https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/ascension-goes-on-selling-spree.html Looks like Ascension is leaving Alabama now.

When an American company outsources its IT operations, data leaks occur, leading to chaos. They must urgently uncover the truth and protect their business from a global cyber threat.

https://www.classaction.org/data-breach-lawsuits/ascension-may-2024

Rumor spreading in IT that Ascension paid the ransom. Slowly systems are working again. They will never admit it, but outsourcing was a mistake costing millions...

https://fox59.com/indiana-news/nurses-fed-up-with-ascension-healthcare-security-breach-issues/

Another class action lawsuit filed from the TN: https://news.yahoo.com/news/ascension-saint-thomas-health-patient-152710264.html?guccounter=1

Is HCL losing a big contract? Rumors say a major client might end their partnership. Any insights?

Ascension Health unknowingly hired foreign nationals with ties to North Korea for remote IT work, sending millions of revenue overseas in a sprawling fraud scheme that helped the isolated country fund its nuclear we-pons program, the Justice... — read more 

“We have it under control”

The decision to heavily rely on outsourced talent involved thousands of individuals. However, this strategy did not produce the anticipated outcomes. Despite the large scale of outsourcing, the expected benefits in terms of performance improvement... — read more 

One VP brags constantly about the outsourcing model. Officially known as overseas partners. They say in leadership meetings that Ascension will NEVER go back to in-house IT. Even after spending thousands flying executives to India for curry and... — read more 

So who knows details on why we lost internet at every location?

Facilities in Saginaw, Standish, Tawas to be acquired this summer: MyMichigan Health and Ascension have signed a definitive agreement under which Ascension Michigan’s Northern Region will become part of MyMichigan Health within a few... — read more 

St. Louis-based Mercy plans to acquire ownership of Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kan. The proposed transaction includes the hospital, its locations and related physician practices. The deal is subject to regulatory approvals. ... — read more 

JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) -- Hundreds of nurses at Ascension St. Joseph Hospital in Joliet will be hitting the picket line Thursday. This comes after Ascension Healthcare faced a wave of strikes last year across the country. Nurses were on strike twice in... — read more 

Ascension Tulsa just terminated two upper management employees, both women and are looking to reduce staff by about 100.

The more substantial shift for the nonprofit hospital sector—and “The biggest question long term for rating agencies” like Fitch—is whether the nonprofit hospital sector sees operating margins “reset” from the ideal of 3% or higher to a range of 1%... — read more 

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Hundreds of nurses at a hospital in Joliet could be walking off the job again next week. The 500 union nurses at Ascension Saint Joseph in Joliet notified the hospital on Monday they plan to walk off the job for two days on Feb. 8... — read more 

An 18-year-old man was arrested after a security guard at Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital was injured in a stabbing Monday morning at the east-side hospital, according to the Milwaukee Police Department and Ascension Wisconsin. The... — read more 

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital engaged in unfair labor practices. The NLRB’s Region 7 in Detroit confirmed it has identified10 unfair labor practices by the hospital in Rochester Hills, said... — read more 

People with health insurance may now represent the majority of debtors American hospitals struggle to collect from, according to medical billing analysts. This marks a sea change from just a few years ago, when people with health insurance... — read more 

Just how lavishly well are America’s health care CEOs doing these days? In 2022, a down year for the stock market, the CEOs of over 300 publicly traded U.S. health care companies combined to make some $4 billion, analysts at STAT reported this past... — read more 

“We believe this is illegal because there is no evidence of the ‘impasse’ Ascension is claiming,” INA legal counsel Matt Bartmes said in the union’s news release. “But beyond that, we have only found a handful of examples of a company attempting to... — read more 

All of the pediatricians at Ascension's Prospect Medical Commons, part of Columbia St. Mary's Hospital campus on Milwaukee's east side, have left, causing disruptions in care for some of its young... — read more 

Nick Ragone will take on the role of EVP, chief marcomms officer, across Jefferson Health, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health Plans. https://www.prweek.com/article/1856794/ascensions-nick-ragone-join-healthcare-company-jefferson

Ascension has cut a quarter of its labor and delivery units in the past decade amidst a nationwide rise in pregnancy- and childbirth-related mortality, according to new analysis released today by National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union of... — read more 

Registered nurses in the resident and fellow programs at Ascension Seton Medical Center (ASMC) in Austin, Texas, voted 96% in favor of representation by the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU)... — read more 

The Bargaining team with Ascension Saint Joseph in Joliet will meet with the Illinois Nurses Association about a new contract deal on Friday. The hospital says the deal is its best and final proposal. Hundreds of nurses went on strike twice last... — read more 

A nursing home in Lewiston, New York, owned by one of the country's largest nonprofit Catholic health systems, is set to be sold. Ascension Living, a senior care and living provider that is part of St. Louis-based Ascension, confirmed that it has... — read more 

Ascension Providence warns cyberattack on contractor may have compromised patient info Christopher De Los Santos Dec 13, 2023 Ascension Providence is warning that ransomware attacks on a contractor’s networks in September might have exposed... — read more 

Ascension is locked in a legal battle with an Austin agency over whether poor patients are actually getting the care they're entitled to. https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/02/ascension-texas-central-health-lawsuit/

There are many better and more ethical companies that are hiring right now. I left two years ago and I never regretted it. I feel bad for my former coworkers who are still working for that mess of a company. Hopefully, more and more people will... — read more 

A Fifth of US Hospitals Have Been Warned Over Secretive Prices HCA and Ascension among those that have had violations Records reveal piecemeal progress on making prices... — read more 

Ascension, the Catholic nonprofit hospital chain giant, has had a he-l of a year. Hot off the heels of a scathing New York Times investigation into its staffing crisis, initiated by its own profiteering, in January Ascension was on track to drop... — read more 

INA chief negotiator John Fitzgerald said the company proposal comes close to bringing pay for entry-level nurses to a competitive level but does not do so for middle-tier nurses. He said the Ascension proposal does not compensate the most senior... — read more 

A lot has changed since we last spoke with journalist Elly Fishman about the conditions at Ascension Health hospitals in Milwaukee last year. But unfortunately, not much has changed for patient care. If anything, it may have gotten... — read more 

Current and former staff say conditions continue to deteriorate at one of the city’s largest hospitals – a follow-up to our special report a year ago. LATE LAST YEAR, Milwaukee Magazine published an investigation into Ascension Columbia St... — read more 

"Layoff announcements have increased this year as hospitals and health systems limp out of a financially devastating 2022." https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/layoffs-ramping-among-hospitals-and-health-systems-heres-34-examples-2023

All of the money raised through the sale will go toward buying patients essential items needed in the hospital. "We have a complete lack of working I.V. pumps in the entire hospital, so nurses are often required to triage patients and decide... — read more 

The nurses contend the chain has cut hospital staffing too much, threatening quality of care and forcing them to care for unreasonable numbers of patients. https://wichitabeacon.org/stories/2023/12/08/nurses-strike-after-years-of-labor-shortages/ — read more