Archive for the "Tri City Hospital" Category

OCEANSIDE: Tri-City board faces sudden vacancy

would have 60 days to replace board chairwoman Tri-City Medical Center directors have 60 days to decide how to replace board member Dr. Madeline Rodriguez, who abruptly left a heated board meeting Wednesday night and said later she was quitting the panel. Hospital attorney Greg Moser said at 5 p.m. Thursday that he had received [...]

REGION: Tri-City board member could lose nursing license

Hearing for Charlene Ander In an action unrelated to her role as a Tri-City hospital board member, registered nurse Charlene Anderson faces losing her nursing license over allegations that she inappropriately accessed prescription medication when she worked for Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas from 2002 to 2006. Anderson, who was elected to the Tri-City board in [...]

HOSPITALS: Tri-City hit with $130K in late-reporting fines

Tri-City Medical Center faces $129,500 in fines for failing to promptly
report four “adverse events” at the hospital, including a patient death, in 2008
and early 2009, according to state records.

OCEANSIDE: Tri-City, Scripps battle over which court will decide suit

Scripps has case moved to federal court, but Tri-City asks it be shifted back to state

Tri-City’s ’09-10 budget estimates improve

Your email:  OCEANSIDE —- Earlier projections that Tri-City Medical Center could face a $4 million to $6 million loss in the coming budget year have turned around, with executives saying Thursday that they believe the public hospital can turn a very modest profit by June 30, 2010. Tri-City’s governing board held a collegial, relaxed budget [...]

Tri-City earthquake bill clears state Assembly

OCEANSIDE —- Tri-City Medical Center’s efforts to extend the life of its oldest building received a significant boost Wednesday when the California Assembly approved a bill that would give the aging structure an extra seven years to reach earthquake safety compliance. A team of Tri-City executives, led by interim chief executive officer Larry Anderson, made [...]

OCEANSIDE: Civil grand jury raps Tri-City board

OCEANSIDE —- The San Diego County grand jury issued a report Tuesday finding that Tri-City Medical Center’s system of governance may be holding the hospital back and urging Tri-City to seek an independent review that would include exploring other governing options. The report concluded, in part, that Tri-City’s “current model of governance by elected board [...]

HOSPITALS: Tri-City sues Scripps over patient shift

OCEANSIDE —- Tri-City Medical Center sued Scripps Health Inc. on Tuesday, alleging the giant hospital system has illegally poached Tri-City patients and is risking their health by forcing them to go to distant Scripps-run facilities. The suit, which seeks a restraining order, also names Sharp Mission Park Medical Group, a North County medical provider whose [...]

OCEANSIDE: Doctors ask for leadership change at Tri-City

OCEANSIDE —- A dozen doctors stood shoulder-to-shoulder Monday at Tri-City Medical Center and said they will ask the hospital’s publicly elected board to help find a new, less incendiary form of government within the next 90 days. Led by Chief of Staff Dr. Richard Burruss, the physicians said they’ll make a public presentation to the [...]