Maryann Kepple, CFO of Health Quest System in LaGrangeville, N.Y., has one major goal in mind: to improve the health system's operating performance while keeping patient care at its high-quality level.
Compensation Issues
In fiscal year 2012, SunLink Health Systems Chairman, President and CEO Robert Thornton Jr. recorded total compensation of $732,647 — more than double what he earned in 2011, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Virtua, a four-hospital health system based in Marlton, N.J., has been growing rapidly over the past several years, and the system includes three of the highest-paid healthcare executives in the Philadelphia region, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report.
Out of 18 major physician specialties in 2011, cardiologists experienced the largest decrease in median compensation, according to a survey from The Medicus Firm.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems and Mike Duggan, CEO of Detroit Medical Center and Detroit market president of Vanguard, have agreed to cut Mr. Duggan's salary as he explores a bid to run for Detroit's mayor, according to a filing…
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Len Dryer joined Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora in 1982 as a staff accountant, and for the past 22 years, he has led the hospital's financial direction as CFO.
A recent staff editorial in the Mercury News took issue with the current ballot initiative in the Mountain View, Calif., area that would limit the pay of El Camino Hospital executives, calling it the "Most Irresponsible Local Ballot Measure of…
As Vanguard Health Systems prepares to announce financial results for the first quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, the Nashville, Tenn.-based for-profit hospital operator also released executive compensation figures, showing that CEO and board chairman Charles Martin Jr. earned $7.94…
The board of Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, Fla., officially approved an 8 percent raise for president and CEO Jim Nathan, bringing his new annual salary to $808,000, according to an NBC2 report.
Among long-term care facilities, hospitals and home care agencies, directors of rehabilitation had the highest salaries at hospitals, according to a report from Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service.