THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, August 8, 1996 TAG: 9608080374
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY MARIE JOYCE, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: 65 lines
Three top administrators at DePaul Medical Center in Norfolk will leave after the hospital is sold, DePaul's president said Wednesday.
The administrators - Kevin Conlin, president and chief executive officer, John Brindley, chief operating officer, and Dr. Harold Horden, vice president for medical affairs - will go after the hospital is taken over by Bon Secours Health System, Conlin said. He said the departures were amicable.
Bon Secours and DePaul officials said they are still negotiating the details of the sale. They expect to sign the papers in September and transfer ownership within a month of the signing, they said.
As for the 1,000 or so other employees at DePaul, Bon Secours still plans no layoffs in the near future, said James M. Goss, a Bon Secours spokesman. Goss declined to be specific about how long the jobs of DePaul employees might be secure, and he did not rule out layoffs over the long term.
The sale guarantees that DePaul, run by the Daughters of Charity, will remain in a Roman Catholic system - a priority for DePaul leaders. Bon Secours is a nonprofit company based in Marriottsville, Md., affiliated with the Daughters of Wisdom religious order.
Conlin will take a job with the main office of the Daughters of Charity system in St. Louis, Mo. He said he declined an offer to stay in Norfolk with Bon Secours.
``They were very forthright and straightforward in their interest in my staying,'' he said.
In St. Louis, Conlin will head up Daughters of Charity's strategic efforts to bring physicians into thehealth system.
Brindley has taken a job with a Daughters of Charity hospital system in Austin, Texas. Horden will retire, Conlin said.
Bon Secours has recently expanded its holdings in Hampton Roads. In May, Maryview bought rival Portsmouth General Hospital with plans to close it.
The company also signed an agreement this spring to jointly operate Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News. It also owns three hospitals in Richmond.
Bon Secours officials won't say whether DePaul will continue with a separate administration or be merged with the leadership of Maryview Medical Center.
Maryview is getting a new leader. The hospital's holding company in July chose a new chief executive officer - Richard A. Hanson, a top administrator with Norfolk's Sentara Health System. The previous CEO took a job elsewhere in the chain.
DePaul will continue to operate as a general hospital, with all of its departments intact. Eventually, the size and make-up of various departments at DePaul may be changed, and employees may be shifted to different jobs within the hospital, officials have said.
The sale will transfer all of DePaul's holdings, including doctors' practices.
Neither side will disclose the amount of the sale. The most recent report from the state Cost Review Council listed DePaul's total assets as $81.7 million at the end of 1994. ILLUSTRATION: Graphic
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Who's Leaving?
Kevin Conlin
John Brindley
Dr. Harold Horden
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KEYWORDS: DEPAUL MEDICAL CENTER RESIGNATION by CNB