Randolph Hospital (the old/bankrupt Randolph) vs. Cone Healthcare: " Self-dealing " And Unethical Business Practices. DUH. It ' s Not Like I Did Not Tell You So.

Before we even get started (and for the record), I was born at Cone Hospital.  For years, I admired it from afar.But that was before . . .Once upon a time, twenty-four years ago this month, the executives running my hometown hospital (Randolph Hospital in Asheboro, North Carolina), fired me ( " without cause " ) . . . two weeks after I answered a terrified LDRP charge nurse ' s call in the middle of the night - to intervene in a neonatal case where the managing Family Practitioner was so " lost " that the nurse feared the baby would die before I could get there.  The FP (who later styled himself to the baby ' s parents as " the Chairman of Neonatology " (based on his status as an NRP instructor) as he attempted to deflect blame . . .  this when there was NO Department of Neonatology . . . and when I was actually the Chair of Randolph ' s Perinatal Committee) . . . had misdiagnosed the (critically-ill) baby, and when I arrived, was taking steps to initiate action that very well could have killed her.I stopped him (consulting with a former professor/later Dean at NC Baptist Hospital), took over care, and by ALL accounts, saved the infant ' s life.  She was emergently transferred to the NICU at Brenner Children ' s Hospital (at NC Baptist) - my alma mater (for both medical school and Pediatric residency).The next morning, I defied the prior " warnings " of senior Randolph executives (to " shut up or else " about Pediatric quality-of-care problems at the ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - Category: American Health Tags: Asheboro Atrium Health Bankruptcy Bob Morrison Cone Healthcare Ed Cone Medical Whistle-blower National Health Service Corps NC Rural Heatlh Patient Safety Quality Assruance Steve Eblin Source Type: blogs