Oregon hospital COO ousted after criminal history found

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) — A lately employed Oregon hospital chief operations officer not holds the job after hospital officers say they realized he had been convicted and sentenced to 5 years in jail on fees of wire fraud and false illustration of a Social Safety quantity.

Larry Butler Jr., who most lately held the COO place at Bay Space Hospital in Coos Bay, had been convicted for defrauding the Louisiana Well being Cooperative Inc. and Mary Chook Perkins Most cancers Middle in Louisiana, The World reported.

In an announcement saying the sentence in 2015, federal prosecutors stated Butler used false credentials to acquire pay and advantages from the 2 nonprofit healthcare firms.

Hospital officers stated the convictions didn’t present up throughout a major background test.

“Bay Space Hospital makes use of a complete background test course of to vet all of its new hires,” the hospital stated on a Fb publish. “Even the perfect system will be manipulated by an unscrupulous particular person.”

The hospital additionally stated no affected person or worker knowledge was threatened throughout Butler’s transient tenure on the hospital however they’re conducting a radical audit of their techniques.

In an announcement saying his hiring, Bay Space Hospital touted Butler’s expertise, principally in healthcare establishments in California, however didn’t point out the healthcare businesses in Louisiana.

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