Will OSF let Katina Die Too?--December 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Will OSF let Katina Die Too?
I examined Katina in Haiti just recently. She needs to return to OSF Children's Hospital for more heart surgery. Katina was operated at OSF in 2002.
OSF has denied all Haitian Hearts patients that were operated at OSF from returning to Peoria for further heart surgery. Two have died.
OSF is in the middle of their hospital expansion that will cost about $500 million. They received a 460 million dollar loan from Governor Blagojevich to help out. OSF also had a lobbyist work with Stuart Levine on the Illinois Health Facilities Board to have another OSF project approved. Mr. Levine is currently in prison for his role in a massive corruption plan in Illinois. (When he sat on the Illinois Health Facilities Board, he shook down hospitals for kickbacks.)
OSF is a very busy medical center with political contacts all over the state of Illinois. If they were inclined, it would not be hard for OSF to find a children's medical center to operate Katina. But I doubt OSF will reach out for Katina.
Let me know if you have any ideas about what to do to help Katina and many others like her that I am following in Haiti. Other hospitals are not excited about operating on OSF's heart patients from Haiti. They have told me so. (Katina was rejected by a well-known medical center in Texas yesterday.)
It is not easy finding another medical center for Katina.
Please help.
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I posted this a few days later in December 2008.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
OSF Will Pay
OSF will have to pay for their abandonment of Haitian kids.
OSF’s negligence towards Heurese and many others like her is immoral.
The Catholic Bishops and local business leaders will not be the answer here. They are all using each other.
And the poor relatives of the Haitians involved have no say so at all. They can barely feed themselves in Haiti. They have no voice.
My guess is that the economy will take OSF down. Business deals won’t go as planned and loans will be harder to pay off. OSF’s business friends will leave them and union workers will have preferred providers elsewhere.
Even the Peoria Journal Star will leave OSF's side.
OSF has driven away good physicians to other areas of the country as OSF has controlled our local medical market but forgotten why they were founded. Individual patient care and care for the community are not OSF’s priorities, no matter what OSF says in their advertisements.
I was misled for two decades. OSF is very misleading.
Power, money, and corruption are driving forces at OSF in Peoria. There is an intricate web of deception in place.
OSF’s administrators Keith Steffen and Paul Kramer need to go. But will they? Probably not as long as they make money for OSF. But if they make a bad business deal, they are gone. The Catholics have put them up to be their fall guys, and when they fall, they will fall hard.
OSF is managed by hypocrites.
I think the Sisters should sell while they can.
OSF’s negligence towards Heurese and many others like her is immoral.
The Catholic Bishops and local business leaders will not be the answer here. They are all using each other.
And the poor relatives of the Haitians involved have no say so at all. They can barely feed themselves in Haiti. They have no voice.
My guess is that the economy will take OSF down. Business deals won’t go as planned and loans will be harder to pay off. OSF’s business friends will leave them and union workers will have preferred providers elsewhere.
Even the Peoria Journal Star will leave OSF's side.
OSF has driven away good physicians to other areas of the country as OSF has controlled our local medical market but forgotten why they were founded. Individual patient care and care for the community are not OSF’s priorities, no matter what OSF says in their advertisements.
I was misled for two decades. OSF is very misleading.
Power, money, and corruption are driving forces at OSF in Peoria. There is an intricate web of deception in place.
OSF’s administrators Keith Steffen and Paul Kramer need to go. But will they? Probably not as long as they make money for OSF. But if they make a bad business deal, they are gone. The Catholics have put them up to be their fall guys, and when they fall, they will fall hard.
OSF is managed by hypocrites.
I think the Sisters should sell while they can.
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