Beaumont does not have a good reputation regarding how they treat employees. Beaumont has signed a letter of intent to merge with Spectrum Health, a Grand Rapids-based hospital network focused on Western Michigan, the company announced internally Wednesday. If theyre out there, theyre certainly not easy to find and, no, a few quotes about financials every quarter does not count as transparency, at least not in my book.. Seven Failed Beaumont Directors Will Serve on Board If Spectrum Merger Gets Approval Tweet. 'The Week That Was:' Will Kristina Karamo Seriously Damage Michigan's Republican Party? Starkman: Electric Vehicles and the Exploitation of Michigan Taxpayers. In his video, Fox disclosed that none of the monies for the planned expansion are being diverted from funds to deal with Beaumonts chronic staff shortages that have forced the closing of wards because there isnt sufficient medical staff to cover them. Carey has spent more than 20 years as a . 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. Beaumont at one point claimed to have 38,000 employees, but with layoffs and unfilled positions its not clear how many employees remain. Reach Eric Starkman at: eric@starkmanapproved.com. The nursing shortage in our state is a critical and complex challenge that must be solved with bold and collaborative solutions, the Detroit Free Press quoted Freese Decker as saying. 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. Its Beaumonts attempt to mislead southeastern Michigan residents that they arent losing a local institution. Freed doesnt disclose his hunch about Beaumonts financials, which received less oversight than he possibly knows. Understandably, Spectrum is a more profitable hospital system, but its profits also are bolstered by its lucrative Priority Health insurance arm. By Eric Starkman. 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,. Corewell Health has appointed Dr. Daniel Carey as the new president for its Beaumont Hospital campus in Royal Oak. Its totally bizarre.. This columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. Typically, when deals of these sorts are announced, the CEO of the acquired company pays lip service to being committed to ensuring a smooth transition and promises to stick around and lend their full support. I dont see any value in this merger, Freed says of the marriage deal Spectrum and Beaumont jointly announced last week. Other state attorney generals have also shown a willingness to take on the powerful interests of U.S. hospital companies. The rankings are based on data compiled before Beaumont Royal Oak outsourced its anesthesia services, a controversial move linked to the death of a patient undergoing a routine colonoscopy and another patient landing in the ICU because of a pain medication overdose. 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. Reach Eric Starkman at: eric@starkmanapproved.com. Its reasonable to assume the real reason for Freams elevation was the board knew Fox was close to inking a deal with a merger partner. His chief marketing officer resigned last September, his CFO quit in March, his chief compliance officer left a few weeks ago, and his chief revenue officer is out the door in a few days. Fox is about 70, and given his failed performance, it was a given that he wouldn't lead the combined Spectrum Beaumont entity. Southeastern Michigan residents shouldnt look to Rep. Andy Levin to save the day. 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 has vowed he will hold Spectrums directors accountable for the repercussions to his Grand Rapids community. No doubt the pot of cash is the bait that got the merger talks going. When you sign the documents that will permanently change this region, your signature will forever hold you accountable for the repercussions, Freed said in a letterhe posted on LinkedIn. Beaumont is having difficulty attracting mid- and lower-level employees as well. February 02, 2022, 4:58 PM . Its near impossible to put a positive spin on a critical and passionate letter written by a former top executive who played a major role transforming Spectrum into a western Michigan powerhouse. Eric Starkman of Los Angeles is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. 'The Week That Was:' Will Kristina Karamo Seriously Damage Michigan's Republican Party? Despite Freeds damning allegations, Beaumont spokesman Mark Geary ignored a request for comment. Beaumont CEO Fox and COO Wilson Must Go Now! To support Deadline Detroit's independent. 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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. Share. 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. Beaumont is offering all its nurses systemwide an additional $45 to $50 an hour bonus to work beyond their assigned shifts, an additional $15 an hour for techs. There are no bios or photos of Beaumonts other directors, and thats by intent. 