announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and thank with us. official assurances that all is safe near the site of that ohio toxic train derailment aren t playing well with many area residents tonight, not with people experiencing physical symptoms and fish dying by the thousands in nearby streams. it has been almost two weeks since the train jumped the tracks in eastern ohio near the pennsylvania border spilling tanker cars carrying hazardous chemicals. after a controlled burn meant to avert a catastrophic explosion, officials signaled it was safe for evacuated residents to return, but tonight there is worry, skepticism, and anger about what is really happening and about what people are being told ron allen is covering it for us tonight. reporter: tonight outrage growing less than two weeks after that massive train derailment and the controlled burn of hazardous chemicals sent up a toxic plume of black smoke in east palestine, ohio. it doe
Roaches in the operating room: Doctors at HCA hospital in Florida say patient care has suffered from cost cutting nbcnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbcnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Doctors And Nurse And Roaches, Oh My! Corporate Cost Cutting Puts Patients At Risk, HCA made $5.6 billion dollars last year, I wonder what percentage of that was blood money
an update now on a story we first brought you last month after we reported on allegations of hca health care, the largest for profit hospital company in the u.s., that it was putting profits over patients a doctor at one hca hospital contacted us with shocking claims of his own cynthia mcfadden with our nbc news investigation. reporter: tonight, stunning claims accusing hca s bayonet point hospital outside tampa, florida, of putting profits over patients have lives been lost in your opinion due to the behavior of hca? absolutely. that s a very serious allegation. it sure is. reporter: sounding the alarm, dr. george giannakopoulos, who has been a neurosurgeon at the level 2 trauma center for 29 years, elected the chief of staff there ten times. i love bayonet point. it s my home. reporter: but since the pandemic, he says the for profit company hca has been cutting