On March 29, the El Paso Children’s Hospital Foundation announced it had received a $250,000 donation from Cesar Ornelas Injury Law, a law firm with offices in several cities in Texas. According to the Foundation, the donation was made on March 20. The El Paso Children’s Hospital renamed its emergency room after Ornelas because of […]
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El Paso Children’s Hospital Foundation Accepted Stolen Money Donation
This article was corrected on December 16, 2021 at 6:00am ET. The date of the donation to the El Paso Children’s Hospital Foundation was on November 20, 2020, not November 20, 2021 as originally reported. In October of this year, Abner Alejandro Tinoco was accused of running a Ponzi scheme based out of El Paso. […]
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The Two Sides Of The El Paso Children’s Hospital
In recent court filings, the El Paso Children’s Hospital is arguing both that it is a public entity immune from lawsuits but also not a public entity subject to open records requests. In the Hensley malpractice case, the plaintiffs have alleged that the negligence of doctors Steven Ross and Rodolfo Fierro-Stevens caused a “suspected” stroke […]
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Cindy Stout Sent Email Acknowledging Conspiracy To Remove Board Member
When the El Paso Children’s Hospital emerged from bankruptcy under the full control of the University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC), one of the first actions UMC needed to complete to take control of the children’s hospital was to replace the children’s hospital board. On January 2016, UMC appointed Ron Acton, Miguel Fernandez, Patrick […]
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Court Of Appeals Scheduled To Hear Arguments Over Children’s Evidence Hiding
On Thursday morning, the Texas Eighth District Court of Appeals will be holding oral arguments over evidence that the El Paso Children’s Hospital is trying to keep from the public. As we reported back on January 27, 2022, the El Paso Children’s Hospital successfully convinced Judge Selena Solis to seal a court document in a […]
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Former UMC Bond Advocate Now Says Hospital Failing Patients After Recent Experience
On November 18, 2022, Crystal Veronica Lerma, whose child is facing a serious brain health crisis, published a Facebook live stream discussing how El Paso Children’s Hospital is forcing her to go out of town to care for her child because the hospital is “failing” her child. The Facebook video was forwarded to El Paso […]
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Special Report: El Paso Children’s Hospital Argues It Is Not Accountable to El Paso
The El Paso Children’s Hospital is arguing that it is not subject to the Texas Public Information Act. El Paso Children’s Hospital is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. As a nonprofit, it argues that it is not a “governmental body” subject to the Texas Public Information Act. However, we disagree. Here is why. The Attorney General Opinion […]
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UMC And The Issue of Transparency
By now most readers are aware of the pending $345 million of non-voter approved bonds that the University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC) asked for last week at county commissioners court. As David Gonzalez of KVIA reported on June 15, 2022 the issue is not just about the amount of taxpayer funds, but on […]
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Week In Review For January 20, 2023
Welcome to this edition of the El Paso News Week in Review for the week of January 20, 2023. In this week we look at who was behind secretive mailers on the November elections. We look at the latest on the case against Patrick Woods Crusius, the death of El Paso Police Chief and a […]
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The El Paso Children’s Hospital Financial House of Cards
El Paso Children’s Hospital has a very troublesome history in El Paso. El Paso deserves a children’s hospital. But at what expense? Having a children’s hospital is not the remedy because ultimately the job of a children’s hospital is to cure the children and not to hurt them more by medical failures or the quest […]
