Thursday 12 May 2011

The $3.9 Million Retirement and a California Hospital

Yesterday the Los Angeles Times reported that California's State Assembly has decided to audit the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare District, after the newspaper dug up the fact that its former CEO Samuel Downing was given a retirement package with nearly 4 million dollars in extra pension benefits last month.

There are more details in the article, but the splurge looks even more grandiose contrasted in this paragraph to the general financial situation of the hospital and its low-level employees:

International Nurses Day

It's International Nurses Day and the birthday of Florence Nightingale.