Chief of Caritas forced out

[survivor999]

Haddad quits after board votes for firing

By Walter V. Robinson and Michael Paulson, Globe Staff | May 25, 2006

Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley and the leadership of the region's Catholic health care system early this morning forced the resignation of the hospitals' president, Dr. Robert M. Haddad, over allegations that he had sexually harassed several women.

At around 1:30 a.m., after a five-hour meeting of the hospital's board of governors, the archdiocese said that Haddad had resigned from the positions of president and chief executive of Caritas Christi Health Care System.

The archdiocese said that the hospital's board had voted to fire Haddad but offered him ten month's of salary and benefits if he resigned instead. His compensation is believed to be worth more than $1 million a year.

O'Malley called the events that led to Haddad's departure ``very unfortunate and serious."

``Our actions this evening recognize that all complaints of sexual harassment will be taken seriously and investigated thoroughly," O'Malley said this morning.

Haddad's departure ends a brief but embarrassing episode for the cardinal, who has faced a series of damaging controversies during his three-year tenure as archbishop of Boston. O'Malley had decided last week to reprimand, rather than fire, Haddad after four women employees accused the physician of harassment, but the cardinal changed his mind after a Globe story on the decision led to more than 10 new accusations and a public outcry.


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[tanyev]

1. Was he a gyno?

Maybe he was just practicing his love.

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." — George Bush, Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

[survivor999]

2. Not sure....

But the cardinal had picked him 2 years ago... So many crooks at the top...