A Madera Community Hospital board member this week confirmed to The Bee that the hospital owes roughly $2 million to former employees the hospital couldn’t pay after it closed its doors in January.
Stell Manfredi, vice chair of the Madera Community Hospital board, said he didn’t know how many employees had accrued vacation, sick time and comp time based on the hospital’s records that show about $2 million is owed to former employees.
“No employee didn’t get their paycheck that worked that week or that two-week period, but anything that we had on the books, we weren’t able to pay at the time,” he said. “That will get paid, hopefully, at a later date.”
In response to questions about wage theft, Manfredi said board members had asked their attorney about that issue.
“The bottom line is, if you can’t pay your bills, you can’t pay your bills,” he said. “We are familiar with that, and it’s not like we had all the money there and we didn’t pay them.”
Manfredi said hospital board members were caught expecting that an affiliation with Trinity Health, the owner and operator of Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, was going to materialize. When the deal fell apart, the Madera hospital didn’t have sufficient funding.
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