KVHD Special Meeting: a new CEO

A special board meeting has been called for Wed., April 15, 2009, 1:30 pm. The agenda states that the meeting is regarding personnel, in particular a new CEO.

Former CEO Rick Carter, resigned last week and apparently there is a replacement waiting in the wings.

Hmm.

With a partially new board of directors, we now have the chance to see what these members have to bring to the table in regards to their ability to hire rightly qualified and credentialed personnel.

Who did they select as the new CEO? And out of how many?

Will this new CEO come in at entry level salary like the traveling nurses converted from roustabouts to KVHD employees of the skilled nursing facility?

And a better question, how did they find and qualify this new CEO?

Is this board a brighter board than a year ago?

Will they or did they practice due diligence this time around and ask questions; make phone calls; see if this person will fit in with the current state of the hospital; ask themselves if this is the best person for the job?

Did they know what kind of person they were looking for, what personality, qualifications?

Or were they just thankful that somebody would take the job and opened the door?

We will find out tomorrow at the end of the special board meeting who and what the board did to select this individual. We will know if the new board is any better than the previous corrupt board.

The CEO is the crux of the organization as this person holds responsibility for patients, the public, the board,the law, the integrity of the hospital, and I would think that it should be a very difficult decision to make.

We have seen in the past that a CEO can either break or make a healthcare district.

And with a broken healthcare district we move on to another CEO.