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Ascend Health Care - celloman


Posted: May 11, 2010

Has anyone worked or works for Ascend Health Care. Our local hospital just entered into a three year contract with them with an anticipated 52 million lines for the life of the contract. I had applied at the hospital but they were not hiring and i guess that was the reason why.

Is this the same Ascend CEO'd by Jay Jaiswal? - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
If so, last I heard, they shipped a lot of stuff to India or were partly Indian-owned or something, and apparently had some issues with bouncing checks if I remember correctly, though that was a while back & may not be the case anymore. I don't know if there's much in the archives, but might be worth a try to search them.


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