GCRMC still going strong!

judith wrote:

when is the next layoff?
when will hospital be sold?
where was the state of NM regulators of hospitals
where was joint commission

Been saying that all along on here!

Land Locked Sailor wrote:

http://www.abqjournal.com/main /2012/07/29/news/untouchable-d oc-at-center-of-malpractice-st orm.html
Very long article...

Why wasn't this in the Alamogordo Daily News?

Please read ALL the of the threads that pertains to
the hospital! Put this in the google search field, "GCRMC site:topix.com"

We have discussed this on here somewhere!

Angel watching over us wrote:

2011 has been a challenging year in the history of our hospital. We appreciate the dedication of our staff and the support from our community. We continue to work hard to enhance our healthcare services. In June we opened a new inpatient rehabilitation unit followed by the new inpatient tower in September 2011. We believe that our hospital has made the necessary decisions to ensure the future of healthcare to the citizens of this community. We have positioned ourselves for a new year that supports our mission “to bring quality healthcare to our patients.” As always, we, the employees of GCRMC, consider it a privilege to care for the families of Alamogordo and Otero County.
Many thanks for your continued dedication to our hospital and community!
Have a great New Year!

So, what do you have to say now?

There will be no "next layoff"! Some had to go, due to the fact of not needing so many people/positions.

GCRMC will not be sold...

Also, you have no clue whats going on at GCRMC! GCRMC is doing good...all lawsuits are being paid off. GCRMC has came thru the crap caused by two doctors.

As far as "Satan" goes...go back to HELL! You are not wanted here! LOL

GCRMC is a great hospital and has some awesome people working for them..GCRMC doesn't deserve the reputation people has given it.

OK now what wrote:

Like I have said here before, "Where in the hell is Angels watching over us?"
Where are you Angels watching over us? Why don't you came back? For a place going strong, why the layoffs and contracting out of two departments?

Contracting out two departments is a wise choice..GCRMC has more that two departments that are contracted out. Those departments are doing great and things have changed for the better. So stop trying to find things to say negative about GCRMC. It does NOT deserve the reputation that people has given it. STOP being a NEGATIVE person.

Are Lawsuits still waiting to be settled?

How did those doctors get approval to do those operations? Who approved them?

Reputations are earned, you are saying the hospital did not commit any of the accusations against them?

Were those 80 lawsuits not valid?

Yes there are some good people at the Hospital, but those are the patients.....

Bro wrote:

Are Lawsuits still waiting to be settled?
How did those doctors get approval to do those operations? Who approved them?
Reputations are earned, you are saying the hospital did not commit any of the accusations against them?
Were those 80 lawsuits not valid?
Yes there are some good people at the Hospital, but those are the patients.....

Reputations are started when someone opens their mouth and says crap thats not true, cause they are pisted off. You or I can't please or make everyone happy..So people runs off at the mouth! Thats how reputations get started...GCRMC does not deserve the reputation that it has! Two Doctors were at the root of all the law suits, not GCRMC itself. One of the doctors were employed by GCRMC, but that doctor was fired when people started to speak up about what was going on...No GCRMC does not stay stuck up doctor's butts to make sure they are not doing anything wrong...As far as good people there at GCRMC, yes I agree the patients are some, but they got some kick butt staff there too. They do take care of their patients...Stop the negative crap! You are probaly one of those who are pisted off cause you got a bill you didn't like or don't agree with... or what ever the reason you are negative about GCRMC...SUCK IT UP Bro! Life is what you make of it...

Bro wrote:

Are Lawsuits still waiting to be settled?
How did those doctors get approval to do those operations? Who approved them?
Reputations are earned, you are saying the hospital did not commit any of the accusations against them?
Were those 80 lawsuits not valid?
Yes there are some good people at the Hospital, but those are the patients.....

Reputations aren't earned; character is
A reputation is what others perceive you to be; character is what you actually are.

Angel watching over us wrote:

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Reputations are started when someone opens their mouth and says crap thats not true, cause they are pisted off. You or I can't please or make everyone happy..So people runs off at the mouth! Thats how reputations get started...GCRMC does not deserve the reputation that it has! Two Doctors were at the root of all the law suits, not GCRMC itself. One of the doctors were employed by GCRMC, but that doctor was fired when people started to speak up about what was going on...No GCRMC does not stay stuck up doctor's butts to make sure they are not doing anything wrong...As far as good people there at GCRMC, yes I agree the patients are some, but they got some kick butt staff there too. They do take care of their patients...Stop the negative crap! You are probaly one of those who are pisted off cause you got a bill you didn't like or don't agree with... or what ever the reason you are negative about GCRMC...SUCK IT UP Bro! Life is what you make of it...

I see you avoided answering any of my questions in post #150..Now why is that....

