florida: scott kills tuition hikes, but he signs bill to shut lantana tb hospital

CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update FLORIDA: Scott Kills Tuition Hikes, But He Signs Bill to Shut Lantana TB Hospital John Kennedy
May 1, 2012

Palm Beach Post (04.28.12) - Tuesday, May 01, 2012 Among other actions Friday, Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill that reorganizes the state Department of Health and closes Lantana's A.G. Holley Hospital. The state's last TB hospital serves three-dozen critically ill patients at a cost of $10 million a year, lawmakers said. In testimony to a House committee, Dr. Paul Arons, former director of Florida's HIV/AIDS program, said Holley "treats the hardest of the hard patients," including about 40 percent who are co-infected with TB and HIV. Lantana officials have plans to convert Holley's 144-acre campus to a corporate site. In 2008, lawmakers tasked DOH with finding a new way to treat TB patients while outsourcing their management to a private vendor, but none came forward. In 2010, lawmakers told DOH to craft a plan to identify community hospitals willing to take Holley's patients, but that approach was never implemented. The measure Scott signed calls for state health officials to present a plan next month to transfer Holley's patients to community hospitals. Holley is set to close in January.

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