New CEO Announcement
The official announcement was finally made last week. Floyd Memorial has a new CEO selected who will assume his duties in March.
As a member of the selection committee, I want to personally thank Kerry Stemler for chairing the committee and Jerrol Miles as Chairman of the Board. Everyone on the committee spent hours of their personal time during this process but these two individuals were instrumental in the process and it has been a great experience.
Everyone is excited about the change and we look forward to moving the hospital in a more positive direction related to morale, atmosphere, services and quality.
As a member of the selection committee, I want to personally thank Kerry Stemler for chairing the committee and Jerrol Miles as Chairman of the Board. Everyone on the committee spent hours of their personal time during this process but these two individuals were instrumental in the process and it has been a great experience.
Everyone is excited about the change and we look forward to moving the hospital in a more positive direction related to morale, atmosphere, services and quality.
posted by Anonymous at 6:05 AM
24 Comments:
Regarding: "we look forward to moving the hospital in a more positive direction related to morale, atmosphere"
Are you leaving?
Man, that's cold.
Dr. E helped eradicate the little dictator and Floyd is greatful.
There is a new era coming and it is long overdue.
It is people like you who have refused to admit and acknowledge the problem and that is why it took a $20 million dollar accounting mess that the CEO and his CFO caused before this happened.
20 million dollars. Why didn't the papers ever publish this info. This is a county hospital. I'd say there was a lot of coverup. Maybe other heads should roll as well.
Look back through this blog as far back as two years. This financial mess was predicted and the CEO's firing was also predicted based on the financials.
I'd say Dr. E had a much clearer picture of the problems and was willing to speak up.
Where did the figure $20 million come from? The last I heard was 11 million???? When did it go to 20? Could someone please fill me in?
Just curious. Rumor was that Dr. Dan made a critical remark about the age of Mr. Hanson. That he was too old and needed to be replaced. What is the age of the new CEO? Sounds like he has some age on him to have 3 decades of leadership in his resume.
I am glad to see new leadership. Mr. Hanson needed to be replaced. Something no one ever spoke about was his termination at his last job. He was fired there as well because of some of the same management style he used at FMH.
Floyd needs to move on. I wish the new CEO good luck.
When does the public get to meet him?
The 20 million dollar figure has been known for a long time, but it was kept very quiet.
Ask your commissioners or Board Members. They all know about it.
Age has nothing to do with the current CEO's style or performance.
He has been and continues to be a dictator and is now fired from this job as well as his previous one.
For everyone reading, Mr. Hanson is retiring.
Is retiring really the right word to use?
oh yea! "retiring". And I have swamp land in Florida worth a fortune.
Don't insult the readers
I would just like one of the folks snake-dancing through the hospital in celebration of Hanson's leaving to explain to me what they think is going to change. Do they think their pay will go up? Do they think that staffing levels will change? Do they expect benefit improvements? Do they think their supervisor will be less demanding?
I know why Dr E is happy--he managed to stroke his ego by proving that he could drive out someone he personally disliked. But what about the rest of you? What do you really think is in it for you?
Where do you get off deriding Dr. E. As far as I know, he has not been on the Board for 2 years and it wasn't Dr. E who misappropriated $20 million dollars.
It was Dr. E who continually brought up the issues about mismanagement that certain Board members continued to ignore. I'd say he was right and had much better insight than you.
What is going to change is the culture, the trust, the attitudes, the morale, and the congenialtiy of the people working because they will not always be making decisions out of fear and threats.
You are dreaming.
Can someone please discuss the additional $9 mil that was misappropriated? Didn't the original 11 mil. have something to do with overstating A/R relative to Medicaid...at least that's what I heard. What caused an additional 9?
Why has this been kept quiet? This is a county-owned hospital and as such, the public has a right to know. This smacks of more coverup.
Whose responsibility is it to keep the public informed? The commissioners or the Board?
Will someone please tell me the answers to all three questions?
This is typical rumor mongering. First of all, who said anything about misappropriation? Incorrectly estimating A/R recoveries is hardly misappropriation. And the rabble rouser who suggests a cover up obviously knows nothing about how this was all handled. The CEO made all the information available to the board as it became known. In fact, he was the one who moved on the previous CFO for the bad estimates before anyone really understood the scope of the problem. Could it have been managed better? Perhaps, but words like misappropriation and cover-up are pure nonsense.
