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February 7, 2011
Rick Scott Breaks Heart of Local Cardiologist
Summing up the Super Bowl: bad rendition of the national anthem, mess of a halftime show, mixed bag of commercials. As an afterthought, the game was pretty good (Packers took it away from the Steelers, literally). Onto more important matters, like who runs the State of Florida. ... More >>
Blogs
September 21, 2010
Hospital District Still Struggling to Prove That Reorganization Plan Isn't Driven by CEO's Self-Interest
Bernstein says this definitely wasn't his idea.The North Broward Hospital District is eager to prove that its CEO and president, Frank Nask, did not come up with the idea to lease the district's assets to a nonprofit organization all by himself. Because if it was his idea, then he would be vulner ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
[UPDATED] Timing of Broward Health Proposal Raises Questions About CEO's Motive
From BrowardHealth.orgFrank NaskThe pending changes at the North Broward Hospital District have been advertised as a way to make the hospitals more profitable and adaptable in the era after health-care reform. But a far more recent news event may have played a bigger role in the move: Florida's R ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2010
Broward Health Commissioner Says System Will Be Less Political as a Nonprofit
browardhealth.orgCommissioner Richard Paul-HusIf the North Broward Hospital District follows through on plans to lease its assets to a nonprofit organization, then it will "take the politics out" of managing that public hospital district, according to Commissioner Richard Paul-Hus, who responded ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2010
Three Questions for Your Local, Scandal-Plagued Public Hospital District
Broward General Medical Center: Scene of the crime?It's time to start paying attention to what's happening at the North Broward Hospital District (AKA Broward Health). Or rather, it was time back in January, when Gov. Charlie Crist removed two commissioners who were going to reform the district f ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2010
Embattled CEO of Broward Hospital District Gets Five-Year, $3 Million Contract
Photo: Broward HealthNaskFor Broward Health CEO Frank Nask, there's a fine line between unemployment and a multimillionaire's lifestyle. He's glad to have landed in the latter. This past January, Nask was facing the prospect of being terminated by the public hospital district's board of commissio ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2010
[UPDATED] Executive Exodus Continues at Broward Health
browardhealth.orgDawn JaversackChief Financial Officer Dawn Javersack is the latest member of the Broward Health executive staff to tender her resignation, following last month's power shift on the hospital district's board. On Friday, Javersack gave a one-month notice. She will be joining Boca C ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2010
In Broward and Palm Beach Hospitals, 266 Patients Treated for Injuries from Haiti Quake
Flickr: IFRCAfter the earthquake struck Haiti, there wasn't time to decide exactly what role South Florida hospitals would play in treating victims. Nor was there time to figure out how those facilities would be paid in instances where the victims were Haitian citizens. But three weeks after the ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2010
New Broward Health Board Seeks Distance From Unsavory Past
browardhealth.orgNaskBroward Health CEO Frank Nask's job is safe, as is that of a friend who he hired and to whom he gave a generous raise. Commissioner Mike Fernandez has received legal assurances that his job with an ultrasound manufacturer is not a conflict of interest. And seven appointed boa ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2010
Broward Health Chair Refuses to Discuss Political Motives Behind Board Transformation
browardhealth.orgCalhounTomorrow morning, Broward Health Chair Rhonda Calhoun will convene a board that has four new members, all appointed last week by Gov. Charlie Crist, who removed two colleagues whom Calhoun admired -- commissioners Robert Bernstein and Dan Gordon.She was given no explanatio ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2010
Does It Pay to Be Friend of the Hospital District CEO?
In January 2008, when Broward Health CEO Frank Nask promoted his friend Deborah Breen to his former position as the district's chief financial officer, he gave Breen a raise that was 250 percent higher than the one that a previous interim CFO received just four years before.browardhealth.orgDeborah ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2010
[UPDATED] Public Hospital District Spent Thousands on Machines That Didn't Exist
Flickr: Suubi TrustA SonoSite ultrasound in action.UPDATE: Broward Health just e-mailed new information containing its explanation for the strange entries I cite below. In short, they say they're the product of a computer glitch. I've copied that explanation on the bottom of this post.Since 2001 ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2010
New Blood at Broward Health Board?