The Hospital has earned it reputation..Tell me again how those lawsuits, those operations, the pain of those people were not real.

Maybe if the hospital was really checking the qualification od these doctors instead of assisting them aquire false creditentals maybe there would be less lawsuits maybe even none, But 80 lawsuits show there is a adminstrative management isssue that cannot be resolved by a low ball setttlement.

The hospital might still be going, but the 2 years nurses really SUCK!

Bro wrote:

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I see you avoided answering any of my questions in post #150..Now why is that....
The Hospital has earned it reputation..Tell me again how those lawsuits, those operations, the pain of those people were not real.
Maybe if the hospital was really checking the qualification od these doctors instead of assisting them aquire false creditentals maybe there would be less lawsuits maybe even none, But 80 lawsuits show there is a adminstrative management isssue that cannot be resolved by a low ball setttlement.

I did answer your questions moron. Yes of course the pain was real! OMG who said it wasn't? Let's go thru all this step at a time for if you had a brain, it will understand I answered those questions...As far as the reputation goes...please read post #152! As far as the lawsuits goes...GCRMC Adminstration isn't stuck up the doctors butts, so they wouldn't know if they were being good boys and girls...NO ONE can help falsify creditentals. You need to EDUCATION yourself on the matters of GCRMC and what had happened. You need to look up all that at "Albuguerque Journal". Thats where all the lawsuits were handled at, is in Albuquerque and all the results were published in their paper. The lawsuits were not 80!! And it doesn't show a issue with administreative management...it showes there was an issue with the doctor, who didn't have all his information right. So Bro, take your negative crap somewhere else. GCRMC is a good hospital, and has some butt kicking staff, who cares about the patients and our hospital.

I'm using someone else's computer that printed their name they use, and I don't want anyone to think I'm using someone elses name.

Just another opinion wrote:

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I did answer your questions moron. Yes of course the pain was real! OMG who said it wasn't? Let's go thru all this step at a time for if you had a brain, it will understand I answered those questions...As far as the reputation goes...please read post #152! As far as the lawsuits goes...GCRMC Adminstration isn't stuck up the doctors butts, so they wouldn't know if they were being good boys and girls...NO ONE can help falsify creditentals. You need to EDUCATION yourself on the matters of GCRMC and what had happened. You need to look up all that at "Albuguerque Journal". Thats where all the lawsuits were handled at, is in Albuquerque and all the results were published in their paper. The lawsuits were not 80!! And it doesn't show a issue with administreative management...it showes there was an issue with the doctor, who didn't have all his information right. So Bro, take your negative crap somewhere else. GCRMC is a good hospital, and has some butt kicking staff, who cares about the patients and our hospital.

So i guess you will deny any of this article is true and accurate.

According to a former colleague, Schlicht used fraudulent credentials to operate on patients even though he wasn’t a surgeon and injected Plexiglas-like cement into patients’ spines in a procedure that turned out to be neither safe nor effective.

When an operating room nurse at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo reported to a supervisor that Schlicht’s back surgeries had gone too far, she was told “in no uncertain terms … to leave things the way they are.”

And after a health insurance company balked at paying for his procedures and questioned his qualifications, records show, officials at the nonprofit hospital took Schlicht’s side and threatened to sue the insurer.

Two years later, former patients began to file lawsuits contending the spinal procedures left them with debilitating injury and pain. Some have partial paralysis; others have lost bladder and bowel functions, court records allege.

The patient claims, which grew to about 80 over the past year, forced the hospital to seek bankruptcy court protection last summer. Now, a partial settlement in the litigation has been reached totalling more than $33 million.

Maybe you need to reread this article again...
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/07/29/new...

Bryant and Schlicht had talks with the CEO of the hospital to discuss buying injection equipment that the two doctors had designed for the spinal procedure.

And the hospital’s board of directors listened to a presentation about the cement treatment in 2008, he said.

But Schlicht’s training and credentials were called into question in September 2007 by Molina Healthcare, which had reviewed a case involving a patient it insured who reported post-operative loss of motor and sensory functions, immobility and incontinence.

Molina informed Gerald Champion officials that the surgery involved appeared to be outside Schlicht’s scope of practice, according to Bryant’s deposition.

“It appears the operating room did not stop the provider from performing this surgery,” Molina also stated in a letter, which came up during Bryant’s deposition.

Molina concluded that there was a “gross flagrant violation of acceptable medical practice or service standard” and asked for a plan to ensure patient safety.

The hospital administration responded by threatening to start “aggressive legal and regulatory action” against the health insurance company, contending that “Molina appears to have consistently violated Dr. Schlicht’s rights and now has additionally openly damaged the hospital.”

Blowing the whistle

A hospital medical staff officer, whose department is supposed to verify a physician’s credentials, told Bryant “probably sometime in 2008&#8243; that Schlicht was “untouchable.”

