We had heard this -- and now it's official. 30 laid off at Vista because of AHS' lack of payment. www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/08/03/o...

Over 30 employees laid off after staffing agency ends contracts with Vista Medical Center in Waukegan due to non-payment

Over 30 employees were laid off after a staffing agency ended its contracts with Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan after the hospital failed to pay the company for its services.

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1/ Last summer, @acleek.bsky.social and I started getting emails from staffers of a company called American Healthcare Systems. They told us that their hospitals were in financial chaos and that they were struggling to care for patients. So we started digging: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.

A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.

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After @h-lev.bsky.social published our last story, we started getting a lot of messages about a little-known, for-profit health care company that was buying up hospitals and piling them with debt.... Months later, here's our investigation: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.

A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.

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Allow us to interrupt your doomscrolling to bring you our newest series: ✨Inconsequential Investigations ✨ This week, our reporters are tackling three personal mysteries: A mysterious midnight phone call, a missing film, and a doppelganger 🧵

Serious investigations into deeply unserious questions

Hear the first in our occasional series of “inconsequential investigations.”

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Sometimes people will ask how I unwind after working on stories that are depressing and infuriating. Listening to stories like this one from @acleek.bsky.social is one method. I love when a journalist's insatiable curiosity is used for something unexpected and sweet. 🥰

Reveal’s smallest, most personal investigations yet

Serious investigations into deeply Unserious questions. Hear the first in our occasional series of “inconsequential investigations.”

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While hospitals across the country were falling apart, leaving patients in crisis and facilities severely understaffed, a shocking campaign to silence and surveil critics was underway. Read @h-lev.bsky.social and @acleek.bsky.social's latest investigation into Medical Properties Trust.

The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire

When skeptics called out Medical Properties Trust, they found themselves harassed—and surveilled.

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This July, @acleek.bsky.social & I made a radio show about a major hospital landlord named Medical Properties Trust. Now, we’ve unraveled MPT's aggressive effort to silence and surveil its critics as they tried to raise alarm, using docs leaked to @occrp.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire

When skeptics called out Medical Properties Trust, they found themselves harassed—and surveilled.

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