Subject: Jackson Health System

• The City That Sleeps

  September 29, 2006

• Grand Jury Charges 12 With Cheating Housing Program

  February 7, 2008

• The volunteer lobbyist

  May 7, 2008

• Girl Who Suffered From a 12-Pound Facial Tumor Can Smile Again

  September 15, 2008

• Crazy Homeless Guy With A Rock Gets the Drop on Miami PD

  September 22, 2008

• Disappearing Nurses

  August 11, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of September 8, 2005

  September 8, 2005

• Miami Doctors Keep Teen Girl Alive for 118 Days Without a Heart

  University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center doctors announced today that 14-year-old D'Zhana Simmons survived nearly four months without a heart. The girl had a condition that caused her own heart to deteriorate. In July she underwent a heart transplant, but her body quickly rejected the organ. So doctors kept her alive using a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device until she could undergo another transplant. Previously, adults had been kept alive for as long as nine months withou

  November 19, 2008

• Shooting Star

  October 30, 1991

• Attack of the Three-Million-Dollar Tumor Removers

  June 30, 1993

• Hard Drive with ID Data Stolen from Jackson Memorial Hospital

  via CarbonNYC's flickrWhen I'm not writing Riptide, I live a life of crime.* Sorry, I wasn't here a couple of days last week, but I had an art heist to pull off at the Louvre. Anyway, earlier this month, I was hanging out at Jackson Memorial Hospital, as I tend to do, and saw a hard drive and swiped it. My computer is overflowing with MP3s because I've been illegally downloading the music of various WMC artists trying to decide which ones sound like they have the most expensive gear (for me to s

  March 23, 2009

• Real Life 101

  February 14, 2008

• Nastie's Nice

  December 13, 2007

• 117 Dead

  August 16, 2007

• Moldy Christmas

  December 21, 2006

• Go, Shorty!

  December 1, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of August 25, 2005

  August 25, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of August 18, 2005

  August 18, 2005

• Bat Reputation

  July 7, 2005

• Boneyard Boogie

  October 28, 2004

• Doctors and Deadbeats

  December 18, 2003

• A Sweet Suite

  December 11, 2003

• Blood Money

  November 28, 2002

• Picture Old Florida

  June 14, 2001

• Best Burrito

  May 17, 2001

• Don't Tell, Don't Ask

  April 5, 2001

• A Natural Innocence

  November 9, 2000

• Dish

  June 1, 2000

• Best Mile Of Miami

  May 11, 2000

• Letters

  January 7, 1999

• Letters

  October 1, 1998

• The Color of Caring

  August 13, 1998

• Bruce Kaplan's Big Heart

  October 9, 1997

• Incarceration Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

  December 12, 1996

• Labor of Gloves

  October 5, 1994

• Letters

  August 21, 1991

• Jackson Memorial Sued for Shackling Mentally Ill Kids

  Lawyers working for Jackson Memorial Hospital have their hands full. The mammoth, publicly-funded facility has been sued over 160 times in the past five years. But few complaints are as disturbing as the one filed yesterday. It came from Lisa Burton, former director of patient care in the mental health unit. Her claim: Staff frequently shackled mentally ill children without giving them psychiatric assessments. Workers did so because they were understaffed, she says. After she protested to mana

  May 7, 2009

• Bound and Shackled at Jackson Memorial

  May 14, 2009

• Man Fatally Stabbed in Domestic Dispute

  View Larger Map A man was stabbed to death during a domestic dispute that occurred early this morning in Northwest Miami-Dade. The subject is detained by Miami-Dade Police and charges are pending. Detectives are investigating the scene and the relation of the two Latin males, whose names have not yet been released, said police spokeswoman Detective Rebeca Perez.The homicide occurred at 760 Northwest 106th Avenue at approximately 1 a.m.The victim was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Me

  June 8, 2009

• Piece of Mind

  June 18, 2009

• CNN Profiles Miami's "Kool-Aid Kids," Children Born with HIV

  Every week at Jackson Memorial Hospital, teens and young adults who were either born with HIV or infected at a young age meet. They call themselves the Kool-Aid Kids. They've defied the odds and lived to a time when HIV is a manageable, albeit chronic, disease. CNN recently profiled them, and today they're a hopeful group. Many of the members are thriving. The treatment of the disease has greatly improved during their lifetime. The number of pills they take each day has dwindled from more tha

