Freese Decker held various strategic and operational roles before being named to the top job in 2018. He also noted that Beaumont received Medicare advances of $505 million in 2020 that needs to be returned this year. Studies out of Israel suggest that Pfizers vaccine protection begins waning after six months, but the FDA said that U.S. data is inconclusive. Starkman: Beware! Wright Lassiter III, president and CEO of Henry Ford Health System, is chair of the AHA. Spectrums board includes Doug DeVos, co-chair of Amway, whose family is among the most powerful in Michigan. The only remaining senior management executives are Grant, the chief nursing officer, and Jane Jordan, the chief lawyer, who like Grant and CEO Fox, has her primary home in Atlanta. By Eric Starkman John Fox, the Atlanta carpetbagger who washed up on the shores of southeastern Michigan seven years ago to bolster Beaumont Health's profits and gussy up Metro Detroit's. To support Deadline Detroit's independent. Spectrum also is comfortable issuing misleading or deceptive statements, so culturally Beaumont is possibly a great fit. Corewell Health has appointed Dr. Daniel Carey as the new president for its Beaumont Hospital campus in Royal Oak. Starkman: Electric Vehicles and the Exploitation of Michigan Taxpayers. Beaumont Health CEO John Fox has no shame. A Grand Rapids television station revealed that operating room OBGYN doctors were posting photos on social media of them holding up surgically removed organ and tissue material as part of a game they likened to The Price Is Right. The report by NBC affiliate WOODis a classic worth watching because the reporter cant believe what shes actually reporting. According to the most recently available filings, Freese Decker earned $3.9 million in 2018. As one source commented: Why doesnt the board just give Fox $25 million to go away?. We are incredibly excited about the impact the BHSH Beaumont Health Nurse Scholar program will have in health care and for our communities.. Fox didnt disclose how much Beaumont will spend to fund its real estate expansion. By Eric Starkman. Inexperienced nurses My sense about Spectrum is that if doctors had serious patient safety concerns and felt the need to circumvent management to get them addressed, the hospital companys board would take the matter quite seriously. What, if any, role Wilson will play after the merger hasnt been disclosed. Beaumont is awaiting approval to be rescued by Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids. Under their oversight, Beaumont suffered a precipitous decline in reputation and quality of care. The evidence is overwhelming that when hospitals merge, prices go up. 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Whats becoming increasingly obvious is how Freese Decker, like John Fox, is prone to making public statements that have no basis in fact. Also fostering ill will is Beaumonts mandate requiring that all employees be vaccinated or be fired. Destroying Beaumont and Spectrum Health, Covid Not Responsible for ER Debacles at Beaumont RO and Troy, Sh** Show at Beaumont Endoscopy Suite in Chaos Amid Nursing Shortage, C-Section Horror at Beaumont Lawsuit Claims Surgeon Left Sponge in Patients Abdomen, Former Spectrum CFO Trashes Beaumont Merger and Warns of 'Massive Financial Loss', Beaumont's Merger Partner Reveals its Disingenuous, Deceptive, Disrespectful Nature, Spectrum Healths Black Employees Explore Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Systemic Racism, Beware! Spectrum, with $6.9 billion in revenues, operates 14 hospitals in the western side of the stateand has 30,000 employees. Spectrums takeover of Beaumont was a deal that should never have been allowed. Despite Freeds damning allegations, Beaumont spokesman Mark Geary ignored a request for comment. Eric Starkman of Los Angeles is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Fox isnt the only hospital executive looking to exploit the perception that the unvaccinated are responsible for wreaking havoc. One need only look at Beaumont, an amalgamation of the Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, Oakwood Healthcare, Dearborn, and Botsford Health Care in Farmington Hills that was created in 2014. A hospital CEO committed to the best interests of their organization and the communities it services would typically demand a premium of one times the annual revenue, meaning Spectrum should pay nearly $5 billion to take over Beaumont. After posting his letter, Freed noted on his LinkedIn page that Beaumont made $167 million from its operations in 2020, which included revenue recognition of $349 million from the CARES Act and FEMA payments for Covid. Share. I'm officially declaring Beaumont CEO John Fox, the Atlanta carpetbagger whose greed and mismanagement destroyed Metro Detroit's biggest hospital system and put the health and safety of areas residents at risk, "The Cookie Monster." The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. The evidence is, Spectrums previous