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I was sad to see the hospital has lost its Medicare/Medicaid certification. Seems like that will be a horrible blow to the Island's wellbeing. As a critical care nurse, I was thinking of making the move to STX but now I'm going to have to wait and see where this all ends up. Not sure a move now would be the best idea, especially since JFL would be my only real employment option on STX. I hope they quickly get their act together. Is there any talk of what the plan for the hospital is now???

 
Posted : September 19, 2015 3:11 pm
CruzanIron
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When and where did you get this information? Thanks.

 
Posted : September 19, 2015 4:46 pm
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I suspect she saw this

http://m.virginislandsdailynews.com/news/luis-loses-medicare-accreditation-on-oct-9-1.1756184

Published exactly one year ago.

 
Posted : September 19, 2015 5:01 pm
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please note the sited article is dated 2014.

 
Posted : September 19, 2015 6:14 pm
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I was going to say I thought that was all squared away

 
Posted : September 19, 2015 8:33 pm
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Yes. That was my point.

 
Posted : September 19, 2015 8:44 pm
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They were given an extension some time ago. Not that it will matter much. They will likely lose accreditation shortly.

 
Posted : September 19, 2015 9:05 pm
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I have bee watching this story and haven't heard anything about the survey that was supposed to happen in August. The last article I saw said they were 97% ready for it. I would be very surprised if they loose their certification because the hospital means so much to the Island. Of course I am not an expert and there is also some wishful thinking in there because I am a nurse and want to move to the Islands.

 
Posted : September 20, 2015 8:56 am
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Well like I said I'm no expert. I just found 2 articles that said they did loose their certification in the VI consortium.

 
Posted : September 20, 2015 9:33 am
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Dated when?

 
Posted : September 20, 2015 9:58 am
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I did the same thing the original poster did. If there is any new info please post.

 
Posted : September 20, 2015 11:37 am
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I've not seen anything new. CMS was supposed to do their survey last month. If they did no one is talking.

 
Posted : September 20, 2015 12:33 pm
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This article summarizes the current state of CMS certification at JFL:
http://stcroixsource.com/content/news/local-news/2015/06/05/government-scrambling-rectify-decertification-only-vi-nursing-hom

"The Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital faced similar decertification in 2014, after an inspection unearthed a litany of patient harm incidents. Since then, CMS put JFL on a probationary status and allowed JFL to continue to receive payments in the interim."

 
Posted : September 20, 2015 2:54 pm
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Thank you for the information Alana.

 
Posted : September 26, 2015 4:40 pm
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