FW: The Paper Commentary: Palomar Pomerado Health-4 Directors' seats up for election

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Commentary

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by lyle e davis

One of the problems that has faced Palomar Pomerado Health is that, come election time, no one knows or cares, who, or what, a Palomar Pomerado Health is. The candidates are usually not well known at all.
 
As a result, we have the board of directors elected largely from the medical community. They all know their professions . . . excellent doctors, nurses, and technicians. But as to business matters . . . well, look at the obscene salary and bonus they are paying Michael Henri Covert.
 
What we need on the Palomar Pomerado Health board are directors who have the training and discipline that business people have. Board members who will make sure they exercise due diligence before hiring a highly paid chief executive officer. Board members who won‚t allow an applicant for a position who is less than forthcoming to remain in that position; certainly not board members who will routinely reward such a candidate with a bonus equal to 26% of his salary.
 
No, it‚s time for a change, in our opinion. There are four seats coming up in December of this year. We are hopeful that three to four viable candidates will step forward and prepare to take over the reins of the Palomar Pomerado Health Board of Directors.

We have spoken with a number of members of the North Count business communities and they are all agreed that a change is badly needed. Some individuals within those communities may step forward and run for the position. In prior year elections for the board there weren‚t terribly big issues . . . not the kind of meat and potato issues that the electorate gets excited about and wants to reform.
 
The folks I‚m talking to are very excited . . . upset at what appears to be misrepresentations on the part of managment to pass a bond issue (Prop BB), upset that the board of directors did not do an adequate job of vetting Michael Covert before hiring him, upset that they paid him an obscene salary to begin with and have compounded that error by making the combination of salary and bonuses so obscene as to boggle the mind.
 
The Paper will keep a close eye on this election. We may well endorse candidates for the seats, once we‚ve heard what their plan of action is.
 
The stakes are way too high to continue in the direction we are going. If promises are not kept that were made as part of the representations made prior to the Prop BB election, and if promises made as part of the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the city of Escondido . . . then downtown Escondido could well become a ghost town.
 
It is time to start planning for a new command structure at Palomar Pomerado Health. We need to attract strong candidates who will stand up for the public . . . not sinecured administrators who have pulled the wool over the eyes of the board members.
 
If you are a potential candidate, or know of someone who should be a candidate, we‚d like to talk to them. We need to begin our plans today!
 
 
What do you think ?
 
Let us know


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