head of diversity was Ovell Barbee, an African American, who Spectrum, Many organizations are not interested in real change, Chris Metzler, the former associate dean for human resources and diversity studies at Georgetown University,, Disparities in healthcare are typically blamed on racism of U.S. doctors and other health professionals. In a company video posted on Vimeo Thursday, Beaumont CEO John Fox disclosed that Beaumont plans to spend significant dollars to embark on a three to five-year plan to expand the health systems private bed capacity. Why would Beaumont nurses want to remain on staff when they can make more money working at a staffing agency? BHSH is what Spectrum calls its combined Beaumont and Spectrum operations. Despite warning the pandemic would destroy U.S. hospitals, Beaumont overall had a very good year in 2020, increasing its reserve by $1 billion to $3.5 billion. Freese Decker grabbed the brass ring, but it was badly tarnished. By Eric Starkman Beaumont Health CEO John Fox has no shame. 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In June of last year Fox announced he planned to merge Beaumont into Advocate Aurora, a Chicago-based hospital network whose CEO was on record as having insatiableambitious plans. Even when Fox announces a merger deal with Spectrum, theres still no guarantee it will go through. That's bad news for Metro Detroit's biggest hospital . Is that still on track given Beaumonts oceans of red ink? Beaumont Health was significantly impacted by these financial and workforce headwinds that were particularly strong in Southeast Michigan (in the second quarter). Share. Many executives ask me privately, How many Black people do I have to have?. How Absurd. The head of Beaumonts audit committee was Julie Fream, who earlier this month became the hospital networks chair and has no auditing experience or background listed on her LinkedIn page. An additional director will also be named. Not a situation one would expect given that Freese Decker said her biggest priority was building a health system that celebrates and reinforces diversity and inclusion.. Gretchen Whitmer. Travel nurses are also required to oversee only four patients at a time and are exempted from having to transport patients to other areas of the hospital. If there was an annual award for the healthcare industrys biggest chump, I defy anyone to propose a more worthy recipient than Tina Freese Decker, CEO of Grand Rapids-based Spectrum Health. Financially, the pandemic was very good to Beaumont, as the hospital system pocketed an additional $1 billion for its $2.5 billion reserve kitty while furloughing and terminating hundreds of employees. On Thursday he posted an open letteron his LinkedIn page to Spectrums board implicitly questioning Beaumont Health's financials and warning that merging with the Southfield-based hospital network is ill advised. The deal will invariably be good for Fox, as he will likely get a very lucrative exit package to sail into the Georgia sunset. He previously concluded a deal with Akron-based Summa Health but backed out despite already having received regulatory approval. Fox has a change of control clause in his contract, meaning he will likely receive a lucrative exit package. With regards to healthcare, Nessel is a do-nothing attorney general who has stood idly by as Fox drove Beaumont into the ground and is expected to rubber stamp Spectrums takeover. Lewis resigned as chair just prior to Fox announcing Spectrums takeover and left the board in December. 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The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who . Said Kevin Cawley, a Michigan health care consultant: The only possible value I could identify (for the merger) was in national and international physician recruitment, and that frankly is a stretch.. Freed might want to reach out to Mark Shaevsky, a prominent southeastern Michigan attorney and a former Beaumont board member before it merged with two lesser hospital companies in 2014. Even if the executive couldnt restore Beaumont to its former glory, he or she could at least have minimized the damage and fetched a higher price for the hospital network than whatever Fox has negotiated. She never followed up with a comment. And that has resulted in the emergency rooms of Beaumont Royal Oak and Troy becoming so overwhelmed they are unprepared to handle unexpected catastrophes required of them as regional trauma centers. Still, Beaumont is clearly going to be a financial albatross on Spectrums operations for quite some time. John Kerndl and Denise Waters. Spectrum reported that Beaumont's operations already have racked up nearly $100 million in losses. In a further diss to the community, Beaumont converted a laundry facility into a makeshift morgue without getting permits. Bloomberg on Wednesday posted an editorial warning about the growing merger trend among hospitals, noting that it leads to higher insurance prices. The financial terms of the deal