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VOL 6 | ISSUE 279 | JULY 31, 2020
THE RACE CONEJO, HEALTHCARE INTEGRITY FILE SUIT AGAINST RMCHCS IS ON – W SLOWLY By Beth Blakeman Associate Editor
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the hospital early in 2020. He said he brought his contract with him to a February meetas it a conspir- ing and said he “had a sense acy? Wrongful that … maybe they wanted to t e r m i n a t i o n ? make a change in who the CEO Inside politics? was.” Lack of communication? At the meeting he said he A complaint fi led against offered a couple of suggestions Rehoboth McKinley Christian to members of the hospital Health Care Services by for- board. mer CEO David Conejo and “You can allow me to fi nish his management company out my contract and pay off the Healthcare Integrity in U. S. balance. Or you can just pay District Court July 23 indicates off the balance and we can it was a mix of these and more. leave on good terms,” he said. Conejo said July 29 that he “But what you cannot do [is to] could feel the shifting winds at just terminate the contract and
expect to not pay me.” Conejo added that he still had 19 months on his contract, and he “didn’t expect to have it short-circuited because somebody decided to make a change.” He also said he was blamed for a lot of things that were not his fault, including the COVID19 pandemic. “They terminated me for my responses and actions during a pandemic. Hospitals everywhere are scrambling for
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