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'{{Infobox hospital | name = Shasta Regional Medical Center | org/group = [[Prime Healthcare Services]] | logo = | logo_size = | image = | image_size = 225 | alt = | caption = | coordinates = {{Coord|40|35|08|N|122|23|16|W|region:US-CA_type:landmark_source:GNIS|display=inline, title}} | location = [[Redding, California|Redding]] | region = | state = California | country = US | healthcare = <!-- UK: NHS; AU/CA: Medicare; ELSE free-form text, e.g. Private --> | funding = | type = | religious_affiliation = | affiliation = | patron = | network = | standards = | emergency = | beds = 246 | speciality = | helipad = | h1-number = | h1-length-f = | h1-length-m = | h1-surface = <!-- up to h12 --> | publictransit = | former-names = | constructed = | opened = 1945 <!-- cite in article as well --> | closed = | demolished = | website = {{URL|srmc.phcs.us}} | other_links = | module = }} '''Shasta Regional Medical Center''', formerly known as '''Redding Medical Center''', is one of two major hospitals that are located in [[Redding, California]]. It opened in 1945 and currently has 226 beds with an acute care facility and has become a regional medical center serving far Northern California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://srmc.phcs.us/about-us.html|title=Shasta Medical Center, About Us|website=Shasta Medical Center|accessdate=June 12, 2020}}</ref> It is also the first fully accredited chest pain center in northern California.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} ==History== It was purchased by [[Tenet Healthcare|Tenet Healthcare Corporation]] in 1976 and renamed Redding Medical Center. In 2002, amid a federal investigation of two cardiologists at the hospital, Drs. Chae Hyun Moon and Fidel Realyvasquez,<ref name="investigatin">[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/06/business/doctor-s-procedures-were-monitored-by-rival-hospital.html New York Times 11/6/2002]</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/business/16tenet.html?_r=1 New York Times 11/16/2005]</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/04/business/california-patients-talk-of-needless-heart-surgery.html New York Times 11/4/2002]</ref><ref name="washingtonpost">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/24/AR2005072400969.html Washington Post 7/25/2005]</ref> and as part of a settlement with federal regulators, Tenet Healthcare Corporation was compelled to sell the hospital to Hospital Partners of America for US$60&nbsp;million in 2004.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103060732/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-115480370.html Tenet Healthcare Agrees to Sell Redding, Calif., Medical Center. ]</ref> Hospital Partners of America then renamed the hospital to its current name of Shasta Regional Medical Center and took measures to ensure that this incident would not occur in the future.<ref>[http://www.redding.com/news/2008/oct/30/prime-healthcare-services-one-states-largest-hospi/ Redding.com 10/30/2008]</ref> ==Legal issues== ===Unnecessary care and billing=== At Redding Medical Center, the early-2000s investigation, raid and litigation were prompted because "physicians undertook large volumes of inappropriate and unnecessary procedures on largely healthy patients".<ref name="GoWrong">{{cite journal| author=Walshe K, Shortell SM| title=When things go wrong: how health care organizations deal with major failures. | journal=[[Health Aff (Millwood)]] | year= 2004 | volume= 23 | issue= 3 | pages= 103–11 | pmid=15160808 | doi=10.1377/hlthaff.23.3.103| doi-access=free }}</ref> The investigation into Moon and Realyvasquez was the result of multiple whistleblower lawsuits filed under the Federal [[False Claims Act]] alleging unnecessary medical procedures.<ref>[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/17/60minutes/main563755.shtml CBS News 7/17/2003]</ref> Catholic Priest [[John Corapi]],<ref>[http://articles.sfgate.com/2002-11-10/news/17569435_1_redding-medical-center-invasive-heart-heart-surgery SFGate.com 11/10/2002]</ref> Joseph Zerga and Redding physician Patrick Campbell split 15% of the total $62.55&nbsp;million settlement.<ref>{{cite news|author=Department of Justice|author-link=United States Department of Justice|date=November 15, 2005|title=Redding Cardiologists Agree to Pay Millions in Settlement|url=http://mathiasconsulting.com/cases/2005/11/CA/redding}}</ref> Tenet had already agreed to pay $54&nbsp;million in 2003 to settle the federal case without admitting any wrongdoing but with an agreement for new oversight procedures for physicians and staff.<ref>{{cite news|author=Kaiser Health Policy Report |date=August 7, 2003|title=Tenet to pay $54M to settle allegations that surgeons performed unnecessary procedures |url=http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=19246}}</ref> In 2004, Tenet established a $395&nbsp;million fund for 769 cardiac patients to settle civil suits relating to procedures performed by Moon and Realyvasquez.<ref>[http://www.gjel.com/verdicts/tenet1.html $117 Million: Victims of Unnecessary Heart Surgeries]</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Kaiser Health Policy Report|date=December 22, 2004 |title=Tenet Healthcare Agrees to $395 million settlement of lawsuit filed over alleged unnecessary heart surgeries |url=http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=27373}}</ref> There is also evidence that [[Prime Healthcare Services]] engages in upcoding elderly patients to [[malnutrition]]. At Shasta Regional Medical Center, Prime reported 16.1% of their [[Medicare (United States)|Medicare]] patients suffered from [[kwashiorkor]]. The state of [[California]] average for [[Medicare (United States)|Medicare]] patients is 0.2% suffering from kwashiorkor. Prime Healthcare Services is currently being investigated for [[Medicare fraud]] by [[United States Department of Health and Human Services]] and the [[California Department of Justice]].<ref name = "malnutrition">{{cite journal |last=Williams|first=Lance|author2=Christina Jewett |author3=Stephen K. Doig |title=Hospital chain, already under scrutiny, reports high malnutrition rates |journal=California Watch|date=February 19, 2011 |url=http://californiawatch.org/health-and-welfare/hospital-chain-already-under-scrutiny-reports-high-malnutrition-rates-8786}}</ref> In 2022, Shasta Regional Medical Center started breaking the RN to patient ratio law of California. They continue to admit patients to RNs causing them to have more patients than the law states. They have yet to be cited or make a comment on this topic. Half their staff are travelers because they are notorious for not paying competitive wages to retain staff. In July 2022, a few employees who resigned got final paychecks that bounced. Shasta Regional Medical Center wrote new checks, admitted it was an error but failed to pay the bounced check fees for ex employees. ==References== {{Reflist|33em}} ==External links== *[http://gis.oshpd.ca.gov/atlas/places/facility/106450940 This hospital in the CA Healthcare Atlas] A project by OSHPD {{California Trauma Centers}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1945]] [[Category:Hospitals established in 1945]] [[Category:1945 establishments in California]] [[Category:Hospitals in California]] [[Category:Redding, California]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Shasta County, California]] [[Category:Prime Healthcare Services]] [[Category:Fraud]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Redding, California]]'