Thursday, September 4, 2008

Response to OC Watchdog on CHOC statement

The statement sent to OC Register today stands in stark contrast to the facts revealed by simple Google searches.

A simple google search identifies a non-profit called the California Children's Hospital Association
Their website identifies Regular and Associate members. They are as follows:

Regular Members
Children's Hospital Central California
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Children's Hospital of Orange County
Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital (not identified tonight on guidestar)
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
Miller Children's Hospital (not identified tonight on guidestar)
Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego

Associate Members
Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA
University Children's Hospital at University of California Irvine
University of California, Davis Children's Hospital
University of California, San Diego Children's Hospital
University of California, San Francisco Children's Hospital
Children's Center at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento

In a written statement to the Orange County Register, a spokesperson for CHOC defends the actions of their Board of Directors by stating:
"The system serves multiple counties - Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and parts of San Diego, and receives patients from more than 70 hospitals. It is the only children’s healthcare system in the region and acts as a safety net for some of the area’s neediest and most critically ill children."

Review of the list from the CCHA (of which we note that CHOC is a member and acknowledges) shows that there are seven other children's hospitals in the counties listed by CHOC representatives. We are unclear why CHOC states that they are the "only children's healthcare system in the region" when USC, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC San Diego, and Loma Linda all have university and medical school affiliated pediatric hospitals. Each of those websites list university affiliation as a part of their programs.

We rank list the reported income of some of these hospitals in 2005
They are:
Hospital (ranked in total Revenue)
  1. Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford, California ($556,069,591 in 2005)
  2. Children's Hospital of Los Angeles ($527,823,635 in 2005)
  3. Children's Hospital of San Diego ($395,573,634 in 2005)
  4. Children's Hospital of Orange County ($343,304,390 in 2005)
  5. Children's Hospital at Oakland ($336,809,036 in 2005)
  6. Children's Hospital of Central California- Fresno, California ($291,257,219 in 2005)
  7. Miller Children's Hospital, Long Beach, California (not reported on Guidestar)
  8. UCLA Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, California (not reported on Guidestar)

Here is the rank list of CEO salaries for the California children's hospitals we identified at Guidestar tonight.

1. Children's Hospital of San Diego (number 3 in annual 2005 revenue)
Blair Sadler
President
TOTAL = $1,195,103
Compensation= $ 921,381
Benefits = $259,232
Expense Account = $14,490
2. Children's Hospital of Orange County (number 4 in annual 2005 revenue)

Kim Cripe - CEO
TOTAL = $1,101,159
Compensation = $846,394
Benefits = $215,965.00
Expense Account = $38,800

3. Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital (number 1 in annual 2005 revenue)
Christopher Dawes - CEO/President
TOTAL = $809,386.00
Compensation = $768,668
Benefits = $40,718
Expense Account = $0

4. Children's Hospital of Oakland reports on 2006 tax return
Frank Tiedemann, MD - President & CEO
TOTAL = $673,671
Compensation = $586,142
Benefits = $87,529
Expense account = $0

5. Central California Children's Hospital
William F. Haug CEO
TOTAL: $597,337
Compensation= $571,478
Benefits = $16,259
Expenses = $9,600

6. Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (number 2 in annual 2005 revenue)
Richard Cordova - President and CEO
TOTAL= $570,605
Compensation = $416,062
Benefits = $153,665
Expense account = $878

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