Photo 1 (VI Territorial Board Meeting 10-27-14):

Officials of the Virgin Islands Territorial Hospital Board

convene at the Roy Lester Schneider Regional Hospital
and Medical Center on St. Thomas. Pictured below, JFL
CEO Dr. Kendall Griffith (third from right) provides a
summary of the hospital reform efforts underway.


October 28, 2014--14

VI TERRITORIAL HOSPITAL BOARD MEETING
PROVIDES PLATFORM TO DISCUSS REFORM
EFFORTS AT JFL

On Monday, officials of the Virgin Islands' Territorial
Hospital Board convened a meeting at the Roy Lester
Schneider Regional Medical Center on St. Thomas. Board
discussion focused on JFL's progress in its reform efforts
to meet the requirements of the Medicare Hospital
Conditions of Participation according to the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Officials also
discussed the status of Hospital operations at Schneider
Hospital and other matters.

After Board officials concluded a closed-door Executive
Session, the Chairmans report for the St. Croix District
Governing Board was presented by Dr. Anthony Ricketts.

During the meeting, JFL CEO Dr. Kendall Griffith
described the Hospital's collaborative community efforts
underway relative to Ebola preparedness, in cooperation
with the VI Department of Health and other stakeholders.
He also discussed the Hospital's financial picture.

Griffith stated, "Over the past few months, we have
been making changes at JFL, and any change--any
revolution--takes time and sometimes entails making
unpopular decisions in order to move forward. Every day,
JFL continues to make substantive progress, and I am
very confident in our ability to provide the necessary
improvements to ensure a sustainability of quality patient
care focused on healthy outcomes and toward ensuring a
coordinated healthcare delivery system for all JFL
patients."

Through various tools and procedural reforms hospital-
wide, Juan Luis is encouraging Hospital staff to team with
their peers and others toward providing sustainable, value-
based, patient-centered, and coordinated health care
services.

"Our goals include increased oversight and
accountability in all Hospital departments, improving
clinical outcomes, increasing revenues, achieving cost
savings, and implementing other best practices and reform
measures in compliance with CMS' Conditions of
Participation," Griffith said.

The Hospital CEO indicated to Board officials that he
welcomes CMS' re-survey in approximately nine months,
after the Hospital's Systems Improvement Agreement with
CMS has been fully executed.

Griffith also summarized recent community
engagement activities with the Hospital's Patient Family
Council, the St. Croix Board of Realtors and the Seventh
Day Adventist Church -- partnerships which enabled
successful fundraising in support of the hospital's Neonatal
Unit, pediatric echocardiograph equipment upgrades, and
supplies for its Blood Bank. "We are looking at all avenues
for community partnership toward coalescing support,
including donations."

Schneider CEO Dr. Bernard Wheatley provided a
summary relative to the Hospital's Ebola readiness and
Hospital finances, including recent cost reduction
measures.

Other items on Monday's agenda included Hospital
CFO reports from JFL's Assistant CFO Michael Younger
and Schneider's CFO Fred Vitello. Board officials also
discussed JFL signing a Memorandum of Understanding
with the University of the Virgin Islands to build a state-of-
the-art Medical School on St. Croix. A similar Medical
School will be developed on St. Thomas, in conjunction
with Schneider Regional Medical Center.

Attendees of the Territorial Hospital Board meeting
included: Territorial Board Chairperson and VI Department
of Property and Procurement Commissioner Lynn Millin
Maduro; St. Thomas-St. John District Governing Board
Chairman and International Capital and Management
Company President Cornel Williams; St. Croix District
Governing Board Chairman Dr. Anthony Ricketts;
Territorial Board Member and St. Croix District Governing
Board Treasurer Phillip Arcidi; JFL CEO Dr. Kendall
Griffith; SRMC CEO Dr. Bernard Wheatley; JFL Assistant
CFO Michael Younger; SRMC CFO Fred Vitello; Territorial
Board Secretary Maria Hodge; Territorial Board Member
and VI Department of Finance Commissioner and PFA
Director Angel Dawson; Territorial Board Member and
OMB Director Deborah Gottlieb; Territorial Board Member
and Physician's representative for the St .Thomas-St.John
District Governing Board Dr. Wilber Callendar; Territorial
Board Member Taetia Phillips-Dorsett; JFL Executive
Assistant to the CEO Keith James; JFL Executive
Assistant to the St. Croix District Governing Board Helen
Danielson and other staff.

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