JCMan8 wrote:
Does anyone know when the council is scheduled to vote on this?

Last I heard, despite Fulop's attempts to rush this vote through, it was being held up because Carepoint's bid might have been illegal.

hamiltonpkmom wrote:
I received a notification that there will be another Q&A meeting with JCMC representative Robert Luckritz this Thursday Nov. 16th:

Heights Hope Neighborhood Association's monthly meeting.
Thursday, November 16th
7:00pm
PS28 Christa McAuliffe School
167 Hancock Avenue

Since Heights residents have the most at stake with CarePoint owned Christ Hospital at their door step, this will be an informative meeting if anyone has any question in regards to the matter. If anyone is interested in finding out more, please attend the meeting.

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K-Lo wrote:
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...Candice said that the OIG review takes a minimum of 60 days but has been known to take up to a full year.

Ms. Coleman -- to borrow a phrase, "radio silence."

Given the state's thorough trashing of McCabe/Carepoint's credibility, I have to wonder how the City Council can accept the recommendation of the selecting committee?

Wow, 60 days to a year. Pitiful response time...

"Radio Silence" from Coleman is normal when there isn't a good photo-op and news media involved. She's about as useful as a screen door on a submarine, IMO.

This place is a mess -- can't get a 2014 budget in place, can't sort out the ambulance contract, taxes going up, tax abatements still being handed out where there is apparently NO need to, high-density housing with height variances being given to properties in CLEARLY flood-prone areas (and no parking spaces for all those units), etc. I'm feeling like the current administration was/is more talk than action and it's pretty discouraging.

K-Lo wrote:
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...Candice said that the OIG review takes a minimum of 60 days but has been known to take up to a full year.

Ms. Coleman -- to borrow a phrase, "radio silence."

Given the state's thorough trashing of McCabe/Carepoint's credibility, I have to wonder how the City Council can accept the recommendation of the selecting committee?

I reached out to our council members as a concerned resident and two of them were kind enough to get back to me with some face time: Councilman Yun and Councilwoman Osborne. The confirmation is that the EMS agenda will not be on Council Meeting on Jan. 15th meeting at City Hall, they don?t know exactly when.

JCMan8 wrote:
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There is only one argument most residents need to be concerned about. The cost of an in network v. out of network ambulance ride. McCabe will almost certainly cost residents FAR more $$$ for the same thing, along with possibly transporting them to Bayonne, the most expensive hospital in the country.

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matt07302 wrote:
Mickey McCabe is continually being used as the face of this deal, but he is not. He is the minority holder at 30% and the real brass behind the deal is CarePoint. We know that they have turned Bayonne into the most expensive hospital in the country and in a move to expand their business model throughout the area they have purchased Christ and Hoboken Hospitals. Events that should cause concern for those that care about quality affordable health services.

I think this denial of application for Managed Care speaks volumes as to who CarePoint is. The NJ Office of the Attorney General didn't just deny CarePoint, they eviscerated them.

July 29, 2013

DMAHS remains Concerned about CerePo?nt?s continuing pattern of misrepresentation to State agencies about its readiness, its competencies, its corporate ownership and its failure to accept responsibility for prior misrepresentations. Given the importance of this contract to thousands of New Jersey's poorest and most vulnerable citizens and the impact on their health care and decisions about their health care, DMAHS cannot currently grant CarePoint a MCO contract.

and it gets better?

As part of its due diligence, MFD investigators performed background checks on all named individuals and corporate entities, disclosed in the application. On the ?Disclosure Statement of Ownership and Control Interest," Sequoia Healthcare Services, LLC (?Sequoia?) is acknowledged as the 100% controlling interest. However, Sequoia is not identified or mentioned in the entire MCO application. Given CarePoint?s corporate structure, including ownership by an entity with only addresses end a name, as well as its improper and omitted identification concerning its chief medical officer, and finally its lack of permanent experienced corporate staff with a solid financial and professional track record, DMAHS cannot reasonably find adequate indicia of the requisite stability for such a high risk contract. Based on MFD?S factual findings, DMAHS believes that CarePoint made misrepresentations about its corporate ownership structure and responsible persons. Sequoia appears to be only an address, or a post office box for a phantom corporate entity. Perhaps a legitimate corporate entity will be established in the near future however, CarePoint's statement that it is 100% owned by Sequoia obscures its current corporate status and misrepresents its readiness to enter into a large scale contract.


link from post #177:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-wndx ... VpCWi1DVEVrQVU/edit?pli=1

JPhurst wrote:
JCMC was last a city entity 25 years ago. It was it's own not-for profit, then it became part of the Liberty Healthcare System which is now part of the St. Barnabas Health Network. Although these are non-profits, they are huge health networks.

There are reasonable arguments for preferring JCMC to the McCabe bid. But the arguments that certain people are making for JCMC are becoming more and more specious.

If all that effort had gone into a better bid....

Yvonne wrote:
While you are trying to justify McCabe, Joshua, remember, the national average for EMSwho treats heart attack patients is 17%, but the JC EMS is 50%. The best should get the contract, a doctor or EMS worker should have evaluated the contract.

JPhurst wrote:
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FunInWardF wrote:


Here is the letter Mickey McCabe wrote re: decision not to attend the Q&A. It infuriates me that he keeps trying to spin the story and suggest McCabe is the locally owned option, as if the Barnabas Health System is based out of Western Asia and not West Orange. He doesn't even own the ambulance company that bears his name anymore.

So would you agree that the constant "out of towner" accusations thrown at McCabe are improper?