IRON MOUNTAIN, MI-- The union representing registered nurses at Dickinson County Healthcare System is asking for the hospital CEO to resign.
In a press release Wednesday, the Michigan Nurses Association said CEO John Schon should leave as DCHS heads toward bankruptcy.
Susan Berquist works in the Emergency Department and is president of the MNA union at the hospital. She said it wasn’t right that Schon gets a $1.3 million pension payout while employees face uncertainty amid bankruptcy. Nurses say that very little information about why the hospital is in such bad financial shape has been made available, and the CEO isn’t being held accountable.
The union said if Schon doesn’t resign the DCHS board of trustees should terminate his employment, and if that doesn’t happen, the Dickinson County Board of Commissioners should do so.