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Columbus health system CEO transitions complicated executive paychecks
by: By Carrie Ghose | Columbus Business First Posted: Aug 27, 2021 / 04:02 PM EDT / Updated: Aug 27, 2021 / 04:02 PM EDT Dave Blom retired from OhioHealth in 2019 after 36 years with Central Ohio’s largest health system and the hospitals that united to form it. (Photo: Jeffry Konczal for Columbus Business First.) COLUMBUS, Ohio (Columbus Business First) — No one spent a full year as CEO of a Columbus hospital system in 2019. With seven chiefs at four institutions, the unprecedented year of change complicated the picture of annual executive compensation. One top spot had been … Read more
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AccentCare CEO: Home Health Industry Can’t Become the ‘Last Refuge’ for Unvaccinated Workers
After months of taking a more passive approach to COVID-19 vaccinations, home health providers are starting to turn up the heat on their workforce. On Tuesday, Sarasota, Florida-based Empath Health — a home health, hospice and home care provider that also offers palliative care and more — announced it will require COVID-19 vaccinations for all staff, volunteers and vendors. Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has similarly said that all of its 150,000 employees across the nonprofit system, presumably including home health workers, must be fully vaccinated by Nov. 1. Contextually, these and other home-based care organizations have taken a stronger stance on … Read more