Earlier this year, Kettering Health retained an outside firm to conduct an internal investigation in response to “allegations of inappropriate fiscal and operational management at Kettering Health.”

The internal investigation has since been completed, revealing Kettering Health funds had been used for non-business purposes, according to the hospital network.

“Kettering Health will be seeking repayment of these funds from the individuals involved and sharing information related to our investigation with the appropriate authorities,” the hospital system said in a statement by Mike Gentry on Tuesday.

Kettering Health’s first announcement regarding the internal investigation released in March came in response to records obtained by the Dayton Daily News and other media outlets containing a pair of anonymous complaints filed with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office alleging “abuse of charitable funds.”

The complaints referenced former Kettering Health CEO Fred Manchur and Dave Weigley, former chairman of the Kettering Health board and current president of Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists.

Manchur’s retirement was announced in November 2022 and effective by the end of December 2022. Weigley left the Kettering Health board in January 2023. Two other top Kettering Health executives left the network in October 2022, including Kettering Health President Wally Sackett and Chief Administrative Officer Terry Burns.

According to an article by a quasi SDA website earlier this year, Manchur was a blend of generosity and arm-twisting pressure (a bully)—one with considerable power and wealth at his disposal. We know this to be true from personal experience.

The State of Ohio Attorney General is also investigating the misuse of funds at Kettering Health.

It looks like Mike Gentry (new Kettering Health CEO) is trying to resolve this situation by holding the guilty parties accountable. We support him in this committment.

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“But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23).