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Friday, July 30

Patient Says Hospital Bill Collectors Harrassed Her During Labor

"Mary" said was four centimeters dilated and had just received an epidural when the hospital billing department called her room to ask for her credit card number. When she refused, the billing department went to her room while she was in labor, and demanded that her husband come down to the billing office, and pay their co-pay.

Click here to watch the patient interview that ran on WBRE.

Click here to read what nurses at the General think about this policy (from the Citizens Voice)

Click here to read about the hospital's attempts to silence nurses on this issue (from the Times Leader)


Thursday, July 29

CHS's Local Troubles Interfere with the Company's National Plans.

Click here to read Youngstown, Ohio's Business Journal article in which our own Fran Prusinski is interviewed.

Click here to read another Business Journal article that mentions Wilkes-Barre.

 

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Community Health Systems Seek to “Gag” WB General Nurses From Discussing Bill Collection Policy
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In a transparent attempt at intimidation, Community Health Systems (CHS) Administrators have begun to interrogate Wilkes-Barre General Hospital nurses who have publicly denounced the controversial new CHS policy that seeks to turn nurses in to bill collectors prior to discharging their patients from the hospital.


On Monday, July 26, two nurses, including negotiating committee member Fran Prusinski, were interrogated about what they said about the despised policy at a recent rally sponsored by the nurses’ union. CHS Administrators say they plan to question other nurses who have spoken out publicly regarding the policy.


“Nurses at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital will not be intimidated by CHS into silence. If we believe their policies harm our relationships with our patients, and harm patient care, we will continue to speak out publicly,” said Fran Prusinski, RN in the critical care unit at the hospital. “Their interrogations are clearly aimed at ‘gagging’ our voices as patient advocates. It is not going to work.”


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