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. The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. Several prominent Beaumont doctors warned the board they had serious concerns about the anesthesia outsourcing company before it took over, but Beaumonts board ignored the concerns. In another example of how Freese Decker is just like John Fox in looking to deceive and distract, Spectrum announced it will provide Oakland University with $20 million over the next five years for a Beaumont Health Nurse Scholar Program. ", a month membership or a one-time donation, Beaumont Health's Merger Partner Reveals its Disingenuous, Deceptive and Disrespectful Nature, Spectrum Healths Black Employees Explore Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Systemic Racism, Beware! Beaumont nurses and nurse anesthetists quit in droves, joining staffing agencies that paid them more money and ensured them better working conditions. To support Deadline Detroit's independent. 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.. The merger could still fall apart if Spectrum has a top-notch duediligence team. The nursing shortage has forced Beaumont Royal Oak to use so-called travel nurses from temp agencies to hold things together in the ER, but this is sparking additional resentment. Beaumont, consistent with its practice of putting a spin on undesirable news, notified employees that it is making "good progress" toward . He's even willing to. Eric Starkman of Los Angeles is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. To support Deadline Detroit's independent. Copyrightdocument.write(new Date().getFullYear());Deadline Detroit, Inc. - All Rights Reserved, AG Dana Nessel and Gov. Maybe they dont teach this at the University of Iowa from where Freese Decker received her Master of Health Administration, but when a hospital spends nearly $2 million as John Fox did to intimidate nurses at his flagship Royal Oak hospital and derailed a unionizing attempt, it creates bad blood. 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. Its a vicious cycle, one that I doubt Spectrum has figured out how to solve. The release, which Fream presumably signed off on, said her appointment was part of a normal governance leadership rotational process.. Inexperienced nurses Starkman: Beware! Starkman: Beaumont's Woes Prove CEO Tina Freese Decker Unfit to Run Michigan's Biggest Hospital System Tweet Share August 19, 2022, 3:14 PM The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer and former. Theres no prestige working at Beaumont anymore. Also fostering ill will is Beaumonts mandate requiring that all employees be vaccinated or be fired. I know little about Fream, who served as Beaumonts vice chair for several years. 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. She never followed up with a comment. How Absurd. 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. 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. Bloomberg on Wednesday posted an editorial warning about the growing merger trend among hospitals, noting that it leads to higher insurance prices. That leaves the hospital with just two cardiothoracic surgeons, down from nine years ago. Grand Rapids business community is small and tight knit, and Spectrum is a major employer in western Michigan. This is Beaumont's latest attempt to merge with another hospital . Rather than having people speculate he was passed over, he chose to step down in advance. Gretchen Whitmer were silent. A Zoom video conference call that was leaked this week among physicians and the marketing director of a North Carolina hospital involved a discussion on how to manipulate Covid patient stats to make them more scary to the public. Henry Ford also said the unvaccinated were exacerbating its staff shortages. Beaumont Troy also operates at a reduced capacity. So What? Beaumont Troy is a Level II and must also be prepared to handle a wide range of emergencies. 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. Beaumont Health was significantly impacted by these financial and workforce headwinds that were particularly strong in Southeast Michigan (in the second quarter). John Kerndl, who joined Beaumont in 2016, quit in March. Ohios AG has won a series of landmark settlements taking on healthcare companies. Fox said Beaumont plans to ask for military assistance to support its other facilities. BHSH is what Spectrum calls its combined Beaumont and Spectrum operations. 