Posted on 03/04/2021 7:32:33 PM PST by marshmallow
California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra disclosed Tuesday that his office is investigating whether the Catholic healthcare chain Providence Health has violated its legal commitments by applying religious restrictions on care at one of Orange County’s premier hospitals.
Becerra’s office is requesting a heap of documentation from Providence about its dealings with Hoag Memorial Hospital, a Newport Beach medical center with which it has partnered since 2016 and is now in an acrimonious dispute.
It comes as Becerra awaits Senate confirmation of his nomination as President Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services.
Becerra’s action follows a confidential complaint that several doctors at Hoag filed with his office in October.
The doctors, all women’s health specialists, detailed numerous instances in which they said Providence applied the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care to Hoag.
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Let me guess: they refused to murder unborn children?
“Women health professionals”
Not doctors...
“Health professionals”
Code for abortionists.
He is a particularly loathsome demoncrap
St Joseph heritage health care has had a relationship with Hoag for longer then 2016 and the catholic restriction didn’t apply to hoag what changed I don’t know as I know longer work for st joes
“Providence’s physician management arm, Heritage Healthcare, has been routinely refusing to pay for contraceptive services for HMO patients at Hoag. Providence has also delayed authorizations to treat miscarriages or other women’s health services, they said.”
I assume this is not for helping patients pay the hospital, but for the hospital to pay the docs for services rendered - so, aren’t those terms embedded in a signed contract?
I was recently a patient at Providence Benedictine in Mount Angel, Oregon. I experienced no religious discrimination, and in fact, had a crucifix and picture of Divine Mercy in my room.
Somehow this story doesn’t ring true unless they are talking about killing babies (abortion) or the elderly (euthanasia.)
abortion at hoag is what is going on
He may also be objecting to Catholic avoidance of:
- sterilization
- birth control
- physician assisted suicide
- IVF
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