Nonprofit hospitals are supposed to operate like charities, providing affordable health care to those in need while improving their communities. But the truth is that across the country – including here in North Carolina – nonprofit hospitals are implementing toxic policies that put profits ahead of patients.
Recently, egregious, profit-seeking behaviors of nonprofit hospitals have been spotlighted in investigations and reports by The New York Times, Axios, the documentary film inHospitable, issue advocacy organizations such as Innovation for Justice, the Lown Institute and many others.
North Carolina health care consumers have felt the impacts of nonprofit hospitals acting like big businesses.