Category: Medical
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BSO hides long list of lawsuits filed against its costly new jail healthcare company
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has refused to make public a list of federal and state lawsuits filed against its newly hired jail healthcare provider, citing a state law that protects trade secrets. -
As Broward sheriff shops for inmate healthcare, jail deaths haunt controversial contractor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
For 14 years, the Broward Sheriff’s Office has paid Miami’s Armor Correctional Health Services hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to provide healthcare services for Broward‘s jail inmates. The money flowed despite accusations of substandard care, indifference, political intrigue, malpractice and at least 15 needless deaths since 2010. Today, BSO is again soliciting bids for a new multi-year contract and Armor wants the job. -
As Broward Health bleeds, doctors warn mismanagement is affecting health care
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Health’s top doctors have warned the district’s leadership that the medical staff’s ability to function “is being compromised to the detriment of Broward Health as a viable health care system.” -
The cash-rich pharmaceutical lobby and the rising cost of drugs for Medicare seniors
By Stuart Silverstein
FairWarning.org
When the Republican-controlled Congress approved a landmark program in 2003 to help seniors buy prescription drugs, it slapped on an unusual restriction: The federal government was barred from negotiating cheaper prices for those medicines. Instead, the job of holding down costs was outsourced to the insurance companies delivering the subsidized new coverage, known as Medicare Part D. -
Fort Lauderdale federal grand jury subpoenas Broward Health’s purchasing records
By Dan Christensen and Buddy Nevins
FloridaBulldog.org
A Fort Lauderdale federal grand jury has slapped a subpoena on Broward Health demanding records related to an ongoing FBI investigation focused on its purchasing practices, two knowledgeable sources have told FloridaBulldog.org. -
In wake of El Sanadi suicide, Florida IG probes every Broward Health contract since 2012
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
As Gov. Rick Scott and hundreds of others paid their final respects Friday to Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, Broward Health’s late president, Florida’s chief inspector general quietly opened a wide-ranging investigation into how the hospital district hands out millions of dollars in contracts.
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