Crucians In Focus

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 St. Thomas. Click here to read the full article at MiamiHerald.com

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 local Inspectors General revealed serious deficiencies. We the people should now demand a full accounting from the governing board, both the members of the board in 2002 through 2008, notwithstanding the Governor’s stated intentions to implement the recommendations of the joint audit of the Inspectors General. From the report it is clear that the governing board failed in fulfilling its fiduciary duties to the people of the St. Thomas/St. John district. Read the rest of this entry »

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 workable plan presented in the legislature nor from the executive branch of government. It appears that they are all waiting for a miracle of some sort to resolve the crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

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 efforts, there are a few physicians at JLH who would like to see Dr. Griffith removed as medical director. Read the rest of this entry »