A former Erlanger executive will get $600,000 to settle the wrongful-termination lawsuit she filed against the hospital more than two years ago.
The $900,000 agreement grants Charlesetta Woodard-Thompson $480,000 for “compensatory and other non-wage items”; $120,000 for three months’ wages; and $300,000 for her legal counsel, Lawrence & Lawrence, according to Erlanger spokeswoman Pat Charles.
“This settlement is comparable to what Erlanger had agreed to pay Ms. Woodard-Thompson more than two years ago, but was refused by her at that time,” Charles wrote in a news release.
After she was terminated while on medical leave in summer 2013, Woodard-Thompson filed the $25 million lawsuit, alleging she had “experienced an array of strange and alarming happenings” as interim hospital CEO.
Woodard-Thompson, 67, said she was the target of racial remarks, safety threats and email hacks by the hospital’s then-attorney, then unfairly passed over for the permanent CEO position in 2012. Twice she had served as interim, between 2003-2004 and 2012-2013.