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Kendall Griffith: 'We Are Ready For CMS Survey'

ST. CROIX -- The  Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center's Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Kendall Griffith, told members of the Committee on Finance at the Frits E. Lawaetz Legislative Conference Room on Friday that the hospital was expecting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to perform its unannounced inspection of the facility "any day now," and said that JFL is ready for the surprise visit. The CEO made his remarks during the hospital's fiscal year 2016 budget hearing, where it requested an additional $13.41 million upon the Governor Kenneth Mapp administration's recommended budget of $20.15 million, bringing the government-funded total to $33.6 million. Coupled with the hospital's own expected revenues of $43 million, JFL's FY2016 budget totals $77.53 million. "We are on full alert," Griffith said in regards to CMS. "We are in a state of readiness and we're expecting them any day now. And I have to say that we feel very confident that we are ...