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Article: Hospital sick from financial malpractice
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2000
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Hospital sick from financial malpractice
Northwest General suffered as $6 million in bills went unmailed
By JOE MANNING
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Monday, July 24, 2000
A small northwest-side hospital is on the brink of financial
collapse, in part because about $6 million worth of bills that should
have been mailed were instead stuffed into boxes and forgotten.
Officials at Northwest General Hospital, 5310 W. Capitol Drive,
can't explain the misplaced bills, which were discovered months ago
when the finance office was moved. They still haven't been submitted
for payment. Current executives blame it on constant turnover of
staff and management.
"There is no institutional memory here as to ...