NEW: Lifespan Officials Say Talks with City will Continue
Friday, February 17, 2012
"We had a very candid and cordial conversation with Mayor Taveras about the needs of the city of Providence," Montella said in a statement. "We share his concerns and are sensitive to the challenges he faces. We also shared with him the challenges facing hospitals in Providence and throughout Rhode Island. We’ve agreed to continue discussions and explore ways that the hospitals might provide help to the city through mission-driven initiatives."
Taveras has called on the seven largest tax-exempt institutions in the city to make an additional $7.1 million in payments to the city. To date, only Johnson & Wales University has agreed to increase its payments.
Convincing the hospitals may be an even tougher sell than the colleges. According to a Lifespan spokeswoman, Rhode Island Hospital provides $79 million in uncompensated care annually -- between charity care and bad debt -- and The Miriam Hospital offers about $17 million.
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paul zecchino
2:57am on Saturday, February 18, 2012
Trust Lifespan not. Our experiences with Lifespan and its partner in crime, Brown University, proved to our satisfaction that its executives will use all necessar means to obtain money.
If that means they will insinuate themselves into families, and thru the peculiar talents of cowardly predators with law degrees such as Girard R. Visconti, unduly influence elderly family members against their spouses and adult offpsring in order to unlawfully divert a Living Trust containing millions of dollars away from rightful holders, so be it.
If that means people who are rightful beneficiaries must be denied routine health care and then when they 'don't die fast enough' become strangely dead before their time, their remains immediately cremated to 'destroy evidence', all so that Lifespan can help itself to millions belonging to the deceased and their offspring, so be it.
If it means attacking innocent family members who question Lifespan and Brown's apparently criminal methods with Judicial Terrorism in craven, feckless, hamfisted attempt to silence and discredit them, so be it.
When comes to matters of appropriation, Lifespan and its corkscrew-tailed partner in crime, Brown University, are like those great Ed Wood films such as Plan 9 From Outer Space and my fave, Night of the Ghouls - nothing you see or hear is believable.
Brown and Lifespan use all necessary means to obtain money.
Johnson and Wales by its actions demonstrated honorable intent. Brown and Lifespan, by comparison, will doubtles yet again gass off in the faces of the citizens they hold in contempt, and then settle into their comfy exec chairs, sip their transfat cheasze 'Lattes', and thumb yet another pile of ill gotten gains taken from Rhode Island families.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
17 February, 2012