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Former Kettering Health board member calls for better oversight and more transparency as health network faces allegations

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Former Kettering Health board member calls for better oversight and more transparency as health network faces allegations

Former Kettering Health board member Phil Parker called for the health network to be more transparent with the public and for the board of directors to improve oversight in the wake of allegations of extravagant spending and abuse of charitable funds by hospital system officials.

“There’s going to have to be trust rebuilt in the system,” said Parker, who left the Kettering Health board of directors in the summer of 2022 at the end of his second term after six years on the board. He remains on the boards overseeing the network’s Soin Medical Center and Kettering Health Greene Memorial and retired in 2020 after 26 years as president and CEO of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce.

“Once we determine the issues and any of the recommendations to improve our governing structure it would be my hope that we would share that with not only the board and the employees, but also our community.”

Parker spoke exclusively to the Dayton Daily News about the allegations and the health network’s internal investigation.

Crisis management experts agreed with Parker that Kettering Health must communicate clearly with the public, patients, employees, donors and other stakeholders to rebuild trust.

“The thing you have to provide first and foremost is transparency,” said Lanier Holt, associate professor in the school of communication at Ohio State University. “If you’re transparent and open, people will be more inclined to believe you than to distrust you. Once they distrust you it’s almost impossible to get that trust back. They need to get out in front of this and tell the story.”

Kettering Health has refused to comment beyond a March 27 written statement that was the first public indication from the health system, operated by the non-profit Kettering Adventist Healthcare, that allegations had been made and an internal investigation was launched.

Kettering Health operates 15 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient locations throughout southwestern Ohio, as well as Kettering Health Medical Group, which includes more than 700 board-certified providers.

A complaint filed with Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost in February alleged improper spending by former CEO Fred Manchur, former Kettering Health Board Chair Dave Weigley and others. The allegations, made anonymously, involve spending on travel, automobiles and renovations to Manchur’s Kettering home.

Yost also received a complaint in August from former Kettering Health employee Lori Van Nostrand regarding Manchur’s expense reports, entertainment costs and decisions on buying property, among other issues.

Allegations of financial and administrative impropriety and nepotism were included in a 2021 anonymous letter signed “Concerned SDA Church Members and Friends of Kettering Health” and addressed to health network associates, Seventh-day Adventist Church officials and government officials.

Confidentiality rules prohibit the attorney general, who oversees charitable organizations, from confirming or denying the existence of an investigation, said Kelly May, spokeswoman for Yost.

Manchur retired Dec. 31, two months after Kettering Health announced he was taking a leave of absence before retiring. He did not respond to requests for comment.

Weigley stepped down as long-time board

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After dental client dies subsequent regimen course of action, widow phone calls for adjustments to anesthesia prerequisites

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After dental client dies subsequent regimen course of action, widow phone calls for adjustments to anesthesia prerequisites

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – The North Carolina Dental Board is considering building sweeping improvements to the way sedation dentistry is done.

The demise of a effectively respected and drastically cherished cardiologist in Wilmington all through a routine dental method aided spur this motion. The situation bordering Henry Patel’s death will most likely be mentioned in the course of the Board’s listening to Thursday night to look at alterations to their sedation regulations.

Patel was put less than anesthesia on July 30, 2020, for a dental implant, and never ever regained consciousness. When people are set underneath anesthesia for medical strategies, an anesthesiologist or Qualified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) have to be present in circumstance a little something goes wrong. Nonetheless, that safeguard is not in put for dentists and oral surgeons, and Shital Patel thinks it charge her partner his existence.

“I never ever considered I would go into a dental place of work and arrive again a widow. Who has to do that at age 47? But I would never even see him talk or open his eyes yet again,” Shital Patel said by way of tears, remembering the shocking final result of her husband’s dental appointment.

She was ready in the lobby that working day, and could not understand why the procedure that was supposed to get just 20 or 30 minutes had been getting a great deal for a longer period. When she went to talk to about the delay for the third time, she understood one thing had long gone horribly incorrect.

