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• Corporation Counsel claims the Master Plan for the DC General site “has no legal effect or significance and that the [City] Council does not have the legal authority to accept, reject or modify that plan,” April 4, 2002
• Colene Daniel becomes Chief Executive Officer of the DC Healthcare Alliance, April 4, 2002
• Office of Planning draft Master Plan for Reservation 13, the DC General Hospital Site, March 31, 2002
• Hospital emergency room closures and diversions increased dramatically after the closure of DC General; chart and graphs from Councilmember David Catania, based on data from the DC Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, March 2002
• United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Memorandum Opinion in Civil Action No. 01-921, Chavous v. District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, et al., August 6, 2001
• City Council Committee on Health and Human Services public hearing on the status of the closure of the Health and Hospital Public Benefit Corporation and transition of services formerly provided at DC General Hospital to Greater Southeast Community Hospital, Friday, June 22, 2001 
  • Testimony of Ivan C.A. Walks, Chief Health Officer and Director, Department of Health
  • Testimony of Ana Raley, Chief Executive Officer, Greater Southeast Community Hospital
  • Testimony of Karen M. Dale, Chief Operating Officer, DC Health Care Alliance
  • Testimony of Vincent A. Keane, Chief Executive Officer, Unity Health Care, Inc.
  • Testimony of Jacqueline D. Bowens, Vice President of Government and Public Affairs, and James Chamberlain, Chair, Emergency Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center
  • Testimony of Robert A. Malson, president, District of Columbia Hospital Association
  • The Coalition to Save DC General Hospital, Morbidity and Mortality Rate Increases because of DC General Closure, as of June 20, 2001
• Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corporation and Hadley Memorial Hospital Tax Abatement Act of 2001, Bill 14-9
• Mayor’s order creating the Health Services Reform Commission and appointing its members, June 7, 2001
• Health Care Transition Alert, June 6, 2001
• District of Columbia Primary Care Association, “Health Justice Alert: The Alliance on a Fast Track,” May 22, 2001
• District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, “New Maternal and Child Health Services Launch District Healthcare Initiative,” press release, May 21, 2001
• Representative David E. Bonior (D-MI), “Keep D.C. General Hospital Open,” May 17, 2001
• Chavous and Catania v. DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corporation I and the District of Columbia, motion for summary judgment filed May 15, 2001
• James L. Thomas, National Black Caucus of State Legislators, letter supporting DC General Hospital to Congressional Black Caucus, May 15, 2001
• Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Memorandum to colleagues undermining advocates of DC General Hospital, May 9, 2001
• DC Republican Committee, “District’s Republican Party Condemns Mayor for Not Respecting Home Rule,” May 1, 2001
• Chavous and Catania v. DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corporation I and the District of Columbia, lawsuit filed April 30, 2001
• DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, Actions regarding the Public Benefit Corporation and DC General Hospital, April 27, 2001
  • Press release
  • Statement by Alice Rivlin
  • Resolution declaring emergency
  • Resolution and order concerning the Public Benefit Corporation
  • DCFRMMA-1, Health Care Privitization Emergency Act of 2001
  • DCFRMMA-2, Health Care Privitization Temporary Act of 2001
  • DCFRMMA-3, Health Care Privitization Amendment Act of 2001
  • Resolution and Order Concerning the Transition to the New Health Care System
  • Restructuring Plan for the Public Benefit Corporation Pursuant to the Requirements of the Human Support Services Title of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2001; December 2000
  • Resolutions, Recommendations and Orders Concerning the Public Benefit Corporation, December 2000
  • Memorandum from Natwar Gandhi, November 14, 2000
  • DC Act 13-454, “District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation Emergency Amendment Act of 2000”
• City Council Committee on Human Services public roundtable on the contract between the Financial Control Authority and Greater Southeast Community Hospital to provide services formally provided by the Public Benefit Corporation, April 27, 2001
  • Testimony of Dorothy Brizill, DC Watch
  • Statement by Councilmember David Catania
  • Testimony of Robert Cosby, Non-Profit Clinic Consortium
  • Statement by Council Chairman Linda Cropp
  • Testimony of Eric Fleming, Mississippi House of Representatives
  • Testimony of Eugene Kinlow, member, DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority
  • Testimony of LaMar Lemmons, including a resolution of the State of Michigan House of Representatives
  • Testimony of Robert Malson, District of Columbia Hospital Association
  • Testimony of Ana Raley, CEO, Greater Southeast Community Hospital and Hadley Community Hospital
  • Testimony of Morris Shearin, Israel Baptist Church
• Pricewaterhouse Coopers, redacted and edited “executive summary of certain information” relating to the contract with the Greater Southeast Community Hospital, done instead of an audit and due diligence report, April 25, 2001
• Mayor Anthony Williams, veto of supplemental budget request for Public Benefit Corporation, April 25, 2001
• Mayor Anthony Williams, letter of transmittal of finalized contract between the Control Board and Greater Southeast Community Hospital, April 23, 2001, along with letter of transmittal of contract from the Control Board to the Mayor, April 18, 2001, and Chief Financial Officer’s certification of available funds, April 17, 2001. 
• Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia (Affiliate of the National Medical Association), Position Statement on DC General Hospital, April 20, 2001
• DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, press release on contract for Health Care Services for Uninsured District Residents, April 18, 2001
• Mayor Anthony A. Williams, Letter to Council Chairman Linda Cropp stating intent to veto appropriation to continue operations at DC General Hospital, April 13, 2001
• DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, agreement with Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corporation I, April 12, 2001
• City Council, comparison of Control Board/Williams plan and Council plan, April 12, 2001
• DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, “Health Services Reform Initiative,” April 11, 2001
• DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, press release on signing health care contract with Greater Southeast Community Healthcare Corporation, April 11, 2001
• Alan Sager, “Threats to Urban Public Hospitals and How to Respond to Them,” March 30, 2001
• DC City Council, Committee on Human Services, public hearing on the proposed FY 2002 budget of the DC Department of Health, March 29, 2001
  • Margaret Barron, Medical Society of the District of Columbia
  • Sharon A. Baskerville, Executive Director, District of Columbia Primary Care Association
  • Robert A. Malson, President, District of Columbia Hospital Association
  • Cynthia Perry, National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, AFSCME, AFL-CIO
  • Ivan C.A. Walks, Director, Department of Health
• District of Columbia Inspector General, Audit of the District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation, March 29, 2001
• Health Care Now Coalition, “DC General Hospital: The Facts,” March 2001
• Mayor Anthony Williams, letter to residents on health plan, March 28, 2001
• Eleanor Holmes Norton, Letter to Alice Rivlin on DC General Hospital, with a response by Mayor Anthony Williams, March 26, 2001
• Letter by seven members of the City Council to Mayor Anthony Williams, asking for an extension of funding to the Public Benefit Corporation, March 23, 2001
• Congressional Briefing sponsored by Congressman John Conyers, “National Public Hospital Safety-Net in Crisis: D.C. General Hospital in Focus,” March 22, 2001
  • M. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States
  • Walter L. Faggett, Vice President, Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia
  • Lynn Fagnani, Vice President, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health System
  • Erik R. Fleming, Member, Mississippi House of Representatives
  • Henry Foster, former Surgeon General of the United States
  • Paul Goldfinger, Cardiology Center of Northwest New Jersey
  • Charlene Gordon, Employee of DC General Hospital
  • Will Horsley, former chief of ophthalmology, Boston Regional Medical Center
  • LaMar Lemmons, State Representative, Michigan
  • Stuart Seides, Medical Society of the District of Columbia
  • Ed Vaughan, former State Representative, Michigan
• Health Care Now Coalition, press release, “Clergy, Health Care and Labor Representatives Urge Rivlin to Back off the Mayor’s Proposal, March 15, 2001
• Council of Churches of Greater Washington, Statement on Washington, DC General Hospital, March 12, 2001
• “Sense of the Council on the District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation (‘PBC’) and D.C. General Hospital Emergency Resolution of 2001,” PR 14-xxx, Passed by a vote of 13-0 on March 6, 2001.
