The action is necessary as acting administrator Cheryl Chance, who is also the director of nurses, was to relinquish those duties at 5 p.m. today.
In a letter to the board of managers dated Friday, Chance said it was in her best interest and the interest of the hospital that she step down as acting administrator.
In her letter, Chance said last Thursday’s action by the board not to compensate her for extra pay as part of a two-tiered salary structure was a vote of no confidence.
“An agreement was made and voted on and the previous chairman of the board felt like I fulfilled the agreement. The actions of the board yesterday was a vote of no confidence,” Chance said in the letter.
Actually, the board voted to table action on the reimbursement and make the decision on audited figures as presented by the hospital auditors.
Then chairman Carl Williams also suggested that Chance be paid a percentage of what an interim CEO would cost.
As part of the tabled action, a compensation committee is to be appointed to study all salaries at the hospital.
At last Thursday’s meeting, chairman Dink Foree said he had been told by County Attorney Mike Hartman that Chance could not be paid retroactively for acting administrator duties.
No additional pay was discussed when Chance became interim CEO in December when Covenant Health Systems terminated the management agreement with the hospital.