Ann Lipton"For years, NYU’s emergency room in Manhattan has secretly given priority to donors, trustees, politicians, celebrities, and their friends and family...On hospital computers, electronic medical charts sometimes specify whether patients have donated to the hospital or how they are connected to executives"
This story keeps getting progressively more awful:
The IRS "requires nonprofit hospitals like NYU...to benefit their communities. A primary way to meet the requirement is to run an emergency room that is open to everyone.
But at NYU... ambulance workers said nurses in the emergency room routinely discouraged them from dropping off homeless or intoxicated patients. Instead, they were often shuttled to nearby Bellevue, a strained public hospital that primarily treats the poor."
Mostly Harmless (Cam Johnson)
Callisto@annmlipton I'm not sure how "secret" this even is. I've known some wealthy people in NNJ who were very aware they'd get top priority in the hospital they donated to.