EXETER – At the same time that Beth Israel/Lahey Hospital is closing its doors on some care it provides the Seacoast region at Exeter Hospital, it is paying its top eight executives $9 million in salaries, said Executive Councilor Janet Stevens, R-Rye.
Given more than a day to respond to that information, layoffs and termination of health care providers that Stevens handed to the governor, officials at the hospital did not answer InDepthNH.org’s request to confirm or refute her numbers.
At a meeting of the Executive Council on Wednesday in Meredith at Church Landing, Stevens pressed Attorney General John Formella on whether his department is making progress in its review of a court-ordered affiliation agreement to take the reins at the non-profit hospital and whether it is living up to his side of the deal…