A potentially damaging rift between Mecklenburg County and its largest hospital system has just grown wider.
Claiming Carolinas HealthCare System has breached its contract, Mecklenburg Manager Harry Jones said in a letter to hospital system CEO Michael Tarwater that the county will halt its payments to the multi-billion-dollar hospital system until it provides requested data. Read the Jones letter by clicking here
But CHS officials say they have not breached the agreement - and are disappointed that the county appears to be throwing its longstanding relationship with the hospital system "to the curb." Click here to read a statement from the hospital -- AMES ALEXANDER AND APRIL BETHEA
Friday, June 10, 2011
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Personally, I think we need CHS more than we need Harry Jones...can't we just throw him to the curb instead?
Anyone that works in healthcare can attest that there is ALWAYS a shortage of psychiatric beds. People that would do better to have inpatient psych care are sent home and into the community (with fingers crossed), because of this shortage. I
Of course there is a shortage of psych beds! This fact does not give CMS the right to steal from the taxpayers!
It won't work in actual fact, that is exactly what I suppose.
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