Fitness campaign or fraud scheme? Postal inspector, state of California investigating promotion that may have cost hospitals $1 million.
The U.S. postal inspector and California authorities are investigating whether a San Francisco-based company called the National Fitness Campaign may have bilked more than 120 hospitals across the country out of nearly $1 million through a physical fitness and wellness promotion. Since 1990, scores of hospitals have paid thousands of dollars for shabby, incomplete or, in many cases, non-existent exercise equipment.
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D002140:California; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000592:standards; D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005607:Fraud / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000191:economics*; D010809:Physical Fitness; D011177:Postal Service; D014481:United States