The newly constituted board of the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. held its first public meeting last Friday, with the corporation\u2019s chief executive officer, Esther Mu\u00f1a, giving them an update on what has been happening at the agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a good chance for the board to get organized to familiarize themselves with the duties and know the scope of their responsibilities because the board represents the community and the stakeholders of the healthcare system [on] Saipan, Tinian, and Rota.\u201d Muna said.<\/p>\n
Present at the meeting were board chair Lauri Ogumoro, vice chair David Rosario, and members Leticia Reyes, David Rosario, and William Cing of Tinian. <\/p>\n
The meeting was highlighted by the drawing of lots pertaining to the tenure or number of years each member will serve on the board. The determination of the years of service is a requirement of the law and must be upheld. Ogumoro will serve six years, Rosario will serve six years, Reyes four years, Cing four years, and Dr. Larry Hocog of Rota four years. Hocog drew four years by default because he was not able to attend the meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a good team at CHCC and we want the board to help them because this is our community hospital. We are looking at providing governance to them, not a day-to-day management and operation but we want to see what we can do to build the hospital for the community. It\u2019s here and it\u2019s working but we can always improve. That is what the [board] is part of,\u201d Ogumoro said.<\/p>\n
From the time of the CHCC board members\u2019 confirmation to the transition, they will be provided with information and data about the hospital, operations, finances, activities by Mu\u00f1a. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey need to be organized, they need officers as well as getting the lottery of terms. That lottery of terms was necessary because PL-19-78 requires it and it provides a working relationship between the chair of the board and the CEO so that things will have a smooth transition into their new roles six months from now,\u201d Mu\u00f1a added.<\/p>\n
As board chair, Ogumoro said she would make sure that the programs the board will make and have will redound to the benefit of the community. \u201cBeing the chair carries a lot of responsibilities and a daunting task. My job is to work with the CEO for the community because this is our hospital,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Our] immediate project is to get ourselves organized and learn from the different areas in the hospital\u2026and we will determine what are the most important goals to be able to move forward,\u201d Ogumoro added.<\/p>\n
The next board meeting is on July 20, 5:50pm at the CHCC administrative conference room.<\/p>\n
Unlike the previous board, which had a purely recommendatory role at CHCC, this new board will have power over the corporation, with Mu\u00f1a as its direct employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The newly constituted board of the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. held its first public meeting last…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[402,666,17357,4332],"class_list":["post-255039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ceo","tag-chcc","tag-david-rosario","tag-william-cing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}