Luigi Mangione has since pleaded guilty <\/a>to stalking and murdering Thompson and is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 18.<\/p>\nRegistered nurses canvass a neighborhood where Prime Healthcare CEO Prem Reddy has a home. X\/@CalNurses<\/p>\n
Sunny Bhatia, MD, is the President and Chief Medical Officer of Prime Healthcare. Prime Healthcare<\/p>\n
Prime Healthcare is one of the nation\u2019s largest health systems, operating 51 hospitals across 14 states, with 60,000 staff and affiliated physicians.<\/p>\n
The firm earns about $7.4 billion a year in revenue.<\/p>\n
The alleged intimidation campaign began on Sept. 3, when union activists descended on the Brentwood neighborhood where members of Reddy\u2019s family and other Prime executives live, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
Reddy himself does not live in Brentwood, the complaint states, but is an active member of the community through family members who live there, including his daughter and grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Fliers headlined \u2018Where in the World is Dr. Reddy?\u2019 allegedly urged members of the public to \u2018track down\u2019 the billionaire healthcare boss,<\/p>\n
The materials included images of at least three executives\u2019 homes and details including aerial photographs, square footage and descriptions of their properties, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Nurses across the country are rising up systemwide against Prime Healthcare. X\/@CalNurses<\/p>\n
Nurses across the country are rising up systemwide against Prime Healthcare. X\/@CalNurses<\/p>\n
Among those allegedly targeted was Reddy\u2019s daughter Sunitha Reddy, Prime\u2019s chief revenue officer and vice president of operations, as well as company president and chief medical officer Dr. Sunny Bhatia.<\/p>\n
Prime claims it took hours to remove banners and clean up litter left around the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit says the material was distressing because it appeared near executives\u2019 homes and a nearby school, where children witnessed the alleged campaign.<\/p>\n
\u2018Sunitha Reddy\u2019s home is located near a school. Younger children were thereafter kept inside and could not use their own private yard to play out of concern for their safety,\u2019 the complaint says.<\/p>\n
Prime alleges the union\u2019s aim was \u2018to inflict stress on the families of Prime Healthcare executives\u2019 to gain leverage in labor negotiations with its hospitals.<\/p>\n
The company claims it sent the union a cease-and-desist letter on Sept. 9 demanding that the residential targeting stop.<\/p>\n
But according to the complaint, a union attorney contacted Prime the following day and allegedly suggested the targeting of executives\u2019 homes could end if Reddy agreed to meet with the union \u2013 conduct Prime\u2019s lawyers claim was \u2018tantamount to economic extortion.\u2019<\/p>\n
Prime also claims it sought help from the LAPD on Sept. 9 and 10 but received no response, and separately reported the issue to the Los Angeles City Council, again without receiving a response.<\/p>\n
The dispute escalated further after Bryant Aguilar, a California Nurses Association representative who works at Prime-owned Centinela Hospital, allegedly sent a message calling on nurses to gather in the neighborhood for a Sept. 11 rally.<\/p>\n
\u2018We will be joining together in Dr. Reddy\u2019s neighborhood and rally near his residence,\u2019 the message said, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
The message called on Centinela nurses to participate, and Prime said the hospital employs hundreds of nurses, raising fears that a large crowd could assemble outside executives\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n
Prime is asking a judge to bar the unions from alleged harassment and intimidation around executives\u2019 homes and families, including targeted picketing within 300 feet of their homes and unpermitted banners or signs.<\/p>\n
The company is also seeking nominal and punitive damages.<\/p>\n
The California Nurses Association was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n
The union posted a video of members protesting Monday on X with the caption: \u2018Nurses across the country are rising up systemwide against Prime Healthcare because Prime endangers patients and nurses by putting profits above all else.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A billionaire healthcare boss, his daughter and another top executive allege they were targeted in a menacing nurse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[2356,97,252,253,68464,5871,359279,194],"class_list":["post-849853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-california","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-luigi-mangione","tag-metro","tag-united-healthcare-oxford","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}