Current Events > Houston hospital owners locked out doctors, patients over unpaid rent

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teepan95
01/24/21 7:08:06 AM
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Doctors at a Houston hospital on Monday morning found themselves locked out with no way of treating their patients.

At the Heights Hospital, medical workers ready to open the on-site clinic discovered a notice on the door saying the hospital owed more than $1 million in back rent and fees.

"Please be advised that the door locks to the leased premises have been changed and tenant shall be excluded therefrom due to non-payment of rent," the note read, adding that keys would be provided "upon payment of delinquent rent and other sums due under the lease."

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Despite lacking access to medicine and supplies, Dr. Mack went ahead and treated patients outdoors.

"I'm treating patients out in the parking lot so that at least we can get them some sort of care," she said. "But we really just want to be able to care for our patients."


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-heights-hospital-houston-doctors-parking-lot-unpaid-rent/

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lzual
01/24/21 7:09:14 AM
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This is why unrestricted capitalism is a bad idea.

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Shablagoo
01/24/21 7:13:31 AM
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This is a situation where the local government needs to just step in and take control of the hospitals for the time being. Isnt Houston one of the areas where hospitals are overflowing already, too?

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Aki_Sora
01/24/21 7:17:09 AM
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Biden America
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SuperShake666
01/24/21 7:17:49 AM
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Capitalism, ho!

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01/24/21 7:18:59 AM
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Aki_Sora posted...
Biden America
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pinky0926
01/24/21 7:29:45 AM
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Ok this is awful but you have to wonder how a hospital ended up with over a million in unpaid rent fees. What happened for things to get to this point? I doubt someone just callously decided to shut down a hospital without warning, or that no one in the board would have seen this happening.

Not meaning to defend wreckless capitalism here but if you run a private business and you are contractually obligated to terms and you renege on those terms for over a year, like what should happen? I'd want to know what was the lead up to this event.

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DuneMan
01/24/21 7:32:17 AM
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Generally speaking, locking people out is illegal without following a specific court-involved procedure and timeline. But since the story is from Texas who knows...

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MorganTJ
01/24/21 7:33:07 AM
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pinky0926 posted...
Ok this is awful but you have to wonder how a hospital ended up with over a million in unpaid rent fees. What happened for things to get to this point? I doubt someone just callously decided to shut down a hospital without warning, or that no one in the board would have seen this happening.

Not meaning to defend wreckless capitalism here but if you run a private business and you are contractually obligated to terms and you renege on those terms for over a year, like what should happen? I'd want to know what was the lead up to this event.
Not sure how it is in Texas, but at least in some parts of Southern California you can't be sued to pay rent from over a year ago. That's more of a tenant thing than a business one, so I'm not sure about this specific situation.
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teepan95
01/24/21 12:15:22 PM
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lzual posted...
This is why unrestricted capitalism is a bad idea.

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ColdRainAndSnow
01/24/21 12:17:50 PM
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Now charge the hospital owners with murder, attempted murder, and aggravated bodily harm. Restricting people from getting hospital care is a crime

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Bio1590
01/24/21 12:19:21 PM
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pinky0926 posted...
Ok this is awful but you have to wonder how a hospital ended up with over a million in unpaid rent fees. What happened for things to get to this point? I doubt someone just callously decided to shut down a hospital without warning, or that no one in the board would have seen this happening.

Not meaning to defend wreckless capitalism here but if you run a private business and you are contractually obligated to terms and you renege on those terms for over a year, like what should happen? I'd want to know what was the lead up to this event.

