Some needed R & R
I'll be taking a hiatus from both the office and the blog for a few days.
I am quite certain this will not be a disappointment to the CEO as the blog has created a little more stress and a lot more accountability for him.
To all the readers, there may be some intermittant postings related to my time off but otherwise I will be relaxing and enjoying some outdoor activities.
Labels: vacation
posted by Anonymous at 12:20 AM
35 Comments:
RE: "The current Chairman is doing an excellent job. This job is a lot more involved than he ever realized when he was appointed. He runs a very good meeting and puts me in my place when necessary."
Just how does the chairman deal with a doctor behaving like a spoiled, demanding child? Does he send you to to "time out" in the doctor's lounge or withhold dessert when you won't be quiet?
Have some well-deserved time off HB. This battle will be here when you return.
The administration is unbelievable in its ongoing criticism of you rather than dealing with the issues that continue to destroy our hospital.
Someone posted a couple of days ago about Diogenestrainee disappearing. It should not be surprising that it occured the same time as the CFO left.
Read back through the comments from early on and you will see how evil and vindictive this administration has been and continues to be.
Have a nice few days off.
Mark
Sorry, Annoymous 9:48 but your powers of "assumption" are no better than HB's. I would be interested in knowing which "issues that continue to destroy our hospital" you believe are not being addressed by hospital management and why you think that is the case.
Hey diogenstrainee, what rock you been hiding under or is this just someone else using your alias?
I think most of the issues are being addressed thanks to HB's persistence and the new Board members and especially the new Chairman.
What a disaster it could have been if the other Board member who thought she was going to be chairman would have gotten it.
The CEO would have manipulated her to the point of the hospital failing completely.
We at least now have a chance to save it from the financial ruin the CEO and CFO caused.
Yes there are others who also had repsonsibility but the man at the top has to pay the price.
Never have heard you address the $11.5 million dollar financial fiasco with more likely to come out when the audit gets made public. How do you reconcile this after taking up for this administration. We are sure you will blame HB for this as well. HOw do you feel knowing people have lost their jobs because of this administrations poor management? HOw do you explain the recent blogs about the CEO continuing to support VHA with the percieved conflict of interest? The Board evidently has finally taken some steps to really exam this "sacred cow"
We would love to hear your answers. We are sure you will find a way to show HB masterminded the whole plot.
How do you people make up this stuff? You say: "HOw do you explain the recent blogs about the CEO continuing to support VHA with the percieved conflict of interest?" What "conflict of interest"? Since when is an industry buying cooperative a conflict of interest for its members?
And, just which priorities of the current board are included in: "I think most of the issues are being addressed thanks to HB's persistence." The only thing that HB continually pounded on was sharing revenue with doctors (no conflict of interest there, of course). Is that what the board is focusing on?
HB and his followers see only what they want to see and make up imaginary scenarios to support their agendas (which they seldom agree upon among themselves). If HB was even moderately successful at selling his ideas, the CEO would have been gone two years ago. But despite all of HB's huffing and puffing and holding his breath like a three year old, the only thing that has changed is that he is no longer on the board and the current chairman has to occasionally "put him in his place" for being out of order.
D! "We" missed you!
Ironically, the CEO isn't doing too bad a job of getting rid of himself
hey diog,
What revenue has HB ever shared with doctors?
Your accusations are unfounded and completely a lie. But that is typical from the administration.
The CEO is doing an excellent job of getting rid of himself.
The CEO has had a conflict of interest. What other CEO chairs committees of the GPO. He is so tight with VHA, a crowbar and WD40 couldn't get it separated.
Objective party speaking here:
Why is it that every time HB's (or others’) comments are challenged, everyone's panties jump up in a wad? It does not always mean we disagree, but we would like to know why we should agree. Being inquisitive does not = being a member of the board. We just want to know the basis for your statements so we can tell if you have any idea what you’re talking about. Amazing how often those questions are ignored.
Does anyone around here have the vaguest insight to actual compliance gaining?
If you can't back up your statements with real information, keep them to yourselves. Anything short of this is purely destructive.
HB, I see questions posted here all the time to which I would like to see responses from you, and they rarely come. As an observation, I think it's ironic that the man who claims his actions are driven by the pursuit of accountability has such an aversion when the tables are turned. I’m sure you’re very busy and important, blah blah blah, but you have chosen to make a public figure of yourself, and you have a responsibility to your readers--and to your hospital as a living organism--to give legitimate answers to legitimate questions. If we could divine the information for ourselves, we wouldn’t be asking.
