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43-566: The Portland Hospital for Women and Children is a private maternity hospital on Great Portland Street , City of Westminster , London , England, owned by the Hospital Corporation of America . The Portland was conceived by Barry Lewis, a paediatrician , who perceived a need for London to have a private hospital for women and children: it opened in 1983. It markets its services on an international basis and in 2015 about 25% of its earnings came from overseas patients. In 2015,

86-463: A $ 1.5 million partnership with Florida International University's Nicole Wertheim college of Nursing and Health Sciences, to expand its facilities to address the national nursing shortage. In October 2022, LCMC Health in partnership with Tulane University announced that it would acquire Tulane Medical Center , Lakeview Regional Medical Center , and Tulane Lakeside Hospital from HCA for $ 150 million pending regulatory approval. In March 2024, it

129-424: A blind trust, two weeks before disappointing earnings sent the stock on a 9-point plunge. At the time, Frist was considering a run for president and said that he had sold his shares to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. When the company disclosed that other executives had also sold their shares during that same time, shareholders alleged that the company had made false claims about its profits to drive up

172-474: A caesarean section was appropriate. The couple's pleas for an emergency caesarean section were also ignored. During the delivery, Jake Junior suffered skull fractures and a brain haemorrhage. According to a coroner, the subsequent caesarean section was performed 90 minutes too late. Livermore and Del-Giudice claim that staff at the Portland insisted that Jake Junior was dead upon delivery, but a coroner ruled that

215-440: A company that would bring together hospitals to deliver patient-focused care while using the combined resources of the organization to strengthen hospitals and improve the practice of medicine. The company began with Nashville's Park View Hospital, which the elder Frist had founded in 1960 with other doctors and where he was serving as chief executive. The company included 11 hospitals when it filed its initial public offering on

258-408: A deal with Google to develop healthcare algorithms using patient records. In August 2021, HCA announced a deal with venture capital firm General Catalyst to develop digital solutions to streamline workflows and improve patient care; as part of the deal, HCA sold its healthcare app development firm PatientKeeper to General Catalyst's portfolio company Commure. In April 2022, HCA Healthcare announced

301-701: A new-built private hospital located close to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham , in January 2024. In recent years, HCA Healthcare has become a significant provider of clinical and medical education. It is the largest sponsor of graduate medical education programs in the U.S., with 56 teaching hospitals in 14 states, primarily in regions with a deficit of physician training programs. The company includes Research College of Nursing and Mercy School of Nursing, and has several advanced nursing simulation training centers. In early 2020, it completed

344-556: A nurse and 17 minutes to see a doctor. In February 2022, outsourced cleaning staff at London Bridge Hospital reported a lack of PPE, no access to sick pay, a lack of training and no prior warning about which rooms may be contaminated with the virus through the COVID-19 pandemic . The Princess Grace Hospital specializes in breast cancer and surgery, aided by Kefah Mokbel and Nick Perry who, in 2005, founded The London Breast Institute. The company intends to open The Harborne Hospital,

387-466: A nurse or midwife after being found guilty of misconduct. The inquest jury also heard that it was commonplace for staff to search frantically for medication and that it took 35 minutes to find the medicine Touche required. Touche's husband, the American lawyer Peter Touche said his wife's death was "completely avoidable" and that "the picture is far bleaker than I had imagined and the catalogue of errors

430-498: A public company in 1992. In February 1994, HCA Healthcare merged with Louisville, Kentucky -based Columbia Hospital Corporation, which earlier had acquired 73 hospitals of Galen Health Care from Humana, to form Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation. Related names of note include HCA International and Health Corporation of America. In 1988, Rick Scott and Richard Rainwater each put up $ 125,000 in working capital in their new company, Columbia Hospital Corporation ; they borrowed

473-516: A total of 4,401 beds, are proprietary, or profit-making, hospitals; 75 are voluntary hospitals operated by private groups on a nonprofit basis, and 19 are municipal hospitals operated by the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation. A network of 8,000 medical facilities named Putian was described in 2018 as having "little government oversight." "American financial firms like Sequoia Capital and Morgan Stanley have invested billions of dollars" in this network. HCA Healthcare HCA Healthcare, Inc.

