SAVE OUR
HOSPITALS
SAVE OUR
COMMUNITIES
With Suburban Community Hospital and Lower Bucks Hospital in Danger of Closing, Nurses Are Speaking Out.
Suburban & Lower Bucks Hospitals are in danger.
Here's what you need to know.
STOP PRIME NOW.
California-based Prime Healthcare is the fifth largest for-profit health system in the United States operating 45 hospitals in 14 states, including Suburban Community Hospital and Lower Bucks Hospital in the greater Philadelphia area. Prime’s company slogan is “Saving Hospitals. Saving Jobs. Saving Lives.” But the truth is much darker than that: According to numerous lawsuits alleging widespread fraud (see “Investigations of Prime”); local, in-hospital data, and firsthand accounts from nurses at the bedside in Prime-owned hospitals, Prime routinely:
Our communities deserve better than Prime.
They deserve better than Dr. Prem Reddy.
Prime's Business Model
Prime's business model is the exploitation of every group involved in the delivery of healthcare, including doctors, nurses, patients, hospital workers, the government, and insurance companies. They do this at the expense of patient care and the surrounding community.
Our communities need hospitals that prioritize patients over profits, hospitals that value frontline caregivers and the retention of skilled, experienced nursing.
About
DR. PREM REDDY,
FOUNDER OF PRIME HEALTHCARE
Four years after founding Prime Healthcare in 2001, Dr. Reddy was accused by nurse managers of using “unethical” means to improve hospital finances. The managers claimed Dr. Reddy turned away uninsured patients in need of care, since uninsured patients earned hospitals much less money than insured patients.
In one instance, Reddy allegedly discharged an uninsured patient with kidney failure and suggested that the patient receive care at a county facility where they could be seen for free. State regulators found that medical personnel did not ensure that discharging the patient “would not create a medical hazard.”2 Reddy testified that he took “reasonable measures”3 to increase hospital profits and was “misunderstood.” The two nurses were awarded more than $850,000, but the case was declared a mistrial due to juror misconduct and was later settled for an unknown amount.