will reveal whether Freese Decker is as touchy-feely as she appears or whether she can be quite ruthless when a lucrative financial opportunity presents itself. Working at Beaumont under Fox and his former COO Carolyn Wilson was a hellacious HR experience, and the pandemic worsened the situation. Multiple sources have shared theyve been told by some Beaumont directors that Fox cant be fired, but no one gave a reason as to why. Meet Michael Freed, decidedly among the bravest persons in Michigan and one who acts on his conscience when it comes to protecting the health care of his hometown Grand Rapids community. "Our staff must care for those unvaccinated individuals who become extremely ill with the Covid Delta variant, or other variants, and try to balance all the other patients coming in with medical emergencies. Eric Starkman of Los Angeles is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. Beaumont Royal Oak in the past 18 months has lost more than a dozen prominent surgeons, half of its fellowship trained anesthesiologists, more than 50 nurse anesthetists, and dozens of nurses. When Fox arrived, Beaumont Royal Oak was among the best regional hospitals in the country; today it can best be described as a giant but mediocre community hospital. Spectrum appears to have grown organically, focused on a region it knows well. Most of Foxs senior management team has departed, and hes expected to leave once the takeover is completed and he receives the millions of dollars likely owed to him under his golden parachute agreement. Freese Deckers bio said her biggest priority is building a health system that celebrates and reinforces diversity and inclusion for employees, patients, families, and members. Yet the entire BHSH senior management team as best I can tell is as lily white as a loaf of Wonder bread. Confidentiality is assured. Reach Eric Starkman at: eric@starkmanapproved.com. If the proposed merger goes through, seven Beaumont board members will serve on the board of the combined companies. The expansion is apromising sign that Spectrum is willing to commit money and resources to expand and upgrade Beaumonts facilities and reverse the decline the hospital system has suffered from Foxs extensive cost-cutting during his seven-year reign. Share. Craig's guest is Eric Starkman, Deadline Detroit contributor and author of the blog Starkman Approved. Based on what was paid to the CEO of one of Beaumonts predecessor companies, Fox possibly stands to receive more than $30 million to sail into the Georgia sunset. Spectrum and Beaumont are technically merging because the board of the combined companies will have near equal representation and Beaumont chair Julie Fream will serve as chair of the BHSH. It isnt clear from Beaumonts stats that the hospitals Covid patients were admitted because of the disease or possibly some other serious ailments. The quality of care has declined to such a degree that insiders readily admit they wouldnt entrust their families care to the hospital. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. September 15, 2020, 9:36 PM . Spectrum spokeswoman Ellen Bristol Wednesday morning said she would look into whether a merger was imminent, seeming to indicate Deadline Detroits inquiry was the first shed heard of a potential deal. 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Beaumont, consistent with its practice of putting a spin on undesirable news, notified employees that it is making "good progress" toward . There are some serious issues with NorthStar Anesthesia, the Texas-based outsourcing company that Wilson bet the farm on and losing badly so far. It speaks volumes that Spectrum Health CEO Tina Freese Decker and her fellow directors have chosen to get into bed with the directors who are ultimately responsible for the implosion of Beaumont Health. Ive been looking for the past week and have not located them. The scuttlebutt around town is that Beaumont directors believe that a merger is the only way to get rid of Fox. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Many organizations are not interested in real change, Chris Metzler, the former associate dean for human resources and diversity studies at Georgetown University, told NBC News. This columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved.. By Eric Starkman. In Dearborn, the nursing shortage is so acute that an ICU operates at 60 percent capacity. Joseph Hill, who was hired to be diversity chief at Hermann Health System in Houston, was fired even before starting his job allegedly because he had already identified racial bias at the hospital. Turns out Beaumonts reported $4 billion reserve also dwindled by the time Fox turned over the keys to Freese Decker. Studies show that when hospitals combine, healthcare prices increase while patient quality declines. Hes even willing to exploit the publics fear of Covid to distract from his own mismanagement. This columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. That's bad news for Metro