Take a look at the behavioral health services…extremely high turnover of employees (much higher than the average), continued losses of psychiatric services and inept leadership that is change resistant and promotes a toxic “ask no questions” style of management. It might have taken a few years for the decay to actually be noticed as COVID might have provided a needed crisis distraction however, no amount of new windows can remedy a foundation that has crumbled. No amount of billboards, commercials and purchasing of county buildings will detract from this fact. The current state of the UnityPoint/UnityPlace system is in a free fall. Healthy systems do not allow for unhealthy leadership. There will always be individuals who lack the ability and focus to elicit the best from their team, but in healthy organizations, they tend to be few. They deserve to fail.Īlways look to the system for failure, more than the people. The doofuses they have running it now shouldn’t even be collecting garbage. – Īnyway, all semblance to the decent hospital system that you recall from when you were there is long gone. Then they got nailed with a massive lawsuit for negligently running their medical records and databases and spilling everyone’s private info all over the internet. They have never recovered, as even the dolts they kept or brought in from Iowa to run Unity Point have made hideous decision after hideous decision- too many to even list without sounding like it’s a joke. They burned thru a lot of reserve revenue then started selling their properties- causing insurers to dump them and make the other hospitals their primary providers – further adding to MMCI’s losses. They thrived, but between 20, MMCI/UnityPoint’s “market share” plummetted. His decision caused numerous, exceptional, well trained and BUSY doctors to shift their patients and their loyalties to OSF & Proctor. Roger- the #1 reason MMCI/UnityPoint is failing, is the CEO they hired a little over 20 years ago (Michael Bryant)… His main plan was to run all the local doctors out and bring in a bunch of cheap, poorly educated salaried doctors & other staff to save $$. Mail a check to: Community Word, c/o 621 Commercial St. Please consider making a donation to support independent journalism in Central Illinois. We research public policy issues, and we provide a forum for ideas presented by our columnists. Support Local Journalism: Community Word is a locally owned, independent newspaper unbeholden to corporations, politicians or special interest groups. Submissions should be no longer than 200 words. Community Word also welcomes letters-to-the-editor. Send submissions to: Community Word, c/o 621 Commercial St. We do not consider anonymous submissions. Authors should submit a brief bio of several sentences to publish with their article. Submissions should be exclusive to Community Word and should be no longer than 500 words. Submission Guidelines: The Community Word welcomes submissions of opinion articles on any topic. Pick up your copy of the Community Word at these LOCATIONS. For information on advertising, visit rate card. The Community Word is published monthly and is available free of charge at businesses throughout the Peoria area. Publication of any advertisement is not to be construed as an endorsement of any product or service. Suite 1A-B, Peoria, IL 61602, and opinions expressed in the contents of articles and editorials are those of the author and not necessarily those of the publisher, Community Word LLC. Brian Ludwig, Managing Editor, c/o 621 Commercial St. Community Word is published monthly by Community Word LLC.
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