{"id":4353,"date":"2012-03-01T08:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T08:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2012-03-01T08:15:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T08:15:55","slug":"babauta-explores-doi-funding-for-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/babauta-explores-doi-funding-for-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Babauta explores DOI funding for hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Moneth Deposa<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Juan N. Babauta, chief executive officer of the cash-strapped Commonwealth Healthcare Corp., is currently off-island not only to participate in a conference but to \u201ctouch base\u201d with representatives of the U.S. Department of the Interior and Medicare in a bid to tap more federal resources that will help shore up the struggling Commonwealth Health Center.<\/p>\n<p>Alvaro Santos, the corporation&#8217;s chief financial and administrative officer, disclosed this to the Saipan Tribune, adding that he is confident in Babauta&#8217;s ability to communicate the dire straits of the hospital to federal officials and representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta flew to San Francisco for a weeklong conference that will be attended by representatives of Region 9, which covers states like Arizona, Hawaii, and the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta, Santos said, will take the opportunity to meet with specific federal representatives of Medicare and Interior to explain the situation of the corporation, which badly needs help to survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know for a fact that some initial discussions have begun with the Interior and the CEO wants to make a follow-up. He will also meet with Medicare people to see if there are additional resources that can be extended to the CNMI,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Santos said that, although the expected approval of legislation will give the corporation a standby line of credit with the Marianas Public Land Trust, this is not enough to address all the immediate needs of organization.<\/p>\n<p>Santos pointed out that without additional resources and despite a financial management system in place, the agency&#8217;s operation and survival will remain critical. The corporation was only allocated $5 million in seed capital for this fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moneth Deposa Reporter Juan N. Babauta, chief executive officer of the cash-strapped Commonwealth Healthcare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}