Public Benefit Corporation andDC General Hospital

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DC General Hospital

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  • Corporation Counsel claims the Master Plan for the DC General site
    “has no legal effect or significance and that the [City] Council does
    not have the legal authority to accept, reject or modify that plan,” April
    4, 2002
  • Colene Daniel becomes Chief Executive Officer of the DC Healthcare
    Alliance, April 4, 2002
  • Office of Planning draft Master Plan for Reservation 13, the DC
    General Hospital Site, March 31, 2002
  • Hospital emergency room closures and diversions increased dramatically
    after the closure of DC General; chart and graphs from Councilmember
    David Catania, based on data from the DC Department of Fire and
    Emergency Medical Services, March 2002
  • United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Memorandum
    Opinion in Civil Action No. 01-921, Chavous v. District of Columbia
    Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, et al.,
    August 6, 2001
  • City Council Committee on Health and Human Services public hearing on
    the status of the closure of the Health and Hospital Public Benefit
    Corporation and transition of services formerly provided at DC General
    Hospital to Greater Southeast Community Hospital, Friday, June 22,
    2001 

    • Testimony of Ivan C.A. Walks, Chief
      Health Officer and Director, Department of Health
    • Testimony of Ana Raley, Chief
      Executive Officer, Greater Southeast Community Hospital
    • Testimony of Karen M. Dale, Chief
      Operating Officer, DC Health Care Alliance
    • Testimony of Vincent A. Keane, Chief
      Executive Officer, Unity Health Care, Inc.
    • Testimony of Jacqueline D. Bowens, Vice
      President of Government and Public Affairs, and James Chamberlain,
      Chair, Emergency Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center
    • Testimony of Robert A. Malson,
      president, District of Columbia Hospital Association
    • The Coalition to Save DC General
      Hospital,       Morbidity and Mortality Rate Increases because of DC
      General Closure, as of June 20, 2001
  • Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corporation and Hadley Memorial
    Hospital Tax Abatement Act of 2001, Bill 14-9
  • Mayor’s order creating the Health Services Reform Commission and
    appointing its members, June 7, 2001
  • Health Care Transition Alert, June 6, 2001
  • District of Columbia Primary Care Association, “Health Justice
    Alert: The Alliance on a Fast Track,” May
    22, 2001
  • District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management
    Assistance Authority, “New Maternal and Child Health Services Launch
    District Healthcare Initiative,” press release, May
    21, 2001
  • Representative David E. Bonior (D-MI), “Keep D.C. General Hospital
    Open,” May 17, 2001
  • Chavous and Catania v. DC Financial Responsibility and Management
    Assistance Authority, Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corporation I
    and the District of Columbia, motion for summary judgment filed May
    15, 2001
  • James L. Thomas, National Black Caucus of State Legislators, letter
    supporting DC General Hospital to Congressional Black Caucus, May
    15, 2001
  • Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Memorandum to colleagues undermining
    advocates of DC General Hospital, May 9, 2001
  • DC Republican Committee, “District’s Republican Party Condemns
    Mayor for Not Respecting Home Rule,” May 1,
    2001
  • Chavous and Catania v. DC Financial Responsibility and Management
    Assistance Authority, Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corporation I
    and the District of Columbia, lawsuit filed April
    30, 2001
  • DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority,
    Actions regarding the Public Benefit Corporation and DC General Hospital,
    April 27, 2001

    • Press
      release
    • Statement
      by Alice Rivlin
    • Resolution
      declaring emergency
    • Resolution and
      order concerning the Public Benefit Corporation
    • DCFRMMA-1,
      Health Care Privitization Emergency Act of 2001
    • DCFRMMA-2,
      Health Care Privitization Temporary Act of 2001
    • DCFRMMA-3,
      Health Care Privitization Amendment Act of 2001
    • Resolution and
      Order Concerning the Transition to the New Health Care System
    • Restructuring Plan for the Public Benefit Corporation Pursuant to
      the Requirements of the Human Support Services Title of the District
      of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2001; December
      2000
    • Resolutions, Recommendations and Orders Concerning the Public
      Benefit Corporation, December
      2000
    • Memorandum from Natwar Gandhi, November
      14, 2000
    • DC
      Act 13-454,       “District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public
      Benefit Corporation Emergency Amendment Act of 2000”
  • City Council Committee on Human Services public roundtable on the
    contract between the Financial Control Authority and Greater Southeast
    Community Hospital to provide services formally provided by the Public
    Benefit Corporation, April 27, 2001

  • Pricewaterhouse Coopers, redacted and edited “executive summary of
    certain information” relating to the contract with the Greater
    Southeast Community Hospital, done instead of an audit and due diligence
    report, April 25, 2001
  • Mayor Anthony Williams, veto of supplemental budget request for Public
    Benefit Corporation, April 25, 2001
  • Mayor Anthony Williams, letter of transmittal of finalized contract
    between the Control Board and Greater Southeast Community Hospital, April
    23, 2001,     along with letter of transmittal of contract from the
    Control Board to the Mayor, April 18, 2001, and Chief Financial
    Officer’s certification of available funds, April 17, 2001. 
  • Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia (Affiliate of
    the National Medical Association), Position Statement on DC General
    Hospital, April 20, 2001
  • DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, press
    release on contract for Health Care Services for Uninsured District
    Residents, April 18, 2001
  • Mayor Anthony A. Williams, Letter to Council Chairman Linda Cropp
    stating intent to veto appropriation to continue operations at DC General Hospital, April
    13, 2001
  • DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority,
    agreement with Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corporation I, April
    12, 2001
  • City Council, comparison of Control Board/Williams plan and Council plan, April 12, 2001
  • DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, “Health Services
    Reform Initiative,” April 11, 2001
  • DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, press release on
    signing health care contract with Greater Southeast Community Healthcare Corporation, April 11, 2001
  • Alan Sager, “Threats to Urban Public Hospitals and How to Respond to Them,” March 30, 2001
  • DC City Council, Committee on Human Services, public hearing on the proposed FY 2002
    budget of the DC Department of Health, March 29, 2001

