Send a Message to Hackensack Meridian Health
Call HMH CEOs to urge them to stop putting Corporate Wealth before Patient Health
The corporatization of New Jersey’s healthcare hurts patients and diminishes the quality of care.
As community hospitals are consolidated and merge at an alarming rate, healthcare services are increasingly being provided by big corporate health systems like Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH). Decisions on healthcare are no longer made by providers, but rather from the corporate offices whose primary interest is to increase their monopolistic strength and improve their bottom line.
"Hackensack Meridian Health's original mission to provide quality healthcare services to their patients and the surrounding community is being sacrificed in favor higher corporate profits."
NJ’s large corporate health systems like HMH have aggressively fought back efforts of elected officials, regulators, their employees or the public to hold them accountable to their original mission. HMH uses aggressive PR strategies, publicity around hospital rankings, and token contributions to community health to whitewash their true priorities – maximizing revenues.
Meanwhile, patients wind up with limited choices of providers, as more are pushed out-of-network. Hard-pressed families face increased costs in the form of often insurmountable deductibles, co-pays, and co-insurance. Patient care suffers as HMH turns to ‘assembly line’ healthcare strategies instead of adequate – and safe – staffing strategies.
HMH and the other big corporate health systems have lost sight of their mission and are fighting with their own health providers that traditionally held their corporation accountable to the public. The solution is for HMH and others to respect the voices of their caregivers and patients and allow of regulation that will ensure public accountability.
