Henrico Schools seeks big boost in funding for AC and roofing repairs • Henrico hospital failed to stabilize Irvo Otieno’s crisis, report says
Henrico Newsflash – Dec. 19, 2023
Henrico Schools seeks big boost in funding for AC and roofing repairs
The Henrico School Board last week formally requested an additional $9 million in funding from the Henrico Board of Supervisors – money that it would use to replace aging air conditioning units and roofs at public schools.
At a Dec. 14 meeting, the school board passed the division’s capital improvement plan for fiscal year 2024-2025, which requests that the board of supervisors allocate $21 million to Henrico Schools for building maintenance – a $9 million increase from what was allocated in the current fiscal year. Click here to read more
Henrico hospital failed to stabilize Irvo Otieno’s crisis, report says. Then he died.
HCA Healthcare’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, the hospital where 28-year-old Irvo Otieno was first taken while he was in a mental health crisis days before his death, failed to give Otieno the emergency treatment he needed, according to an investigative report obtained by CBS 6.
In response to a complaint about how the hospital handled Otieno, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requested that the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) complete an investigation into whether the facility followed federal regulations. Click here to read more
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Henrico News Minute – Dec. 19, 2023
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