Mountain East Medical Center will be replacing the hospital’s board of directors, Bob Wilkinson, with the assistant head of the department, Johnny Toler, due to the animosity between Wilkinson and the head of the purchasing department.
Wilkinson purchasing practices have been condemned by some of the medial staff even though the board of directors ordered him to cut cost by 15 percent.Wilkinson has been working at the Mountain East Medical Center since 1975 after coming from a small rural community as the hospitals purchasing chief. His resignation is effective immediately.
Harry Illscott, the hospital administrator, stated, “Bob’s abilities will be greatly missed… but I know that Johnny Toler is a person we can all depend on.”
Toler, Wilkinsons replacement, has been with the hospital for 13 years and has a background in pharmaceutical. He started as an assistant druggist in the hospital pharmacy, but then was moved to the purchasing department in 1978 after the hospital’s pharmacy closed. His wife, Carolyn, is head of the gynecology department at MEMC.
“This hospital means a great deal to me and my family… I will give my best efforts to making our purchasing department the best,” Toler said.”I learned from a fine man [Bob Wilkinson] and i hope to build on the foundation he established.”
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