Star Tribune -- August 7, 2007
Westover District Supervisor Coy Harville said Monday night he would appoint Don Nodtvedt and Arlene Creasy to represent the county on a leadership group to work with Danville Regional Medical Center and its parent company, Tennessee-based LifePoint Hospitals.A citizens commission that spent four months hearing concerns about the hospital had recommended the panel. Making its report to Danville City Council last month, the commission said the new panel should have members from the region, including physicians and community leaders.
Harville, who chairs the Board of Supervisors, said Danville and Caswell County, N.C., would also have two members. He said officials would meet Wednesday about the panel.Harville said he wants the group to gather community input about the hospital and provide it to LifePoint.
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Arlene and Don...two people who know this community well and can get things done.
Good choices Coy.
Arlene and Don, just let us know what you need from us and we'll help.
For those of you living in Caswell County, is the Caswell Messenger carrying any coverage of what is going on at DRMC?
There is nothing on their website. It just seems like they would cover it better since more of your residents have the opportunity to drive to hospitals other than DRMC.
Is the Citizens Commission work done? Does this new 'leadership group' take its place?
Citizens of a community will always be responsibility to see to the good of the community. Regardless if you are on a commission or not.
Arlene and Don could deligate good folks to provide continuous input in regards to the various facets of operations and needs of a community. They should always always lend an ear to others...new insight, enlightenments, etc. A good continuous feed of information and support of it could be a good start to building a community team.
This all will be an ongoing effort, with checks and balances continuously, to enforce credibility.
This won't help, we can badger lifepoint all we want , they are a private corporation.There is nothing this board can do to make them change anything that they don't want to .Lifepoint wants endless meaningless dialogue so they can go about their business of bilking the area for brentwood mortgage payments.They need to be gone and DRMC needs to be affiliated with a non profit teaching facility .
That's the sad, bad truth. As long as they can trick the community into "dialoging," they win every time.
Saw this in the Triad Business Journal a couple weeks ago:
"Triad hospitals seek to tap dissatisfaction in Danville"
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area - July 20, 2007
Hospitals in Rockingham County have boosted their marketing to take advantage of dissatisfaction with Danville Regional Medical Center, just across the North Carolina-Virginia state line.
The Joint Commission, the leading health care accreditation organization, has issued a preliminary denial of accreditation to the 350-bed Danville Regional Medical Center. And last month, CEO Art Doloresco, the hospital's third CEO in the last two years, resigned.
Those troubles have prompted at least a couple of Triad hospitals to increase their marketing in the Danville area.
"Our goal, really, with the campaign was to increase awareness for patients and potential employees who were looking for alternatives that there's an excellent facility" in Reidsville, said Susan Fitzgibbon, executive vice president for Annie Penn, which is part of Moses Cone Health System. Danville is about 25 miles from Reidsville.
Competition between hospitals, and the marketing that goes along with that, is a normal part of the hospital business, said Ruth McDaniel, interim CEO of the Danville Regional.
"We're very committed to what we do here," she said. Danville Regional is working through the issues raised by the Joint Commission, and a search is under way for a new CEO, she said.
Danville Regional, formerly an independent not-for-profit hospital, was sold by its board to LifePoint Hospitals Inc., a Brentwood, Tenn.,-based for-profit hospital company, in 2005. Some Danville residents have complained about some aspects of hospital operations, including waiting times in the Emergency Department.
Those complaints have shown up in print in the Danville Register & Bee and in blogs and other online forums.
In the last six months or so, Fitzgibbon said, Annie Penn has seen an increase in the number of inquiries from patients living in southern Virginia and in North Carolina along the state line, as well as from Danville Regional employees and Danville doctors.
The hospital has hired people from the area, and a handful of Danville physicians are now on Annie Penn's medical staff.
Annie Penn has also mailed thousands of postcards to people in the Danville area, bought ads in the Danville newspaper and added radio stations whose signals reach into Danville to its regular radio campaign. But, Fitzgibbon said, the hospital hasn't taken an "in-your-face" approach.
