Saturday, February 11, 2006

Lance Armstrong Gives Research Money to Scandal-ridden DMH

The DMH H&R strikes again. (ARTICLE)

While federal and state investigators continue to solidify their case in their joint investigation of Decatur Memorial Hospital and their administrative staff, DMH has somehow snagged cancer research money away from the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Research for cancer is a good thing, and it's nice that a Decatur hospital was selected to receive such an honor. But PLEASE!! Does Lance Armstrong know that his foundation has handed over $450,000 to a "non-profit" organization that is in the middle of a LARGE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION FOR MEDICARE/MEDICAID FRAUD AND STARK ANTI-TRUST LAW VIOLATIONS?!?!?! Does Lance know that the administration of this hospital will be going to prison in the next year?!?!? Lance Armstrong does NOT like scandal...his "juicing" allegations by the French did not sit well with him...I wonder what he'll do when he finds out the hospital his foundation is giving money to is being investigated for cheating the US and State government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and that the hospital's administration, and maybe a few docs, are going to jail soon!!!!

And since when did "Cancer Care Specialists" located on Monroe Ave. become the "Cancer Care Institute" at DMH? I guess Dr. Wade has been bought by the DMH lie machine as well. Any takers on how long it will be before Smithmier forbids him or any of his fellow cancer docs from seeing patients at St. Mary's?

To all DMH lackeys: The river of money is going to dry up. Plain and simple. The federal investigation is still ongoing and when the indictments are handed out, it will be best NOT to be snuggled up too close to Ken Smithmier!!

And what is this "Decatur Community Partnership"? Are St. Mary's Hospital personnel or independent (non-DMH aligned) physicians involved in this group? Or is this just another front organization for Ken Smithmier to attempt to gain control over all the healthcare in Decatur?

The bottomline question: When Ken Smithmier and the rest of the DMH administration goes to jail, and when all of DMH's entanglements into Decatur businesses fall into ruin, what will healthcare in Decatur be like?

St. Mary's Revitalization Program ought to be preparing for just this contingency.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've heard that some of the DMH employed docs are also employed as "directors" of certain DMH divisions, like the Corporate Health Center and Doctor's Family Practice, giving them an extra 100 grand or so a year.

What a racket.

2/12/2006 05:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Forget DMH with the political drug scandal in Sangamon County the Feds will spend their time putting away the bad apples in Springfield.

2/13/2006 08:53:00 AM  
Blogger Watcher2300 said...

That should also be fun to watch. However, it does not affect any of us in Decatur as much as the DMH scandal.

2/13/2006 10:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What about Timmy being named chairman of the American Heart Association "Heart Walk"?

You would think an organization like AHA would want to distance themselves from anything or anyone at DMH (Da Monkey House).

2/13/2006 02:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

obviously, you people have way too much time on your hands to keep something as ridiclous as this going. Do you realize that these are real people's lives you are talking about and judging? Hard working well-educated men and women who have worked their entire lives to get where they are. Has it ever crossed your mind that these men/women could be innocent.
My brothers and sisters,
"Don't judge other people, or you will be judged. You will be judged in the same way that you judge others, and the amount you give to others will be given to you."
Matthew 7:1-2

4/22/2006 07:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In response to 4/22/06...

Have you considered the lives of the hard working people the DMH are ruining. They too are well educated and trying to do what is right for their families. However, is what DMH is doing really implementing their mission? How much is the integrity of ine person? Or a community?

6/10/2006 10:38:00 AM  

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