PART 2. “Massachusetts Surgeons will have to document each time they enter and leave the operating room, and who took over in their absence… amid controversies over doctors who perform more than one surgery at a time…

October 27, 2019

Over twenty years ago a general surgeon at one of our community hospitals left the OR to operate at a competing hospital and told a nurse to close the incision. He claimed OR nurses could train and be certified as “closers”. Problem was the nurse hadn’t been certified and we did not have hospital privileges

“A SEVERE FLU PANDEMIC… could kill more than 33 million people worldwide in just 250 days.” – “Boy, do we not have our act together.” — Bill Gates”. (J)

October 15, 2019

“It’s never an easy business to predict which flu viruses will make people sick the following winter. And there’s reason to believe two of the four choices made last winter for this upcoming season’s vaccine could be off the mark.” “Flu circulation “remains difficult to predict and flu viruses are constantly breaking rules that we

PART 4. New Jersey. “..heart transplant center, inflated survival rates to keep its funding — keeping a brain-dead patient on life support until he hit a one-year survival benchmark..”

October 7, 2019

When I started as President & CEO of Jersey City Medical Center in 1989, New Jersey had a comprehensive Certificate of Need process. When the state awarded a “CN” funding followed through the all payor reimbursement system then in place. Over time JCMC was designated as: a Regional Perinatal Center; Level II Trauma Center; Teaching