While I am not an employee of PeaceHealth, actually I am unemployed, I am familiar with the industry. I know that you are a journalist, and therefore you may be ignorant of the workings of large corporations, even the shrinking one that employs you. Either that, or you purposely ignore that knowledge to write an article you deem politically correct.
You, Mr. Duin, and I are not able to run a large hospital system, neither can most people. While the pay and perks are attractive, very few people can do the job without running the corporation into the ground. Pay of a billion dollars would not make you and I any more able to do the job that Mr. Yordy does, and apparantly has done for many years. The fact that the pool of eligible CEOs is small, means the largest corporations have to compete for the best chief executives. That takes money. Try to find a CEO worthy of leading and guiding a large hospital system, a corporation must try to draw those candidates away from their current positions by making the compensation more attractive than the competition, or the other industry. Once found, keeping a good CEO also takes sacrifice.
I am amazed by your personal attack of PeaceHealth’s CEO. He is receiving what he has earned, just as you have. I’m sure there must be impoverished folk out there that wonder how you can be paid to just write your opinions, particularly those not weighed objectively. Does that mean you should give back a portion of your paycheck? No. Your opinions gains readership, apparantly. It at least got me to write this email, so that’s something.
So let’s say you make it big time as a journalist. At what point do you ethically decide that you make too much money and should take a pay cut, or give your earnings to the poor? Do I have the right to make that determination? Yet I felt that you would like to make that decision for Yordy. PeaceHealth simply has to pay what it has to pay for a CEO. If they decide to make their CEO one of their cuts to save money, then what? They are back in the hunt for another CEO for whom they will have to pay enough to make the job attractive. How dare you make that an issue of Christian ethics! Your presumption is sadly lacking journalistic objectivity and integrity in my opinion.
Also, do you have any idea how Yordy spends his money? How much does he contribute to charities? Does he do anything for the disenfranchised? Does he set up any education endowment funds? Did you research any of this? Do you even care? You seem more interested in attacking an institution and a highly paid CEO and saying their use of money and the reduction of their job force is incongruous with their mission. Well congratulations of knowing so little. CEOs have to make the hard decisions for the corporation. What he does with his own money is no business of yours or mine. He is paid a lot to make these decisions. It’s simplistic babble to try to point to his income and then point out the poor people losing their jobs and tie the two together. In this age of changing and more challenging fiscal obstacles, his job is to make the institutions more streamline and efficient, not lowing his pay to enble current inefficiency. I know that PeaceHealth’s decisions to cut jobs must be a difficult one, considering their mission, which I must believe they value.
But nice job of demonizing both the corporation and it’s head. It was probably effective, which may be all you cared about to begin with.
Sincerely,
Ty Teal Kelso, WA
Anonymous
09/07/2013
Dear Mr. Teal,
You make a very good argument for the continued decline of the middle class in the USA. Thank you for your insights.
My view of the Catholics in general. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0
Does the swearing limit count in links?
Dear Mr. Duin,
While I am not an employee of PeaceHealth, actually I am unemployed, I am familiar with the industry. I know that you are a journalist, and therefore you may be ignorant of the workings of large corporations, even the shrinking one that employs you. Either that, or you purposely ignore that knowledge to write an article you deem politically correct.
You, Mr. Duin, and I are not able to run a large hospital system, neither can most people. While the pay and perks are attractive, very few people can do the job without running the corporation into the ground. Pay of a billion dollars would not make you and I any more able to do the job that Mr. Yordy does, and apparantly has done for many years. The fact that the pool of eligible CEOs is small, means the largest corporations have to compete for the best chief executives. That takes money. Try to find a CEO worthy of leading and guiding a large hospital system, a corporation must try to draw those candidates away from their current positions by making the compensation more attractive than the competition, or the other industry. Once found, keeping a good CEO also takes sacrifice.
I am amazed by your personal attack of PeaceHealth’s CEO. He is receiving what he has earned, just as you have. I’m sure there must be impoverished folk out there that wonder how you can be paid to just write your opinions, particularly those not weighed objectively. Does that mean you should give back a portion of your paycheck? No. Your opinions gains readership, apparantly. It at least got me to write this email, so that’s something.
So let’s say you make it big time as a journalist. At what point do you ethically decide that you make too much money and should take a pay cut, or give your earnings to the poor? Do I have the right to make that determination? Yet I felt that you would like to make that decision for Yordy. PeaceHealth simply has to pay what it has to pay for a CEO. If they decide to make their CEO one of their cuts to save money, then what? They are back in the hunt for another CEO for whom they will have to pay enough to make the job attractive. How dare you make that an issue of Christian ethics! Your presumption is sadly lacking journalistic objectivity and integrity in my opinion.
Also, do you have any idea how Yordy spends his money? How much does he contribute to charities? Does he do anything for the disenfranchised? Does he set up any education endowment funds? Did you research any of this? Do you even care? You seem more interested in attacking an institution and a highly paid CEO and saying their use of money and the reduction of their job force is incongruous with their mission. Well congratulations of knowing so little. CEOs have to make the hard decisions for the corporation. What he does with his own money is no business of yours or mine. He is paid a lot to make these decisions. It’s simplistic babble to try to point to his income and then point out the poor people losing their jobs and tie the two together. In this age of changing and more challenging fiscal obstacles, his job is to make the institutions more streamline and efficient, not lowing his pay to enble current inefficiency. I know that PeaceHealth’s decisions to cut jobs must be a difficult one, considering their mission, which I must believe they value.
But nice job of demonizing both the corporation and it’s head. It was probably effective, which may be all you cared about to begin with.
Sincerely,
Ty Teal
Kelso, WA
Dear Mr. Teal,
You make a very good argument for the continued decline of the middle class in the USA. Thank you for your insights.