You people who like to gossip and complain are going to be in for a rude awakening when you discover that the new CEO isn't going to have any more money or any additional resources. This is a tough medical environment for all hospitals and only tough minded management can keep an organization afloat. Enjoy your mental honeymoon with the new guy. Reality will set in soon enough.
Get off your hanson brown-nosing. He got rid of the CFO only to try and save his own neck and in his evil little mind he probably thought it would work.
If his relationship skills would have been better, the financial problems would never have occured and the doctors would not be working against the hospital.
He burned more bridges than anyone can possibly imagine and the stories will be forthcoming once he is finally gone.
"He got rid of the CFO only to try and save his own neck and in his evil little mind he probably thought it would work."
And you know this how??
And...regarding: "If his relationship skills would have been better, the financial problems would never have occured and the doctors would not be working against the hospital."
How does that explain the fact that virtually every other hospital in this area is under financial stress and that doctors are opening their own facilities all over the country--even in places where Hanson is not? I am sorry, but you are living in a fantasy world. You want someone to blame because things are tough and you want a simple villain to take the fall. Get used to it...nothing that directly affects you is going to change. You might get a friendlier face (or maybe not) but your job isn't going to change and your pay isn't going to change and the health care environment is only going to get more difficult as state and federal governments fight through budget problems this year and next.
Well I see some things haven't changed.
We continue to have bloggers very passionate about their viewpoints.
This was a positive posting about the new CEO yet with the first comment, there are those refusing to accept the reality of the change.
We hope these individuals will move on as we transition to a new administration.
the anonymous poster with all the information certainly would have to either be a board member or possibly the husband of the VP who has commented on this blog before and who dislikes Dr. E. Here is what they said:
First of all, who said anything about misappropriation? Incorrectly estimating A/R recoveries is hardly misappropriation. And the rabble rouser who suggests a cover up obviously knows nothing about how this was all handled. The CEO made all the information available to the board as it became known. In fact, he was the one who moved on the previous CFO for the bad estimates before anyone really understood the scope of the problem. Could it have been managed better?
How else would they know about why and when the CEO gave the information to the board.
Isn't it sad to know that there are still these individuals in the administration and on the board.
In addition, were not the CEO and VP's bonuses based on the bottom line. If the bottom line was $20million dollars overstated (for whatever reason), would their bonuses not also overstated.
Did they reimburse the hospital and taxpayers for that?
You call it what you want, I'll call it misappropriation
Anonymous 12;34 pm SAID: "The 20 million dollar figure has been known for a long time, but it was kept very quiet.
Ask your commissioners or Board Members. They all know about it."
Is this true? Did the commissioners know about this? Why wasn't the public informed? Isn't this a county hospital? Aren't the citizens responsible for the hospital if it gets into financial trouble? Why isn't anyone addresssing this issue? WHY WERE NOT THE PUBLIC KEPT INFORMED??????
Let's welcome the new CEO with excitement, enthusiasm and a positive attitude; this is a time of change. Maybe some attitudes on this blog will change. I truly enjoy my job at the hospital, it is both challenging and rewarding, and I see many, many associates and physicians of high caliber at Floyd.
That being said, my take on the financial mess is as follows. It was clear mismanagement by Elaine Hayes who could not manage the AR as the supposed "director" of finance(in title but not in practice). The previous CFO should have canned her and held her accountable for her incompetence. Instead, he protected her and got the ax himself. No accountability at Floyd, period. Let's hope that changes. What followed after that was a greater travesty, perhaps the one that diminished Bryant's credibility the most over the past 18 months; he made her interim CFO. I respected Bryant until that point. That poor un-business like decision making means it's time for him to go. Thankfully the new CFO put the squeeze on her and she left. Good riddance Elaine and no thanks for the mess you left behind. May JH benefit from your EXPERTISE.
Who is Nathan in the lab??He is so rude. Why is he still working?
Where is Diogenis Trainee?? We lost him...
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