer advocate, Cole is urging hospitals to make public their rates of infection and failures of surgical procedures.
Providence labor practices appear at odds with their principlesUnfair labor practice (ULP) charges and a refusal to clarify labor principles or allow pro-union workers access to meeting space has left many Providence Health & Services employees questioning the system’s claims to support workers’ right to form a union. Providence employees have been organizing to form a union with SEIU Local 49 for approximately two years. Last summer, the Workers Rights Board Fair Election Oversight Commission, chaired by Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, determined that PH&S’s anti-union tactics made it impossible for hospital workers to hold a fair union election until Providence agreed to fair election ground rules.
This month ProvidenceWatch continues its series of profiles on each of the major markets in which Providence Health & Services operates. The goal is to help ProvidenceWatch readers better understand Providence’s place in the western U.S. hospital market. With three times more operating revenue than its closest competitor, $321 million budgeted to build new facilities between 2005 and 2008, and the former Alaska Commissioner of Health and Social Services in charge of strategic development, Providence Health & Services is positioned to dominate the state’s health care market indefinitely.
Three current and former Providence Health & Services executives were member-owners of the "anticompetitive secret society" dissolved under a January 25, 2007 settlement with the Connecticut and Florida Attorneys General. John Koster, Richard Umbdenstock, and Henry "Hank" Walker were all members of the Healthcare Research Development Institute (HRDI), the for-profit entity labeled a secret society by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. According to the settlement titled an "Assurance of Voluntary Compliance," current Providence Health & Services CEO John Koster was on the HRDI board when Blumenthal began his investigation in 2005 . HRDI website records show that former Providence Health System CEO Henry "Hank" Walker became a member of the group in 2000 and then Providence Services CEO Richard Umbdenstock became a member of the group in 2002 .
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