When the longtime head of a major local nonprofit is ousted from the organization she built without explanation, and literally overnight is turned into a “non-person” by a board that offers no elucidation to staff, donors or public for her departure, that comes as not just a shock but a “huge loss” to the person and the community.
That’s what happened two months ago to Vicki Soule, who over two decades had built Treasure Coast Community Health into the largest provider of healthcare services to Indian River County outside the two major hospitals.
Soule, in an interview with Vero Beach 32963, spoke out for the first time since she was summoned to an out-of-office meeting with key board members on Nov. 7, and told she would be suspended pending an outside investigation of a personnel complaint about which she was told neither the source nor any details…