A week ago, your own words on this subject were, “It becomes a public display of some very poor word choices and can lead to worsening relationships. It is another example of how we continually choose conflict avoidance rather conflict resolution.”
Hmm. Is there a speck in my eye? Or a log in yours…
Anon 9:48/5:57/whatever--Diogenestrainee may have an attitude problem, but *his questioning does serve a fruitful purpose. If you've been paying any attention at all, you know that he/she almost always comes back with the info to refute claims that his comments are unfounded, and I'd venture a guess he could do the same now if he thought it was worth his energy. I still don’t see your responses to his questions…
*Please excuse my assumption of the masculine pronoun.
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Anon 2:54 (or "$):
Excellent comments and observations.
I do not typically comment on posts that are about the hospital. Frankly, I couldn't care less about a small hospital when so many more are right down the road. But there is a stark difference between offering an alternative point of view and actively working to destroy the integrity and reputation of others simply because they hold different opinions.
HB's second sentence in this post is one of the most telling of his character:
"I am quite certain this will not be a disappointment to the CEO as the blog has created a little more stress and a lot more accountability for him."
How sad to derive pleasure from another's hoped-for pain. And how sad to spend your life building such a reputation.
Since HB appears to be taking some time off I will help explain some of the issues.
First, Diagonestrainee is not asking any specific question but just trying to raise doubt with absolutely nothing to back up his statements. No one even challenges his information.
HB worked with a Board that never said no to Bryant Hanson. The CEO had the majority of the members as yes-men.
HB brought up and has posted the financial information over and over with the facts. Just because you choose to question or ignore them cannot change the 11.5 million dollar mess. The audit is not public yet, but it is being said that it found even more accounting errors.
The trends have been very obvious for board members who actually took the time and interest to review the material.
Companies do use GPO's, but the CEO is attached at the hip as Bryant hanson is with VHA. Show me another CEO who serves on the Board of a GPO for several years.
Still waiting on the response from Diogenestrainee about the revenue sharing HB did with doctors. This is just a lie.
HB has championed a cooperative working relationship using joint ventures with physicians. If the CEO was trustworthy, more could have been done. But now, we are going to lose the lucrative surgery cases to the outpatient surgery center because of the CEO and the heart hospital is going to compete as well. These could easily have been joint ventures if it were not for the CEO.
The CEO tried to discourage Kutz hand center from coming to New Albany several years ago when he could have joint ventured, now ended up paying 2.8 million dollars to partner with them. This only occured because of the VP pushing it forward and keeping the CEO out of it.
I think most people believe the main issue not openly being addressed that is destroying the hospital is the date the CEO leaves. This along with the purchasing problems which up until the last board meeting had not been addressed were the two biggest issues still questionable.
Employee morale is another big issue and getting worse because of the severe cutbacks. The CEO only knows one answer to the financial problem he created. CUT. CUT CUT without regard to morale or patient care.
He has to be replaced soon or our hospital will end up being sold becase of the financial problems he got us in to.
Diogenestrainee or Ralph shall we say is just angry and bitter. The readers need to ask the same questions. Where is his information and facts.
PUT UP or SHUT UP
I sure hope that Concerned Employee uses better judgment on the job than on this blog. A comment such as: "Diogenestrainee or Ralph shall we say" just demonstrates how willing CE is to jump to conclusions with absolutely no facts to back them up.
And what about this statement: "Still waiting on the response from Diogenestrainee about the revenue sharing HB did with doctors. This is just a lie." I have no idea what you are talking about. I never said anything about HB sharing revenue with other doctors. I said that he wanted the HOSPITAL to share revenue with doctors--as if, somehow, giving the docs some hospital money would improve the financials of the hospital. Interesting, if weird, logic.
You are going to have to produce some proof that Hanson's connection to VHA has had a detrimental impact on Floyd. Industry purchasing coops ALWAYS are chaired by members of the cooperative. Prove that money can be saved in another way or quit nit-picking everything the CEO is involved in.
Finally, Concerned Employee must have zero experience in organizations which undergo leadership changes during financially challenging times. You just think you have seen cutbacks. Get a new leader with no stake in the status quo and watch people, benefits and services disappear before your very eyes.
Sometimes emotions cloud good logical thinking and sometimes that same problem makes us look foolish.
I am not a defendent of Hanson. I do not like him. But I am compelled to address some of the issues discussed in this blog beacause truth is truth and logic is logic. Let's not get so emotional that we lose common sense.
