June 20, 2018 Hagåtña – While Guam Memorial Hospital staff attempt to address multiple facets of the challenges they face some senators were particularly critical but failed to provide solutions. At today’s budget hearing for GMH, Senator Mike San Nicolas berated management officials stating “a ton of employees … get pulled in to save the day.”...

June 20, 2018 Hagåtña — Senators need to stop saying CMS will cut off Guam Memorial Hospital and scaring the people of Guam. They need to stop the politics and help GMH. Chief Financial Officer Benita Manglona noted that they have provided the Legislature with their needs and their solutions. The hospital, for years, has urged senators to help...

June 20, 2018 Hagåtña —Today, as the Guam Memorial Hospital (GMH) appeared before the Legislature for their scheduled budget hearing, and immediately following the hospital's presentation, hospital administrators are still not allowed to refute allegations. Benita Manglona, who is the Chief Financial Officer of GMH, started to discuss allegations...

June 18, 2018 Hagåtña – Tonight's oversight hearing, chaired by Senator Dennis Rodriguez, has put a cloud over the the hardworking Guam Memorial Hospital Authority (GMHA) doctors and medical professionals who have dedicated their professional lives to the hospital. Testimony starting with Dr. Thomas Shieh rebutted and clarified many of the...

June 18, 2018 Hagåtña – At tonight’s oversight hearing for the Guam Memorial Hospital Authority, Dr. Shieh addresses whistleblowing, provides clarity for lawmakers on the hospital’s dire need for funding, and an administrator’s negative take on her reassignment. Dr. Thomas Shieh calls on the media frenzy regarding whistleblowers and goes on...

June 18, 2018 Hagåtña — Instead of helping the island’s only public hospital with a dedicated funding source of about $30 million a year, some senators were open to paying a more costly federal receiver to “fix” the hospital. The question of a federal receiver was raised and Sen. Frank Aguon asked how we could make this happen. Federal receivers...

June 18, 2018 Hagåtña– Whistleblower states longstanding problems at GMHA precede her employment In tonight’s oversight hearing on the Guam Memorial Hospital Authority (GMHA), Dr. Kozue Shimabukuro, a self-proclaimed whistle blower, acknowledges that the issues at the GMHA have long existed before she was hired. “If you have any knowledge of TJC...

June 18, 2018 Hagåtña — The Guam Memorial Hospital oversight hearing has begun as Senators Dennis Rodriguez, Frank Aguon, and Mike San Nicolas resume their effort to strip GMH of their dedicated funding source of $30M a year, and DOE of their funding source of $10M a year. Senator Rodriguez, for eight years, has had oversight over the hospital....

June 14, 2018 Hagåtña — Investment grade ratings allows the Port Authority of Guam to improve and expand the Port — at a more affordable interest rate. “The trend for our economy continues in an upward direction; to prepare for this we are laying the foundation — the buildup is at our doorstep and the PAG is just one area that requires...