Valley Children's Healthcare responds to Fresno City Council regarding pay of CEO

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Valley Children's Healthcare is responding to claims from Fresno City Council regarding the wage of their executives, saying they are "pushing backmost against misinformation and mounting the grounds consecutive regarding caller criticisms of enforcement compensation."

The healthcare strategy sent a missive to metropolis assembly Wednesday.

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Tax documents obtained by Action News uncover that successful 2021, CEO Todd Suntrapak received much than $5.1 cardinal successful compensation.

A breakdown of his benefits shows a $1.7 cardinal basal wage with an further $3.4 cardinal successful bonuses and more.

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In a quality release, officials accidental Suntrapak's yearly wage since July of 2020 has been somewhat implicit $1.7 million, which they accidental is akin to different wellness strategy CEOs.

PR steadfast AMF Media Group has been contracted by Valley Children's and is defending the hospital. During a vigor interrogation with ABC30 media spouse KMJ past week, AMF CEO Vintage Foster said the infirmary changed its bonus docket successful 2021.

That alteration meant Suntrapak received 2 bonuses successful 1 calendar twelvemonth but nary bonus the pursuing year, Foster said. The infirmary said that was the effect of a one-time accounting adjustment.

"Executive compensation astatine Valley Children's is determined done rigorous, autarkic reappraisal processes," Valley Children's Healthcare Board of Trustees Chair Michael Hanson said successful a property merchandise Wednesday. "Our decisions are guided by manufacture standards and aimed astatine attracting and retaining apical endowment indispensable to uphold our committedness to excellence successful healthcare."

Hospital officials accidental they are committed to providing high-quality attraction to children and each patients.

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"While galore different hospitals and wellness systems successful the portion and crossed California are successful fiscal distress, immoderate adjacent teetering connected fiscal ruin, Valley Children's Healthcare has done everything we tin to run efficiently, put wisely and enactment efficaciously truthful that we tin enactment the children successful our assemblage that beryllium connected us," Hanson said.

Fresno councilmembers Garry Bredefeld and Miguel Arias allege that Valley Children's uses infirmary proceeds to money enforcement salaries, claiming immoderate of that wealth came from nationalist healthcare reimbursements, similar Medi-Cal.

During a quality league past week, Bredefeld called connected Attorney General Rob Bonta to motorboat an probe connected however the authorities dollars are being spent.

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