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   DA: Criminal investigation launched against Singing River Health System   
      
   WLOX Staff   
   Jan 21, 2015 08:20 PM   
      
   JACKSON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - Assistant District Attorney Cherie Wade confirms   
   to WLOX News the Singing River Health System is under a criminal investigation.   
      
   She said the district attorney's office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation   
   and the state auditor's office are all involved in the investigation.   
      
   SRHS has been under constant fire since it was made public that the health   
   system stopped paying into its retirees' pension fund in 2009.   
      
   "I am glad we have the appropriate agencies involved to make sure our hospital   
   and county resolve this matter appropriately," said Jackson County Supervisor   
   Troy Ross. "Everyone can be assured this will be resolved."    
      
   SRHS spokesman Richard Lucas sent out this press release in response to the   
   investigation:   
      
   Singing River Health System has been cooperating and will continue to fully   
   cooperate with any and all reviews and investigations by any governmental   
   entity. We are presently doing so with the State Auditor's Office, the Jackson   
   County Board of    
   Supervisors, and now the District Attorney's Office. We have been and will   
   continue to be completely open and transparent with all reviews and   
   investigations of this or any nature. We are diligently providing all the   
   information requested by these    
   entities, and will continue to do so. If there is any evidence of wrong doing,   
   we want it brought out and handled as quickly and appropriately as possible.   
   The quality of health care provided by the employees and physicians of Singing   
   River Health System    
   remains unchanged.   
      
   Aside from this criminal investigation, several civil suits have been filed   
   against the health system to try to recover money lost in its pension fund and   
   financial shortfalls.   
      
   Wade said details of this investigation are limited because the case is   
   ongoing.   
      
      
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