At the Hospital Board Meeting on February 9th when the Hospital Resource Council recommendations were discussed (see savethehospital.org), Hospital Board Chair Charlene McAllister noted in passing during the discussion of the $250 San Francisco-based affiliation consultant that the CEO can authorize up to $25k without board approval. What a coincidence that the expensive, non-competitively-bid affiliation [...]
A FEW FOOTNOTES to Mr. Sanicki’s report on the independent audit presented to the Coast District Hospital Board last week. Four people commissioned the audit — Tom Birdsell, Mike Dell’Ara, Richard Miller and Vince Taylor, aka the Hospital Resource Council. (Others are involved as well.) Birdsell and Dell’Ara are former Bay Area high-tech execs who [...]
Last Wednesday (January 26), a group of local concerned citizens presented the results of an independent external audit of the hospital operations to the Mendocino Coast District Hospital Board of Directors and CEO Bryan Ballard. The community has been asking for such an audit for a year but the Board and CEO have stonewalled, choosing [...]
