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Sun Oct 4, 2020, 03:43 PM Oct 2020

Indiana hospital employee fired after speaking to New York Times

From https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hr/indiana-hospital-employee-fired-after-speaking-to-new-york-times.html#:~:text=NeuroBehavioral%20Hospital%20in%20Crown%20Point,dumping%2C%22%20the%20NYT%20reports.

Indiana hospital employee fired after speaking to New York Times

Molly Gamble
Thursday, October 1st, 2020

NeuroBehavioral Hospital in Crown Point, Ind., terminated the employment of a discharge planner last week after she spoke to the New York Times about nursing homes discharging unprofitable patients, a practice known as "patient dumping," the NYT reports.

In the Sept. 19 NYT article, Kimberly Jackson said that during the pandemic nursing homes in Illinois and Michigan have repeatedly sent elderly and disabled Medicaid patients to NeuroBehavioral Hospital, a psychiatric facility, even though they were not experiencing psychosis, seemingly in an effort to get rid of patients who are not lucrative for reimbursement or require extra care.

"The homes seem to be purposely taking symptoms of dementia as evidence of psychosis," Ms. Jackson is quoted in the article.

She was fired from NeuroBehavioral Hospital Sept. 24. Rebecca Holloway, the hospital's corporate director of human resources, told the NYT that Ms. Jackson violated the hospital's media policy.

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Somebody hire this American hero. CaptYossarian Oct 2020 #1
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