Anybody ever hear of The Hunter Group?

[kewlnurse]

the hunter group who is supposed o be a renound cosulting group for hospitals in trouble finished the evaluation of our sstem and made a bunch of suggestions, some i agree with, some i don't. has everybody in an uproar, from jim kelly (former bill quaterback) to the goo goo dolls because they want to move the childrens hospital. aywho i was just wondering if anybody else has any experience with this group.

[kewlnurse]

Thanks for the input. Looks like I'll be moving after i get laid off. Our union is actually siding with the hospital, can you believe that. The union that represents the nurses at the childrens hospital said they are willing to renegotiate teh contract! Just so they can keep the childrens hospital from moving. Gee I wonder why this town is soooooo F'ed up! I will try to find the revolution artical and fax it to the union or at least spread it around the hospital.

[Brian, ASN, RN]

I found this, it sounds like the company you are referring to:

The Hunter Group

http://www.huntergroup-healthcare.com/

Here are some quick search results I found:

In Wake of UCSF Stanford Resignations:

RNs Blast Decision to Hand Over Hospital to Hunter Group

http://www.calnurse.org/cna/press/uc9899.html

PDF doc:

A Portrait of the Hunter Group

By Charles Idelson

California Nurses Association

http://www.calnurse.org/cna/pdf/HunterGroup.pdf

Here is the link that I used on google:

http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22The+Hunter+Group%22+hospitals

Also, here is the revolution mag website and back issues links:

http://www.revolutionmag.com

http://www.revolutionmag.com/newrev7/backissues.html

Hope this helps.

[VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN]

thanks, brian, for the info. very eye-opening and disturbing:

many have questioned the enormous fees paid to the hunter group, which range from the

hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars for short-term contracts. individual hunter

group consultants demand fees of up to $3,750 a day.

hunter consultants also tack on hefty charges for expenses, and have been excoriated for

lavish expenses even as they are requiring everyone else to tighten their belts. at uc san

diego, wake med, austin's brackenridge hospital, and antelope valley, ca., scandals

erupted over hunter consultants' extravagant expenses or overcharges.

ultimately, there is little evidence that the hunter group activities produce expansion of

services or access to care, increased revenue, or long-term financial savings. the hunter

group is most successful at generating short-term profits for itself.

"hunter is not there, not do they have the expertise, to build a long-term survival plan," a

top hospital executive who followed the hunter group at george washington university

hospital and at detroit medical center, told the san francisco examiner. "if you retain

anyone of that ilk, it reflects a failure on the part of the owner or the governing body to

have done their job in the first place. you bring in the hunter group because you've

pretty much abdicated your responsibility to your institution."7

sad that this crap is still going on in health care. you would think they would finally learn, but common sense and decency are in such short supply among health care executives.

what can we nurses do to put a stop to this????