tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post8626747839258322180..comments2024-03-26T00:25:34.026-04:00Comments on Not Running a Hospital: Hadassah, a doctor's viewPaul Levyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17065446378970179507noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-64000592795097846342014-02-15T10:00:29.174-05:002014-02-15T10:00:29.174-05:00Please read my first post again, with excerpts fro...Please read my first post again, with excerpts from the report I wrote. I don't see how you can consider that as slanted against HWZOA.<br /><br />And, unlike you, I use my own name and tell people who I am so they can try to understand where I am coming from. You are entitled to remain anonymous in this forum, but it really undercuts your persuasiveness.<br /><br />This is a time for people to stand up publicly for what they believe and not stand behind anonymity.Paul Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17065446378970179507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-36694260852766784712014-02-15T08:08:36.006-05:002014-02-15T08:08:36.006-05:00As I said continued finger pointing which obviousl...As I said continued finger pointing which obviously meant from there on. My problem is your continuing to state facts which are completely accurate such as the funding of the equipment. I now realize that you will slant the facts against HWZOA and do not understand your agenda. So be it, at least it is obvious that not many people read your blogs. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-6405096741633196432014-02-14T16:10:38.688-05:002014-02-14T16:10:38.688-05:00Money is fungible. The hospital was funding the e...Money is fungible. The hospital was funding the equipment and supplies of the new building at the same time they were cutting salaries and delaying payments to other vendors. The Tower fundraising did not include all the money for those equipment and supplies.<br /><br />You say not to point fingers and then you accuse the administration of lining its pockets. Practice what you preach!Paul Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17065446378970179507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-41607069779502427722014-02-14T12:30:19.223-05:002014-02-14T12:30:19.223-05:00Unfortunately your proof of the statement process ...Unfortunately your proof of the statement process nothing. If the hospital had insufficient cash the fund raising for the new tower had no connection to that situation. The Tower fund raising always contemplated the necessity for equipment, etc. . The hospital administration which was lining its pockets by mismanagement and doling out cash to all under the bookkeeping cover of salaries and bonuses drained the bank. <br />We all know the problem that now exists and don't need continuing finger pointing. Let us move on and sort the recovery of the hospital United as one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-19019148865777619112014-02-13T22:25:34.724-05:002014-02-13T22:25:34.724-05:00The proof of the statement is that the hospital ha...The proof of the statement is that the hospital had insufficient cash to meet its obligations, even as the new tower was being completed.Paul Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17065446378970179507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-19311078622862235002014-02-13T20:06:07.502-05:002014-02-13T20:06:07.502-05:00The doctors and staff at the hospital have to shar...The doctors and staff at the hospital have to share the blame for the financial crisis. They and the administration were like kids in a candy store taking salaries and benefits that they were not earning. The administration at the hospital covered up the growing deficit preventing the correction that was needed. Finally I am sure that you have some basis to state that the new hospital tower was being built with no thought being given to equipping it, etc.. Unfortunately you are wrong and obviously listening to those who love to criticize without factual support. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-50063106808865319252014-02-12T11:12:20.840-05:002014-02-12T11:12:20.840-05:00I used to work for a non-profit health care organi...I used to work for a non-profit health care organization that once decided to pay its clinical staff what it was worth, instead of what it was getting. That year my salary went up 40%, & I was making more than the assoc. exec. director. Although the board's heart was in the right place (they wanted to increase staff retention), they never planned on how they would pay for the increase in the long term. Though the organization survived, patient care suffered & there was a mass exodus of staff (to may a very long, sad story short).Susanna Levin, NPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-74391773276738687932014-02-11T22:05:51.372-05:002014-02-11T22:05:51.372-05:00Even if the government does step in to help, it wo...Even if the government does step in to help, it won't resolve all of the internal bad practices of runaway spending, no cost controls, poor management, adverse relationships between the clinical and administrative leadership. And, it won't solve the governance issues - governing boards need to pay attention to more than just fundraising. One wonders what the board has been doing all this time on that front. If the operating deficit issue has existed for a while and been covered by fundraising, did anyone on the board understand the business issue it caused? Or foresee that such a day might come? Did the board even know enough from a business standpoint to ask such questions? It appears not. Hard to imagine how such fundamentally awry business practices can have been allowed to continue otherwise. One way or the other, this is a governance failure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com