Jason Sandford
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From the Asheville Business Blog:
The Mission Health System Board of Directors has appointed Carleton T. Rider to serve as interim president and CEO of Mission Hospital and the health system. Rider, who retired in 2008 as a senior administrator of Mayo Clinic after a career of 31 years, will assume his new responsibilities effective January 1, 2010 and serve until the Board completes its national search for a permanent chief executive.
“Carl’s credentials and experience are outstanding, and we are pleased to have a healthcare leader of this caliber join Mission,” said Board Chair George Renfro. Added Board Vice Chair Janice Brumit, who chairs the CEO Search Committee, “Carl’s long and distinguished career has been focused on quality healthcare, and that focus will serve us well in ensuring that Mission maintains its high clinical standards and excellence in patient care during this transition.”
“I am eager to join the Asheville healthcare community, which has earned a national reputation for delivering high quality, cost-effective care,” commented Rider. “I look forward to working with Mission’s superb physicians, administration and staff to keep Mission on the leading edge.”
Rider is a senior fellow with the Center for Global Health and Medical Diplomacy at Brooks College of Health at the University of North Florida. During his career at Mayo Clinic, he served in a variety of roles, including administrator of Mayo Clinic Jacksonville from its initiation in 1984 through 1993. In 1993, he was named Continuous Improvement Officer at Mayo Clinic and in that role served as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. In 2006, he was named the Distinguished Mayo Administrator.
To ensure a smooth transition, Renfro said Rider will work closely with outgoing Mission CEO Joseph F. Damore, who announced his decision to resign this past fall.
Are you serious "Former"? How do nurses with an average salary of $28/hr qualify for welfare benefits?
Thankful, you are right on about the employees of this top-heavy hospital. There are highly qualified nurses at this hospital whose children qualify for medicaid. Many take advantage of the Buncombe Co school reduced lunch fee since they qualify. There are many, many of the nurses who are at the top of their pay scale and won’t see another raise (unless they stop being a bedside nurse by going into mngt or go back to school). With the average age of nurses at Mission topping 52, it is going to very hard to replace the increadible amount of knowledge with the current pay scales. This hospital touts its awards & patient outcomes. It expects A LOT from its employees and yet it is not willing to the going rate of a hospital equal to its stature.
This is a perfect place for a nursing union. http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/
To Thankful, I could not agree with you more. I have been subjected to Kristy Sink and incompetence to the point that I HAVE sought legal counsel. Her decisions have cost this dept setbacks that will take yrs to recover. I am depressed and waking up every morning knowing I may be subjected to her makes me physically ill. Where did she come from anyway? I hear her last position was with only a 100 bed facility. She has got to know that everyone she works with truly wishes she would just go away. She screws up and her plan of action is to blame everyone else. Leave Kristy Sink. Just leave,,,I have faith you too will be ask to resign ! I have faith. I pray the Board will see your evil ways and get rid of you before it’s too late and you run all our good leaders off! You do not deserve to work with the outstanding people at Mission Hospital. Go away.
Let’s hope that the interim CEO doesn’t work too closely with JD. He has several of JD’s "people" that need to be eliminated immediately before they can do any further damage to this fine health care institution. The HR department is a disaster so Ms. Rolloff has to go. The ambulatory department is a joke so Ms. Sink needs to go. And finally the worst one of them all, Brian ASSton, needs to be firmly escorted not just off the hospital campus but to the edge of town and told NEVER to return! All of these individuals have created a work environment that has been harrassing and threatening. Someone mentioned earlier in the year about law suits being filed. At first I thought that was going a bit far. However, after hearing more informatiion from the poor people who have to work for these individuals I must admit that I agree. These inadequate and threatening individuals will cost Mission several lawsuits as soon as the truth is allowed to come out. Right now the employees are still so afraid of losing thier jobs that their only recourse is to continue to sit down, shut up, and endure these hypocritical and decietful boss’s. The employees are just trying to do their best everyday to silently improve thier areas of responsibility under this abysmal group of management staff who call themselves leaders.
To bad that JD, Brian ASSton, Maria Rolloff, and Kristi Sink have cost us to lose so many intelligent, highly qualified, and ethical leaders!
Let’s all pray that this interim CEO can see through all of the BS that these extremely poor toxic management team sling and place us back on the road to greatness.