Bullhead City Community Hospital

Bullhead City, Arizona, is a across the Colorado River from Laughlin, Nv. from which many workers at the casinos retreat to after work. Bullhead City is considered a snowbird retreat and the population blooms way over its year round residents of 36, 000 during the winter months.
The community hospital was built before the town incorporated which occurred shortly after the Laughlin bridge was constructed over the Colorado River enabling those wanting to resort to the casino lifestyle easy access over the Colorado River. The hospital was initially a single corporation so common of hospitals in that 1980s era and was managed, by local business men, whose on site management made the Bullhead City Community Hospital a well respected and a reasonable choice for health care.
The hospital was very busy during the snowbird season which gave it a large revenue generator that made it the largest employer and money earner in all of Mohave County.
After 20 years several large for profit corporations had bought and sold the hospital and all continued to prosper until the early part of the 21st Century when the perfect storm, a long time in coming, brought Bullhead City Hospital to its knees by combining greed with poor quality care that was frequently covered up.
When Melissa Rubalcava went in for scheduled cervical fusion by a then well established neurosurgeon, on paper, who was trumpeting successful spinal surgeries, Melissa had just turned 37 y.o. Like many doctors, this physician performing her surgery was perfect on paper, however, in reality the people of Bullhead City had little knowledge of who this neurosurgeon really was. The Rubalcava family found out the out way.
Upon completion of her cervical fusion Melissa was eventually transferred to a hospital unit which would eventually discharge her home in a few days. Three days after Melissa had surgery, Melissa was unable to get enough air through her airway tracheal passageway to live. The surgeon somehow inadvertently sliced a big hole in the tracheal section preventing her from proper air exchanges. She died secondary to a hole in her trachea, which caused a massive infection, not to mention loss of vital oxygen.
The surgeon blamed anesthesia of creating the hole, although depositions cleared anesthesia, the neurosurgeon continued to claim he did not put the hole there. Although there could be no other reason.
This case came well after the neurosurgeon, in question, had many other medical cases that were unfortunately carcass producing events. Melissa death signified many issues with the hospital and bad doctors. But as the neurosurgeon had claimed once on the testimony stand, 'what difference does it make', the general public now had solid evidence of this horrible event which made the hospital the last place people wanted to go for treatment.
By 2012 the hospital in Bullhead City was financially destroyed in the medical world by lots of factors but Melissa gave the community the one thing that cemented the hospital for many years to come as the place to avoid at all costs. The only thing that mattered was their money. Steer clear if you want to live.