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Share May 19, 2021, 8:39 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman Jay Greene It’s challenging to be gracious to someone who publicly and privately disparaged my work, but I’m going to put my ego aside and acknowledge that the retirement of Jay Greene of Crain’s Detroit Business is a loss to Michigan health care journalism. Greene has been covering health care for so long that I suspect Hippocrates was one of his sources. He’s spent the last 13 years at Crain’s Detroit, ...

Share April 04, 2021, 5:37 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved By Eric Starkman Hey Detroit-area Reps. Andy Levin, Rashida Tlaib and Debbie Dingell, you phony baloney labor advocates, here’s what unequivocal union support for all workers looks like. Maine’s Democratic legislative leaders last month sent a scathing letter to Maine Medical Center (MMC), the state’s biggest hospital network, protesting the hiring of anti-union consultants for allegedly intimidating nurses to vote against ...

Share March 08, 2021, 6:56 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman Rep. Andy Levin Count Michigan Rep. Andy Levin among those who don’t believe that charity begins at home. The Democratic congressman, a member of the House Labor and Education Committee, spearheaded a letter signed by 50 colleagues to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos expressing their support for Amazon workers in Alabama to organize a union with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Also, signing the ...

Share March 03, 2021, 8:30 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved By Eric Starkman Newsweek Editor Nancy Cooper Presumably Nancy Cooper, the global editor in chief of Newsweek, is willing to eat the journalism her publication cooks up, so I’m issuing this double dare to her: Undergo a colonoscopy at Beaumont Health’s flagship Royal Oak hospital and insist on being intubated. The intubation must be administered by one of the visiting temps the controversial outsourcing firm NorthStar Anesthes...

Share March 02, 2021, 2:11 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved By Eric Starkman John Kerndl and Denise Waters Beaumont Health CFO John Kerndl, the architect of aggressive cost-cutting that bolstered the profits of Michigan’s biggest hospital network at the expense of its once world-class reputation, has resigned. He’s relocating to Boston to join Beth Israel Lahey Health System, a highly regarded hospital network. Beaumont CEO John Fox disclosed Kerndl’s departure in an email to staff t...