Beginning just before the September 26 Board meeting, things began to change at Broward Health precipitated by the completely unfounded and unprecedented, personal attack against Commissioner Klein by corporate counsel Lynn Barrett. Change, primarily because Chairperson Klein had the temerity to exercise his oversight responsibilities and question Corporate Counsel Barrett. Barrett, never particularly willing to issue a legal opinion herself, used …
Broward Health Board Begins to Come Together
Wow, September 12th – another full day of meetings at Broward Health. My last article was over a month ago, and since that time there have been two all-day Broward Health Board and committee meeting(September 12th & 26th). I recorded and posted to YouTube both days of meetings. There were some remarkable moments in these recordings but even more remarkable …
Finally, Sunny Days come to Broward Health
Beginning at the Board meeting scheduled for October 31stat 12:30 pm, sunny days will come to Broward Health with live streaming and online archiving of all Board committee and regular Board meetings – or so I have been told. Mind you, I do not have an online link for live streaming, nor do I see any website notice or page …
Broward Health: “Les Jeux sont faits.”
Broward Health: so much to do, so little time to do it. “Les jeux sont faits!”
Broward Health – Vote for anyone but Rick Scott
How do you hold a Board, that is politically appointed by the Governor, accountable? Embarrassment without a credible threat of removal goes just so far for Board members who too often care little for their reputations. Since 2012, I have attended most Broward Health Board meetings, and been writing articles published here and in my blogs www.BrwdHealth.com and DanLewisReport.com. My …
Broward Legal
No longer Broward Health, now it Barrett’s Broward Legal While working on some other Broward Health articles, I awoke to find the following “Broward Legal” ‘contact’ message to me from a former Broward Health physician. I found the message so striking, on point and exactly right that I had to immediately make it into a post. While the contact was …
Broward Health’s Legal Czar Barrett Weaponizing the IRO
Broward Health Board’s failure to provide any effective oversight into the activities of Corporate Counsel’s legal department has allowed Broward Health’s legal czar Barrett to weaponize the IRO process against those she feels are against her in the organization. The cost of Barrett’s misuse of Broward Health’s legal resources is humongous – in the millions of dollars. Details are largely …
Broward Health gives Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) to Executives
The PTO payouts were more than five million dollars ($5,000,000) Last March, Broward Health’s CEO Beverly Capasso and her executive team unilaterally decided to pay off all accrued employee time for tier 1 and tier 2 employees (about 300 managers), eliminate PTO accruals, and institute a policy of unlimited paid time off (as approved by their managers). The payouts were …
Broward Health Marathon 12 Hour Meeting – Many New Revelations.
July 26, 2018 – At Broward Health- 12 Hours of meeting videos. The twelve hour day of non-stop Broward Health Board meetings began with a 9:00 am Finance Committee meeting and ended after 8:30 pm with the Jun/July 2018 combined “Regular” Board Meeting. In between, there was an explosive special workshop on CEO Beverly Capasso’s 50% incentive program (for her …
Three Minute Court Status Conference – Broward Health (Video)
This morning, there was a three-minute status hearing in front of the Honorable Judge Zeller on the trial of the indicted Beverly Capasso – CEO, Lynn Barrett – Corporate Counsel, Commissioner Christopher Ure, and ex-commissioners Rocky Rodriguez and Linda Robison on alleged violations of Florida’s Sunshine Laws. (See numerous past articles for more details) The hearing was continued until September because …