What that settlement is remains unknown. Here is the latest entry on the court docket, dated June 3, 2014.
ORDER: The court has been notified that this case has settled. It is hereby ORDERED that a stipulation of dismissal or other settlement document shall be filed within thirty (30) days of the entry of this Order.
The preliminary injunction hearing set for June 5, 2014, and the initial case management conference set for June 6, 2011, are CANCELLED.
Update: 10-24-2013 10:58AM
On October 9, 2013 the so-called “new company” who owns and operates all the Small Smiles Dental Centers that have managed to remain open denounced its association with the so-called former owners and management company. (see statement below)
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In making this claim, they must also be taking full responsibility for any and all illegal activities and/or malpractice issues that could arise in the future, right? As the below email suggests, those will be coming.
Hi - I have kept up with your site for a while now because honestly it was the only way to find out the "real" news on Small Smiles. I am former employee of Small Smiles in South Carolina. When I took the position I had NO clue what I was getting into. I resigned from my position due to the horrible reputation Small Smiles has and it was mentally exhausting to even go to work.
Sorry, there is no mistake or confusion. It's the one and the same. Creative financing and a few (very few) corporate heads rolling does not a completely different company make. Good try.
I suspect in the future we will see New FORBA and NEW NEW FORBA side by side in court just as we have Old FORBA and New FORBA today.
A dead fish by any other name still stinks.
PS. there is issue with jury being "stalked" so verdict is not set in stone.
December 11, 2012
On Tuesday, December 11, 2012, The Today Show aired an investigative report about the on going troubles at the Small Smiles Dental Centers. Interviews included one with Health and Human Services (HHS) officials in charge of overseeing the compliance of the notoriously troubled clinics.
If you’ve not seen the report, please take time to do that here.
The segment included an interview with a HHS-OIG Branch spokesperson. However, if not for the HHS-OIG seal displayed one would presume it came out of the the PR department at CSHM headquarters.
NBS News Senior Investigative Correspondent, Lisa Myers asks HHS-OIG spokesperson, “They’ve had 4 bites at the apple, when is enough, enough?”
HHS-OIG responded with this check list:
1. “Dentists have been fired” – Well, dentists are fired there every day!! They are fired every day because they don’t meet the production numbers set by the corporate office. Their turn over had been setting at 48% since the beginning!
What about the Chief Dental Officer – Steven Adair, DDS? He actually got a promotion. Dr. Adair is the author of the news letter for CSHM in which he suggests instead of the papoose board, try the “superman cape” method.
What is the Superman Cape Technique? Here, read this!
Compliance officers? – Yes, a few. They have burned through 3 in 2.5 years. CSHM will not hesitate to been throw one under the bus, blaming them for falsified reports to the OIG.
2. “Clinics have been closed” – Yes, they have filed bankruptcy! The started closing clinics in early 2011! HHS only forced 1 clinic in actually close – Manassas Virginia.
3. “This is not the same company” – True, it simply filed for bankruptcy, reorganized with some of the same investors in the background, and changed it’s name, replaced the CEO and President. But that was in 2011!
3. “The Independent Monitor is telling us that Quality of Care is consistently improving” – The same independent monitor in place for 3 years! The one CSHM pays. The one whose head dental investigator is buddies with the company’s Chief Dental Officer. So exactly when did that “improvement” begin? June of 2012? Certainly not in April 2012? The new people in charge actually stepped in October 2011. It just wasn’t on paper with the bankruptcy court until June 2012.
The company has been in the news, how many times since 2007?
Countless!!!
Going over Waller’s timesheets, it appears sumpin’ BIG happened at the Indy 1 Small Smiles in April 2012. I believe there are a lot of “adverse events” attributed to the Indy1 clinic, but this was clearly bigger than they could handle in house, even with Sheila Sawyer overseeing things.
Indy1 is:
Small Smiles Dental Center
5430 E Washington Street
Indianapolis, IN 46219
317-322-1840
Fake owner - Helen Katherine Peterson, DDS
Wondering who is deciding the dental treatment, deciding what supplies can be ordered and how much the dentists can spend as well as setting the daily quotas for Small Smiles Dental Centers? As of of 6-1-2012 that would the the following people.
| David R. Wilson – (Officer) Chairman, President, and CEO 415 Church Street, Suite 2004 Nashville, TN 37219 david.willson13@comcast.net | |
| Ghassen (Gus) Souri, DDS - Chief Dental Officer 665 Easton Lane Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 gsouri@cshm.com | |
| Steven M. Looney 111 John Street, Suite 1510 New York, New York 10038 | Peale Davies |
| Terrence L. Moore, MD 55 Rock Rimmon Drive Stanford, CT 06903 | MD at Garrison Investment Group – formerly at CIT Group |
| Brad Gardner (Officer)SVP/CFO 618 Church Street, Suite 520 Nashville, TN 37219 | |
Missing in Action is Linda Zoeller’s name on this filing, seems weird not seeing it slapped on the document somewhere… lol
