Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's CEO made over $5.7 million

[KeepItReal]

Last edited Wed Oct 15, 2014, 02:36 PM - Edit history (2)

Douglas Hawthorne, the CEO of Texas Health Resources (the non-profit that owns Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and several others) made over $5.7 million in total compensation in 2009 (latest numbers I can find).

The individual hospital's former President Mark Merrill made over $1.15 million back in 2009.

Can't get any numbers on the current hospital President's (Jim Berg) compensation, but one can only assume it runs along the same lines of over $1 million in total compensation.

Here's a fun fact:

Of the top 10 highest paid non-profit CEOs in 2010, five led hospitals. They included the following:

• Herbert Pardes, MD, former CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City: $4.35 million
• Gary Gottlieb, MD, CEO of Partners HealthCare in Boston: $3.14 million
• Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, MD, CEO of Cleveland Clinic: $2.25 million
• James Mandell, MD, CEO of Boston Children's Hospital: $1.86 million
• John Noseworthy, MD, CEO of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.: $1.64 million

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/compensation-issues/hospital-ceos-rank-among-highest-compensated-at-major-non-profits.html

[Ampersand Unicode]

1. Are religious hospitals allowed to turn people away?

I'm just concerned that TPH or something like it will be allowed take advantage of the "corporations can have a religion" decision and turn away patients who don't fit their "belief system."

Most prominent example being if Thomas Duncan was gay and it "violated the faith" of the institution to treat him, because it was "God's will" that he be made to suffer for his "sins."

Is that legal? If not now, will it be in the near future? I mean, you never know with Texas, right?

[KeepItReal]

5. No. And they didn't turn away Mr. Duncan on his first visit.

Remember, he was seen by a nurse, was given antibiotics and sent on his way.

So no, they didn't blow him off. But they did totally mess up his diagnosis.

[Fumesucker]

8. My understanding is that they had diagnosed Duncan with "stomach flu" or something similar

For which antibiotics are totally ineffective and possibly even counterproductive.

So not only did they screw up the diagnosis, they even screwed up the treatment for the misdiagnosis.

[KingCharlemagne]

16. Maybe they do things differently in Texas, but here in California, a physician

would have issued the prescription for antibiotics, not a nurse.

I don't think it was a nurse who screwed the pooch with Duncan.

I have been told that prescribing antibiotics for viral infections does happen, in order to cut down on the risk of so-called 'secondary infections' and as a 'placebo'. I don't know whether that's accurate, so maybe some other person with more accurate knowledge could weigh in.

[YarnAddict]

10. Uh, won't happen

Procedures that violate their religious beliefs won't be performed (for instance, a tubal ligation at a Catholic hospital,) but no one at the hospital is making judgments about whether or not to treat patients based on their lifestyle.

How you can think that treating a gay person "violated the faith of the institution" is beyond me.

[uponit7771]

2. Yeap, just like a read state all resources financially are focused at the rich and well off...

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. I haven't researched THPH's ownership ...

but I know that in the recent past (last 6 years) For-profit "healthcare" providers have gone on a spree, purchasing non-profit hospitals and keep the name the same and the "non-profit" designation.

[KeepItReal]

4. They are owned by Texas Health Resources, Inc. (a non-profit)

Which has a CEO that made $5.7 Million in 2009.

I'm gonna add that to my original post.

[hedgehog]

14. well, pay your CEO $5.7 million and you can be a non-profit, too!

[riverwalker]

6. criminal negligence

no other words to use.

[HereSince1628]

9. or maybe depraved indifference, I don't know Texas law

In any case, I think we can be sure that the physical plant that is the 'hospital' will soon be operating under different management, and likely a different name.

[uppityperson]

7. Well, isn't that special.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

11. for a ca. 2014 CEO?

unfortunately too typical.

[Aerows]

12. There you go

The reason healthcare in our country is a disaster.

[KingCharlemagne]

13. USA! USA! USA! \sarcasm\

[marions ghost]

15. Unf-ing believable

lining their pockets...and the rest of us pay through the nose.