TERRACE The Mills

loss of hospital
administrator

Memorial Hospital © cafeteria |

erupted in outrage and. hostility
-- Friday afternoon as the chair-
man-of the Terrace Health Care
' Society attempted to explain to

- | angry hospital‘ staff members

_ why: their popular and ‘widely-
respected administrator, Norm
- Carelius, is leaving for a jodi in
Victoria.

The: Health Care. Sotiety

recently . decided on an ad-—

‘ministrative reorganization that
includes a newly created position
for a chief executive officer
responsible for overseeing Mills

. Memorial Hospital, the Terrace-
view Lodge and the Lodge’s new
extended care unit, ‘scheduled
for completion in about two

months, Society chairman David “

Lane convened the staff meeting
Friday, spent 15 minutes going
over the CEO's job description,
and said Carelius had been of-
fered the job and declined to
take it. The room exploded with
acrimony. .

More than 50 doctors, nurses
and technical and custodial staff
fired questions and accusations

at Lane for nearly an hour and a

half. Criticism revolved-around
the job description (‘‘no one in
their right mind would accept
that’’), the fact that the contract
was not negotiable (“‘why wasn’t

ministrator during her ¢ career at
MMH, and said, ‘‘The last three
years are the best since I’ve been
here.”’ Carelius was hired by
Mills Memorial in 1986.

During its history the hospital _
gone through lengthy

has
periods during which it had no
administrator. One staff
member asked Lane what the

board would do if no replace- |

ment were found before Carelius
left, Lane replied. that he wasn’t
sure but’ assumed that the

. Ministry of Health would supply

- an interim administrator in that

£

he offered that courtesy?""), and,

the position in’ which the

hospital. would be left if no -

suitable replacement is found
(“‘we won't get anyone with this
board’s reputation’’).

As presented by Lane, the
CEO's job description included
the responsbility for implement-
ing board policy, a position on
the policy advisor committee,
the responsiblity for. com-
municating board policy to staff
and (‘where necessary’’) to the

public, reporting staff input and-

-concerns to the board, provision
Of leadership, development and
maintenance of a ‘thigh level’?
of job satisfaction among staff,

drafting of a strategic long-term

‘plan for the society,  spear-

heading the fundraising of

$250,000 for the Lee Foundation

. over the next 12 months and
controlling administrative costs

“by a reduction of $175,000 over
the next year.

Lane said the remuneration
offered is in the order of
$60,000-70,000 per year, with a
one-year probationary period
and a three-year renewable con-
tract after that.

Dr.
that Carelius is a known and
respected administrator who has
the vote of confidence from the

medical staff, and she called the |

terms of the contract unfair.
. When Lane replied that the
board decision on the terms and
conditions of the contract were
unanimous, Almas disagreed,
saying that the medical staff
representative.on the board had
dissented.

Several other staff members .
‘ objected to the board’s lack of .

effort in keeping Carelius. One
25-year employee pointed out

that Carelius was the fifth ad-—

Loni~ Almas told Lane .

- employees being

event. A nurse told Lane that he
could, consider the tone of the
meeting a-vote of non-
confidence in the board. .

- Carelius himself was at the
‘meeting, standing quietly on the
side. When the invective died
down, he stepped forward and
addressed the staff, reminding
_them that they still have to work
with the board. After saying

he'd had a “‘wonderful three

years’’ at the hospital, Carelius
summarized his own position by
noting, ‘‘Administrators move
around. I’m working in an arena -
of risk and uncertainty.

“Since the amalgamation (of
the Mills Memorial and Ter-
raceview boards) there’s a new
Set of ‘parameters, a different
philosophy, We have a big
board anxious to do a good
job. ”

Carelius also had a few words
for the board, however. Refer-
ring to earlier remarks by Lane,
he said, ‘The board has to
believe what it’s saying about
its most

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Carelius said he will be work-
ing as administrative consultant
to the Ministry of Health for
Regional Team 5 in Victoria,
and applause rippled through
the room. Team § is the institu-
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