Category: Florida
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Broward Health’s $71.4 million, no-bid advertising deal with Zimmerman delayed by suicide
By Buddy Nevins and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Health’s plan to award a no-bid advertising contract worth as much as $71.4 million over six years to a politically connected advertising firm was interrupted last month after hospital district chief executive Dr. Nabil El Sanadi killed himself. -
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. -
South Florida’s 10 worst nursing homes for seniors based on U.S. data
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Out of 145 nursing homes in South Florida 10 had incidents of negligent care so common that they received abysmal reviews from federal healthcare regulators. Read our report on the area’s worst nursing homes. -
Florida’s coming war on collective bargaining for state employees
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
When Miami state Rep. Carlos Trujillo was interviewed on Spanish language radio station Actualidad 1020 he boldly proclaimed that Republicans will ask voters in 2018 to eliminate collective bargaining for state employees from the Florida Constitution. -
Unrestrained: Profit and abuse at Florida group homes for the profoundly disabled
By Heather Vogell
ProPublica/small>
Three years ago, it looked like the Florida agency that oversees care for children and adults with profound disabilities had finally had enough of the Carlton Palms Educational Center. Not exactly. -
Plaza Health Network cited repeatedly by feds, state for nursing home violations
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Plaza Health Network, the embattled nursing home chain that six months ago agreed to pay $21.5 million to settle federal civil charges that it defrauded Medicare and Medicaid, has habitually violated state and federal healthcare regulations by providing inadequate, and at times negligent, care to residents at its facilities.
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