A Washoe County jury awarded Saint Mary’s Health Network over $510 million, including punitive damages, from Universal Health Services of Delaware, Inc., (UHS).<\/p>\n
The jury heard evidence that, beginning in 2019, UHS solicited physicians and senior leaders, stole trade secrets, and triggering a mass resignation that disrupted patient care.<\/p>\n
UHS was found liable for fraud, malice, and oppression against Saint Mary’s Health Network after a scheme during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Evidence also included internal emails and text messages showing that UHS executives plotted to dismantle Saint Mary\u2019s, a 117-year-old community institution rescued from closure by Prime Healthcare in 2012, according to Saint Mary.<\/p>\n
Jurors unanimously found that UHS:<\/p>\n
Illegally solicit Saint Mary\u2019s physicians and employeesOrchestrate a mass resignation eventBreach contracts and duties of loyalty to Saint Mary\u2019sDisrupt patient care and relationshipsPull Quote<\/p>\n
\u201cThis verdict affirms that the weaponization of corporate power, betrayal of physician trust, theft of proprietary information, and reckless endangerment of patients will not be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n
-Derrick Glum, MBA, FACHE, CEO of Saint Mary\u2019s Health Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Washoe County jury awarded Saint Mary’s Health Network over $510 million, including punitive damages, from Universal Health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,1541,35970,2579,521,85,46,35972,8457,35971,2409,35969],"class_list":["post-45513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-companies-of-the-united-states","tag-health-care-industry","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jury","tag-law","tag-medical-and-health-organizations","tag-medicine","tag-universal-health-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}