• “Sense of the Council on the District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation and D.C. General Hospital Declaration Resolution of 2001,” PR 14-55, Passed by a vote of 13-0 on March 6, 2001.
• Councilmember Phil Mendelson, statement on DC General Hospital, March 6, 2001
• Public Benefit Corporation, Urban Health Campus on Capitol Hill/PBC2, March 2001
• Public Benefit Corporation 2, A New Beginning: The Urban Health Care Campus on Capitol Hill, March 2001
• Letter from a coalition of ministers, A Moral and Timely Request to Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington, DC, March 5, 2001
• District of Columbia Hospital Association, Statement on the Public Benefit Corporation, March 1, 2001
• Medical Society of the District of Columbia, “MSCD Leads the Fight to Preserve Inpatient Care at DC General,” MSCD Newsline, February 28, 2001.
• District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation, PBC 2: Future Vision, The Urban Health Campus on Capitol Hill, February 22, 2001.
• Councilmember David Catania, The Case Against Contracting with Doctors Community Healthcare Corporation (“DCHC”), February 20, 2001
• “Mayor’s Commitment to a Healthy District of Columbia,” February 20, 2001
• Medical Society of the District of Columbia, Statement by President Stuart F. Seldes in support of DC General Hospital, February 6, 2001
• Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corporation I, “Washington Alliance for Community Healthcare: DC-WACH Program, Volume I: Technical Proposal,” Response to a Request for Proposal DCFRA #00-R-039, January 30, 2001.
• Department of Insurance and Securities Regulation, Report of Examination of the DC Chartered Health Plan, Inc., as of December 31, 1999; December 8, 2000
• The “District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation Emergency Amendment Act of 2000,” DC Act 13-454
• American Medical Association, Resolution 425: “Preservation of the Mission of DC General Hospital and Its Affiliated Community Health Centers,” December 6, 2000
• Control Board’s resolutions and orders concerning the Public Benefit Corporation, December 4, 2000
• Health Care System Development Commission Final Report: “Strategies for Change,” December 2000
• Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi’s memorandum warning of fiscal shortfalls, November 14, 2000
• Councilmembers David Catania, Sandy Allen, and Kevin Chavous, “A Proposal to Develop a Comprehensive Urban Healthcare Campus on the Grounds of DC General Hospital,” November 3, 2000
• Alan Sager, Boston University School of Public Health, “Saving DC General: Why and How,” October 5, 2000
• City Council Committee on Human Services hearing on the District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation, September 18, 2000
  • Ivan C.A. Walks, Chief Health Officer of the District of Columbia; Director, Department of Health
  • Natwar M. Gandhi, Chief Financial Officer
  • Robert A. Malson, President, District of Columbia Hospital Association
  • Alan Sager, Boston University School of Public Health
  • Bailus Walker, Chairman of the Mayor’s Health Policy Council
  • Health Care Now, “A Healthcare Safety Net in Tatters: Hospital Free Care in the District of Columbia," August 2000
  • Sharon Baskerville, Executive Director, DC Primary Care Association
• DC Auditor, District’s Privatization Initiative Flawed by Noncompliance and Poor Management, September 15, 2000
• Fernando Daniels, III, M.D., Emergency Medical Services Bureau, memorandum on District of Columbia Hospital Closure, September 15, 2000
• Mayor Anthony A. Williams, “Health Care Reform in the District: Investing in People,” September 4, 2000
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the health care plan, September 4, 2000
• National Capitol Planning Commission, plans for the DC General land, along with the Waterfront Revitalization Initiative Memorandum of Understanding
• Barbara Ormond, Linda Blumberg, John Holahan, David G. Stevenson, Susan Wallin, and Joshua M. Wiener, Health Care for Low-Income People in the District of Columbia. Washington, DC: Urban Institute, May 13, 1999.