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516-782: Is a popular choice for the births of members of the royal family and of celebrities: examples include Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie , and Prince Archie , as well as David and Victoria Beckham . Private hospital In the United Kingdom private hospitals are distinguished from National Health Service (NHS) institutions. However, many National Health Service hospitals provide some privately funded care in Private Patient Units (PPUs), and are included as private hospitals for competition law purposes. As of December 2018, there were an estimated 556 hospitals with over 9,000 beds providing privately funded care in

559-523: Is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee , and, as of May 2020, owned and operated 186 hospitals and approximately 2,400 sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding emergency rooms, urgent care centers and physician clinics in 20 states and the United Kingdom. As of 2024, HCA Healthcare is ranked #61 on

602-568: Is just unbelievable." Touche pointed to a lack of basic medical attention and record keeping, delays in administering drugs, and accused the hospital of a cover-up. In 2002, Peter Touche revealed that in the wake of his wife's death, the hospital threatened him with legal action if the hospital's bill was not paid. The Touche family settled out of court with the Portland, which admitted to a breach in its duty of care. In August 2000, an investigation by The Observer revealed that maternal mortality rates in private hospitals were five times higher than

645-509: Is operating the two facilities as off-campus emergency departments of Lake City (Fla.) Medical Center and North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville. Later that year, it signed an agreement to sell Garden Park Medical Center to Singing River Health System. In 2021, HCA sold Redmond Regional Medical Center to AdventHealth for $ 635M, and four other Georgia hospitals to Piedmont Healthcare for $ 950 million. They also announced

688-682: The Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. The company engaged in illegal accounting and other crimes in the 1990s that resulted in the payment of more than $ 2 billion in federal fines and other penalties, and the dismissal of the CEO Rick Scott by the board of directors. Hospital Corporation of America ( HCA ) was founded in 1968 in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas F. Frist Sr. , Thomas F. Frist Jr. and Jack C. Massey . The founders envisioned

731-470: The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen's Square, where she died on February 15. In April 2012, an inquest jury concluded that Laura Touche was a victim of neglect. Portland midwife, Grace Bartholomew, admitted it was "inexcusable" that routine checks were not carried out on her shift. The hospital was investigated after Bartholomew was banned indefinitely from practising as

774-478: The Columbia/HCA board of directors forced Rick Scott to resign as chairman and CEO amid growing evidence that the company "had kept two sets of books, one to show the government and one with actual expenses listed." Thomas Frist, a co-founder of HCA and brother of U.S. Senator Bill Frist , returned to the company as CEO in 1997 and called on longtime friend and colleague Jack O. Bovender Jr. to help him turn

817-695: The Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. That same year, they acquired three Houston, Texas, hospitals from Tenet Healthcare . In 2019 they purchased Mission Health System which operates hospitals in North Carolina. In January 2020, HCA Healthcare acquired Valify, a healthcare cost-management company. In May 2020, HCA acquired 49-bed Shands Starke (Fla.) Regional Medical Center and 25-bed Shands Live Oak (Fla.) Regional Medical Center from CHS. HCA

860-488: The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1969 and had 26 hospitals and 3,000 beds by the end of the year. The 1970s were characterized by rapid growth in the industry and for HCA Healthcare. In the early 1980s, the focus shifted to consolidation with HCA Healthcare acquiring General Care Corporation, General Health Services, Hospital Affiliates International and Health Care Corporation. By the end of 1981,

903-861: The South East of England. In 1979 there were about 4,000 beds in UK private hospitals According to the 2014 American Hospital Association Annual Survey, there are 5,686 hospitals in the United States. Of that total, 2,904 are public hospitals, and 1,060 are private. There are a total of 795,603 staffed beds in public hospitals and 118,910 staffed beds in private hospitals. Public hospitals had about 33.6 million admissions annually while private hospitals had about 1.8 million admissions annually. There are 126 hospitals in New York City aside from specialized state and Federal institutions. Of these, 32, with

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946-584: The UK, in addition to many more private clinics providing outpatient services. Around 812,000 privately funded admissions occurred in 2017, comprising same-day treatment ("day-case") or overnight stays ("inpatient"). Of these, 714,000 took place in independent hospitals, and 97,000 in NHS facilities. Additionally, some 546,000 NHS-funded admissions were conducted at independent (private) hospitals. Privately funded care, and private hospitals, are most prevalent in London and