Moses Cone spokesman Doug Allred said the marketing campaign cost less than $20,000.
"We've tried to take a low-key approach," Fitzgibbon says.
Morehead Memorial Hospital, in Mayodan, has hired a few people from Danville and ran ads in the newspaper there when it got its Joint Commission accreditation, CEO Bob Enders said.
McDaniel, at Danville Regional, said her hospital markets to patients and others across the state line in North Carolina.
And though Annie Penn and Morehead Memorial might win some patients, employees and medical staff from Danville Regional, no North Carolina-based hospital is likely to replace Danville Regional as the dominant source of care in that city any time soon.
"Hopefully the community will restabilize," Fitzgibbon said. "(It's) probably not practical to think the patients are going to drive by their facilities and, long-term, go out of state for care.
"But," she added, "we are certainly here (and) we've got the capacity to meet needs."
"Hopefully the community will restabilize," Fitzgibbon said. "(It's) probably not practical to think the patients are going to drive by their facilities and, long-term, go out of state for care.
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I think we'll keep driving right on by as long as the LifePoint culture is alive at Danville Regional.
Amen,
Annie Penn,Morehead and Moses Cone are all waypoints on my map.
I printed a copy of driving directions from MapQuest to Annie Penn, Morehead and Moses Cone in case of an emergency.
We got together with some neighbors from the Blairs area last Sunday and made a trial run to Centra in Lynchburg. It's longer, but I think much safer. What we have to work on now is getting the rescue squads to head to Centra instead of Lifepoint in Danville.
That's selfish. I mean, those squads need to go to he closest place and get back in service. You should get some of those neighbors to take you to Centra.
We have not heard from UnionNurse for awhile. Unions are our only hope. Any news about organizing meetings?
you better shut you mouth about unions. the bank boys will break your legs.
I think the poster is right who pointed out that this sitemeter is a little wacko. Just do the simplest test of writing down the numbers of visits, log out and come back, and it will be the same.
Could it be that it is set up NOT to count two quick log-ins from the same computer to keep people from messing with the totals????
Is it hot? Yep, it's hot. Hard to get caught up in this right now.
How's this for hot? Nashville Biz Journal: "Lifepoint revamps leadership roles to boost performance" Nashville Business Journal - August 3, 2007by Erin LawleyNashville Business Journal
Following a poor second quarter showing that stunned Wall Street, LifePoint Hospitals Inc. is planning a handful of corporate changes to whip its performance back into shape.
Look out all you loafers and deadbeats still malingering around that dumb-a-- Danville VA hospital. We'll getcha (your language) now, you low-hanging fruits.
Truth is, we all know there's a lot of fat here, but we will protect it to ythe end!
You just trying to stir up something, and it's too hot to bite.
What's up, UnionNurse? That's the answer.
Did you all know that anyone caught reading this blog site while at work at DRMC will be fired on the spot? Well, that is the latest.
It takes more than one nurse to form a union. Interested nurses need to get together and hold an off site information session to discuss which unions to contact. I still read the unionnurse blogspot and it is still alive and well.
http://www.unionnurse.blogspot.com/
Mt. Vernon's hospital is now advertising oncology care with Dr. Suzanne Arnold. I think she's pretty good. And Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital needs the competition.
"Did you all know that anyone caught reading this blog site while at work at DRMC will be fired on the spot? Well, that is the latest."
You found this out where, haven't seen a memo.
Yesterday, one of Ruth's chosen ones savaged an underling for looking at this site. I don't know the ultimate outcome, but it was unpleasant.
If you're smart, you'll forget about this blog, which is a supreme time-waster.
"Those who do not recall history are doomed to repeat it"
If you don't remember they'll do it again.
Tell her to pucker up We have a first amendment right to speak our minds.We are not underlings some have as much or more education than she does.And certainly more scruples.
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