Eighteen months ago, Arkansas City commissioners voted to disband the South Central Kansas Medical Center Board of Trustees and take responsibility for the financially-struggling hospital themselves.
The commission essentially fired the trustees they had appointed to govern the medical center and took on dual roles of city commissioner and hospital trustee.
Since then, the medical center’s debt burden has been lowered, and the facility is operating at a profit under a new CEO. But questions linger about conflicting interest and even the legality of elected officials holding both positions.
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