JOAN VENNOCHI’S recent thoughtful column (“Fine line between morals and profit,” Op-ed, Dec. 23) about Cerberus Capital Management, the owner of both the Freedom Group gun manufacturers and the for-profit hospital chain Steward Health Care System, raised many important issues that need to be at center stage in our thinking.
The not-for-profit mission of our legacy health care institutions has a single focus: to care for the sick with compassion and quality, even when our state and federal dollars become more constrained.
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Check out what one of Steward Health Care System's "hospitals" did to this poor woman: www.helenbousquet.com Weeks after this woman died, their own nurses protested outside of the hospital, saying they don't have enough nurses to care for the patients. Unbelievable. Then our own Governor Patrick names a Steward executive as our new Health Secretary. That's the world we live in now.