- The heat is increasing on Universal Health Services (UHS -1.3%) after a video was posted on BuzzFeed that shows a physical altercation between a staff member and patient at its Hill Crest Behavioral Health facility in Birmingham, AL.
- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA): "Facilities that receive federal funding can and must be held accountable. The first principle of health care is to do no harm. These videos clearly show a violation of that principle.”
- Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL) calls the allegations of abuse "disturbing and appalling," calling for probe into the matter.
- Senator Grassley intends to write a letter to HHS “to determine if the incidents and practices in question were isolated or pervasive.”
- Patients and staff members apparently say the worst violence happens off-camera in patients' rooms.
- Previously: UHS continues selloff; shares down 2% on video of staff member assaulting patient (Nov. 13)
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