September 17, 2007 (LPAC)--According to a report of a Sept 17th press conference posted on the Mayor's website, Washington D.C Mayor Adrian Fenty announced that he has agreed to the sale of Greater Southeast Community Hospital, an institution which Lyndon LaRouche had warned during the 2001 mobilization to save D.C General Hospital would also be destroyed as the general welfare of the population was sacrificed to Wall Street promoted "gentrification" of the city. Since LaRouche's warning, Greater Southeast, the only hospital remaining serving the Southeast quadrant of the nation's capital, has been run into the ground by Arizona based Envision Health-care which under a series of names has owned and abused the hospital for decades.

In a series of hearings in the Health Committee of the D.C. City Council from January to June 2007, it emerged that the hospital's emergency services, operating rooms and labor and delivery wards were virtually shut-down, and, that cut-backs in housekeeping and maintenance crews had led to the hospital failing to be maintained in a safe and sanitary condition. Despite these exposes, Envision will walk away leaving the City holding the bag of debt and devastation. Faced with a de facto emergency, the Mayor has agreed to the demands of the new owner, Specialty Hospitals of America, that the District Government must invest heavily in the deal; including a loan of $20 million to help cover the purchase price and daily operations of the Hospital, a government payment of $29 million to cover the Envision generated debt to doctors and vendors and a non-re-payable investment of $30 million in new infrastructure and equipment.