There may not be many reasons for optimism in American healthcare just now, but one glimmer of hope has emerged in Orange County, where a prestigious hospital says it’s fed up with the Catholic Church’s restrictions on healthcare. Column by hiltzikm:
In August 2012, Hoag and what was then St. Joseph Health System, a Roman Catholic chain with five hospitals in Orange County, announced a corporate partnership in which both entities would “retain their individual identities and faith affiliations — Presbyterian and Catholic, respectively.”At the time, Hoag’s medical staff was repeatedly and explicitly assured that nothing in their practice would change due to the partnership.
to maintain “clinical excellence” in the procedure, and therefore patients were better off having them done elsewhere.informing Braithwaite and McKitterick that they didn’t know what they were talking about. “We are experts in providing the ‘full array of reproductive family planning services’ to which they refer as lacking at Hoag,” they wrote.was that St. Joseph had made the abortion ban a condition of the partnership agreement.
Many in the local community also objected, in part because of Hoag’s history as a independent local institution. “If you live in this area, you go to Hoag,” says Lynne Riddle, a retired federal bankruptcy judge and Newport Beach resident who was among the critics of the deal.The abortion ban at Hoag underscored Catholic hospitals’ unwillingness to compromise on religious strictures. These are set forth in theissued by the U.S.
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