1. Anne McSweeney, director of the Office of Development at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, earned more than $1.4 million in salary and benefits in 2010. Richard Naum, another executive within Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s fundraising center, earned $844,100 in 2010. However, executive recruiters said those high salaries are anomalies, as most hospital fundraising executives earn between $200,000 and $300,000 per year.
2. Two executives who used to work at Quincy (Mass.) Medical Center and were fired after Boston-based Steward Health Care bought the hospital are now seeking severance payments. Apurv Gupta, MD, Quincy Medical Center‘s former CMO, is asking for $468,000, and Victor Munger, former senior vice president of human resources, is seeking $135,000.
3. Erlanger Health System, based in Chattanooga, Tenn., has awarded a severance package to another executive, the third such buyout since the end of last year. Keith Helton, MD, former senior vice president of physician services, received a six-month severance of $92,492.
4. In response to a potential ballot measure to cap the pay of executives at Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Hospital, the administration has said the executive compensation is on par with industry standards.
5. Michael Tarwater, CEO of Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas HealthCare System, earned more than $4.2 million in total compensation in 2011, an increase of more than 13 percent from 2010.
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