  • District of Columbia Inspector General, Audit of the District of Columbia Health and
    Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation, March 29, 2001
  • Health Care Now Coalition, “DC General Hospital: The Facts,” March 2001
  • Mayor Anthony Williams, letter to residents on health plan, March 28, 2001
  • Eleanor Holmes Norton, Letter to Alice Rivlin on DC General Hospital, with a response by
    Mayor Anthony Williams, March 26, 2001
  • Letter by seven members of the City Council to Mayor Anthony Williams, asking for an
    extension of funding to the Public Benefit Corporation, March 23,
    2001
  • Congressional Briefing sponsored by Congressman John Conyers, “National Public
    Hospital Safety-Net in Crisis: D.C. General Hospital in Focus,” March 22, 2001

  • Health Care Now Coalition, press release, “Clergy, Health Care and Labor
    Representatives Urge Rivlin to Back off the Mayor’s Proposal, March
    15, 2001
  • Council of Churches of Greater Washington, Statement on Washington, DC General Hospital,
    March 12, 2001
  • “Sense of the Council on the District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public
    Benefit Corporation (‘PBC’) and D.C. General Hospital Emergency Resolution of
    2001,” PR 14-xxx, Passed by a vote of 13-0 on March
    6, 2001    .
  • “Sense of the Council on the District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public
    Benefit Corporation and D.C. General Hospital Declaration Resolution of 2001,” PR
    14-55, Passed by a vote of 13-0 on March 6, 2001.
  • Councilmember Phil Mendelson, statement on DC General Hospital, March
    6, 2001
  • Public Benefit Corporation, Urban Health Campus on Capitol Hill/PBC2, March 2001
  • Public Benefit Corporation 2, A New Beginning: The Urban Health Care Campus on Capitol
    Hill, March 2001
  • Letter from a coalition of ministers, A Moral and Timely Request to Anthony Williams,
    Mayor of Washington, DC, March 5, 2001
  • District of Columbia Hospital Association, Statement on the Public Benefit Corporation, March 1, 2001
  • Medical Society of the District of Columbia, “MSCD Leads the Fight to Preserve
    Inpatient Care at DC General,” MSCD Newsline, February
    28, 2001    .
  • District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation, PBC 2: Future
    Vision, The Urban Health Campus on Capitol Hill, February 22,
    2001.
  • Councilmember David Catania, The Case Against Contracting with Doctors Community
    Healthcare Corporation (“DCHC”), February 20, 2001
  • “Mayor’s Commitment to a Healthy District of Columbia,” February 20, 2001
  • Medical Society of the District of Columbia, Statement by President Stuart F. Seldes in
    support of DC General Hospital, February 6, 2001
  • Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corporation I, “Washington Alliance for
    Community Healthcare: DC-WACH Program, Volume I: Technical Proposal,” Response to a
    Request for Proposal DCFRA #00-R-039, January 30, 2001.
  • Department of Insurance and Securities Regulation, Report of
    Examination of the DC Chartered Health Plan, Inc., as of December 31,
    1999; December 8, 2000
  • The “District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation Emergency
    Amendment Act of 2000,” DC Act
    13-454
  • American Medical Association, Resolution 425: “Preservation of the
    Mission of DC General Hospital and Its Affiliated Community Health Centers,” December 6, 2000
  • Control Board’s resolutions and orders concerning the Public Benefit Corporation, December 4, 2000
  • Health Care System Development Commission Final Report: “Strategies for
    Change,” December 2000
  • Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi’s memorandum warning of fiscal shortfalls, November 14, 2000
  • Councilmembers David Catania, Sandy Allen, and Kevin Chavous, “A Proposal to
    Develop a Comprehensive Urban Healthcare Campus on the Grounds of DC General
    Hospital,” November 3, 2000
  • Alan Sager, Boston University School of Public Health, “Saving DC General: Why and
    How,” October 5, 2000
  • City Council Committee on Human Services hearing on the District of Columbia Health and
    Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation, September 18, 2000

  • DC Auditor, District’s Privatization Initiative Flawed by Noncompliance and Poor
    Management, September 15, 2000
  • Fernando Daniels, III, M.D., Emergency Medical Services Bureau, memorandum on District
    of Columbia Hospital Closure, September 15, 2000
  • Mayor Anthony A. Williams, “Health Care Reform in the District: Investing in
    People,” September 4, 2000

  • National Capitol Planning Commission, plans for the DC General
    land    , along with the Waterfront Revitalization Initiative Memorandum of Understanding
  • Barbara Ormond, Linda Blumberg, John Holahan, David G. Stevenson, Susan Wallin, and
    Joshua M. Wiener, Health Care for Low-Income People in the District of Columbia. Washington,
    DC: Urban Institute, May 13, 1999.