With the stories that hospitals were laying off nurses and doctors even in the middle of the pandemic because they weren't making any money from things like elective surgeries (because they weren't allowed) I can see how this could crop up.
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BignutzisBack
01/24/21 12:20:57 PM
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Godnorgosh posted...
Privately-run healthcare is swell, isn't it


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Krojen
01/24/21 12:22:03 PM
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Godnorgosh posted...
Privately-run healthcare is swell, isn't it


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Akagami_Shanks
01/24/21 12:24:18 PM
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Should be an illegal lockout

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eston
01/24/21 12:24:45 PM
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There's no way the hospital admins didn't see this coming. If the doctors and other staff were caught by surprise then the people running that place are the real villains of the story

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VipaGTS
01/24/21 12:27:44 PM
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For profit medicine and treatment is the dumbest thing this country still fights to keep alive.

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Unsugarized_Foo
01/24/21 12:29:39 PM
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eston posted...
There's no way the hospital admins didn't see this coming. If the doctors and other staff were caught by surprise then the people running that place are the real villains of the story


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Trumble
01/24/21 12:44:11 PM
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'MURlCA!

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Prismsblade
01/24/21 12:49:11 PM
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This doeasnt just happen randomly out of the blue. They had months of advance no doubt. So whoever was managing this hospital dropped the ball hard.

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Funkydog
01/24/21 12:53:53 PM
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My bet is the owners relied on "No one is going to shut down a hospital in the middle of a pandemic, no one's that evil!" and in doing so proved that some people are that evil and they fucked all their staff and patients over.

Or could be many other things, who knows.

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VipaGTS
01/24/21 12:55:02 PM
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Prismsblade posted...
This doeasnt just happen randomly out of the blue. They had months of advance no doubt. So whoever was managing this hospital dropped the ball hard.
Hospitals have been at capacity and working non stop for the past several months. People are still dying and need to be taken care of. Now isn't the time to worry about who is more to blame. This shouldn't be something that can happen in a developed nation. the system is fucked.

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pogo_rabid
01/24/21 12:57:33 PM
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hospitals should be nationalized.

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WingsOfGood
01/24/21 12:58:02 PM
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Bad for the patients but

No doubt the hospital does this to the patients too.

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Prestoff
01/24/21 12:59:01 PM
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This kind of shit happens when you try to monetize healthcare like that.

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pogo_rabid
01/24/21 1:00:14 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
Bad for the patients but

No doubt the hospital does this to the patients too.

URGENT pay us $200 for those antiobiotics or we will be knocking on your door!!!
The patients are suffering in both cases.

The only people suffering in this case are the landlords. Fuck them and fuck the locksmiths who went with them in this matter.

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Tyranthraxus
01/24/21 1:00:31 PM
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DuneMan posted...
Generally speaking, locking people out is illegal without following a specific court-involved procedure and timeline. But since the story is from Texas who knows...

Only from residences. It's legal to change the locks on a rented office any time you want.

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butthole666
01/24/21 1:07:04 PM
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Healthcare should not be privately run or for-profit

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Prismsblade
01/24/21 1:12:50 PM
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VipaGTS posted...
Hospitals have been at capacity and working non stop for the past several months. People are still dying and need to be taken care of. Now isn't the time to worry about who is more to blame. This shouldn't be something that can happen in a developed nation. the system is fucked.
Some hospitals, not all. And even then this was just a small time clinic that wasnt earning enough to stay open likely. So let's not overthink this and get overly emotional.

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thronedfire2
01/24/21 1:14:55 PM
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Prismsblade posted...
Some hospitals, not all. And even then this was just a small time clinic that wasnt earning enough to stay open likely. So let's not overthink this and get overly emotional.

I doubt a small clinic has a million dollars in unpaid rent from only a year

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VipaGTS
01/24/21 1:15:18 PM
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Prismsblade posted...
Some hospitals, not all. And even then this was just a small time clinic that wasnt earning enough to stay open likely. So let's not overthink this and get overly emotional.
im not getting overly emotional. the fact that this can happen to people who are only there to get help in a developed nation is really idiotic and should not be defended at all. this needs to change.

