Editor,
Your excellent coverage of administrator compensation on Main Campus raises similarly troubling questions about UNM Hospital on North Campus.
For starters, why is the head of this county hospital for the indigent called a CEO? In a state with a shortage of doctors, why do doctors at this hospital get to cut down direct patient care and become executive vice presidents?
Then there is the mil levy. It was voted in by local residents to get uninsured patients access to health care. When the chamber of commerce endorsed the levy (board position paper Oct. 15) they pointed out the use of this money also for "operating costs" at the hospital. So is any of the take from the levy beefing up compensation to high-level administrators?
Arun Anand Ahuja
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