Detroit's biggest hospital system. Spectrum no doubt knew that Fox was desperate to unload Beaumont, so Freese Decker had him by the cajones. Instead, thanks to aggressive cost cutting and other misguided decisions by Fox and COO Carolyn Wilson, Beaumont imploded. Under the terms of the deal Fox negotiated, Advocate Aurora would have taken over Beaumont and its $2.5 billion reserve without forking out a penny. Ohios AG has won a series of landmark settlements taking on healthcare companies. By comparison, BHSH will have 22 hospitals and 64,000 employees. Various studies, including one published in 2019 by Harvard researchers, also show that hospital mergers result in worsened patient experiences. That resulted in Beaumont staff nurses working alongside nurses getting paid considerably more money doing the same job, prompting more staff nurses to leave. There are no bios or photos of Beaumonts other directors, and thats by intent. Spectrums four-person communications team also ignored a request for comment. Beaumonts orthopedic surgeons, ranked among the best in the country, are doing their lucrative joint replacement surgeries at area ambulatory centers. Spectrums financial statements indicate that cash and investments from the acquisition was $3.2 billion. They are looking at diversity as a numbers game. Though Spectrum Health is a respectable hospital network run by a management and board deeply committed to the Grand Rapids area, the evidence is overwhelming that southeastern Michigan residents wont ultimately benefit from the deal. One of the deciding factors in evaluating merging Beaumont and Spectrum will be the financial terms of the deal. Its a standard practice when companies of near comparable size combine: The company whose CEO is tapped to lead the mergedcompany agrees to have the chairman of the partner company serve as chair. In his letter, Freed expresses concern that seven Beaumont directors will be named to the combined Spectrum-Beaumont board and that they could ultimately exert undue influence. That leaves the hospital with just two cardiothoracic surgeons, down from nine years ago. The Royal Oak budget cuts were made in 2020, when Beaumont increased its reserves to $3.5 billion from $2.5 billion and Fox earlier in the year warned U.S. hospitals could collapse because of the pandemic. Spectrums joint release with Beaumont says the aim of the deal is to make health care more affordable for the communities we serve. Heres my challenge to Freese Decker: For every independent study she can come up with showing where hospital mergers resulted in more affordable care, I will come up with two showing the opposite. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Beaumont Troy, the only hospital in the companys network with a 5-star ranking for safety from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid, doesnt have the management strife of Royal Oak. Beaumont spokesman Mark Geary ignored a request for comment, which he typically does. He said the expansion would involve a lot of local planning in terms of where these bed towers are located, which seemingly indicates that Beaumont is planning to expand its real estate footprint. Spectrums board strikes me as pretty buttoned up, so they might not yet appreciate the extent of how damaged Beaumont really is. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Giving some of them oversight over a considerably bigger hospital system is reckless and irresponsible. Fox, who owns homes in Atlanta and North Carolina, cant be bothered to even create the appearance that he cares about Beaumonts future. Much of Freeds letter focuses on why merging with Beaumont is very bad for western Michigan residents, but in doing so he calls out Beaumonts lack of financial transparency and notes that the few disclosures Beaumont makes dont add up. Eric Starkman of Los Angeles is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved.. By Eric Starkman. To be sure, Beaumont isnt alone in suffering from a nursing shortage. My guess is that if Freed understood how Beaumonts directors stood idly by while Beaumont imploded, hed challenge their appointments regardless. But ER nurses are angry with Melissa Foreman Lovell, Troys chief nursing officer, who they say rarely appears at the hospital. Reach Eric Starkman at: eric@starkmanapproved.com. The insurance business is among the most profitable sectors in healthcare, but as anyone who has dealt with one of these companies know, their priority is profits, not patient care. Spectrum is a competently run company on an upward trajectory, while Beaumont is a very damaged goods operation. Whats notable about Foxs disclosure is the seeming priorities of Spectrum compared to Advocate Aurora, the Chicago-based hospital system that Fox tried to give Beaumont away to in June 2020 under terms so obscenely favorable to Advocate Aurora, he couldnt pull it off. John Fox, the Atlanta carpetbagger who washed up on the shores of southeastern Michigan seven years ago to bolster