When I read the reference to revenue sharing that was addressed by Diogenstrainee, I realized he/she was talking about a joint venture between physicians and the hospital. That is how the revenue would be shared. And I think it was misunderstood . There are those who thought that he/she meant HB wanted to personally share revenue with the hospital. I started once to point out the misunderstanding, but just didn't bother. But now I must speak to Diogenstrainee's defense because he/she was misunderstood. (And I like Diogenstrainee about as much as I do Hanson.) But truth is truth.
The second issue involves Anonymous who wrote at 5:57 pm. Some of the info you wrote would indicate you were present at the Board Meeting. Who exactly are you?
Third Issue. Regarding the VHA purchasing group. I have never heard anyone definitively document where the cost of the supplies the hosiptal purchases are out of line. Is this a fact...or a guess? All I keep hearing is the criticism that Mr. Hanson has a conflict of interest in his association with VHA. Are you aware that Mr. White also had an affiliation with VHA and it was under his management that the hospital first affiliated with VHA? Mr. White was affiliated with VHA many, many years. Check it out.
Awesome. Who's Ralph?
It's not very nice to "out" people who clearly prefer to remain anonymous. If D wanted us to know his name, he'd have shared it by now. Do we know who you are, CE?
I'll refrain from identifying myself, so the following may be meaningless, but I can vouch for the last paragraph on D's 10:06 post. I see it all the time.
Maybe morale is low at Floyd partially because people are running around making mountains out of molehills and crying because they might have to pay $0.15 for styrofoam in the lunch line. It's called "Groupthink." Look it up. Solution: Take it like a man. BYO Tupperware and save your heart attack for when there's an actual crisis.
Thank you 12:28. Finally, a voice of reason AND actual information.
The hospital needs a change at the highest level. When the CEO or VPs of an organization do not have the 'wherewithal' to hold his or her people accountable and make necessary changes along the way, the CEO or VP themselves should be 'changed'. Take the JCAHO accreditation that was lost, no accountability there, it was swept under an administrative rug. Who if anyone was held accountable at the time? A VP, A Director? No, neither. What about the AR bookkeeping "mishaps"? At the time it was discovered, (hasn't it been about 1 1/2 to 2 years ago?) was anyone held accountable? A VP, A Director? No, neither, it was allowed to continue like a 500 lb. elephant in the room, and also swept under the administrative rug in hopes that it would all blow over. As a former associate I'm hearing the same issues continue. Why is that same Director still employed with the financial mishaps and the director's inability to provide basic Human Resource duties to her associates? I'm talking about performance evaluations. Many are late. Don't you have a VP of Human Resources now, is he held accountable for these late performance evaluations? Is the department director? Does the CEO hold either the director or VP accountable? Or, is he continuing the same tactic of sweeping things under the administrative rug. Will the chairman deal with personnel issues now, since the CEO cannot get simple things like performance evaluations completed?
TO ANONYMOUS 9:02 WHEN WAS THE LAST PERFORMANCE REVIEW YOU GOT? THE ONLY TIME IS WHEN THE DIRECTOR WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU GOING TO BE GETTING BOOTED OUT THE DOOR,YOU MAY WANT TO CONSIDER YOUR LUCKY,MINE HASN'T BEEN COMPLETED FOR OVER 3,YES I SAID THREE YEARS.SAVING ALL THAT CRAP UP,SO YOU KNOW YOU WILL BE LOOKING FOR A PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT! lol
Not to stir up any more misinformation, but is the take over by the Feds of Obelisk correlated to all this mess?
Also, when will the results of the Audit be mae public?
To ONCEUPONATIME: What are you talking about "the take over by the Feds of Obelisk "?
RE: Obelisk Federal Credit Union:
http://www.ncua.gov/news/press_releases/2007/MR07-0417.htm
Stupid Feds.
Yep. I heard the styrofoam thing was Obelisk's idea.
Not to stir up any more misinformation, but is the take over by the Feds of Obelisk correlated to all this mess?
Also, when will the results of the Audit be mae public?
6/04/2007 11:07:00 PM
Didn't you know that is where the CEO of Floyd was depositing his kickbacks from VHA?
The last comment is inappropriate. Whoever you are...you should be ashamed of yourself. It is easy to "hide" behind the mask of anonyminity when you don't have to use your name on this blog.
I do not like Mr. Hanson, but what you just did is tacky. Shame on you.
I heard a rumor that HB is spending his vacation in Kentucky working as a volunteer docent at the new creationism museum.
I heard a rumor that 4:28 has absolutely no sense of humor.
This was on the hospital's website.
