A hospital is not supposed to become the kind of place where residents have to wonder what happened behind the scenes of the money trail.
For Randolph County families, Randolph Health was not just a building with beds and billing departments. It was the place people counted on when a parent could not breathe, when a child needed urgent care, or when driving farther for treatment could mean losing precious time.
That is why the lawsuits surrounding Mike Sarian, the hospital executive whose American Healthcare Systems owns Randolph Health, hit harder than a normal business dispute…