Union Members’ Letters Call on UHS Board to Create a Quality of Care and...
On May 21, 2014, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members delivered letters on behalf of local unions in Massachusetts, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, and UHS workers throughout the country,...
View ArticleRegulators Find Brookline Psychiatric Hospital Deficient Again
The Boston Globe recently published a follow-up report on Arbour-HRI/Brookline psychiatric hospital, a subsidiary of Universal Health Services (UHS) – Three months after state regulators allowed a...
View ArticleSeries of Articles Chronicle UHS Failures In Massachusetts
A series of Boston Globe articles reporting on breakdowns in care at Arbour Health System in Massachusetts, a Universal Health Services subsidiary, reveals the human cost of UHS’s failure to prioritize...
View ArticleUHS AT THE CENTER OF ILLINOIS YOUTH FACILITIES SCANDAL
Two UHS facilities are at the center of a scandal that’s rocked the behavioral health system for juveniles in Illinois. A five-part investigative series launched by the Chicago Tribune in December 2014...
View ArticleSEE NO EVIL
In public, UHS encourages its employees to report problems to supervisors or through the company’s compliance program. “UHS will not retaliate or tolerate any retaliation against you for reporting in...
View ArticleFLYING UNDER THE RADAR
Over the last decade, Universal Health Services has transformed itself. Ten years ago, it would have been accurate to call UHS a for-profit chain of acute care hospitals with a sideline in the...
View ArticleNO UHS HOSPITAL MAKES TOP TIER IN NEW RANKINGS
There’s a new measure of excellence for America’s acute care hospitals — and no UHS hospital received a top ranking. On April 16, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a 5 star ranking...
View ArticleEVEN SUPPORTERS OF UHS EXPANSION PLAN IN N.C. SOUND LESS THAN THRILLED
(UPDATED) A troubled UHS behavioral facility in North Carolina that’s looking to add 60 beds got a less than rousing reception at a public hearing on its expansion plan. UHS’s Old Vineyard Behavioral...
View ArticleKENNEDY CALLS FOR ACTION
Congressman Joe Kennedy III just took a strong stand for everyone fighting to improve mental health care in America. This week, Kennedy called for “swift action” in the federal investigation of...
View ArticleHOW LOW CAN YOU GO? UHS PLUMBS THE DEPTHS IN SPENDING ON FLORIDA STAFFING
Go to the website of UHS’s Sun Coast Behavioral Health Center and you’ll find soothing pictures of smiling children and beaming adults. On its homepage, the Bradenton, Fla., psychiatric facility says,...
View ArticleCommunity Activists Defeat Controversial Mental Health Facility Proposed by...
The nation’s largest provider of inpatient behavioral health services and current focus of United States federal law enforcement criminal fraud investigators, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), was...
View ArticleUHS v. United States ex rel. Escobar: Mental Health Advocates, SEIU Urge U.S....
Thursday, March 3, 2016 Contact: Meghan Finegan: Meghan.Finegan@seiu.org c: 617-283-8597 Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Mental Health America, SEIU File Joint Amici Brief Washington, DC —The...
View ArticleUHS v. United States ex rel. Escobar: U.S. Solicitor General Supports...
Contact: Ryan Pfeffer, Ryan.Pfeffer@seiu.org, 614-270-9474 Issued April 18, 2016 Arguing Before the Supreme Court, the US Solicitor General Makes the Case for Preserving Critical Whistleblower Tools to...
View ArticleFraud Allegations Highlight Shareholders’ Exposure to Risk at Nation’s...
Contact: Tracy Honhart, Tracy.Honhart@seiu.org, 510-343-8625 Issued May 16, 2016 On May 18th, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), the largest provider of behavioral healthcare services with 1 out of...
View ArticleUnanimous Supreme Court Rejects Industry Attempts to Limit Whistleblowers
Contact: Ryan Pfeffer, Ryan.Pfeffer@seiu.org, 614-270-9474; Issued June 16, 2016 The Supreme Court’s ruling today in Universal Health Services v. United States ex rel. Escobar preserves the ability of...
View ArticleThe Dallas Morning News investigates whether regulators are “too easy” on the...
The Dallas Morning News’ Miles Moffeit takes a sobering look at whether healthcare regulations are strong enough to protect patients and staff at Timberlawn Mental Health System—a UHS-operated...
View ArticleBuzzfeed News Investigates How scores of employees and patients say America’s...
Buzzfeed News’ Rosalind Adams takes a sobering look at the questionable practices and breakdowns in care at facilities operated by the nation’s largest provider of psychiatric services, Universal...
View ArticleState of Oregon gives a “thumbs down” to UHS’ proposal to build a new...
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has turned down Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) and its NEWCO subsidiary’s request to build a 100-bed psychiatric hospital in Wilsonville. In the OHA’s proposed...
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