Mismanaged Care
A unique confluence of medicine, money, and politics is driving health care costs in the Rio Grande Valley. At the center of it all is a Democrat from Palmview, who is already under indictment for unreported income.
3 comments
Monday, November 16th, 2009, 11:15 am
Esmer says:
Ms. Hart:
My family has been so impacted by negligence at
Doctors Hospital at Renaissance and if you do your research, local newspapers report so little
negative reports of what is happening there. As a valleyite, we must search for printed articles regarding this hospital’s practices on internet, with sources outside our valley. One former patient we have since become acquainted with shared that she tried to have her negligent case story printed on the local The Monitor, only to have it cut for the positive economic impact on our valley. As far as our case is concerned, over 12 attorneys have shut us down citing the Tort Reform doesnt make it profitable for them on the malpractice suffered by our family member. If Doctors Hospital at Renaissance is so adamant about how sickly this area is, check out their income, personal investments and lifestyle. We heard one doctor had a big party at his home and showed off his third highly expensive car(over $40K-50K)to his guests. The original contractor, part owner, Alonzo Cantu, founded the Lone Star Bank and we’ve heard he offers potential doctors a sweet deal, financining their investment in his hospital("his" because everything revolves, or so we heard, around Mr. Cantu, not the purported physician owners at Doctor’s Hospital nor their board), getting a very low interest rate(when rates were higher),plus dividends. It was an offer doctors couldnt refuse, we heard. Our family has suffered greatly because of their negligence but worse, medical records did not include procedures taken on our family member in my presence (and no one told me about their mistakes, I was PRESENT when the negligence occurred!). So many articles written on the ridiculous Medicare and Medicaid costs in McAllen and yet no one is stopping and investigating. Check out how may times they send patients out to other institutions to die elsewhere and not at their hospital. And why is there such a large shredding company truck several times a week in the back of the hospital??? What are they shredding so much of?
Monday, August 3rd, 2009, 6:22 pm
Brent says:
Ms. Hart,
You got the story right. See the editorial in The Daily Texas for Monday, 8-3-09.
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/opinion/viewpoint-rx-500-000-1.1788492
Monday, August 3rd, 2009, 4:29 pm
David A. Diaz says:
Dear Ms. Hart,
I read your article with great interest.
But as my good friend, Sen. Juan Hinojosa, would always tell me when I was his chief of staff back in the day in the House of Representatives: "Two things..."
1. Kino Flores has said he is innocent of the charges contained in the indictment. I believe as a good journalist, you should run his comments issued to you following the handing down of the indictments. It is only fair, I believe.
2. Please run the letter from Doctors Hospital disputing some of your story’s conclusions. That is the beauty of the Internet – you don’t face any time deadlines or space restrictions.
You hold a lofty position of power as one of two key political writers covering the Texas Legislature. Don’t let your excellent writing skills, which often comes in the form of editorializing, discourage you from censoring the reactions from the people you cover in your story.
As it is, Texas Monthly, for which I have been a longtime subscriber, is still suffering a black eye from its failure to find even ONE Mexican American that was good enough for its Top 10 Legislators list. That was just plain dumb politics for a magazine that should know better.
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