989-908: The United Kingdom. A significant portion of those hospitals are situated in Florida and Texas. As of 2022, HCA had 47 hospitals and 31 surgery centers in Florida, and 45 hospitals and 632 affiliated sites of care in Texas. In 2021, it announced plans to build 3 new hospitals in Florida. In 2022, The Dallas Morning News reported that HCA will build 5 new hospitals in Texas. They also have a strong presence in Tennessee, where it began. HCA had 13 hospitals there as of 2019. Between 2003 and 2017, HCA did not enter any new markets. However, in July 2007, HCA sold its hospitals in Switzerland. In 2017, HCA acquired

1032-556: The acquisition of Meadows Regional Medical Center. HCA International , the UK arm of Hospital Corporation of America , "caters for around half of all private patients in London." The main hospital sites within the United Kingdom it operates include: It opened urgent care walk-in centres at London Bridge Hospital and the Portland Hospital in March 2018. It claims that patients, on average, wait just seven minutes to see

1075-399: The baby was born alive "in very poor condition." On her child's death, Del-Giudice said: Words cannot explain what we have been through in losing a perfectly healthy child because of mistakes made by medical staff during the birth. Knowing that people who I trusted to care for me and my baby and to ensure that we were safe throughout my labour, did not pick up the warning signs that Jake Junior

1118-531: The company around. The federal probe culminated in 2003 with "the government receiving a total of over $ 2 billion in criminal fines and civil penalties for systematically defrauding federal health care programs." Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and admitted to systematically overcharging the government. The federal probe has been referred to as the longest and costliest investigation for health-care fraud in U.S. history. In July 2005, U.S. Senator Bill Frist sold all of his HCA shares, which were held in

1161-450: The company operated 349 hospitals with more than 49,000 beds. Operating revenues had grown to $ 2.4 billion. In 1987, HCA Healthcare, which had grown to operate 463 hospitals (255 owned and 208 managed), spun off HealthTrust, a privately owned, 104-hospital company. Believing its stock was undervalued, the company completed a $ 5.1 billion leveraged management buyout led by chairman Thomas F. Frist Jr. in 1988. HCA Healthcare re-emerged as

1204-407: The corporation was renamed HCA Healthcare. In December 2018, a historical marker was installed in the parking lot of HCA's Sarah Cannon Cancer Center in Nashville, formerly the location of HCA's first hospital, Park View Hospital. In 2018, the company was ranked No. 67 in the 2019 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. In May 2021, the company finalized

1247-405: The failure to document observations throughout the night. The family's legal team said that Portland staff had given conflicting accounts of what had happened to Dwerryhouse and have since launched legal action against HCA Healthcare UK, the owners of the Portland. In May 2014, a newborn baby suffocated after a "catalogue of errors" were made at Portland hospital. The baby boy, named Jake Junior,

1290-653: The hospital has a problem in retaining midwives and uses a lot of agency staff. Serious questions need to be asked about what medical support the Portland is providing in case an emergency occurs during labour. In April 2002, Tracey Sampson died of acute heart failure after a caesarean section at Portland Hospital. Consultant anaesthetist Kenneth MacLeod was accused of serious professional misconduct for not reintubating Sampson and waiting 90 minutes before administering further anaesthetic. An inquest concluded that Sampson's death pertained to an "unknown cause, possibly related to (a) general anaesthetic." In April 2012, Dr Kenneth MacLeod

1333-451: The hospital secured planning approval for a new link bridge which would enable it to expand its specialist children's hospital within an adjacent building. It was described as a ‘5-star hotel for some very sick patients’ at an employment tribunal in 2022. In February 1999, Laura Touche was admitted to deliver twins. On February 6, Touche reported severe headache pain after a caesarean section to Portland staff, but her rising blood pressure

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1376-641: The lack of PPE. In April 2020, there was an outcry against HCA following the deaths of two nurses Celia Yap-Banago and Rosa Luna who worked at HCA hospitals in Kansas City and California and had contracted coronavirus, despite the alarm having been raised about the lack of PPE at work. On December 14, 2023, the North Carolina Attorney General sued HCA for violating the terms of an agreement that allowed HCA to purchase Mission Health. On February 13, 2024, HCA Healthcare denied

