Mere weeks after being announced as the new CEO of MetroHealth Hospital, John Brennan has backed out of the position, according to a source.
The subject of a glowing editorial in the PD, Brennan was given the title on November 14.
The hospital has had its share of problems and public missteps in recent years, though most held hope that Brennan could turn things around.
More on this as it comes.
Update: He’ll be taking an expanded role and staying on at St. Barnabas in New Jersey.
This article appears in Nov 21-27, 2012.
The Metro is the oldest hospital around at 175 years old. This hospital takes the problems that no one else will. The state and the city and the county support it (kind of), but it has to operate in a way that the other hospitals do not. I know many think that metro health takes all the poor and disadvataged and that they do not get the big money support like the Clinic with heart problems that the rich and famous swear by…and the Clinic deserves every thing they receive as a result of being a world-class system which has much to do with our re-bound as a City. But Metro is the unsung hero to me and many who have fallen upon hard times and still suffered the health problems that seem to go with all bodies at one point or another. Had the Metro Health System not been there for me and my family, we would maybe not made it to see this Christmas Period of 2012. God Bless Metro Health…whoever becomes CEO. It transends CEO’s and MBA’s and Lawyers and accountants of the new medical teams and I will guess that it will make it another 175 years on soul and spirit and a desire to heal the sick…
As part of his severance package, Mr. Brennan will receive 18 million dollars in salary, 5 million dollars in bonus pay for doing a good job, and another 47 million in stock options.
I think the Metro Health System should go with out a CEO for a while longer. A 175 year old hospital in the city of Cleveland has the support of the entire medical community. Which as we know is as strong as any city in the world! The politics with Metro may be a little more complicated.. but politics always makes things more complicated than they need to be..Kind of like lawyers and their MBAs and their bean counters. Hospitals are the most scientific and valuable institution in the world and our history. To heal and help the sick whether rich or poor, black or white, republican or democrat or independent, is the highest of all callings. God Bless our wonderful medical community in Cleveland..OK, even the lawyers involved..LOL