El Camino defends bookkeeping Other Issues, posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Jun 17, 2011 at 1:22 pm
El Camino Hospital officially responded today to a Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury report, which criticized the health care organization for not clearly separating the money it receives from tax payers and the money it generates as a non-profit corporation.
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Posted by Member, a resident of another community, on Jun 17, 2011 at 6:57 pm
I've worked at ECH for more than 35 years. The corporation was created as a device to shield strategic planning information from competing non-profit hospitals. Transperancy was to be avoided.
As I recall, years ago the California At General was considering an investigation into the mixing of tax payer funds when ECH merged with Camino Medical (now PAMF). The suit was dropped. Several million dollars were not acconted for.