St. Joseph Medical Center (SJMC) is a general acute care hospital in #Houston, Texas owned by #StewardHealthCare. Established in June 1887, SJMC is recognized as the first hospital in Houston. A new hospital was constructed in 1894, but was destroyed by fire soon thereafter. The hospital was rebuilt and it underwent major expansions in 1905 and 1938. The hospital was the largest in the city until the #TexasMedicalCenter was established. The hospital has a capacity of 792 beds.

Let's talk about #RalphDeLaTorre, the disgraced, asshole, soon-to-be-former CEO of #StewardHealthcare, the disgraced, bankrupt, #privateEquity hospital network that killed patients by allowing its facilities to go so far into debt that critical life-saving equipment was repossessed and unexpectedly unavailable when needed during medical emergencies.
#healthcare #politics #USPol
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The #Senate panel is seeking civil and criminal action against Ralph de la Torre, the CEO of #StewardHealthcare." #Bankruptcy https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/09/19/senate-contempt-steward-health-care-ceo/75289515007/

"[T]he whistleblower complaint emerges as de la Torre has asked to postpone testifying on Capitol Hill in response to a subpoena..." #StewardHealthcare #Bankruptcy #Corruption #Hospitals https://buff.ly/3TkTaGZ

Here's another article that wouldn't exist if the US had #healthcare rather than a #health industry:
#StewardHealthCare filed a complaint Monday alleging Medical Properties Trust is interfering in its efforts to sell off assets. Steward alleged Medical Properties Trust has undermined the #bankruptcy sales process by talking to bidders without Steward's consent and pressuring bidders to allocate too much value to the landlord's real estate. #greed
This is what #PrivateEquity does.