The article left a few questions - but part of what I read between the lines sounded very much like what has been done in Austin Texas.
Austin has 3 major Hospital systems, plus a few specialty Hospitals. The city owned hospital was Brackenridge - which was also our indigent care hospital. The city was taking a bath on the management of the hospital and determined that it must be outsourced or closed. The simple solution was to allow the Seton system (the Catholic Hospital, several locations) to manage Brackenridge.
The complication came on the reproductive issues. The solution was simple, one part of one floor is not managed by Seton. While this could be viewed as Seton being in partnership with the other “hospital”, the truth is both are in partnership with the city - but not with each other. The hospital manged by Seton simply is in very close proximity to the other hospital. I am not sure who manages the other hospital (it might very well still be managed by the city - an embarrassment in itself).
While the existence of certain services is in itself an evil - I do not blame Seton for their solution to help as many people as possible - by managing a hospital that happens to have an full service reproductive hospital next door.
Furthermore I have to wonder if many traditional abortions are performed at the other hospital (since it’s overhead is probably much higher than that of a clinic-mill), I suspect it does more in vitro work - and related abortion related issues (what to do with left over embryos).
