The University of Miami Health System Betrayed Patients
The University of Miami hospital is a textbook example of how taxpayer support for healthcare programs is misused and abused
While millions of Americans struggle to afford basic health care, subsidized nonprofit hospitals spend critical resources on their own version of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.​
The University of Miami Hospital spent millions on a luxurious lobby with a giant digital screen, built fancy facilities in Abu Dhabi, and pays some executives more than $4 million per year, all subsidized by taxpayers.
The consequences of their misguided priorities have harmed patients.​
The University of Miami used to run the second-largest organ transplant center in the nation. But after “years of unsafe practices, poor training, chronic underperformance, understaffing, and paperwork errors,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is in the process of shutting it down.​
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