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CHC’s statement of core values
To be or not to be is often referred to as indecision, and this is certainly a common threshold of human nature. The old saying, “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything” is becoming too common in how the politics of the day in the NMI confronts controversy. If God places Jesus as its CEO, then the 12 apostles are the board of directors because Jesus could not handle all the Kingdom of God’s works by himself. This structural design has worked for more than 2,000 years.
The simplest way to approach the issue whether or not CHC should have a governing board is to ask the CEO to specify, clarify, and declare what is CHC’s statement of core values. If we know the list of core values CHC has acknowledged as building blocks for its foundation, we would be able to strike an informed public policy balancing act. If and only if we unambiguously know what CHC has crafted as their core values would we be able to determine whether having a board could be inefficient after all, and the CEO should have a free range playing field in running this hospital. The questions that will follow should be framed on the theme that this hospital would require a governing board, unless the CEO of this hospital argues a more plausible principle or theory dismissing the idea of a governing board. As a stakeholder, the deal is fair enough, and we as beneficiaries of all public assets should participate as this matter unfolds and makes sense. A lone ranger on this issue has an uphill battle when truism of conventions is easier to buy-in. A statement of core values would tell what the hospital under the command of CHCC stands for as a provider of healthcare for the citizens of the NMI. The statement of core values should not be a work-in-progress assignment, and it should be made available upon request by any elected official in the NMI Legislature.
Francisco R. Agulto
Kannat Tabla, Saipan
