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We are calling on the R.I. Department of Health and the Attorney General to reject Centurion Foundation's application to buy CharterCARE hospitals and healthcare facilities. Their business model is not even close to credible or viable, starting with the fact that they have never owned or operated a hospital or healthcare facility. But that's not all.

-Centurion knows that CharterCARE (Roger Williams Medical Center, Fatima Hospital and Prospect Home Health and Hospice) continues to lose money, which is unsustainable. But Centurion is not going to make any financial commitments to CharterCARE facilities.

-Centurion is not putting up any of their own money in this sale. Instead, they expect these community hospitals and healthcare facilities to borrow up to $133 million to stay afloat. Centurion is not on the hook to pay this money back. CharterCARE facilities will have to pay it back with money they don’t have.

-According to Centurion, these community hospitals and healthcare facilities are supposed to survive by finding cost-savings and new revenue, which they haven’t been able to do for decades now.

-At the same time that Centurion refuses to invest any money in these healthcare facilities, they insist on making CharterCARE’s hospitals and facilities pay them numerous fees and charges. Worse, Centurion refuses to tell us what the fees and charges are for, or how much they will be.

Learn more about why this application must be rejected at

Reject Centurion – Centurion Foundation is wrong for patients. Wrong for our community hospitals. Wrong for healthcare workers. Wrong for Rhode Island. A message from the United Nurses and Health Professionals to the Rhode Island Department of Health and Attorney General: Centurion Foundation’s application to buy CharterCARE Fatima Hospital, Roger Williams Medical Center, and Prospect Home Health and Hospice have served Rhode Island patients and ...

Today, UNAP members joined in solidarity with other nurses and healthcare professionals from across the country for the National Nurses March in Washington D.C. We marched to Congress to demand real change in the healthcare field – fair wages and benefits, safe staffing patient ratios, and protections against workplace violence. And we want to change the culture of the biases and discriminations we see in the nursing profession. It's time for the voices of healthcare workers to be heard!