  June 23, 2009

• Taxi Driver Shot in Northwest Miami-Dade

  A taxi driver was shot early this morning as he was working near NW 91st Street and Seventh Avenue.Jacques Milien, 64, was shot multiple times after what appeared to be an armed robbery at 6:15 a.m., Miami-Dade Police spokeswoman Det. Rebeca Perez said. He is in stable condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center.According to a report from the Miami Herald, Milien was shot in the head by a boarding passenger. The attacker, whom police have identified as a thin, young man, fle

  June 24, 2009

• Anet's Baked Goods Sells Colombian Antojitos in Miami

  Jacob KatelArepa De Carne. Anet's Baked Goods is a Colombian antojitos specialist owned and operated by Anet Marin. He says "I sell baked goods," but he doesn't cook them, he's got people to do that for him. The goods come from Los Tres Monitos, a restaurant in Hialeah. Anet started supplementing his income by selling Colombian baked goods about 3 years ago by selling every other Saturday at the Aventura Mall Farmer's Market. About two weeks ago he expanded to the Thursday market at Jackson Memo

  July 3, 2009

• Airport Shuttle Passenger Dies After Crash with Police Cruiser

  An airport shuttle collided with a Sunny Isles Beach Police car, killing a shuttle passenger early this morning in Miami Beach, police said.via CBS4.comTo view a CBS4 report of the fatal traffic accident, click here.The intersection of 71st Street and Abbott Avenue was closed from the time of the crash at 3:50 a.m. until rescue crews cleared up the wreckage at 10 a.m, the Miami Herald reported.En route to Miami International Airport, the SuperShuttle van was on 71st Street, and the police crui

  July 21, 2009

• Couple Learns About Miami Psych Units the Hard Way

  Having no health insurance sucks. Just ask Cecil Gamarra. Three years ago, the soft-spoken 42-year-old noticed his young Haitian wife beginning to change. She stopped sleeping and would vanish for days at a time. Sometimes she'd mutter things about people who didn't exist -- and places she'd never visited. Doctors soon diagnosed her with mental illness. She was prone to paranoid delusions and severe depression, they told Gamarra. "I think she felt isolated," he says, trying to understand. "She'

  July 21, 2009

• Murder Miami Style: Maybe the NE Second Avenue Shooting Wasn't Just a Random Crime

  Gregory Poux was killed around the corner from New Times at the Windwood car wash on Northeast Second Avenue last night. The 34 year old who lived up the street in Little Haiti was shot multiple times, then died at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The Herald and cops portrayed the death as tragic. He cared for his handicapped mom. His son misses him. Now we don't mean to be insensitive. Maybe it was just a  random crime, and he was just a victim. But two things point to the fact that it might hav

  July 23, 2009

• Who Needs To Chase Ambulances When There's Always Crooked Hospital Workers?

  Sometimes you just want to make a Simpsons reference. ​Personal-injury lawyer seem to be some of the more blatant legal practioniers when it comes to soliciting clients. Apparently one doesn't mind breaking the law and invading hospital patient's privacy with the help of paid-off hospital workers and a shady middle man. The Feds sangged Ruben Rodriguez, 61, today for conspiring to sell medical records. Rodriguez allegedly acted as a middle man, and paid Rebecca Garcia, 47, an ultrasound&n

  July 31, 2009

• Woman Who Set Herself on Fire Isn't Exactly the Sanest Person

  ​Regarding the woman who set herself on fire yesterday at the Mall of the Americas, this isn't exactly surprising: The woman's husband said she had been to Jackson Memorial Hospital three times recently for psychiatric help and has a history of mental problems, according to Miami Herald news partner WFOR-CBS 4.Her daughter worked at the boutique where she set herself on fire. She left two dozen roses on the counter before torching herself. She also has 4-year-old daughter.[Herald: Woman w

  August 14, 2009

• Jailhouse Knocks

  November 12, 2009

• Murder Miami Style: Two Dead in Separate Shootings Across Town This Morning

  View Larger MapIn a bizarre coincidence, two men died and another clings to life this morning after separate shootings 15 miles apart at virtually the same time. The deadly hour was 6:30 a.m. One shooting left 43-year-old Conrado Antigua Gallardo dead on the street at 1550 SW 131st Ct.. in Tamiami. Another hail of bullets, at the same moment, felled two unidentified men in a white SUV downtown, near NE First Avenue and Tenth Street.Gallardo and another Hispanic man were heard arguing loudly in f

  November 20, 2009