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Bill Myers and Michael Neibauer
D.C. begins legal offensive against health care charity
- The District of Columbia opened a two-front war against a health care charity Tuesday that city officials say is raking in the cash while Washingtonians are languishing without insurance.
Report faults contractors paid $7.6M to care for District’s foster children
- Contractors paid millions of dollars to look after D.C.’s foster children aren’t conducting criminal background checks on their staff, ignoring requirements to plan for their wards’ schooling and health care and not keeping track of children wandering in and out of their facilities, a new report has found.
St. Elizabeths avoids legal action
- The federal government will get new authority to regulate D.C.’s troubled mental institution under a settlement that avoids federal litigation over massive problems in the hospital’s billing and accounting departments, The Examiner has learned.
Administrative officer orders fired D.C. welfare officers back to jobs
- An administrative hearing officer has ordered three fired child welfare bureaucrats put back on the job, overturning a decision by Mayor Adrian Fenty who blamed them for failing to help four sisters whose bodies were discovered last month.
- An administrative hearing officer has ordered three fired child welfare bureaucrats put back on the job, overturning a decision by Mayor Adrian Fenty who blamed them for failing to help four sisters whose bodies were discovered last month.