Lawsuit accuses UVA Health leaders of operating a criminal enterprise

Four UVA doctors and two widows take aim at former UVA Health leadership

Former UVA Health System CEO Craig Kent and former UVA medical school dean Dr. Melina Kibbe.

Oddly enough, the best local reporting so far on this lawsuit announcement comes from this Houston Chronicle story about former UVA medical school dean Dr. Melina Kibbe, who took over as president of UTHealth Houston just last month. Kibbe was among the former UVA medical school leaders named in a page-turner of a lawsuit filed last week in a Virginia federal court by four former UVA doctors and the families of two people who died after being treated at UVA.

“This case arises out of a hostile takeover of a revered medical system,” the complaint begins, “ by a cadre of individuals determined to maximize revenues and rankings, thereby inflating their own career prospects and financial gain, through concerted, repeated, and consistent illegal acts.”

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