“They are like, ‘We are handling it, we have a crash cart prepared, we have called 911.’ And I’m like, ‘What do you imply you have identified as 911? What is taking place?’” Shital recalled.

Investigators from the dental board would later on discover that in the panicked minutes soon after dental workers realized Henry Patel was in distress, his oral surgeon Dr. Mark Austin tried out and unsuccessful to carry out a tracheotomy, and hardly ever even attempted CPR. Paramedics ended up at last capable to regain a pulse, but Patel had been deprived of oxygen so very long, he was mind lifeless. Right after several agonizing times in the hospital, his relatives took him off everyday living assist.

Shital would afterwards understand her partner was just one of at minimum 4 people in North Carolina who have died in just the very last various yrs immediately after obtaining dental anesthesia. Patel’s medical lover filed a complaint with the dental board, and his good friends and spouse and children are now working to transform the way anesthesia is executed in dental offices across the condition.

“Nobody ought to have to go by means of what we are going by means of, and what the other family members are likely by way of mainly because it is preventable,” Shital instructed WECT. “If you are likely to do deep sedation, and we are not indicating you shouldn’t do it, all we are indicating is have

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Take calls and send texts from the Venu 2 Plus health and fitness GPS smartwatch by Garmin

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Take calls and send texts from the Venu 2 Plus health and fitness GPS smartwatch by Garmin

OLATHE, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Garmin® International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NYSE: GRMN), today announced the Venu® 2 Plus GPS smartwatch that lets users take calls and use their compatible smartphone’s voice assistant to send texts, ask questions, and so much more. These connected capabilities join the robust suite of health, wellness and fitness features of Garmin’s Venu 2 Series, including: sleep score with insights, stress tracking, energy monitoring, Pulse Ox1, women’s health features and a wide variety of fitness and workout options. With a bright AMOLED display and a battery life of up to 9 days, the Venu 2 Plus is a direct line to wellbeing. Check out the video here.

“Garmin has quite literally answered the call for adding on-device voice capabilities to the latest Venu smartwatch,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin vice president of global consumer sales. “For the active lifestyle customer, multi-tasking is crucial, and now Garmin customers have the ability to answer a call or send a text without digging through their pocket or bag.”

Here’s what’s new for the Venu 2 Plus:

  • Phone calls from the wrist: Make and take phone calls with the press of a button.
  • Voice assistant control: Compatible with Siri, Google Assistant or Bixby, users can use their smartphone’s voice assistant to send texts, ask questions, control compatible smart home devices and more.

All-day health monitoring

The Venu 2 Plus dials into wellbeing with the broadest range of 24/7 health monitoring features available, including: heart rate (with user-configurable alerts for high or low readings2), advanced sleep with sleep score and insights by Firstbeat AnalyticsTM, breathwork activities, fitness age, respiration, Pulse Ox, all-day stress, hydration, and women’s health (menstrual cycle tracking and pregnancy tracking). Body BatteryTM energy monitoring shows users how “charged” their body is as well as the draining effects of stress and exercise. Health SnapshotTM logs a two-minute window of key health stats and generates a report users can share with a health care provider; a great tool for capturing physiological data anytime you’re feeling off your baseline.

Customized fitness

The Venu 2 Plus pulls in all of the latest fitness features recently introduced on the Venu 2 series including 25+ built-in indoor and GPS sports apps with favorites that include walking, running, HIIT, cycling, pool swimming, Pilates, yoga, indoor climbing, hiking, advanced strength training with muscle map graphics and more.

Keep fitness feeling fresh with preloaded workouts on the watch, preset workouts available to download from Garmin ConnectTM app on your smartphone, and create your own customizable workouts by choosing from over 1,400 exercises. The Venu 2 Plus has 75+ preset animated workouts for cardio, yoga, strength, HIIT and Pilates that demonstrate proper form and technique in Garmin Connect and on the wrist. Whether training for a 5K or something longer, the Venu 2 Plus is compatible with Garmin Coach free adaptive training plans.

Safety and tracking

In addition to being

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