Richard McGarvey Quotations

What they're saying makes sense. This is a work in progress. We need to get better than the plan we have and figure out a lot of the details.

From a health department standpoint, it's closed. They can't admit patients. They can't treat patients. They can't do hospital-type work there.

We knew that types of medications being dispensed in schools were increasing and we had no information about them, so we decided we needed to get a handle on what was going on.

We didn't find any problems. We didn't find any errors in care administered.

We just know they are more likely to take certain medicine from home.

We feel the problems that were cited in the report have been corrected. We feel their plan of correction is acceptable.

Schools have screened students for height and weight for about 50 years. They're simply taking what they've already been screening for and calculating the BMI.

Rarely does a facility go through a license inspection without any deficiencies. We certainly didn't see any immediate jeopardy to patients. Our concerns were that there are still some things in the process of being corrected. Will we go back in? I can't say yes or no on that. Because there's the possibility the license could be revoked, it's something we take very seriously.

They're more of an inconvenience and they're no fun if you're pulling them off your skin.

It's going to take a combination of all of us. No one person can do everything, or one agency. We're trying to get everyone to work together.

It's been a mild season. And it's been a light year nationwide, not just in Pennsylvania.

That's still the big question mark for the upcoming flu season, whether Chiron will be able to deliver on the vaccine that they were producing.

It's something we said we'd do, so we want to go ahead and do it.

Not everything had been corrected from the previous survey. We haven't decided if we're going to revoke the license.

That means we will keep a closer eye on you.

He also agreed not to work in the emergency medical field in Pennsylvania forever. We also notified surrounding states.

For now, though, we're asking people who aren't in high-risk groups to hold off. And if you are in a high-risk group, talk to your doctor or get to a clinic.