LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — About 36 employees at University Medical Center have been laid off, according to a union spokesperson, while at the same time the hospital’s chief executive received a bonus.
On Tuesday, the Clark County Board of Commissioners voted on a $296,371 merit-based bonus for Mason Van Houweling, the chief executive for UMC, and discussed the possibility of around a hundred job cuts at the hospital.
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“I have no way to explain this in my own mind,” Clark County Commissioner April Becker said. “For how you jump in ten years from a $220,000 salary to a million dollar salary and then a $250,000 bonus when you are letting other people go.”
Becker was the only vote against the bonus, which is written into Van Houweling’s contract as part of an incentive for meeting the county’s objectives…