Beaumont Healths profits and gussy up Metro Detroits biggest hospital network so that he could sell it, appears hes pulled off what he set out to do. To support Deadline Detroit's independent journalism, please sign up for a $3a month membership or a one-time donation. Its almost a mantra among Beaumont Royal Oak nurses that Henry Ford treats their nurses like royalty. Beaumont has had a contentious relationship with its Royal Oak nurses for years, prompting them to try to organize a union two years ago. These contracted doctors also were responsible for setting up a Covid-19 ICU unit at Beaumont Troy. Studies also show that hospital mergers also result in a decline in patient care. Copyrightdocument.write(new Date().getFullYear());Deadline Detroit, Inc. - All Rights Reserved, Michael Freed doesn't "see any value in this merger. Eric Starkman of Los Angeles is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. Business Starkman: Bloodbath at Beaumont - COO Carolyn Wilson and Top Doctor Ousted; Chief Quality Officer Resigns Tweet Share July 22, 2021, 12:45 PM This columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer,. In quickly reviewing Spectrums website and news releases, I can't find evidence that Freese Decker has expressed the belief that Spectrum needed to achieve considerable size to survive and remain competitive. Starkman: Electric Vehicles and the Exploitation of Michigan Taxpayers. It seems unlikely that Beaumont would embark on a major expansion without the input and signoff of Spectrum, which is awaiting regulatory approval to take over the faltering Southfield-based hospital system. Copyrightdocument.write(new Date().getFullYear());Deadline Detroit, Inc. - All Rights Reserved, A Zoom video conference call that was leaked this week, a month membership or a one-time donation, Sh** Show At Beaumont Endoscopy Suite In Chaos Amid Nursing Shortage, C-Section Horror at Beaumont Lawsuit Claims Surgeon Left Sponge in Patients Abdomen, Former Spectrum CFO Trashes Beaumont Merger and Warns of 'Massive Financial Loss', Beaumont Health's Merger Partner Reveals its Disingenuous, Deceptive and Disrespectful Nature, Spectrum Healths Black Employees Explore Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Systemic Racism, Beware! If Michigan had a competent attorney general or a governor with a healthcare interest beyond abortion rights, the deal would have been derailed. Beaumont was once mostly staffed by highly skilled veterans, among the best in healthcare. Pamela Ries, senior vice president and head of HR at Spectrum, is listed as chief integration officer. Companies often create diversity positions for window dressing purposes. 'The Week That Was:' Will Kristina Karamo Seriously Damage Michigan's Republican Party? Starkman: Electric Vehicles and the Exploitation of Michigan Taxpayers. The nurse anesthetists at Beaumont Royal Oak, Troy and Grosse Pointe hospitals, who are critical to keeping their facilities' lucrative surgery businesses humming, are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore. But Beaumonts release last month announcing her elevation to chair to replace John Lewis provides some insight. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Spectrum was targeting a $156 million operating profit. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Beaumont Royal Oak is a Level I regional hospital, which according to the American Trauma Society means it is required to have 24/7 staffing available to provide total care for every aspect of injury from prevention through rehabilitation. According to a source, some travel nurses are being paid lucrative wages to work only three or four shifts a week. Starkman: America's Mistakenly Entitled Restaurant Workers February 08, 2023, 12:24 PM - Starkman Approved 'The Week That Was:' Why Police Have Groups Like the 'Scorpion Unit' February 03,. They say waits extending six hours and beyond stem from a chronic shortage of inpatient nurses thats forced the closing of various wards. Spectrum and Beaumont announced today that they are moving forward with Spectrums takeover, having provided the applicable regulatory agencies with all requested information. The deadline apparently has passed for the Federal Trade Commission to challenge the deal. Fox that year was paid $5.9 million. Fox previously disclosed he talked to more than 100 hospital systems hoping to find a corporate bride for Beaumont. Copyrightdocument.write(new Date().getFullYear());Deadline Detroit, Inc. - All Rights Reserved, Starkman: Why Tree Huggers Must Save This Small Town in Michigan From Ford, 'Detroit In Black And White:' Why We Got Kicked Off 910 AM, Randy Wimbley Leaving Fox 2 After a Decade on the Air. Meet Michael Freed, decidedly among the bravest persons in . To support Deadline Detroit's independent. Prioritys goal is to capture as much market share as possible and then use that power to reduce what it pays to doctors to cover their services. 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