County commissioners filed a complaint against the board of Morrow County Hospital in Mount Gilead, Ohio, for denying repeated requests for public records related to a "mysterious $1.3 million donation made in December of 2016 by the hospital's management company, OhioHealth," according to The Morrow County Sentinel.
The public records complaint was filed in the Ohio Court of Claims and claims that OhioHealth made the payment as a settlement for giving the hospital bad management advice. Commissioners say the public "hospital board has been plotting behind closed doors to shut down the life-saving emergency room, accept secret settlement payment and eliminate nearly 40 percent of the staff," according to the report.
Hospital Board President Pat Drouhard said the county commissioners do not agree with the board's decision to choose OhioHealth to manage the hospital. "The hospital board is charged with making such decisions, and stands by it and the careful process used to make it," Mr. Drouhard said in a statement to The Morrow County Sentinel, adding that the board had no plans to close the ER or make "massive layoffs."
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