Thursday, December 3, 2009

HUMC Important Links from this Site

HUMC Links on this Site - For your convienience:



One reader asked me to give him/her an easier way to navigate to all the HUMC articles that have been published on my site. Since this is a very important topic I thought it would be good to oblidge. Another way to get that info for other topic in the future would be to use the Google Search option as shown below:


 Located near the top right corner of website

Here are the more important articles on this topic:

HUMC Meeting Highlights - Spiros Hatirus CEO of HUMC on Finances
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

http://thehobokenjournal.blogspot.com/2009/11/humc-meeting-highlights-spiros-hatirus.html

HUMC Meeting 11-24-2009 - More Video (a continucation of the artcile above
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

http://thehobokenjournal.blogspot.com/2009/11/humc-meeting-11-24-2009-more-video.html

Hoboken University Medical Center (HUMC) Presentations Write-up by Adrienne Choma (Reader Mail)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

http://thehobokenjournal.blogspot.com/2009/11/hoboken-university-medical-center-humc.html

HUMC Meeting Tonight at 7PM (has a lot of links and references to set up readers beofre the last HUMC meeting)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

http://thehobokenjournal.blogspot.com/2009/11/humc-meeting-tonight-at-7pm.html

Within the article above are all these different references as well:

Below is a link to a October story in the Hoboken Journal where Dawn Zimmer Releases HUMC 2008 Audit Findings:

http://thehobokenjournal.blogspot.com/2009/10/dawn-zimmer-responds-to-release-of-humc.html

Here are the attachments for that Audit release:

HUMC_grant_cover_memo.pdf
HeatherHowardCommissioner.pdf
LOR_08_Final.pdf
HMHA_full_2008_report.pdf
Full_Synopsis_hoboken_2008.pdf

Below is a story I did with the help of Scott Siegel in May on what appearred to be some Financial gimmickery on the part of the HUMC with respect to the bonding and interest only payments all the way to the year 2027:

http://thehobokenjournal.blogspot.com/2009/05/humc-refinances-bond-interest-only.html

Here is a recent article from Timothy J. Carol of the Hoboken Reporter where he interviews CEO Spiros Hatirus on the Hospitals stituation . "The State has to pay up" - Spiros Hatirus :

http://tinyurl.com/ygekorm

Reader Katie_Scarlett has provided links to documents on each of the Hospital Bonds:

1) $40,465,000 City of Hoboken Guaranteed Hospital Revenue Bonds, Series 2007A (Federally Taxable)(Convertible to Tax-Exempt) and  $11,170,000 City of Hoboken Guaranteed Hospital Revenue Bonds, Series 2007B (Federally Taxable)

First Bond Issue - $52 Million Total

2) Below were short term debt obligations issued in 2008 to the tune of $9,720,000:

Series 2008 - $9,720,000 in total

3) These were issued to pay the above off:

Series 2009 - $9,720,000 in total

4) Supplement explaining the Bond Insurance Ratings Downgrade and the underlying junk bond status of Hoboken:

2009 Supplement and Bond Rating Downgrade

There is more on the HUMC on my site so I encourage you to use the serach term "HUMC" and you will pretty much get most articles I have done on this on the first  few pages of the search. Hope this helps. ◦
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