Danville Register and Bee
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
DANVILLE -- Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell would like to place a staff member on the citizens hospital committee.
Mayor Wayne Williams formed the Citizens Committee Related to the Danville Regional Medical Center group last month to collect public input about a number of complaints people have related to care at Danville Regional Medical Center since the hospital was bought by LifePoint.
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ALSO, in the April 4 edition of the Register & Bee is Mr. Doloresco's response to the March 19 editorial about DRMC's recent Joint Commission's denial of accreditation:
Doloresco explains
To the editor:
I agree that your editorial, “A lost opportunity” (March 19, page A8), taking me to task for referring to the Joint Commission’s preliminary findings as a “private matter” was on target. I was attempting to convey the Joint Commission’s view on confidentiality of preliminary findings and didn’t do that very well.
The quality of our community’s hospital is not a “private matter.” It is a public responsibility and a privilege that the board, medical staff and I, along with our very hard-working associates, gladly undertake around the clock, 365 days a year.
ART DOLORESCO
Danville
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Interesting....he was in town today....wonder who whispered in his ear.
The AG's presence should be saluted as a masterstroke. It means little in and of itself, but it can be the opening thousands of us have been waiting for to get the word to some authority concerning the disaster brought upon our community by the greed and arrogance that have caused so much anguish and suffering. Maybe everything they did was legal, but just maybe we will at last be heard.
Don't know who whispered in his ear, but let's face it--the AG was hanging out yesterday with Delegates Robert Hurt and Danny Marshall.
The filthy five presented the sale to a temporary AG, when Kilgore was running for gov., and got permission for the sale from her. I have always felt this was a back door deal. It was bull---- in the paper this am about the deal being fairly representative of the community. Dixie Doss
The AG approves almost every sell of a hospital. Does anyone know of a situation when the AG did not approve a hospital sell?
Fact is, the ONLY thing the AG looks at is whether all the legalities have been observed and whether the price being paid is in the ballpark of reason. The price paid was handsome because Lifepoint had been duped. But in the sense of money passed, all Virginia components were properly compensated from a monetary standpoint. That said, there's then the rest of the story.....
So Doloresco now apologizes for saying it is a private matter when actually it is a confidential matter?
Either way, we the users of the hospital are still in the dark. And going to Lynchburg, Greensboro, Reidsville, Eden, Durham, Winston-Salem, or where? Anybody got a list of best places to go for what?
All of the Hospitals that you list are top-notch.A few are nonprofit teaching hospitals (I have prior knowledge of them DUMC and WFUBMC.)
The others are also either owned by , or affiliated with these two, Cone is stand alone(and owns Annie Penn in Reidsville) but it is far superior to DRMC in it's current state.And if any of the smarties are hiding online, I'm thinking me -WFUBMC- july-ish.
WFUBMC is Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem?
Yes.
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