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Cone Health
Cone Health Execs Silent About Reported Lifetime Income Offer from Sentara’s CEO
2021-01-22
A tipster alleges that Sentara’s CEO offered nonprofit Cone Health’s top execs lifetime compensation if they agreed to a $11.5B merger.
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Howard Kern
Asked About Compensation for Life Scheme, Sentara CEO Kern Won’t Comment… Then Hangs Up
2021-01-5
It seems to be an unusual arrangement for a nonprofit health care system – especially one based in Hampton Roads, Virginia, where health disparities with minority and low-income populations are among the greatest in the nation.
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Howard Kern
Is Nonprofit Sentara Healthcare CEO Howard Kern Guaranteed a $5M+ Income for Life?
2020-12-27
A tipster asserts Mr. Kern is offering a similar deal to top executives at Cone Health, the North Carolina not-for-profit Kern wants to merge with in an $11.5 billion deal.
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Virginian-Pilot
Questions About a Harsh Virginian-Pilot Editorial: “Time for a Discussion About EVMS”
2020-12-17
C&BP Seeks Confirmation Manatt Timeline Was Vetted by Editorial Page — Or Was There a Ghostwriter? Checks and Balances Project (C&BP) wants to give credit to The Virginian-Pilot letters editor Johanna Somers. She quickly corrected an imbalance in the way letter signers responding to a recent Pilot editorial harshly criticizing Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS)… Read more »
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Governor Northam
C&BP Asks Gov Northam: What’s Your Position on Sentara-EVMS Controversy?
2020-12-16
Sources say Sentara Healthcare’s CEO Howard Kern is angling to keep the profitable EVMS Medical Group, from which his wealthy hospital chain draws low-cost, highly skilled medical residents, as well as a profitable caseload stream.
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Virginian-Pilot
Virginian-Pilot LTE Doesn’t Disclose Author is Former Sentara Top Executive
2020-12-12
For a decade, we’ve examined how industry-funded pundits, masquerading as unbiased experts, are published by influential media. Now The Virginian-Pilot joins the list.
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EVMS
Is Sentara Trying to Pressure EVMS Board to Flip Its “No Confidence” Vote?
2020-12-4
A new tip alleges that Sentara Healthcare Chair Dian Calderone will try to provide cover for Virginia Governor Northam. Our request for an interview with Ms. Calderone is denied.
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Sentara
Top Northam Aide: Virginia Governor Won’t Accept Sentara’s Push to Offload EVMS onto Taxpayers
2020-11-30
The timing of Sentara Healthcare’s announcement on August 12 of a $11.5B merger with Cone Health, which CEO Howard Kern would helm, raises questions.
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FirstEnergy
Randazzo Secretly Bought 5 Ohio Properties Starting in 2013
2020-11-24
FirstEnergy Corp. admits to paying $4 million to end a consulting contract with “an entity associated with an individual who subsequently was appointed” as utilities regulator. The contract began in 2013, when Randazzo began buying properties.
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Sentara
Records Suggest Sentara Pushing EVMS Funding Onto Virginia Taxpayers To Ease $11.5B Merger
2020-11-20
Sentara Healthcare is a tax-exempt nonprofit with net assets estimated at $6 billion; $5 billion more than the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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