Best Regional Hospitals

According to the US News & World Report website, there is only ONE hospital in Decatur judged the best.

St. Mary's Hospital is listed as one of the best hospitals in the East Central Illinois region.  DMH is not listed at all.

USN&WR ranks hospitals throughout the country based on a variety of criteria THEY choose to evaluate.  In other words, this is not a mail-order award, it's a designation bestowed after close examination and scrutiny.

The other hospitals that were ranked best in the East Central Illinois region were Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, and Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Mattoon.  St. John's Hospital in Springfield shared the designation of best in the West Central Illinois region with Memorial Medical Center of Springfield.

For the full report, go to the US News & World Report - Health web article.

Thievery and Deception

As DMH employees suffer with hiring freezes, benefit reductions, and an ever-increasing patient-to-nurse ratio, DMH administration continues to lavishly overpay their physicians. Feeling the bite of losing hundreds of patients to St. Mary's from their cardiology fiasco and with the economy down in general, DMH administration has finally done something it's never done before: cut administrator's salaries.

Although it might look good to some, the hundreds of thousands of dollars they are paying off some physicians with still flies in the face of the crappy environment the employees have to work in.

See the entire tax return from 2009-2010 fiscal year here; below is the total compensation claimed for each of the following:

KEN SMITHMIER $726,320
TIM STONE $419,295
GARY PEACOCK $394,821
LINDA FAHEY $242,560
MICHAEL ZIA $295,374
STEVEN SOBOL MD $1,696,585
STEVEN WEBER MD $1,137,145
THOMAS FULBRIGHT MD $869,041
JOHN WATERS MD $841,855
MOHAMMED HASNAIN MD $820,237
TANSEL TURGUT MD $775,842

Go to salary.com to see just how overpaid these people are, despite the 'pay cut' administration got this past fiscal year. DMH employees, THIS is one of the reasons why you are suffering!