Beaumont Hospital Staffers Horrified After Patient Dies During Routine Colonoscopy [View all]

The inevitable tragedy Beaumont Health chairman John Lewis and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel were warned about occurred last Thursday in the early afternoon: A 51-year-old man walked into the colonoscopy suite at Beaumont’s flagship Royal Oak hospital at 13 and Woodward thinking he’d be undergoing a routine screening and heading home a few hours later.

Instead, the patient, the sole caregiver for his elderly mother, wound up in Beaumont’s basement morgue.

Veteran employees at Beaumont's Royal Oak campus are both angered and saddened by the death, which they say was an expected medical catastrophe resulting from COO Carolyn Wilson’s money-saving decision last April to award Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia, a controversial low-cost outsourcing firm, a contract to manage anesthesiology services at the flagship hospital and previously one of the busiest surgical centers in the country.
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NorthStar’s Royal Oak contract began Jan. 1. The company is controlled by The Cranmere Group, whose previous CEO Jeffrey Zients resigned in December to co-head President Biden’s transition team and will oversee the administration’s Covid response.

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