Responsibility is not selective. Making claims invites scrutiny. When those claims are misleading, being called out is not a personal attack. It is accountability, closely related to responsibility. Having a lobbyist come to your defense will not provide succor. Nor, apparently, will relying on Chris Stolle’s fidelity."He is responsible for the quality of patient care and patient safety at Riverside Regional Medical Center. Dr. Stolle continues as a practicing physician, seeing patients two days a week." from Stolle's website
From the report on the hospital:That report is from the Department's certification of the hospital. The hospital was certified with discrepancies such as this. Then there are the lawsuits. More information to follow over the next few days: like the horrible infant mortality rate there. But, what we should understand is that these certifications are not unlike Heath Department inspections of restaurants. If you read the details, you find that the establishments, hospitals and restaurants, can pass with some very unnerving failures. You can only imagine the inspections of hospital restaurants.
"PATIENT RIGHTS: INFORMED CONSENT
This STANDARD is not met as evidenced by: …the facility failed to ensure that one patient or the patient representative (PR) were consistently kept informed on changing medical prognosis and interventions. They failed to provide explanations of process and care that the patient or PR could understand…
…Physicians did not share with them that 'the patient was dying…they thought he was improving..." Department of Health and Human Services report
The newest TV ad for Delegate Joe Bouchard challenges Chris Stolle's record. There has been discussion within his own party since Stolle announced the first time in 2007 that he would run for delegate that cast a pall over his claims regarding his business and his work at the hospital where he was and is employed. But he has never shied away from using the bona fides of being a physician and an executive to bolster his argument that he is well qualified to represent his district and the health care industry. To this end, he has presented a record of competence and accomplishment unsupported by the record. It’s become his recurring claim that he would offer the House of Delegates a unique resource as the only member who is a physician. And at this time, with so much debate about health care, that could be a solid argument if he were to show a substantive record as an innovator or even manager who implemented policy that improved and delivered consistent, quality patient care; that appropriate sanction was taken against the health care providers who committed these lapses. That is simply not the case. And, like his boast that "as a businessman" he knows how to bring over 28,000 jobs to the area, unsupported by his record in the business that his sister started, the campaign is obfuscating.
The local press is unhappy that Delegate Bouchard's campaign will not press the case in their media; it shows in the reports about these facts. Stolle's campaign has cried foul and cites the press's dissatisfaction with the ad as a proof source and points out that his hospital is, after all, certified. So now the crew that decries the MSM as the pawn of liberal elites and the government as incapable of executing any responsibility is suddenly citing both as solid sources of judgment.
And the source of Stolle's defense cited elsewhere in this media is a lobbyist. There's an unbiased source of vindication. In the reaction to the ad, the campaign has failed to provide a reconciliation of the record. Instead, it has cried that this is a personal attack. So, no amelioration? And now Riverside Hospital, whose motivation for hiring a State Senator's brother might be called into question, has got to be reconsidering that stroke of genius.
