Mass General Brigham appears above The Series in white Manrope type on a black card, with a centered three-period mark and the subtitle Jonathan Bowen Follows the Documentary Record.

Mass General Brigham — The Series

I began with the nurses’ strike at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and followed the records into the finances of Mass General Brigham. I traced its retirement plans, corporate relationships, and governing structure through the documents employees need to understand the authority over their benefits and money. The reader should follow my essays in publication order, and each essay carries its own source notes.

Read the Series

  • Hub Hospitals Hate Health Care appears above “Brigham Nurses Carry Question 1 into Their Strike” in white text on a black title card.

    Hub Hospitals Hate Health Care

    Brigham and Women’s Hospital nurses’ fight over staffing and benefits extends the 2018 Massachusetts Question 1 clash over hospital power, political silence, and patient care.

  • Inside the MGB Financial Machine appears above “Mass General Brigham Holds Billions Without Nurse Board Representation” in white text on a black title card.

    Inside the MGB Financial Machine

    Mass General Brigham pools pension billions in a master trust, yet the public roster of its Board of Directors identifies no nurse among the people governing employee money.

  • The ERISA Lottery appears above “Plan 499 Turns the Pension Dollar into a Lottery” in white text on a black title card.

    The ERISA Lottery

    The Massachusetts State Lottery traces each sales dollar, while Mass General Brigham’s cash-balance pension filings lack one reconciled line from authorization to net result.

  • The MGB Master Control Program appears above “MGB Concentrates Pension Power in One Committee” in white text on a black title card.

    THE MGB Master Control Program

    The Investment Committee of Mass General Brigham’s Board of Directors oversees pension assets and central pools, yet its charter, membership, and votes stay outside the reviewed record.

  • Dogs of MGB appears above “Scott Sperling Shares Two Boardrooms with Marc Casper” in white text on a black title card.

    Dogs of MGB

    Scott Sperling and Marc Casper serve on the Boards of Directors of Mass General Brigham and Thermo Fisher Scientific; their dual service warrants conflict disclosures and recusal records.

  • The 37 Connectors appears above “MGB Reaches Thermo Fisher Through 37 Documented Relationships” in white text on a black title card.

    The 37 Connectors

    Mass General Brigham and Thermo Fisher Scientific share thirty-seven relationship families in public records; that recurrence warrants scrutiny without turning proximity into proof.

  • MGB Nurses Know appears above “MGB Governs over Fifteen Thousand Nurses Without Board Representation” in white text on a black title card.

    MGB Nurses Know

    Mass General Brigham calls itself one system, yet the public roster of its Board of Directors identifies no rank-and-file worker among the people who govern the system.