browardhealth.orgJaeger's former seat on the hospital board has yet to be filled.A source at Broward Health tells us that the public hospital district CEO Frank Nask is walking with a skip in his step today, reportedly because he learned that Gov. Charlie Crist is close to appointing two new comm ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2010
Defying Ethics Code, Broward Health Commissioner's Firm Does Big Business With Hospital District
browardhealth.orgFernandezThe ultrasound manufacturing company where Mike Fernandez works as a general manager has been selling products to Broward Health during the same period that Fernandez has occupied a powerful position as a commissioner of that hospital district. Documents obtained by Juic ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2010
[UPDATED] Commissioner Targets Inflated Salaries, Cronyism at Health Care District
A week after he disclosed his intention to fire the North Broward Hospital District CEO Frank Nask, Commissioner Robert Bernstein is now demanding to know how a Nask associate is being paid roughly twice what that position paid just four years ago.browardhealth.orgDeborah BreenThat associate is D ... More >>
Blogs
January 8, 2010
Governor's Office in No Hurry to Replenish Scandal-Plagued Hospital Board
FlickrAmong the many problems at the North Broward Hospital District (a pending criminal corruption investigation, a pending internal investigation for fraud, to name a couple), the district's board currently has an attendance problem. The kind that only Gov. Charlie Crist can fix.The governor ap ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2010
Source: Broward Health Commissioners to Skip Meeting in Maneuver to Save CEO
browardhealth.orgFernandezCiting "unnamed sources" in the North Broward Hospital District, Commissioner Robert Bernstein has told Juice that two of his colleagues -- Commissioners Joseph Cobo and Mike Fernandez -- will not attend the district's January 27 meeting and that their likely motive is t ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2010
Broward Health CEO Frank Nask's Job in Jeopardy
browardhealth.orgNaskCommissioner Robert Bernstein has asked that the North Broward Hospital District's board consider removing the public hospital's CEO, Frank Nask, after a year when the district was hit by a barrage of scandals.The item will be placed on the board's January 27 agenda. District ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2010
Broward Health Commissioner Explains Reasons for Wanting to Terminate Hospital CEO
browardhealth.orgBernsteinLater 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 >>
Blogs
December 7, 2009
Hospital Commissioner's Emails Reveal Personal Rivalries, Ethical Gray Areas
browardhealth.orgNaskBroward 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 >>
Blogs
November 18, 2009
Rothstein Dealings With Broward Health Raise Questions About Judicial Appointment
photo: 4dca.orgSpencer LevineAttorneys at Scott Rothstein's firm landed a highly privileged meeting with the executive leadership of the North Broward Hospital District in September 2008, the month after Rothstein was appointed by his friend, Gov. Charlie Crist, to the nominating committee for Fl ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2009
Book of Jeb: At Hospital District, a Trial of Faith Between Ethics and Republican Friendships
Flickr: presidential_predictionsBush and Bernstein had a mutual friend at Gray-Robinson.Broward Health Commissioner Robert Bernstein has cast himself as a watchdog for waste at the county's public health-care district. But in the months since he led the charge to terminate the hospital district's ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2009
[UPDATED] Email Gives Behind-Scenes Peek at Conflicts Over Hospital District's Museum Sponsorship
browardhealth.orgBernsteinJust two business days before the North Broward Hospital District board was to consider spending $2 million to sponsor an exhibit at Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Discovery and Science, one commissioner was vowing to embarrass museum staff. This based on his obligation to ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2009
Hospital District: Why Wrestle a White Elephant When You Can Tackle a Red Herring?
Flickr User: FrogMillerMidway through this morning's meeting of the North Broward Hospital District's board, Commissioner Robert Bernstein decided it was time to acknowledge the "white elephant in the room."A tantalizing prospect, because this room was positively teeming with white elephants. There ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2009
No End in Sight: Ethics Scandal Spreads to North Broward Hospital District Chairman
browardhealth.orgMike FernandezDocuments recently released by the North Broward Hospital District' show that its chairman decided his board didn't have a corruption problem so much as a Martin Goldberg problem. That's the name of the former assistant U.S. Attorney who was hired by the district's Boa ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2009
Hospital Commissioners Argue Over Next Lawyer
Tension nearly boiled over at this morning's meeting of the North Broward Hospital District's Board as commissioners broached the touchy topic of the district's next general counsel. The seven-member panel appears divided over whether to speed that process or slow it down, given the flux at the posi ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2009
Hospital District Emails Reveal Lawyer's Bid to Save His Job
browardhealth.orgGoldstoneJudging by Marc Goldstone's email inbox, the week of May 11 began like any other. That was a Monday, and the general counsel for the North Broward Hospital District exchanged emails with CEO Frank Nask about attending a health care convention the first week of June. But by ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2009
Fmr. Broward Hospital District Lawyer Demands Probe of District's Current Lawyer
Joe Truhe, former associate general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, who was fired along with the district's general counsel May 15, has sent a letter to hospital commissioners demanding that they investigate Sam Goren, the attorney who became the interim general counsel.In a letter d ... More >>
News
May 8, 2008
Bleeding Dollars
A former Broward hospital CEO's trail of dubious expenses is just a drip in the bucket
News
January 17, 2008
Are We Really in Good Hands?
The outlook for the North Broward Hospital District without Alan Levine is cloudy

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