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I spent several years at St. Joseph and Mission Hospitals. Mission had a great CEO that was trained by Bob Burgin and was ready to step in at his retirement. His Name David Spillers. He was well liked by both the physicians and employees. The board had another agenda in mind and that got Mission to were they are at now. Joe Damore’s resignation will help turn the page in this dark time for Mission but I agree that Brian Aston should also be asked to step aside as well. Many departments suffer under his constant micro-manangment style.
If your interested where David Spillers went he took over as CEO at a large hospital in Alabama and as I understand it they are doing much better than Mission is right now. How about looking at bringing this native son back to North Carolina and see if he can clean this mess up.
Okay.. that’s one ! They say that good things come in 3’s. So let’s add Brian Ashton and Kathy Guyette , Big Joe’s hatchet team, and maybe Mission can get back on track and recoup ground it lost when Damore took over.
Sour grapes, you betcha, I’m one of the "older" nurses who lost her job recently when all the Managers were told to "cut your budget by 3% by the end of the fiscal year." Because so many of us had been nurses for many years and had been employed by Mission for a long time, we were makng the larger salaries, so Mission considered us economically expendable. They can hire 2 or 3 new grads and still not be paying them in total what we were earning. Not only have the new nurses lost the mentoring of RN’s with years of experience and skills, but the patients have lost the safety of experienced nurses, which in some cases, could be the difference between life and death.
What happened to me and many others consisted of inaccurate charges,petty Corrective Actions, and accelerated Terminations which were not done in proper sequence. Essentially, I was my manager’s "3% cut". None of this was done according to "Policy", but that doesn’t seem to be an issue with JD’s minions.
I’ll shed no tears for Damore, mine are saved for the Mission staff who have had to endure through his regime and have carried on against all odds and threats. I have only one word of advice to the remaining staff.."THINK UNION".
I may not always agree with their tactics, but staff would be protected from abuse from the likes of JD and his ilk.
The ousting of JD and hopefully BA is a great start to cleaning up the toxic dump. Let’s just hope it’s a work in progress. Why stop there? What’s with Mission’s "established pattern and practice of bad faith in administering workers’ compensation claims"? Check out Mountain Express Oct. 21-27, 09 edition, page 19. Can’t blame this one on Mission’s soon-to-be-gone crowd. Those involved were there long before JD and his minions arrived.
Thank GOD Joe D is out! I work at Mission in the operating room and I see the money saving tactics that were employed to save money and frankly I think the patient was being put at risk. Things were becoming dangerous and eventually someone was going to get hurt or killed.
Many thanks to Ashvegas for providing a forum of communication through these media shy times. Kudos for reporting on this ongoing situation and for being so far ahead of WLOS and the Citizen Times. To watch them scramble now and jump on your bandwagon is further proof that times they are a changing. To all the Mission employees, take this chance and turn the Hospital into something to be truly proud of.
Did you notice that Ashvegas was mentioned in the AC-T blog about this story.
WOOHOOO__now lets pray that whomever takes over acutally cares about the HOSPITAL–its Staff and its Physicans—-the time is NOW for all of us to work together to bring MMH BACK from the brink to the top notch insitiution We all want and Deserve!