Carolinas HealthCare’s planes used for business, personal trips

[unhappycamper]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/21/4329517/carolinas-healthcares-planes-used.html



Two Beechcraft King Air 200 airplanes in Carolinas HealthCare's fleet. System CEO Michael Tarwater, a licensed pilot, sometimes flies one of those planes for business and personal trips.

Carolinas HealthCare’s planes used for business, personal trips
By Ames Alexander
Posted: Sunday, Sep. 22, 2013

Michael Tarwater, the CEO of one of the nation’s largest hospital chains, enjoys a rarely discussed perk: the freedom to fly planes owned by the nonprofit system for business and pleasure.

Flight logs provided by Carolinas HealthCare System show Tarwater took at least 29 personal flights on the system’s planes from 2008 through 2012. During that time, he also has been on board 101 flights that the system said were for business.

Tarwater’s personal flights are counted as part of his compensation, which totaled $4.8 million in 2012, according to the hospital system.

Widely recognized for guiding Mecklenburg County’s largest employer through a period of remarkable growth, Tarwater has also honed another skill: He’s an accomplished pilot.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Also an accomplished greedster.

[Doctor_J]

2. And nothing can be done about it. that's the problem with "private" services

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if HC were a public service and the director did this, (s)he could be fired and possibly brought up on federal charges, really really quickly.