Below is the full video of Friday, September 19th’s Juan F. Luis Hospital press conference, held at the facility, where Interim CEO Dr. Kendall Griffith defended the medical center. He said CMS’s decision to stop doing business with JFL was “wrong.”
In recognition of the 2014 National Voter Registration Day, the 2014 Voter EXPO is being held this week across the Territory. The EXPO is part of an ongoing effort to engage the voting public, as mandated by law, and to introduce the new voting machines that will be used for the 2014 General Election.
The scathing 112-page report released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the status of the Juan F. Luis Hospital (JFL), and the reason CMS decided to stop doing business with the hospital, paints a bleak picture for the future prospects of the facility. The report is properly...
The Virgin Islands Government Employees’ Retirement System (GERS), which has investments in major firms around the territory–and is the owner of a number of companies–has voted against the approval of a proposed term sheet for Tibbar Energy USVI, LLC that was submitted by Standard...
The Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Juan F. Luis Hospital suggested in a press conference last Friday he was surprised by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to pull its support and stop making medicare and medicaid payments to the hospital. However the 112-page...
After two Virgin Islands Supreme Court rulings ordering embattled Senator Alicia “Chucky” Hansen’s name be removed from the 2014 General Election ballot, Board of Elections Chairman Adelbert Bryan, through his attorney Emile Henderson III, last week filed an emergency motion with...
Novelle Francis, former Police Chief and Police Commissioner of the Virgin Islands, has revealed in an interview on 102.1 FM, Life Radio that the community should take seriously crimes committed by people in power.
If there is anything that has consumed Virgin Islands’ politics in the last few weeks, it must be the Brian v. Fawkes court battle that saw the St. Croix District Board of Elections Chairman, Adelbert Bryan, suing the Elections Supervisor, Caroline Fawkes. Bryan alleged that beleaguered senator...
The much anticipated report of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recent audit of the Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center (JFL) on St. Croix, conducted July 28, 2014 to Aug. 1, 2014, revealed a host of serious deficiencies and non-compliance issues at the hospital, resulting in CMS’s...
Last Thursday’s news of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decision to cease funding to St. Croix’s Juan F. Luis Hospital (JFL) on Oct. 9 sent shock waves across the Territory. CMS’s pull out means the hospital will lose its accredited status, and both medicare and medicaid...
