Alan Levine

Rick Scott's Plutocratic Plans For Public Hospitals

​Gov. Rick Scott fired a warning shot yesterday and ignited what seems like just one Floridian battle in the in the national war on public institutions. Whether it's congressmen feuding over federal funds for National Public Radio and Planned Parenthood, or state leaders stripping unions of collec ... More >>

Will BP Pay Psychiatric Bill for Gulf Spill?

Here's a story that's on its way to Florida at approximately the same rate as the Sea of Oil. It's about the depression and chemical addiction spreading through the coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico among people who owe their livelihood to the ocean. From Nola.com:Psychiatrists who treated peopl ... More >>

Health Secretary Critiques Obama Before Oval Office Address

Flickr: Pan-African News Wire​The blame game started about a second after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon opened a geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and it's too late to stop the game now. So we may as well try to at least separate fact from fiction, starting with the POTUS.With that in ... More >>

Former CEO of Broward Health Now Managing Louisiana's Health Response to Spill

Flickr: anslataadams​Maybe managing the massive, notoriously incestuous North Broward Hospital District wasn't enough of a challenge for Alan Levine. He left that post in December 2007 to become secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. In a little more than two years, he's ha ... More >>

Broward Health Commissioner Explains Reasons for Wanting to Terminate Hospital CEO

browardhealth.orgBernstein​Later this month, when North Broward Hospital District Commissioner Robert Bernstein makes his case to the board for firing CEO Frank Nask, it'll be based on these grounds:that Nask's lack of hospital operations experience has made him use poor judgment in deciding what ... More >>

Hospital Commissioner's Emails Reveal Personal Rivalries, Ethical Gray Areas

browardhealth.orgNask​Broward Health Commissioner Robert Bernstein is known both for his emphasis on ethics and for his short temper. In a string of emails to the district's CEO, it appears he was torn between those two impulses.On one hand, Bernstein was an enthusiastic supporter of ethics reform ... More >>

A Couple Million Dollars in Cost-Cutting Not Enough to Keep Former Broward Health Attorney in Job

Laura Seidman​Documents recently made available by the North Broward Hospital District show that former general counsel Laura Seidman made major improvements to a legal department that -- by some indications -- had been full of cronyism and waste under attorney Bill Scherer. The most striking exam ... More >>

Broward Health Documents Arrive (Anonymously) in Defense of Commissioner

Anonymously mailed envelopes are usually full of a whistleblower's goodies. But today's discovery was a bit of a let-down: This envelope with no return address contained the minutes of the April 7, 2008 special meeting by the North Broward Hospital District board.browardhealth.orgStoll​That was th ... More >>

Ethics Allegations Surface for Two More Broward Hospital Commissioners

browardhealth.orgRebecca Stoll​Shortly before Laura Seidman was pressured to resign as general counsel of Broward County's public hospital district last year, she expressed concerns that three of the district's commissioners were "using their public offices and powers improperly and for their own ... More >>

Jaeger Bomb: Broward Health Commissioner Accused of Using Office for "Personal Agenda"

browardhealth.orgMaureen Jaeger​In a memo she wrote in April 2008, three weeks before resigning as general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, Laura Seidman alleged that Commissioner Maureen Jaeger "misused her public office for her personal agenda."Jaeger, Rebecca Stoll and Joseph Cob ... More >>

The Pulp: Censored

More Job Losses: Swick and Richstone

Bleeding Dollars

A former Broward hospital CEO's trail of dubious expenses is just a drip in the bucket

Letters for January 31-February 6, 2008

Are We Really in Good Hands?

The outlook for the North Broward Hospital District without Alan Levine is cloudy

Response To Hospital District CEO's Goodbye

Morning Rundown

'Broward Health' Czar Levine Sets Pulp Straight

Bad Week For Boat Captains

Hopital District's Levine Reaches Out

Going to Plan T

Obfuscation made things worse in North Broward hospitals, so the brass is trying the truth option

North Broward Hospital District Admits Shell Game

DeGroot: Alan Levine Will Be New NBHD Chief

The $11 Billion Man

Meet the world's most castigated spammer — a South Florida man who says he's an innocent victim.