Category: Healthcare
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Broward Health’s assets at “distressed” levels, “below book value” without tax levy, study says
By Karla Bowsher
BrowardBulldog.org
A new state-ordered study compares the value of Broward Health’s operating assets to those of a “distressed hospital” worth “significantly below book value.” -
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More judges may have violated rules by working with company overseeing public health funds
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Two more South Florida judges may have violated ethics rules by serving on the board of a private company that controls public health care spending. Those Miami-Dade judges sit on the board of a nonprofit corporation that is paid by the Department of Children and Families to administer tens of millions of behavioral healthcare dollars. -
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Despite “No Involvement” pledge, Butterworth got the kind of private deal he backed as DCF boss
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
When Bob Butterworth filed a bid last winter on a $44.8 million-a-year Department of Children and Families private management contract he signed a “Statement of No Involvement.” By signing the statement, the former Florida Attorney General certified that neither he nor anyone else at the non-profit Broward Behavioral Health Coalition was involved in developing the DCF program for the project his company was bidding on. -
Major contributor to Gov. Scott is silent partner in Bob Butterworth’s $44.8 million deal with DCF
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Another political insider – this time a major contributor to Gov. Rick Scott – has cropped up in a $44.8 million-a-year government-business deal to manage mental health services in Broward County. -
Butterworth skirts state lobbying laws to land $44 million-a-year contract in Broward
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Ex-Department of Children and Families Secretary Bob Butterworth lobbied heavily this year to convince his former agency to award his nonprofit company – and its for profit partner – a $44 million-a-year state management contract. Butterworth, however, is not registered to lobby. -
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$44 million state contract handed to Butterworth’s group despite lack of rules for public scrutiny
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Florida’s Department of Children and Families awarded a $44 million-a-year contract to privatize the management of mental health services in Broward without required rules in place to promote public scrutiny.
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