I have not updated the Asheboro Pediatrics website (which debuted in 2004) since I began blogging in earnest in 2006. For a long time, I have been wanting to re-visit the "Salaries" page. But, you see, contrary to what the Roch Smith Jrs. and Ed Cones and Sue Polinskys and Fecund Stenches of the Greensboro blogosphere think, I have a busy and very productive life.
I actually practice medicine. I take care of sick babies and children for a living. It is a calling for me, and I am actually am quite good at it - particularly in terms of having seen and done it all - in the ruralist of rural areas. I had wanted to do it in Asheboro for the rest of my life. But that didn't work out.
For a very long while, after what happened in Asheboro, I was paid peanuts to do it . . . taken for granted on a number of occasions . . . by people very much like Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin (but who were never quite so viciously or self-servingly EVIL). But the singular beauty of a Locums position is that you can pick up and move right on along when the people-in-suits behave badly. Ironically, as the economy tanked, and rural areas found it difficult to recruit/keep doctors, my services became more and more valuable.
As it turns out, good/experienced/"old school" Pediatricians willing to take the call and do the grunt work are not a "a dime a dozen" after all.
As regular readers know, back in December 2009, I submitted a public records request (by certified mail) to Bob Morrison, CEO of Randolph Hospital, asking for a list of the community "honorables" who have served on the Boards of Directors (and Corporate Membership) of Randolph Hospital and Randolph Medical Associates (RMA) from 1995 to the present day.
As obfuscation is his nature, Mr. Morrison has yet to comply with the request . . . which was resubmitted on Thursday via e-mail through Randolph Hospital's Director of Public Relations, April Thornton (who is already playing games). I am resolved that, as a taxpaying citizen, I'm going to be afforded the rights and avenues of access available to anyone else.
This "you must communicate only with Bob Morrison" bullshit (please excuse the flowery verbiage) is TOTAL BULLSHIT. I'm quite certain other non-profit CEO's do not concern themselves with simple public records requests. Ms. Thornton needs unpucker and do her damned job.
(Pause for deep, cleansing breaths.)
This information is public record . . . by virtue of the hospital's (and its "controlled affiliate's) status as a non-profit . . . and it is recorded on their IRS 990 returns. Of course, these returns were withheld as "highly confidential" during my litigation with the hospital. And hospital executives REPEATEDLY LYING about the confidentiality of the financial information contained within those returns serves as the core of my as-yet-uninvestigated-and-unprosecuted perjury claim against Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin.
Disgusted with the games that Bob Morrison and his sycophants continue to play, I've recently combed through my old files, and done some perusing at Guidestar, and have decided to update my "Salaries" page here (using what I can find) . . . with some minor modifications.
The question I keep getting asked by people who don't swallow the Courier Tribune or Triad Business Journal's "fluff" hook, line and sinker (the club is getting bigger) is, "How can Bob Morrison make that much money as the CEO of a small-town Bandaid Station?".
It's a good question. It's not like Bob (or his left-hand man, the oily and EVIL Steve Eblin) is some captain of industry who built it for them to come. Asheboro's only "non-profit" hospital serves a more-or-less captive audience in a largely rural, economically-struggling county. The money Randolph Hospital's executives make, as people who do not see a single patient, is more or less skimmed off the top.
This time around, I thought I'd take a modified and more focused approach to the the "Salaries" Page on the APeds website, and simply focus on the salary & benefit packages of Morrison and Eblin (the liars in question).
I want the ordinary "wrong person" in Asheboro to see just how much money these two have made on the backs of the poor and the indigent . . . while driving doctors (who do the grunt work) out of town.
The earliest records I have begin in 1994. So we will start there and move to the closet records I have to the present day.
I do not have the returns for several of the years I was employed by Randolph Medical Associates. Why, you ask? Because at the time, (1) Randolph Hospital and its lawyers ("experts" on non-profits) dubbed them "highly confidential", (2) my attorney was too stupid/incompetent/ignorant/complicit to get them (the N.C. State Bar does not have a problem with this), and (3) I'm not going to join Guidestar/pay money now to get them.
Please remember that IRS 990 returns actually cover the hospital's fiscal year (from October of the year listed on the return to the September 30 of the following year). Taking 1994 as an example, the return covers October 1, 1994 through September 30, 1995.
