New CEO Takes Over at Community Medical Centers
Posted on: Saturday, 2 July 2005, 00:00 CDT
Jul. 2--Tim Joslin, a former Modesto hospital executive, took over as chief executive officer of Community Medical Centers on Friday.
Joslin replaces Dr. J. Philip Hinton, who resigned from Community on April 1 after nearly 10 years.
Hospital spokeswoman Michelle Van Valkenburg said Joslin spent several days this week getting to know the hospital. Joslin was out of the office on Friday and could not be reached to comment.
Nonprofit Community operates Community Medical Center-Fresno, University Medical Center in Fresno, Community Medical Center-Clovis and is majority owner of the for-profit Fresno Heart Hospital. It is the Valley's largest health-care system and the Fresno area's largest private employer, with more than 6,000 workers.
He signed a three-year contract with Community and will be paid $500,000 a year.
Joslin, 44, has worked in the health-care industry for 20 years, mostly in California. He was chief executive at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto before being hired by Community. The 2,000-employee regional Modesto hospital is part of Tenet Health Corp., which operates 74 hospitals nationwide and is recovering from huge financial losses and scandals involving charges of improper billing.
He starts his new job at a time when Community is facing numerous challenges.
The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has threatened to revoke the hospital's Medicare certification after serious deficiencies, ranging from inadequate nursing services to problems with organization of the medical staff, were documented in a 93-page January inspection report.
Without the federal certification, Community would be unable to seek reimbursement from government health programs and could jeopardize its contracts with private health insurers.
Community has submitted plans to correct the problems and a state inspection team was back at the hospital last week to verify the changes had been implemented.
The hospital system also is faced with an ongoing labor dispute with some of its University Medical Center nurses and suffered a systemwide operating loss of $10.8 million last fiscal year -- the largest in recent history.
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