violations. >> and we looked at that and we thought, "okay, that's a problem." >> it looks like prospect medical holdingst some of their west coast safety problems with them to rhode island. >> and so more and more of this started turning up. >> from california to rhode island, prospect can't be trusted. >> and as they continued to buy hospitals after they bought the rhode island hospitals, you then started seeing communities there starting to complain about the same things. >> sullivan: we presented the union'allegations to prospect and its private equity owner, leonard green & partners, but neither would agree to an interview. in a statement, prospect called the claims untrue, and said they had good relations with the hospitals' unions and staff. they said they'd invested more than $100 million in the hospitals in rhode island, and received awards for the quality of their care. ♪ ♪ but just a couple hours from providence, in waterbury, connecticut, i heard many of the same complaints about prospect's ownership of a hospital there. >> we come into the space every night. we don't come to tear down. we co