The Office of the Lieutenant Governor, VI Medicare/VI SHIP and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will host a town hall meeting on Tuesday, March 3 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Windward Passage Hotel on St. Thomas.
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The Office of the Lieutenant Governor, VI Medicare/VI SHIP and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will host a town hall meeting on Tuesday, March 3 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Windward Passage Hotel on St. Thomas.
Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center (JFL) is making headlines again this week, as late Friday the hospital’s governing board of directors issued a statement revealing it was never consulted in the matter of pay raises, amounting to $720,000, or retroactive pay given to employees of the cash-strapped...
At a meeting organized by St. Croix Superintendent of Schools Colleen Williams Wednesday and held at the St. Croix Educational Complex auditorium, leaders of the Department of Education (DOE) said the students of the Alexander Henderson Elementary School on St. Croix, who are displaced because of mold...
Dr. Bernard A. Wheatley, CEO of St. Thomas’ Roy Lester Schneider Regional Medical Center (SRMC), Tuesday, in testimony before the Committee on Health, Hospitals & Human Services, chaired by Sen. Kurt Vialet, detailed the financial woes of the medical center and revealed that the hospital has an outstanding...
The University of the Virgin Islands’ School of Medicine, currently in the process of being formed, has been selected as a “candidate school” for accreditation by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME). The organization is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education...
But right now I believe that we’re spending like a bunch of drunken sailors; why is this? And that’s why I say, poor decisions are just overshadowing the good. — Sen. Kenneth Gittens Members of the Senate’s Committee on Health, Hospitals and Human Services, chaired by Sen. Kurt...
Juan F. Luis Hospital (JFL) CEO Kendall Griffith Monday defended his decision to give raises to hospital employees amounting to $720,000, contending that even while the hospital is aware that necessary austerity measures must be taken, the pay increases were balanced against “experience, morale...
In an effort to “enhance” the experience of patients receiving care at St. Croix’s only hospital, Juan F. Luis Hospital (JFL) will hold a clean-up activity on Sat., Feb. 21 outside the Emergency Room from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “This is just the first of the things that those of us who work...
Residents of the Estate Profit, Harvey, Clifton Hill and New Works neighborhoods on St. Croix are sick and tired. They are tired of literally being sick, and sick of feeling like their complaints are being ignored.
In an effort to promote safer school environments, Crime Stoppers USVI is encouraging the territory’s schools to implement the anonymous, incentive-based crime reporting program on their campuses. According to the organization’s Public Relations Chair, Etienne Gibbs, Crime Stoppers USVI’s...