Emergency Physician Wins $26M in Wrongful Termination Suit
email article NPR's Kansas City affiliate. In 2018, Brovont filed a suit claiming he was fired after raising concerns about staffing issues at Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Kansas. Brovont repeatedly sounded the alarm that EmCare staffed only one physician on the night shift to cover both the regular and the pediatric emergency department at the hospital, which is owned by HCA Healthcare. A jury awarded Brovont $29 million in October 2018, which included almost $3 million in economic damages, $6 million in pain and suffering, and $10 million in punitive damages against each ...
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