Wow. The new CEO, Chris Newman, sure has set himself up for a rocky start as CEO at Mary Washington.
He picked a fight with the anesthesiologists and anesthesia nursing staff causing many of them to leave en masse. Now the MWH ORs are so thinly staffed with temps that semielective surgeries have to be delayed so the few available anesthesia staff are available to support the trauma program, keeping the hospital from having to go on mandatory diversion.
Newman received a Leapfrog D safety grade as COO. The hospital had to ask Leapfrog not to be graded this year because they knew that they weren’t going to improve their grade. Clear lack of leadership even as the official word from MWH is that it is a clerical error.
The most recent JCAHO survey was absolutely appalling and should make many people concerned about their safety at the hospital.
He picked a fight with the ER doctors last year when he tried to muscle them into being hospital employees. This caused many of their excellent ER physicians to leave or start looking for other opportunities.
It makes a community member wonder what is going on with the MWH Board of Trustees. Are they truly aware of how poorly their hospital is performing and how recklessly their CEO is behaving?
Your suggestion of a campaign to the MWH Board is a good one. The hospital had become a wild west show with the loss of the Anesthesia group and now a totally unsafe environment with loser, I mean, locum Radiologists missing easy diagnoses such as obviously fractured bones, and dire ones such as not calling a stroke. Yikes, and they are currently adding a neurointerventional room, but they just got rid of the most brilliant neuroradiologists in the region! Two weeks into this debacle, it is a dangerous disaster. And must be a money laundering operation of some sort, for how can it be financially viable to pay locum wages and not give the established and reputable practice a fair package? Just like UVA, the woke Emperor needs to be overthrown and replaced with a conservative administration as we had prior to McDermott.
Very thorough & enlightening article. Guess the giant can’t gobble up every practice in town. I’ve always been extremely satisfied with Medical Imaging services & am glad they will continue to offer outpatient services.
Wow. The new CEO, Chris Newman, sure has set himself up for a rocky start as CEO at Mary Washington.
He picked a fight with the anesthesiologists and anesthesia nursing staff causing many of them to leave en masse. Now the MWH ORs are so thinly staffed with temps that semielective surgeries have to be delayed so the few available anesthesia staff are available to support the trauma program, keeping the hospital from having to go on mandatory diversion.
Newman received a Leapfrog D safety grade as COO. The hospital had to ask Leapfrog not to be graded this year because they knew that they weren’t going to improve their grade. Clear lack of leadership even as the official word from MWH is that it is a clerical error.
The most recent JCAHO survey was absolutely appalling and should make many people concerned about their safety at the hospital.
He picked a fight with the ER doctors last year when he tried to muscle them into being hospital employees. This caused many of their excellent ER physicians to leave or start looking for other opportunities.
It makes a community member wonder what is going on with the MWH Board of Trustees. Are they truly aware of how poorly their hospital is performing and how recklessly their CEO is behaving?
Your suggestion of a campaign to the MWH Board is a good one. The hospital had become a wild west show with the loss of the Anesthesia group and now a totally unsafe environment with loser, I mean, locum Radiologists missing easy diagnoses such as obviously fractured bones, and dire ones such as not calling a stroke. Yikes, and they are currently adding a neurointerventional room, but they just got rid of the most brilliant neuroradiologists in the region! Two weeks into this debacle, it is a dangerous disaster. And must be a money laundering operation of some sort, for how can it be financially viable to pay locum wages and not give the established and reputable practice a fair package? Just like UVA, the woke Emperor needs to be overthrown and replaced with a conservative administration as we had prior to McDermott.
Preach sister.
Very thorough & enlightening article. Guess the giant can’t gobble up every practice in town. I’ve always been extremely satisfied with Medical Imaging services & am glad they will continue to offer outpatient services.
The forced closure of the Moss clinic should not be overlooked in all these actions taken by MWHC.
What is Newman's yearly salary (to include benefits if known)?
McDermott’s total compensation was $4.3 million per year.
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