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  Hospital CEO resigns - Ray Price: 'It's time to move on' web posted September 10, 2008  EDGEFIELD – Edgefield County Hospital CEO
Ray Price said Tuesday that he has resigned, effective October 10. The
confirmation follows on the heels of unconfirmed reports that had begun
to circulate around the county over lunch tables and store counters.
Mr. Price sent out a memo to his employees on Thursday of last week
announcing his decision, calling the employees "the best crew I have
had the privilege to work with."Mr. Price, who joined the hospital in July of 2006, said he offered his resignation last month. "I submitted my resignation on the 29th of August," he said. "It's time for me to move on." Tim Padgett, chairman of the Edgefield County Hospital Board of Trustees, said the search for Mr. Price's replacement is already underway. "The search has just started, and it will take some time to find a qualified candidate, but the search has already begun," he said Tuesday. "We received (the resignation) as information and accepted it, but we have not met formally, which we will do on the 29th of September at our regular meeting." Mr. Padgett said Price is to be commended for his work with the hospital. "There is no doubt that when he came we were not doing well financially, and he has turned that around," he said. "That's public record. Where we had around $150,000 or $200,000 in the bank when he arrived and now we have a nice surplus. We're doing much, much better financially." Mr. Price said he has not even begun to look for another position or to even consider his future plans. Right now he has far too much work left to do in Edgefield before October 10. "No, I haven't even started to send out my resume yet," he said. "That's pretty low on my list right now. I still have too much to do here at the hospital yet." Mr. Price also said he has the utmost faith in the employees of the hospital. "Any success that we've had here at the hospital is totally due to the employees," he said. "One thing you have to have at a small, rural hospital like this are fast moving people who can adapt quickly. The people here at this hospital do very little for themselves, but what they do is for the benefit of the hospital." Still, he said that the future for smaller hospitals will remain tenuous. "The future is going to be extremely difficult," he said. "The federal government is doing more and more to cause as much trouble in the health care industry so they can take it over. I was told this in the year 2000. I'm not sure what (the board) will do or what they intend to do. The board is talking over what they want to do, but you have a capable staff here that will keep things on an even keel until they decide what things need to be done. I wish this community the best of luck. It really is a good community." Mr. Price did not elaborate on the timing or reasoning behind his decision to leave, but the move appears to follow months of friction between Price and other doctors on staff at the hospital, friction which came to a head following the announcement that Dr. Beth Gordineer would leave the Edgefield Medical Clinic and start her own practice just across the parking lot in the new medical plaza. In his memo to the hospital's employees, Mr. Price said "it seems now that I have become an impediment to the progress that needs to be made here ... it is hoped that this impediment will be removed and progress with the outmigration (county residents leaving for medical care) problem can be addressed." No firm timetable has been set for naming Mr. Price's replacement. The Citizen News contributed to this report ©
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