Prime Healthcare

And, and I've been thinking about that lately too, just because I, this, this kind of goes along with burnout and I've been feeling like a, a fraction of that this week, not to that extreme, but that I felt with the cardiac arrest and recovery and everything, but just the weight of the healthcare system and all the little things, the United Healthcare stuff.

And then also all this stuff about corporate practice and medicine that I've like thrown myself into and hearing all the stories from people and all the terrible things that are happening at Valley Health in Virginia and at Prime Healthcare in Maine.

they're unionizing up there and there's anti-union activity from prime.

And I just found out that prime is getting rid of their, their, their independent emergency physicians of, you know, for whatever reason, we don't know.

It scared them away.

Prime Healthcare has hired East Coast Labor Relations for $3,800 a day, and I know the nurses union have had all kind of issues with, uh, Prime Healthcare.

Driven Force in Oklahoma hired LRI Consulting Services $425 an hour, and guess what? Didn't work.

The workers won the election there.

The Brunswick-based company that provides emergency room clinicians for Central Maine Healthcare says its contract is being terminated.

As Patty White reports, it's the latest shakeup since Prime Healthcare took ownership of the health system earlier this year.

Blue Water Health began providing services at Central Maine Health's three hospitals in Lewiston, Bridgeton and Rumford in 2025.

At the time, says Blue Water President Jay Mullen, the emergency departments were short roughly 17 physicians and relied heavily on temporary staff.

The Maine State Nurses Association says it prematurely announced yesterday morning that one of 15 nurses who was fired from Central Maine Medical Center before a union election had been reinstated.

A spokesperson for the Lewiston-based hospital disputed the union's announcement in a written statement Tuesday afternoon, saying that no reinstatements had occurred.

Nurses at CMMC, which is owned by Prime Healthcare, voted to join the union last month.

According to the National Labor Relations Board website, the company is challenging the election results.

There's a huge difference between 5 million and 500,000.

Now, the other three units that closed this year are all owned by Prime Healthcare, a for-profit system based out of California.

So it's a very different system.

What are they switching to, and how do the union issues with the nurses play into this?

Right.

So that the hospital can support the unit, and then the mothers get the care and the families get the care that they need.

Now, what is the objection that the nurses have? Because they are already in conflict with Prime Healthcare over specifically St.

Joe's, correct?

Nurses at St. Joseph's rallied yesterday, saying the closures will, quote, threaten the health and well-being, God bless, of Joliet mothers and their children.

Prime Health Care announced the cuts earlier this year, saying fewer than 15 babies are born on average each month at the hospitals.

Thank you.

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