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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopkins is a terribly run hospital system. Their children's hospital in Florida almost lost their medicaid funding due to safety lapses: https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2019/02/01/federal-officials-threaten-all-childrens-funding-citing-problems/.

Good on BCBS for not feeding the beast.[/quote]

You’re dumb if you think that every hospital that has the JH label slapped on it is identical. ACH was a sh*tshow long before JHHS took over, and they simply failed to clean it up fast enough (for which they have been correctly criticized).

All politics is local and so is all health care. [/quote]

I work for JHU and can tell you how mismanaged it is.[/quote]

The university (JHU) is not the hospital system.  
I also work for JHU, and am in leadership there, but don't profess to know about what the hospital system is doing.

But I would like to know -- is there some sort of well-managed hospital system we should switch to?  From what I see, hospitals' incentives have nothing to do with my quality of care - they are all pretty bad places to be.  At least at Hopkins there are people who are docking their own salary for some sort of prestige, which makes me think perhaps they value doing a good job or at least trying to do so, even if only at their research.  But I don't have that high of hopes, just know that complaining one place is bad is just useless.
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