The Erlanger board of trustees is clearly singleminded in its sprint to finish turning our public hospital – one of the nation’s largest public hospital systems – into a private, nonprofit business model.
So determined is the board that last Thursday trustees unanimously voted to make its chairman, Jim Coleman, its new CEO, not long after the last CEO suddenly was said not to be CEO anymore.
There was no explanation for the last CEO’s departure – just that he’d be gone by June 10.
Becker’s Hospital Review said Erlanger’s seven-hospital system told them the exit was by “mutual consent.”
What’s more, there seemed little discussion to speak of in naming the new guy, other than to say Coleman “checks all the boxes” to “take Erlanger where we need to go.”