The Juan F. Luis Hospital Board is reviewing a contract that has, for the past 10 years, provided one medical group with significant financial incentives and a monopoly on the administration of radiology and nuclear imaging services (CAT scans, MRI’s, and Nuclear Medicine Services) on St. Croix.
This no bid contract defines a “joint venture”...
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Healthcare
Patients or Profit?
Miami Herald Reports On Miller’s Resignation
Memorial Hospital boss quits as troubled past is revealed
BY JOHN DORSCHNER
jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com
Rodney E. Miller, administrator and chief operating officer of Memorial Regional Hospital, has resigned from his $370,000 job after being the subject of a blistering government report in the Virgin Islands concerning accusations of ”fraud and mismanagement” when he headed a hospital group in...
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They All Should Be Held Accountable
After reading the investigative report in The Virgin Islands Daily News concerning the improper behavior of the executives and the governing board of the Schneider Regional Medical Center in the district of St. Thomas/St. John I was dismayed but not surprised. Additionally the report and recommendation of the joint audit by the federal and...
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Universal Insurance Now!
Guest Opinion by J. J. Estemac
The time is upon us from the reports I have been hearing in the news media, we have a crisis in our health care system, particularly our hospitals. What if anything our elected representatives are doing to address it is anybody guess. I have not seen nor heard any...
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A show of support for Dr. Griffith
I am writing this letter to express my support of Dr. Kendall Griffith, interventional cardiologist and medical director at the Governor Juan Luis Hospital and Medical Center (JLH). Dr. Griffith was born and raised here on St. Croix and has returned to provide quality healthcare to the people of the Virgin Islands. Despite his...
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