Original sentence: By August, the Department of Health had shut down the ward due to its failure to meet minimum standards.By March 2017, the director of D.Earlier, in July 2017, the hospital allowed a week to pass between the death of a nursing home patient and notification to his family.In 2016, United Medical Center was the sole government-owned hospital in DC.In August, another patient died under questionable circumstances.In March of that year, on the advice of the Director of Health Care Finance, the DC Council awarded the management of UMC to a two-year-old firm named Veritas.In October, the DC Council held hearings on Veritas's tenure, and in November voted narrowly to remove Veritas.In September, the nurses union voted "no confidence" in the hospital's leadership and said that unsafe nurse-patient ratios and a lack of proper equipment were unaddressed.Veritas's management was marked by mismanagement and failures.’s Department of Health was warning the UMC board about serious safety lapses in the hospital's obstetrics unit
Edited sentence: Bowser refused repeated requests to disclose the specific medical lapses.In 2016, the management of United Medical Center, the sole government-owned hospital in DC, was awarded in a no-bid contract to Veritas, a politically connected firm with limited experience in health care management whose principal was a campaign donor and friend.In August 2017, regulators ordered UMC to stop delivering babies after a slew of dangerous mistakes were made leaving the District without an obstetrics ward east of the Anacostia river.In October 2017, the nurses union voted "no confidence" in the hospital's leadership and said that unsafe nurse-patient ratios and a lack of proper equipment were unaddressed.The only obstetrics ward east of the Anacostia river was closed by regulators because it could not meet minimum standards.Under Veritas management there were several cases of preventable patient deaths and negligence.While receiving more than $800,000 monthly to manage the hospital, Veritas failed to improve the quality of care