D.C.’s public hospital gets a new operator, as CFO says it is “functionally” bankrupt

The board of the District's troubled public hospital voted Friday to hire a national business consulting firm to help rescue the facility from organizational and financial turmoil, setting the stage for new leadership at a hospital plagued by allegations of mismanagement and questions about patient safety.

Mazars USA, an accounting and financial consulting firm that is headquartered in New York and has offices in nine states, is the board's unanimous choice to run United Medical Center in Southeast Washington. If approved by the D.C. council, Mazars would take the reins from Veritas of Washington, whose contract the council terminated in November.