Erlanger tileErlanger Health System officials will move forward with awarding 99 hospital managers with half of $1.7 million in designated bonuses this month, while holding off on the second half until July, hospital CEO Kevin Spiegel said in a memo to employees.
The bonuses, which are tied to performance benchmarks that the public hospital’s board decided earlier this year, have come under fire from local lawmakers and officials who say the hospital depended on a pool of federal funding to end the year in the black.
State lawmakers also criticized the process by which the board arrived at the decision to award the incentives, meeting and discussing the bonuses privately before voting on the decision in a public meeting.
At that point, the board announced they would hold off on awarding the incentives until they could review the process.
Erlanger board members announced Tuesday that after meeting with their attorneys from Spears, Moore, Rebman and Williams, that board Chairman Donnie Hutcherson said the “firm informed the Board members that the approval process was appropriate and the action taken by the Board was also appropriate.”