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New COO of Providence Hospitals in Seattle

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Dr. Andy and the Media: Corruption Meets Incompetence Meets Corruption
Introduction

Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, or Dr. Andy as colleagues called him, has traveled a long and winding road. He has frankly commited an obscene amount of corruption and worse yet, he has done it in all parts of the country. Agwunobi came to Atlanta's South Fulton Hospital as CEO immediately before a JCAHO report that gave the hospital passing but marginal grades. He left that hospital about two years later three months prior to another JCAHO report that failed it, suspended the hospital, and forced a total restructuring. He moved on to Grady Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in the world and the largest in America targeting the poor. A year after he arrived the Department of Health and Human Services issued a report that concluded

"Grady presents an immediate and serious threat to the health and safety of the
patients..."

He was removed as CEO of Grady in the aftermath of the report only to wind up as COO at St. Joseph's, a network of hospitals across the country in California. He only managed to stay at St. Joseph's for just over year before he moved back to Florida to serve on the board of WellCare. He only managed to stay at WellCare for six months before cashing out one million dollars worth of stock options and moving on to become the head of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. His first order of business was investigating his most recent employer. Nine months into his tenure his agency was one of several that raided WellCare and the stock plummeted in aftermath. He was eventually investigated for his dubious maneuvers at WellCare and AHCA, and has recently resigned. He didn't resign without a new gig though, as he has already been offered a position as the COO of Providence Health and Services, another network of hospitals in Seattle.

If you just read the introduction, you are probably wondering just how he could have gotten away with so much corruption in so many places, and why he is still able to continue to get a job despite all of this overwhelming evidence of his own incompetence and corruption. The most obscene part is that it took me about thirty minutes of searching Google, the JCAHO website, and around the rest of the internet to determine and verify all of this information. If I am able to easily pin point so much corruption from one individual, why was he able to get away with it for so long in so many places and furthermore why is he continuing on his path? Whenever there is this much corruption, anywhere, it is with the tacit or even active approval of the media around it. In other words, Agwunobi was able to commit all of this corruption because the media around him refused, for whatever reason, to report on what should have been obvious.

A google search of Agwunobi's departure from South Fulton nets only 83 articles. Many of them come years later, and none of them mention the JCAHO report that was filed in the immediate aftermath of his departure. What that means is this. Even though the findings of JCAHO were a matter of public record and could be located with a quick search of their website (the way I found them) no one in the Atlanta area media bothered to investigate this guy, and ask a very simple question...if he ran a fairly small hospital into the ground why is he offered the top job at a very large hospital? Because no one asked no one knew.

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