“Who told her that?” Bryant was asked at the deposition.

“It came from the administration,” Bryant said, adding that he could tell the medical staff officer was very uncomfortable talking about it.

“It had to do with the type of procedures Dr. Schlicht was involved in,” Bryant stated.

Bryant said an operating room nurse approached him on more than one occasion to report her concerns that Schlicht was performing surgeries he wasn’t authorized to do or shouldn’t have been doing, Bryant said.

The nurse complained to her supervisor, but to no avail, Bryant said.

The nurse “told me that she had in fact reported that to the administration and was told in no uncertain terms … to leave things the way they are.”

Bryant was asked about Schlicht’s operation on one patient in which he went in from the front of the patient’s neck and moved aside the esophagus and trachea to inject the cement into the patient’s spine.

“He definitely had no business doing some of these procedures,” Bryant said.

Highly paid doctor

Bryant said Schlicht told him he left the VA hospital to make more money.

At Gerald Champion, he was one of the highest-paid physicians on staff, earning more than $450,000 in 2007.

His department became one of the busiest at the hospital by September 2007. The volume of procedures performed by Bryant and Schlicht was so large, a second set of spine instruments was requested, Bryant confirmed.

Why Schlicht resigned is still unclear, but Bryant said Schlicht mentioned having a dispute with the hospital over bonus pay.

Yep, it reads like a responsible hospital to me too.

Remember a few rotten apples ruins the pie..So many red flags and the hospital management turns as blind eye..

BarbMoore wrote:

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Reputations aren't earned; character is
A reputation is what others perceive you to be; character is what you actually are.

No one cares about your opinions like this miss know it all/ better than tho attitude. It's off topic as usual.

Bro wrote:

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So i guess you will deny any of this article is true and accurate.
According to a former colleague, Schlicht used fraudulent credentials to operate on patients even though he wasn’t a surgeon and injected Plexiglas-like cement into patients’ spines in a procedure that turned out to be neither safe nor effective.
When an operating room nurse at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo reported to a supervisor that Schlicht’s back surgeries had gone too far, she was told “in no uncertain terms … to leave things the way they are.”
And after a health insurance company balked at paying for his procedures and questioned his qualifications, records show, officials at the nonprofit hospital took Schlicht’s side and threatened to sue the insurer.
Two years later, former patients began to file lawsuits contending the spinal procedures left them with debilitating injury and pain. Some have partial paralysis; others have lost bladder and bowel functions, court records allege.
The patient claims, which grew to about 80 over the past year, forced the hospital to seek bankruptcy court protection last summer. Now, a partial settlement in the litigation has been reached totalling more than $33 million.
Maybe you need to reread this article again...
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/07/29/new...

here say

Angel watching over us wrote:

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Contracting out two departments is a wise choice..GCRMC has more that two departments that are contracted out. Those departments are doing great and things have changed for the better. So stop trying to find things to say negative about GCRMC. It does NOT deserve the reputation that people has given it. STOP being a NEGATIVE person.

Are you talking about the Emergency Room? Are you talking about the E.R. where the wait to get in is now reaching 7 and 8 hours? The ER where the doctor's are giving false diagnoses just to rush patients out? Ok, if you are talking about that ER then YOU need to FACE REALITY and QUIT DREAMING. You obviously haven't had to sit in the ER lobby and wait. Dont give me the crap that it has to be a true emergency either. What is someone from here to do when they are cut by a chainsaw and the ER is the only place they can receive the medical care they need? Your triage sucks too.

Just another opinion wrote:

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I did answer your questions moron. Yes of course the pain was real! OMG who said it wasn't? Let's go thru all this step at a time for if you had a brain, it will understand I answered those questions...As far as the reputation goes...please read post #152! As far as the lawsuits goes...GCRMC Adminstration isn't stuck up the doctors butts, so they wouldn't know if they were being good boys and girls...NO ONE can help falsify creditentals. You need to EDUCATION yourself on the matters of GCRMC and what had happened. You need to look up all that at "Albuguerque Journal". Thats where all the lawsuits were handled at, is in Albuquerque and all the results were published in their paper. The lawsuits were not 80!! And it doesn't show a issue with administreative management...it showes there was an issue with the doctor, who didn't have all his information right. So Bro, take your negative crap somewhere else. GCRMC is a good hospital, and has some butt kicking staff, who cares about the patients and our hospital.

What do you mean "who cares about the patients and our hospital." That makes absolutely no sense. Those patient pay the salaries of the staff that works there and should expect the best care possible. So why dont your take your lying, illiterate butt and "EDUCATION" (sic) yourself about how the community really feels about this hospital. Watch out, it may be a shock to you.

I have not seen the Hospital take responsibility for anything.