The following comes from a September 21 LA Times article by Stuart Pfeifer:
Hospital operator Prime Healthcare Services Incorporated is suing California Attorney General Kamala Harris for imposing strict restrictions that caused the Ontario company to back out of its attempted purchase of six Roman Catholic hospitals earlier this year.
Prime Healthcare agreed to buy the Daughters of Charity Health System last year for $843 million, but backed out of the deal in March after Harris placed several conditions on the sale.
Harris said she would approve the sale only if Prime Healthcare would keep all of the hospitals open for 10 years and provide the same level of charity care to poor patients as Daughters of Charity had. The six hospitals include St. Vincent and St. Francis medical centers in Los Angeles County.
Prime Healthcare said in the lawsuit that Harris was not impartial in her review of the sale. The company accused her of siding with a politically influential labor union, the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, which opposed the sale.
In July, a private investment firm agreed to provide a $250-million cash infusion to keep the struggling hospital afloat. The firm, BlueMountain Capital Management in New York, also would oversee management of the chain, which would keep its nonprofit status. The deal is pending before the attorney general.
Contact Committee on Civil Rights Commission
Let Them Know Your Concerns about AB1461 This is a NONPARTISAN Issue!
Dear California Citizen:
There is still time to let the California Advisory Committee for the US Commission on Civil Rights know what you think about what has happened to the election process in California!
We have until September 28th, 2015 to send a letter or email to
Angelica Trevino at atrevino@usccr.gov
Even a simple paragraph with your thoughts, feelings, and concerns is enough information to help them understand how citizens of California are being impacted by the ongoing corruption and legislative activism.
AB1461 – the New Motor Voter program that will make it possible
for noncitizens to be…
A mere bump in the road for the continuing saga of what was once catholic. The implosion continues. How sad. Under Obamacare and the current administration’s erosion of religious liberties provided in our US Constitution, doubtful that someday we’ll have crucifixes in our hospitals, when we need them the most!
In 2008 Judge Quentin Kopp wrote to the CA Bar of Harris:
“I am accustomed to your glib political correctness, but you merit condemnation for your reprehensible selection of Kamala Harris for your Attorney of the Year award.
She’s a prosecutorial joke, a pandering foe of strong pursuit of persons arrested by the police, and a faddish officeholder who uses the position for the toothless ‘feel good’ pap described for the so called award.”
*Judge Kopp is a former State Legislator
In my limited experience, I think that Quentin Kopp may have it right:
“She’s a prosecutorial joke, a pandering foe of strong pursuit of persons arrested by the police, and a faddish officeholder who uses the position for the toothless ‘feel good’ pap described for the so called award.”
Close these Catholic Hospitals completely down.
Keep them in good repair, so they will sell.
Sell them when the State finally realizes that they should not interfere in the legitimate “business functions” of private institutions.
There is more than one way to get around Legislative Bullies.