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legendary_zell
01/24/21 1:18:00 PM
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Maybe lots of people did bad things in the lead up to this, maybe it was an oversight or misunderstanding. But only one actor prevented doctors and patients from accessing a hospital during a pandemic, and that's the landlord. And we shouldn't have a system where that's even remotely possible.

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
01/24/21 1:21:20 PM
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How did this place rack up all that rent and not pay it is the question.

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Prismsblade
01/24/21 1:22:29 PM
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VipaGTS posted...
im not getting overly emotional. the fact that this can happen to people who are only there to get help in a developed nation is really idiotic and should not be defended at all. this needs to change.
Theres plenty more clinics around, especially in a major city such as Houston of all places.

If this ones closed then can just drive to another. Not a big deal, especially since nobody severely ill or at deaths door is going to a clinic vs a hospital.

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Balrog0
01/24/21 1:25:54 PM
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Prismsblade posted...
Some hospitals, not all. And even then this was just a small time clinic that wasnt earning enough to stay open likely. So let's not overthink this and get overly emotional.

It says they do surgeries. It's not a clinic

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Balrog0
01/24/21 1:27:11 PM
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Prismsblade posted...
Theres plenty more clinics around, especially in a major city such as Houston of all places.

If this ones closed then can just drive to another. Not a big deal, especially since nobody severely ill or at deaths door is going to a clinic vs a hospital.

Not only is it referred to as a hospital multiple times in the story, and not only is hospital part of the actual name of the business, it describes what they do at the bottom of this article and it isn't just outpatient services

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Tyranthraxus
01/24/21 1:27:50 PM
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Balrog0 posted...
It says they do surgeries. It's not a clinic

"Surgeries" can mean removing ingrown toenails or other trivial procedures. There's not really enough information to figure out what's happened.

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01/24/21 1:30:23 PM
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h town represent!

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VipaGTS
01/24/21 1:33:11 PM
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Prismsblade posted...
Theres plenty more clinics around, especially in a major city such as Houston of all places.

If this ones closed then can just drive to another. Not a big deal, especially since nobody severely ill or at deaths door is going to a clinic vs a hospital.
Why do you keep saying this and ignoring when people point out that this isnt just a 5 patient clinic? Its a full on hospital.

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thronedfire2
01/24/21 1:39:27 PM
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thats how prismblade works. Didnt notice it was him when I first replied

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ScazarMeltex
01/24/21 1:45:04 PM
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VipaGTS posted...
Why do you keep saying this and ignoring when people point out that this isnt just a 5 patient clinic? Its a full on hospital.
Dudes is a full on capitalist bootlicker.

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E32005
01/24/21 1:46:29 PM
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idgi

hospitals are 24/7

how did someone change all the fucking locks and not notice?

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Prismsblade
01/24/21 1:48:29 PM
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Balrog0 posted...
Not only is it referred to as a hospital multiple times in the story, and not only is hospital part of the actual name of the business, it describes what they do at the bottom of this article and it isn't just outpatient services
My mistake then. Still not sure why the staff werent alerted about this months in advance so patients wouldnt be greeted by closed doors upon arrival.

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pikachupwnage
01/24/21 1:49:12 PM
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pinky0926 posted...
Ok this is awful but you have to wonder how a hospital ended up with over a million in unpaid rent fees. What happened for things to get to this point? I doubt someone just callously decided to shut down a hospital without warning, or that no one in the board would have seen this happening.

Not meaning to defend wreckless capitalism here but if you run a private business and you are contractually obligated to terms and you renege on those terms for over a year, like what should happen? I'd want to know what was the lead up to this event.

Covid-19

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thronedfire2
01/24/21 2:13:18 PM
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E32005 posted...
idgi

hospitals are 24/7

how did someone change all the fucking locks and not notice?

it takes like less than 2 minutes to change a magnetic lock code

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teepan95
01/25/21 1:46:32 AM
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Bump
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Dark_SilverX
01/25/21 1:47:44 AM
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Aki_Sora posted...
Biden America
C'mon man

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