Let us begin (I apologize for the slightly squiggly columns):
Year Salary Expense Account Benefits
1994
Bob Morrison 123,163 0 0
Steve Eblin 72,489 0 0
1997
Bob Morrison 209,684 3,600 0
Steve Eblin 95,561 3,600 0
1998
Bob Morrison 256,712 6,000 0
Steven Eblin 154,087 3,000 0
1999
Bob Morrison 280,930 4,608 0
Steve Eblin 170,546 3,600 0
2000
Bob Morrison 306,752 7,680 32,272
Steve Eblin 188,412 6,000 13,632
2001
Bob Morrison 331,661 5,184 32,003
Steve Eblin 203,559 4,050 12,385
2002
Bob Morrison 246,242 5,184 24,156
Steve Eblin 160,925 4,050 3,464
2003
Bob Morrison 308,767 6,082 24,424
Steve Eblin 194,695 4,171 4,483
2004
Bob Morrison 318,527 6,417 27,839
Steve Eblin 209,834 4,401 6,550
2005
Bob Morrison 379,634 68,40 27,969
Steve Eblin 237,983 44,64 69,28
2006
Bob Morrison 326,219 6,840 28,109
Steve Eblin 215,430 4,464 6,920
2007
Bob Morrison 326,219 7,092 29,133
Steve Eblin 215,430 5,112 7,231
Now, 2008's return (the last one I have) is where it gets REALLY Interesting:
Bob Morrison: Base Compensation 294,463
Bonus & Incentive Compensation 48,643
Deferred Compensation 330,482
Nontaxable Benefits 30,432
Total: 704,020
I MEAN, I GOTTA ASK. IS ANYBODY ELSE BLINKING AT THAT?
WHAT IN GOD'S NAME JUSTIFIES A SALARY LIKE THAT FOR THE CEO OF A SMALL TOWN, "NON-PROFIT" HOSPITAL?
Maybe Morrison's ABSURD/OBSCENE salary is the real reason the Bobber does not want to provide me with a list of his rubber-stamping Board of Directors & Corporate Membership . . . because these community "honorables" should be ashamed . . .and (as always) they're not too keen on being held accountable themselves.
Steve Eblin: Base Compensation 175,504
Bonus & Incentive Compensation: 24,907
Deferred Compensation 25,138
Nontaxable Benefits 10,050
Total: $235,599
Keep in mind that Randolph Hospital employs two other Vice Presidents, Sandra Allen and Lynwood White, who make as much or considerably more than Steven Eblin. Sandra is the only clinician in the bunch (i.e. she's the only one who might actually touch a patient once in a great while).
I'll pause for just a moment to let the reader do a little rudimentary math in their head.
Also keep in mind that back in 2006 (making like an Armfield - Hi Buzzy!), both the Asheboro City Council and Randolph County Board of Commissioners gave $500,000 apiece of the taxpayers money to help fund Randolph's new Cancer Center . . . a cancer center that, if the truth be told, Randolph County did not need so much as it needs primary care providers and a psych ward and a hospital that focused a little bit harder on the needs of the people non-profits are supposed to serve.
I'm wondering how much of that money actually made it to the Cancer Center?
As always, my beef with these two over-paid, over-rated, LYING JERKS with their EVIL MBA's, is that while they were stuffing their own pockets, Morrison and Eblin could not see fit to fairly compensate a Pediatrician whose practice they wrongfully/maliciously destroyed (3 years of soul-sucking work down the tube - with what was left handed over to the eager Kathleen Riley . . . whose salary jumped to 200K by 2000) . . . whose reputation they bashed (I'm "crazy" dontcha know) . . . and whose career they irrevocably altered and very nearly completely de-railed.
Doors were slammed in my face and windows nailed shut because of what these two vindictive posers did. And they thought it was FUNNY.
But in 2001, after three years of what can only be described as HELL (and loosing ALL of the fruits of three years of hard labor before that), the pain and suffering of Dr. Mary Johnson, a home-grown, Board-certified Pediatrician, who took the 24-7 call, and rescued her colleagues, and saw the patients was only worth $125,000 (less than one year's salary) and a bunch of broken promises.
Dr. (I EARNED it) Mary Johnson is not supposed to be PISSED OFF about that.
At least you might better understand why I have no use for smiling Steve Schmidly as a lawyer.
Now that I've got that out of my system, unless something pops up, I think I'll take a break for a day or two.
But hold on tight chickadees . . .
. . . THERE'S MORE to come.