1419-488: The national average. The paper reported that five mothers had died during or after childbirth at the Portland since the hospital's opening. The hospitals death rate from post-partum haemorrhage was 20 times higher than the national average. In response to The Observer's findings, the then deputy general secretary to the Royal College of Midwives, Louise Silverton, said: I am absolutely shocked and appalled. We know

1462-481: The price, which then fell when the company reported disappointing financial results. Eleven of HCA's senior officers were sued for accounting fraud and insider trading . HCA settled the lawsuit in August 2007, agreeing to pay $ 20 million to the shareholders but admitting no wrongdoing, and no charges were brought. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States , HCA hospital nurses and other workers spoke out about

1505-674: The purchase of a majority stake in Galen College of Nursing , which operates 21 campuses in 12 states, offering Bachelor of Science and Associate of Science nursing degrees. In 1993, lawsuits were filed against HCA by former employees who alleged that the company had engaged in questionable Medicare billing practices. In 1997, with a federal investigation by the FBI , the IRS and the Department of Health and Human Services in its early stages,

1548-663: The remaining money needed to purchase two struggling hospitals in El Paso for $ 60 million. Then they acquired a neighboring hospital and shut it down. Within a year, the remaining two were doing much better. By the end of 1989, Columbia Hospital Corporation owned four hospitals with a total of 833 beds. In 1992, Columbia made a stock purchase of Basic American Medical, which owned eight hospitals, primarily in southwestern Florida. In September 1993, Columbia did another stock purchase, worth $ 3.4 billion, of Galen Healthcare, which had been spun off by Humana Inc. several months earlier. At

1591-556: The time, Galen had approximately 90 hospitals. After the purchase, Galen stockholders had 82% of the stock in the combined company, with Scott still running the company. On November 17, 2006, HCA became a private company for the third time when it completed a merger in which the company was acquired by a private investor group including affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Bain Capital , together with Merrill Lynch and HCA Healthcare founder Thomas F. Frist Jr. The total transaction

1634-465: Was announced HCA had completed the sale of West Hills Hospital and Medical Center and related assets in Los Angeles, California to UCLA Health , for an undisclosed amount. As of 2024 , HCA has 186 hospitals. They also report operating more than 2,400 additional sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics located in 20 U.S. states and in

1677-520: Was cleared of failing his patient and serious professional misconduct, but was found guilty of other failings, mostly pertaining to record keeping. On August 25, 2016, a seven year old boy died after his monitoring equipment was switched off by staff at the hospital. James Dwerryhouse suffered cardiac arrest and brain damage when the breathing equipment he needed to monitor sleep apnoea was switched off for nearly three hours. An investigation found further multiple failures including record keeping failures and

1720-488: Was in distress is hard for me to accept. [...] We have not even received any sort of apology from the consultant who is still practicing and it raises questions with us as to whether lessons are truly being learned. In 2015, Livermore and Del Guidice instructed their solicitors to investigate the care provided by private obstetrician Eleni Mavrides. A Serious Untoward Incident Report carried out by Portland Hospital detailed recommendations for improving future care. The hospital

1763-525: Was not checked for two and a half hours. According to normal protocol in the NHS , hospital staff should have checked Touche's blood pressure every 20 minutes to safeguard against brain haemorrhage , but the Portland lacked any protocol for checking vital signs. Touche subsequently suffered a brain haemorrhage, fell into a coma, and sustained brain damage. She was transferred to the Middlesex hospital and then to

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1806-423: Was the son of Hull City footballer Jake Livermore and his partner Danielle Del Guidice. An inquest concluded that Jake Junior's death was avoidable and could have been prevented if a caesarean section had been carried out earlier. The inquest heard that, despite signs of distress and an irregular heartbeat, staff at the Portland failed to carry out a blood test to determine if it was safe to continue delivery or if

1849-458: Was valued at approximately $ 33 billion, making it the largest leveraged buyout in history at the time, eclipsing the 1989 buyout of RJR Nabisco . In May 2010, HCA announced that the corporation would once again go public with an expected $ 4.6-billion IPO as HCA Holdings, Inc. In March 2011, HCA sold 126.2 million shares for $ 30 each, raising about $ 3.79 billion, at that time, the largest private-equity backed IPO in U.S. history. In May 2017,

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