{"id":10580,"date":"2014-10-13T15:49:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2014-10-13T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:49:53","slug":"happy-trails-eric-deaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/13\/happy-trails-eric-deaton\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Eric Deaton!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a reason that lots of soap operas are set in hospitals…<\/p>\n

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Stop me if you’re heard this one before…<\/p>\n

Eric Deaton, A Veteran Health Care Executive, Returns To Wellmont As Chief Operating Officer<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow. Didn’t see that one coming.<\/p>\n

You know, I wanted to believe that Eric Deaton would be around for a while. He had turned the hospital’s PR issues completely around. He had recruited a team of leaders that cleared up the problems that DRMC faced. He was hated by a lot of hospital employees (and ex-employees) for doing what he did. He made mistakes along the way and could have handled things better, but he turned out to be the “Fixer” that was needed. He bought a house in the area, moved his family to Danville, joined 42,914 civic organizations and became the highly-visible CEO that LifePoint wanted.<\/p>\n

Thud<\/strong>. Just like every other CEO (or whatever title they had), he’s heading out the door after less than 5 years.<\/p>\n

We’re going to have a BreakDown on this once we do more investigating.<\/p>\n

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There’s a reason that lots of soap operas are set in hospitals…<\/p>\n

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