August 13, 2025

Episode 34: F*ck, That's Malicious

1 hour 33 minutes

We break down the most recent entry to the ongoing fight versus good and evil controver at St. Vincent Hospital—one this podcast finds itself right smack dab in the middle of…

Not before goofing around a bit about Cat Mayors, Joe Petty, and the ZBA of course, but we get there. Skip to 31:00 if you’re only interested in the St. V’s stuff.

Oh I made up a little digital tip jar if you want to send Chris and I some money to split in front-of-house back-of-house style.

St. V’s nurse Carla LeBlanc came on this show back in February to celebrate the firing of failed union buster Carolyn Jackson. Tenet, the Dallas-based equity hog that owns St Vincent, fired Carla for comments made—specifically about patients dying due to lack of staffing—they called “maliciously untrue.” Then the results of a long running DPH report were made public, and within it three documented patient deaths due to short staffed nurses—exactly what Carla told us and thensome. Now Tenet finds itself hoisted by its own maliciously untrue petard, to the point it almost lost Medicaid reimbursement.

Carla is now suing them under a whistleblower statute for wrongful termination. We’re named in the lawsuit, which you can read here.

Outdoor Cats was all over the news this weekend. Someone needs to teach the Globe and the Telegram how to hyperlink! Here’s the episode: “Episode 10: Sorry Miss Jackson” I’ll never feel bad for bypassing either of their paywalls again. Like so….

Boston Globe: “Patient deaths, government investigations, and a new lawsuit. What’s happening at Saint Vincent Hospital?”

“At this point, I’m not confident that things will be changing for the better,” she told the hosts of the podcast called “Outdoor Cats.” “You know, I’ve learned over the last few years that I can never be confident that this company is going to do the right thing.”

Three months later, the hospital fired LeBlanc, citing her comments on the podcast as “disloyal, reckless, and maliciously untrue.”

By the way the Telegram is owned by the Tenet of journalism, Gannett Media. Just as evil but luckily in charge of no one’s health and well being.