Columbia, SC-based Prisma Health said that doctors claiming that the system’s patient safety problems at Baptist Hospital are motivated more by money than by patient care, according to The state.
The healthcare system made the allegations in response to an August lawsuit by South Carolina OB-GYN Associates that cited “poor” care and “surprising lapses in patient care, cleanliness and unsafe conditions” at Baptist Hospital in Columbia, SC
The lawsuit came after Prisma sued the medical group in July for breaking a 10-year hospital contract and moving to a rival hospital, Lexington Medical Center in Columbia.
“(E) s doctors have not only benefited from selling their practice to Lexington Medical Center, but their current status as Lexington Medical Center employees provides physicians with financial stability, less risk and few, if any, accompanying administrative tasks ownership of the business, “Prisma claimed in a recent lawsuit, according to the report.
Prisma claims that the nine doctors in the medical group were motivated by “personal financial gain” to separate from the hospital.
“Doctors at SC OB-GYN have chosen to relocate their practice from the prominent Midwest delivery and delivery hospital to the campus of a lower ranked competing hospital for a simple reason – MONEY,” says the court case, according to the report .
The hospital further claims that it has not been informed of several of the complaints cited in the doctors’ complaint, and that some of the complaints have been exaggerated.
Read the full article from The state on here.
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