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. If (Beaumonts) operating margins are adequate, and they have plenty of cash, whats the problem? It appears that Beaumont Health CEO John Fox won't be bundling his millions and bidding Michigan goodbye as soon as he hoped. Spectrums previous head of diversity was Ovell Barbee, an African American, who Spectrum proudly announced last April was named one of the leading diversity executives in the country. Thats right, CFO Matthew Cox referred to Beaumont as an acquisition, not a merger as Freese Decker and Fox led the media to believe. Spectrum appears to have grown organically, focused on a region it knows well. Beaumont reported operating revenues of $4.6 billion in 2020 and is only an eight-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! ER sources at Royal Oak and Troy say Covid patients account for a small percentage seeking emergency treatment. It isnt clear from Beaumonts stats that the hospitals Covid patients were admitted because of the disease or possibly some other serious ailments. He previously concluded a deal with Akron-based Summa Health but backed out despite already having received regulatory approval. The Michigan Nurses Union vowed it would no longer seek to organize at Beaumont because of the companys climate of fear.. Beaumonts Fox doesnt take pride in the directors he is supposedly accountable to, possibly because he regards them as his subordinates. Copyrightdocument.write(new Date().getFullYear());Deadline Detroit, Inc. - All Rights Reserved, Michael Freed doesn't "see any value in this merger. That wasnt entirely true. 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. Various studies, including one published in 2019 by Harvard researchers, also show that hospital mergers result in worsened patient experiences. As one source commented: Why doesnt the board just give Fox $25 million to go away?. Starkman: Electric Vehicles and the Exploitation of Michigan Taxpayers. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. But Spectrums management is 100 percent running the show. Freese Decker grabbed the brass ring, but it was badly tarnished. These contracted doctors also were responsible for setting up a Covid-19 ICU unit at Beaumont Troy. About a half dozen of Freams former board cronies also serve on the Spectrum board, once entirely controlled by Grand Rapids and western Michigan-based residents. 'The Week That Was:' Will Kristina Karamo Seriously Damage Michigan's Republican Party? According to a source, some travel nurses are being paid lucrative wages to work only three or four shifts a week. Fox cancelled the Advocate Aurora deal a few days later. Beaumont Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Fox also disclosed that Beaumont has earmarked $40 million to purchase state-of-the-art beds, some of which are already being delivered. Beaumont CFO John Kerndl Resigns, Beaumont Nurse Anesthetists Union Drive Could Save Imploding Hospital from Further Demise, Layoffs. Its a no-brainer to understand why Fox desperately needs to pull off the Spectrum merger. Newsweek Ranks 3 Beaumont Hospitals Among Best in U.S. One Down, Three to Go. Meet Michael Freed, decidedly among the bravest persons in . 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. AG Dana Nessel was personally warned by Beaumont donor and former director Mark Shaevsky two years ago that Fox and his board cronies needed to be removed, but she allowed the hospital system to deteriorate, as did Michigan Gov. Beaumont CEO John Fox is headed for the door Friday. The list goes on. As best I can tell, Freese Decker is genuinely committed to forging relationships with the communities Spectrum serves, unlike Fox and his managers, many of whom dont even live in the Detroit area. 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. That's bad news for Metro Detroit's biggest hospital . Reach Eric Starkman at: eric@starkmanapproved.com. Spectrums board includes Doug DeVos, co-chair of Amway, whose family is among the most powerful in Michigan. Spectrum and Beaumont are not corporate equals. He didnt address staff as folks as hes repeatedly done in the past and he looked more relaxed and rested than in previous videos. Reach Eric Starkman at: eric@starkmanapproved.com. Spectrumreportedthat Beaumonts operations already have racked up nearly $100 million in losses. Spectrums prices are higher than Beaumonts, as the hospital network has significantly less competition in western Michigan. Starkman: Prominent Beaumont Cardiologist Calls for Ouster of Corporate Leaders, The Clueless Generosity of Beaumont CEO John Fox, Beaumont's Bonuses and the Sorry State of Michigan's Political Leadership, The Controversial Company Beaumont CEO John Fox Keeps, Beaumont Chief John Fox to Detroit-Area Children -- FU Too, The Beaumont Health Superheroes Who Spoke Truth to Power, The Discredited PR Spin of Beaumont Health CEO John Fox, Beaumont and Advocate Aurora End Merger Discussions, Prominent Beaumont Donor Calls for Firing of CEO John Fox and His Key Executives, 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. Spectrum CEO Tina Freese Decker obviously believes the Beaumont merger is already a done deal. Reach Eric Starkman at: eric@starkmanapproved.com. Susan Grant, the chief nursing officer for all of Beaumont, has her primary home in Atlanta. Hes even willing to exploit the publics fear of Covid to distract from his own mismanagement. