Outcomes of Corporate Greed

Objective: This study is the context portion of a larger study that described the experience of 30 nurses in Texas, USA who worked in for‐profit psychiatric hospitals during a documented period of corporate deviance. The objective of the contextual portion was to describe the major findings in 1997‐1992 of investigating agencies that probed the scandal. Design: Exploratory descriptive. Sample: Over 1,240 pages and 40 hours of corporate records obtained under subpoena, and written and oral testimony before the USA House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. Methods: Content analysis, triangulating sources, and comparing as well as cross‐checking themes. Findings: Four themes: insurance games, dumping patients, patient abuse, and playing with language. Conclusions: Organizational deviance may become more widespread in profit ‐driven systems of care. Lobbying for whistleblower protection, collective advocacy, and creative educational reforms are used.