Richard McGarvey
Richard McGarvey
admit department health treat work
From a health department standpoint, it's closed. They can't admit patients. They can't treat patients. They can't do hospital-type work there.
certain likely medicine
We just know they are more likely to take certain medicine from home.
cited correction plan problems report
We feel the problems that were cited in the report have been corrected. We feel their plan of correction is acceptable.
care errors
We didn't find any problems. We didn't find any errors in care administered.
decided dispensed handle increasing information knew needed schools types
We knew that types of medications being dispensed in schools were increasing and we had no information about them, so we decided we needed to get a handle on what was going on.
figure plan progress saying work
What they're saying makes sense. This is a work in progress. We need to get better than the plan we have and figure out a lot of the details.
height schools screening simply students taking weight
Schools have screened students for height and weight for about 50 years. They're simply taking what they've already been screening for and calculating the BMI.
certainly concerns facility immediate inspection jeopardy license process rarely yes
Rarely does a facility go through a license inspection without any deficiencies. We certainly didn't see any immediate jeopardy to patients. Our concerns were that there are still some things in the process of being corrected. Will we go back in? I can't say yes or no on that. Because there's the possibility the license could be revoked, it's something we take very seriously.
fun pulling
They're more of an inconvenience and they're no fun if you're pulling them off your skin.
ahead
It's something we said we'd do, so we want to go ahead and do it.
deliver flu mark question vaccine whether
That's still the big question mark for the upcoming flu season, whether Chiron will be able to deliver on the vaccine that they were producing.
trying work
It's going to take a combination of all of us. No one person can do everything, or one agency. We're trying to get everyone to work together.
corrected decided previous
Not everything had been corrected from the previous survey. We haven't decided if we're going to revoke the license.
light mild year
It's been a mild season. And it's been a light year nationwide, not just in Pennsylvania.