The Trinity Files
The documents contained here, which have been filed in public with the court, include company e-mails, testimony of hospital leaders, and confidential plans. Together they reveal the sophisticated campaign of false and misleading information that was able to deceive both the general public and law enforcement - who relied on the Trinity Health Corporation’s purported expertise - leading to Dr. Husel’s arrest and indictment on 25 counts of murder.
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NO ESTABLISHED POLICIES
Dr. Husel was an ICU doctor providing compassionate, palliative, end-of-life anesthesia for terminal patients. He never administered a fatal injection. He never violated any hospital policy or guidelines. There weren’t any rigid hospital guidelines.
MISINFORMING THE PROSECUTOR
Although Dr. Husel explained at the outset that he was providing comfort and care in line with established medical techniques, Trinity directed Mount Carmel to tell the Prosecutor that his doses were “designed to hasten death.”
VILLAINIZING A CAREGIVER
Trinity’s own internal investigation stated that all patients were terminal and that Dr. Husel may have felt he was providing “more humane” support, yet the Corporation begins designing a PR campaign to paint Dr. Husel as a “Villain.”
THEY KNEW IT WASN'T FATAL
E-mails show that hospital executives debated the use of the word “fatal.” While Mount Carmel’s CEO was concerned about “optics” and “consequences,” Trinity SVP urged using the term. Handwritten notes show that the Franklin County Prosecutor was not comfortable with the term “fatal.”
MANIPULATING THE MEDIA
The process of drafting a deceptive press release about “5 Patients That Could Have Been Saved” shows an effort to conceal the fact that some patients experienced problems before the ICU. The Columbus Dispatch reports the content that the hospital gave to them and the team celebrates their success in “influencing” the paper’s coverage.
EXPLOITING THE INDICTMENT
6 days after Dr. Husel is indicted, Trinity’s PR firm advises Trinity to end the investigation and “seize the opportunity” created by the indictment to move forward and conclude the matter.