Dear Community Members,
It is my pleasure to share progress and information regarding Floyd Memorial Hospital with you after each board meeting. There have been quite a few significant developments recently, including the preliminary results of our 2006 financial audit and the authorization to begin construction efforts aimed at finishing the 4th floor shell space above the new Heart and Vascular Center, and revamping our Women`s Center.
We are very pleased to begin construction and expand our private room availability with the addition of 32 new private surgical inpatient rooms on the 4th floor shell space. Once construction efforts conclude, we will decide how to allocate the space vacated by the current surgical inpatient unit. In addition, construction efforts will increase our offerings to women and families with the total renovation of the Women`s Center, including labor and delivery, nursery and pediatrics.
Women are the primary healthcare decision makers, so ensuring that our campus is as state-of-the-art as possible for them and their families is important to us. Floyd Memorial`s deliveries are also up, with over 1,000 babies delivered in 2006, making the renovation of our labor and delivery and nursery areas even more pertinent. The renovation will provide the center with seven labor and delivery rooms, 19 rooms in the Women`s Center, and ten in pediatrics. The project will create two additional rooms for both labor and delivery and the Women`s Center. Cost for construction and all necessary equipment will total $13 million, coming from proceeds of the 2006 bonds, which has been approved by the Board of Trustees with a start date slated for early July of this year and an estimated completion time frame of 15 months. Whittenberg Construction, the same firm that did an excellent job with our new Heart and Vascular Center addition, has been chosen to manage this effort.
The 2006 financial audit completed by BKD, LLC has also been reviewed and approved by the Board of Trustees. However, the audit will not become official until the Indiana State Board of Accounts has reviewed and accepted it as well. We are hopeful that this stage will be completed by early July. We had additional adjustments in the area of doubtful accounts (primarily self-pay accounts), contractual allowances and estimated settlements with third party payers such as Medicare and Medicaid. However, the bulk of these adjustments relate to prior years. In addition to this, changes in accounting rules relating to fair market value of our interest rate swap agreements on our 2003 bonds, employee benefit plans and other insurance issues, have an effect of a decrease in net assets for 2006 of $7.4 million. As a result of these adjustments we have defaulted on the Debt Service Covenant in both the 2003 and 2006 bonds. We have obtained a waiver of the default from AMBAC and National City Bank, respectively. Positive news is that year-to-date 2007 statistics are up and we are profitable.
We have also received an unqualified opinion from BKD, LLC, giving reasonable assurance that the 2006 financials, as well as prior years, are accurate and present fairly, in all material aspects, the financial position of the hospital as of December 31, 2006. This is the first time that Floyd Memorial Hospital has used a private audit firm to audit its financials and we are pleased with their results. We are now confident that we can concentrate on the present and future of our organization. I assure you that Floyd Memorial Hospital is a sound and viable healthcare organization.
Best Regards,
Jerrol Miles
Chairman of the Board
WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE NEW PHYSICIAN OWNED SURGERY CENTER /HOSPITAL OPENS IN 6 MONTHS. PHYSICIANS WERE PUSHED INTO THIS BECAUSE INSURANCE COMPANIES PAY THE HOSPITALS WELL WHILE THE PHYSICIANS GET 80% OF MEDICARE - LESS THAN THE BREAKEVEN POINT TO STAY IN PRACTICE.INSTEAD OF PUSHING A NEW HEART CENTER THE ADMINISTRATION SHOULD HAVE WORKED OUT SOMETHING TO HELP PHYSICIANS. NOW WE ARE ENEMIES.THE ANSWER WAS NOT TO PAY MILLIONS WE DONT HAVE TO GIVE TO THE KLEINERT CENTER- DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHY??
WHY DOESN'T ANYONE TAKE ME SERIOUSLY WHEN I USE ALL CAPS
I COULD CARE LESS WHETHER OR NOT YOU IN THE ADMINISTRATION TAKE ME SERIOUSLY YOU NEVER CARED BEFORE- YOU HAVE YOUR AGENDA AND WE HAVE OURS LETS SEE WHO LASTS THE LONGEST!!!!
12:36 here again--I am not administration. Just a general spectator.
THAT WAS A REALLY, REALLY GOOD GUESS THOUGH
Maybe Dr. Allcaps Sonne can step aside from his own self-interest for just a minute and explain how it would be better for the hospital to share some of its revenue with doctors. There doesn't seem to be a lot of extra money laying around waiting to be distributed to MDs, but maybe he could clear this up for us.
The reason the hospital doesn't need to joint venture with the physicians is because the physicians will continue to admit there, so why buy the cow when you're getting the milk for free?
Hey maybe we should start selling the milk and stop charging for styrofoam.
OOH! AND HAVE A BAKE SALE!
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