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Starkman: Electric Vehicles and the Exploitation of Michigan Taxpayers. If Michigan had a competent attorney general or a governor with a healthcare interest beyond abortion rights, the deal would have been derailed. Spectrum reported that Beaumont's operations already have racked up nearly $100 million in losses. One of the deciding factors in evaluating merging Beaumont and Spectrum will be the financial terms of the deal. 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. The combined Spectrum and Beaumont operations will temporarily be called BHSH System. Gretchen Whitmer. Spectrums CEO Freese Decker joined Spectrum in 2002 as an administrative fellow, a program designed to train masters level graduates the administrative aspects of a healthcare facility. Naming Fream as chairman was done for optics, an attempt to assure Southeastern Michigan residents that their interests would be protected if Spectrum and Beaumont merge. Hospital prices in southeastern Michigan are among the lowest in the country, so one would have to be incredibly nave to believe Spectrums claim that its takeover will lead to more affordable care. It should give Grand Rapids residents cold shivers that the chair of Spectrum is Julie Fream, who was vice chair of Beaumont when Fox destroyed the hospital system's once nationally vaunted reputation. They say waits extending six hours and beyond stem from a chronic shortage of inpatient nurses thats forced the closing of various wards. Freed was CFO of Grand Rapids-based Spectrum Health for nearly 19 years, and later headed the hospital companys lucrative Priority Health insurance arm for six years. Yet the, Nessels do nothing stance on healthcare matters is in sharp contrast to her Massachusetts counterpart Maura Healey, who has moved to block the expansion of Massachusetts General Brigham on the grounds it will lead to, Former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra won a $575 million landmark settlement against Sutter Health for using the market dominance it obtained through a series of mergers to illegally drive-up prices. Spectrum was targeting a $156 million operating profit. 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. It appears that Beaumont Health CEO John Fox won't be bundling his millions and bidding Michigan goodbye as soon as he hoped. 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,. 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. Starkman: Electric Vehicles and the Exploitation of Michigan Taxpayers. To support Deadline Detroit's independent. This columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs atStarkman Approved. Support our reporting by becoming aDeadline Detroit memberfor as little as $3 per month. Starkman: Electric Vehicles and the Exploitation of Michigan Taxpayers. Is that still on track given Beaumonts oceans of red ink? Gretchen Whitmer has paid lip service that shes committed to so-called healthcare equity, meaning that Blacks receive access to the same quality of care as whites. How Absurd. This columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs atStarkman Approved. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Beaumont derailed the effort after spending nearly $2 million on union busters, furthering ill will among its nurses. Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Spectrums takeover must be approved by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the Federal Trade Commission. Studies also show that hospital mergers also result in a decline in patient care. To be sure, Beaumont isnt alone in suffering from a nursing shortage. As Deadline Detroit recently reported, Beaumonts once-bustling endoscopy suite, where a patient died undergoing a routine colonoscopy in January, has suffered a rash of nurse resignations and can barely operate at 50 percent capacity. Instead, thanks to aggressive cost cutting and other misguided decisions by Fox and COO Carolyn Wilson, Beaumont imploded. The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs atStarkman Approved. By Eric Starkman Beaumont Health CEO John Fox has no shame. The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer and formerDetroit News business reporter, blogs atStarkman 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. That amounts to a Spectrum takeover in my book. Fox isnt the only hospital executive looking to exploit the perception that the unvaccinated are responsible for wreaking havoc. The Chief People Officer position is listed as open, indicating that Ries isnt getting the top HR job at BHSH. 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