Lynn Olson Quotations

We did receive a notice yesterday ... terminating our involvement in the program, a notice of intent to terminate our involvement in Medicare, which of course is of concern to us,

I found out this morning at 7:45 when I was called,

You'll find some heartening and some sobering conclusions.

We felt we discharged this patient in a stable condition, and a surveyor, reviewer, thought differently,

We're going to try to work this out; it is new territory for us, but right now we want to ensure people we are going to be in business and taking care of them,

Despite those solid gains, improvement haven't come as far and fast as we would have liked, and the achievement gains remains disturbing.

This is an extreme action based on a case that was not even identified in their original complaint,

assessed, evaluated, treated, had a plan for follow-up care that was discussed between the physician, the nurse, the patient and the family, and was discharged appropriately.

Then, when they re-surveyed in July, they came up with a new case unrelated to the investigation and that's what they based this decision on,

They just feel that we discharged someone in an unstable condition. And we dispute that because this was an ER doctor decision,