![]() The next day, the full board met again in closed session and Hoyal continued his presentations of financial misconduct.īoth meetings were knowing and purposeful violations of numerous sections of the Sunshine Law, the lawsuit alleges. He was also banned from practicing medicine at the hospital, including caring for patients who had recently given birth. These statements are false,” the lawsuit states. ![]() Tobler ‘embezzled’ money through the SCH daycare and pharmacy and committed Stark Law violations. “Hoyal claimed in numerous board meetings from Aug. 15 report the board received a financial report “with concerns of malicious impropriety and content.” The lawsuit states that Hoyal accused Tobler of violating the federal anti-kickback statute known as the Stark Law in the pharmacy program. 15 at board chair Lori Fulk’s home, two of the six board members were deliberately excluded and a third, Joni Lloyd, only asked to attend after the meeting started. The lawsuit is against the board as a body and Achim Hoyal, son of a physician at the hospital, who was present for the meetings and listed as a “consultant” in the minutes. The events that are at the heart of Tobler’s suit occurred in mid-August, when the board met on successive days in emergency closed sessions without any public notice. 30 meeting (Echo Menges/Memphis Democrat). Lori Fulk, chair of the Scotland County Hospital District Board of Directors, speaks during an Aug. It has lost money for five consecutive years and only federal COVID-19 payments received over the previous year had kept the 25-bed hospital’s bank account solvent. As part of its investigation of the firing, The Independent found the hospital is in precarious financial condition. The Independent detailed the firing of Tobler and its aftermath in a November report, building on local coverage from the Memphis Democrat. Tobler about news reports that he had allegedly embezzled money from SCH.” “Leadership at each of these hospitals questioned Dr. Tobler has had meetings and/or telephone conversations concerning potential employment with the Hannibal Regional Health System, Northeast Regional Medical Center, and Samaritan Hospital in Macon, Missouri,” the lawsuit states. He host a daily political talk show on a Columbia radio station. The lawsuit makes four basic charges – that the board violated the Sunshine Law, that board members and a consultant slandered Tobler, illegally interfered with his relationship with patients and conspired to remove him from his job.Īs a result of his ouster, and the news reports about it, Tobler has been unable to find other employment as a physician, the lawsuit states. Tobler and look forward to presenting our defense in court.” Hoyal intend to vigorously defend against the lawsuit brought by Dr. “As a quasi-public governmental body, the board acted in the best interest of the hospital and community to safeguard public funds,” the statement read. “His real motivation here is to obtain justice and reveal the truth,” Pearson said.Ĭurrent CEO Megan Weber issued a statement on behalf of the hospital and Achim Hoyal, named as a defendant because of his role in Tobler’s ouster. ![]() ![]() His attorney, Lowell Pearson, said Tobler has two goals in any resolution of the case. Tobler declined a request for an interview. “Their actions resulted in the suspension of my staff privileges, immediately preventing access to my patients.” “The actions taken by a group of board members, their agent and complicit executives now in leadership at Scotland County Hospital leave me no choice but to file this lawsuit,” Tobler said in a news release announcing the lawsuit. Tobler, an obstetrician/gynecologist, began practicing at the Memphis, Missouri, hospital in 2006 and became chief executive officer in 2014. Randy Tobler claims he has been unable to find employment because of the way he was fired in August by the Scotland County Hospital Board of Directors. The ousted administrator of a northeast Missouri hospital is accusing board members and employees of conspiring to have him fired by falsely claiming he violated federal laws and embezzled millions. ![]()
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