19 December, 2009
Mr. Morrison,
Please provide a list of ALL of the members of Randolph Hospital’s and Randolph Medical Associates’ Boards of Directors, . . as well as Randolph Hospital’s Corporate Membership . . . listed by year from 1995 to the current year (2009).
Randolph Hospital is a “non-profit” institution. This information is PUBLIC RECORD (much like the information you once knowingly lied about/withheld in Court), and should be provided in a timely fashion.
As I am updating files for an upcoming project, I also require complete hard-copies of both Randolph Hospital’s and Randolph Medical Associates’ IRS 990 forms for the last three fiscal years . . as well as copies of the IRS 990 reports for the next fiscal year (for both RH and RMA) as soon as they become available.
All of the above can be mailed to my home address.
Thank you for your attention to this matter,
Mary H. Johnson, M.D., FAAP
Life kinda got in the way and the letter did not go out until this past week.
Also to refresh everyone's memory, BOD and/or Corporate members (compensated and not) of "non-profits" are named on IRS 990's. IRS 990's are public documents. Nonprofit organizations are required to make their 990 and their exemption application available for public inspection without charge at their regional and district offices during regular business hours.
Today, I got a response from Bob Morrison (by certified mail):
Dr. Johnson,
I have received your letter of February 15 requesting information. There will be a charge of $0.20 per page for the forms 990, payable in advance. The total pages of the six forms 990 which you have requested are 207. There will also be a charge of $4.95, representing our actual cost of postage in mailing the copies to you, also payable in advance. This would bring the total amount due to $46.35. We will let you know the cost of the forms 990 for 2009 when they become available.
(Note: Morrison doesn't say when they will be available. I'm supposed to pay more postage. Every little thing.)
If you wish to proceed with your request for the forms 990, please make payment in advance. You may send your check to my attention or deliver it personally to me or my assistant, Mrs. Brenda Fales. The forms 990 will be mailed to you promptly after payment is received.
To the best of my knowledge, Randolph Hospital is not required to provide the additional information which you have requested.
Sincerely,
Bob Morrison, President
For the record, I don't really mind paying for copying costs or postage. But I do very much mind that once again, Bob Morrison's response to "non-profit" transparency and accountability is obfuscation and the withholding of information that is public record . . .
. . . whatever he thinks he can get away with.
Yes, indeed. I wish to proceed. Once Bob has his 2009's ready I am going to very happily write this check.
With regards to the names of Hospital Board and Corporate members, Bob is essentially pulling the same stunt he pulled in Court, i.e. withholding information that is public record. To refresh readers' memories, during the discovery phase of his own bogus/despicable "libel" lawsuit, Bob repeatedly lied under Oath about the "confidentiality" of financial information (very relevant to my damages claim) that was published on "the forms 990".
Multiple felonies. No statute of limitations on perjury. But where-oh-where is Garland Yates?
Moreover, once upon a time ago, Dr. Jim Kinlaw of White Oak Family Physicians told my Mother that serving on the hospital's Board-of-Directors and/or Corporate Membership was an "honorary" position (of course, at the time, he was trying to squirm out of responsibility for looking the other way while Randolph Hospital brazenly defrauded the Federal government out of the money it spent to bring Dr. Anderson and I to Asheboro).
Taking that line of logic one step further, if serving on a "non-profit's" Board is so "honorary" and members were truly proud of their service (and had nothing to be ashamed of or hide), they would not mind if a record of that service were provided to members of the tax-paying public who asked for it?
I already know many of the names . . . recorded on 990's in the legal files. All I have really asked for here is a comprehensive year-by-year list (to compare against what I have). I'm not sure why that's so hard for Bob (or more accurately, Bob's executive assistant).
Of course, in the alternative of all this USPS action, I could save a little money and just ask Bob to make the copies of the records I've requested available for my personal review at Randolph. I could then photograph what I needed and not waste another penny on Bob or his petty games.
I could also growl menacingly at him while he hovered . . . and give the volunteers something to talk about. It might be fun.
OBTW, while I'm at the hospital photographing records, I could just go read the names of Board members off the plagues on their expensive oil portraits.
The man truly is a piece of work. The only thing he knows how to do it crank it up another notch . . . push another button. It's all he's ever done when it came to Mary Johnson.
But I am resolved that I WILL have the name of every single fine upstanding Board and/or Corporate member of this "non-profit" who allowed this way over-rated, WAY over-paid JOKE of an executive to run rough-shod over the lives and careers of so many good people in Asheboro . . . the same fine, upstanding Board and/or Corporate members who now do not have the common sense God gave a goat to realize that WORD OF MOUTH MATTERS AND IT IS HURTING THEM.
At this point it really is not just about truth or transparency or accountability. It's also about professional credibility and fiscal survival. This Board of Directors should have stopped winking and nodding at Bob's shenanigans, owned up for what this smug jack-ass did to one doctor who defied him/his minions in order to do the right thing by a dying baby, and made amends a very long time ago.
The next certified letter that I get from Randolph Hospital ought to be from the Chairman of its Board of Directors saying, "We screwed up, we know we screwed up and we want to meet with you (as we did not before) and hear you (as we did not before) make it right (as a settlement negotiated on a pack of lies never did)".
I would be amenable to that meeting. What I am NOT amenable to is "just going away". "Bygones" and a white-wash of the small town values that these fine upstanding gentlemen trashed & betrayed are NOT going to happen.
But I won't ever get that letter because this bunch of mill-town big fish would rather keep doing what they've always done and let all life in their pond die.
They were never wrong. Even when they were.
The young professionals that the powers-that-be are trying so desperately to recruit now have no use for such garbage. I mean, why invest yourselves and bring your children here, raise them to be good citizens, and then be forced to watch while your community tears them down and rips them apart for doing the right thing?
As was the experience of my parents.
