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Fletcher-Allen Health Care Scandals and Controversies
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Fletcher Allen Health Care filed a letter of intent Friday,
declaring plans to apply for a permit to buy computer software. The move comes about a month after the state put a halt to the purchase and said it required a permit.
Fletcher Allen plans to pay .2 million for software to be implemented over five years, the hospital said in a news release Friday.
In July, Elizabeth Costle, state Banking, Insurance, Securities & Health Care Administration commissioner, ordered Fletcher Allen to stop installing the software because the hospital lacked a certificate of need for the million purchase from IDX Corp., a South Burlington company. The state requires hospitals to prove the need for capital expenditures over .5 million as a way to regulate health care costs.
Hospital officials argued the project didn't need a certificate of need because the software was really a series of small purchases.
Four Burlington psychiatrists have won a national award
for standing up to the state's largest hospital.
Drs. Richard Bernstein, Paul Newhouse, Terry Rabinowitz and Scott Waterman will receive the American Psychiatric Association's 2002 Profile in Courage Award at a ceremony in November in Washington, D.C. The award, established in 1996, recognizes American Psychiatric Association members who risk their personal or professional status to take an ethical stand in the name of good of patient care, according to the association. What, if anything, they win is unclear.
The psychiatrists were nominated last week. They testified at a May hearing that Vermont regulators should not allow Fletcher Allen Health Care to move its mental health ward to Colchester.
Former Fletcher Allen Chief Executive Officer William Boettcher had said the psychiatric unit's move was "not up for negotiation." Rabinowitz and other doctors have said they felt their jobs would be at risk if they spoke out against the project.
There is a Fight Over Fanny Allen's Future.
Fletcher Allen Health Care is moving forward with its plans to build a new mental health ward at its Fanny Allen campus in Colchester.
The hospital took its plans before the Colchester Planning Board Tuesday night-- the first regulatory hurdle to moving the mental health unit off the Burlington campus.
The plan is strongly opposed by mental health advocates who feel the move to Fanny Allen will compromise patient care. The patient care issues are not under the purview of town planners -- so the mental health advocates came prepared with other arguments, including historic and land preservation issues, property setbacks and the impact of the project on town police.
The planning commission did not issue a decision, but is expected to okay Fletcher Allen's plans. The real battle over the mental health unit is likely to play out before state health care regulators who must grant a certificate of need for the project. -- end --
Vermont Finally approved FAHC hospital expansion.
.2 million project OK'd despite trail of deception
Among the 34 conditions in the state's approval of Fletcher Allen's .2 million Renaissance Project, the hospital must:
Vermonters came down hard Tuesday on the management
and board members of the state's largest hospital.
About 300 people gathered at a town meeting Tuesday night called by Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in a Burlington church to air grievances and occasional praise about Fletcher Allen Health Care.
At what Sanders called the first meeting of its kind, nurses and support staff spoke about their union efforts; plumbers spoke about being omitted from the hospital's massive construction project; patients spoke about questionable care; and doctors spoke about working under recent public scrutiny.
Most, however, touched on the trouble that has swirled around the hospital's more than million expansion for the past six months. At the center of the controversy are hospital managers who lied to and hid nearly million from state regulators and hospital trustees who have said they knew nothing of the escalating problems.
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Vermont’s largest hospital has had a rough year
and can expect more bumps in the road in the coming months.
Fletcher Allen Health Care’s troubles have wounded the hospital’s reputation and called into question the honesty of its leaders. Fletcher Allen’s chairman of the board acknowledged the hospital will have to work to regain public trust and has called a board meeting for Wednesday to discuss how to do that.
... Some legislators say Fletcher Allen has strong-armed its way around Montpelier, prompting them to seek changes in the process that oversees major hospital projects. The state is also likely to more closely scrutinize Fletcher Allen’s million budget during an upcoming annual review.
Fletcher Allen’s troubles have been building since it broke ground on million worth of construction on its Burlington campus.
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