The Dayton Daily News is investigating the acquisition and renovation of the Manchurs’ Kettering dwelling after Kettering Health introduced it’s conducting an inner investigation into “allegations of inappropriate fiscal and operational management at Kettering Health.”

Complaints filed with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office embrace allegations that the well being community paid for renovations to the home.

Manchur, who retired on the finish of final yr, has not responded to a number of requests for remark. The Dayton workplace of Taft, the legislation agency representing him within the Kiley lawsuit, didn’t reply to a request for remark.

The well being system is operated by the non-profit Kettering Adventist Healthcare, which at present does enterprise as Kettering Health and was beforehand known as Kettering Medical Center Network and Kettering Health Network. The non-profit is sponsored by the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

In October 2008, a number of months after the Manchurs purchased the Stonebridge home, Kettering Adventist Healthcare and then-network govt Walter Sackett and his spouse bought the Manchurs’ dwelling in Washington Twp. for $600,000, based on the Montgomery County Auditor’s workplace.

Documents filed in Kiley’s lawsuit over the Stonebridge home sale additionally embrace Kettering Medical Center Network restore estimates dated April 22, 2008, and May 14, 2008, for $43,361 in repairs to the house, the cash that was at problem in Kiley’s lawsuit.

Fred Manchur’s deposition within the case features a May 25, 2008, proposal, submitted after he purchased the home, by a Xenia contractor to repair the home’s chimneys and gables for $27,500 and itemizing the recipients of the proposal as Kettering Medical Center Network and an worker within the community’s services division.

The Manchurs, who nonetheless personal the house, obtained metropolis of Kettering structural permits in 2015 and 2016 for renovations, metropolis paperwork present. Among the architectural drawings submitted to the town have been for storage and kitchen additions and a two-lane bowling alley, however metropolis data point out that the bowling alley and storage addition weren’t accomplished. Records don’t present what the ultimate whole price of renovations have been.

Asked in regards to the community’s position within the buy of the Manchurs’ houses in Kettering and Washington Twp. or something associated to dwelling enhancements to the Stonebridge home, Kettering Health spokeswoman Christine Reedy stated through electronic mail in late May that “we have no information to provide.”

The allegation involving the Manchurs’ home is a part of a broader listing of complaints about community spending on journey and different prices that an nameless particular person despatched to Yost in February 2023.

An identical listing of considerations was included in an nameless letter signed “Concerned SDA Church Members and Friends of Kettering Health” and addressed to well being community associates, Seventh-day Adventist Church officers and authorities officers in 2021.

Yost additionally acquired a grievance in August from former Kettering Health worker Lori Van Nostrand concerning Manchur’s expense studies, leisure prices and choices on shopping for property, amongst different points.

The complaints are public report however the legal professional common’s response will not be, except an investigation leads to some civil motion or prison prosecution, stated Kelly May, spokeswoman for Yost, whose workplace oversees non-profits.

“Charitable investigations are confidential by law,” May stated. “So we couldn’t confirm or deny the potential or existence of an investigation.”

Kettering Health introduced in March that it had opened an inner investigation and that the investigation discovered the allegations about spending did not involve funds received through donations to the 4 Kettering Health foundations.

“We are — and have been — fully aware of allegations of inappropriate fiscal and operational management at Kettering Health. Our Board and leadership team take these allegations seriously and are committed to integrity, improvement, and upholding the trust of our staff, providers, and community,” the community stated in a written assertion on March 27.

One outside firm was hired to do the internal investigation and a second to advocate up to date processes and insurance policies. Reedy stated Kettering Health had no further touch upon the standing of the investigation past the March assertion.

“While this work is ongoing, we are taking steps to address wrongdoing and shortcomings we identify,” the March assertion stated. “These steps include making necessary personnel changes—inclusive of employees and members of the Board — to ensure both individual accountability and strict compliance with updated and comprehensive governance practices. Consistent with organizational policy, no specific personnel issues will be discussed.”

Manchur’s native houses

When Manchur moved to Montgomery County from California in 2001 to change into president of Kettering Medical Center, he and his spouse purchased a house on Alda Court in Washington Twp. for $630,000, based on the Montgomery County Auditor’s workplace.

In October 2008 the Manchurs offered that Washington Twp. home for $600,000 to Kettering Adventist Healthcare and the Sacketts, with the non-profit and the Sacketts every shopping for a 50% share, based on a common guarantee deed on file on the Montgomery County Recorder’s workplace. The non-profit offered the Sacketts its share of the home for $230,000 in 2013, based on county auditor data.

Sackett, who joined the community in 2007 and served as president of two of the system’s hospitals, was named Kettering Health president in September 2021. He left the community in October 2022 and couldn’t be reached for remark.

The Manchurs’ 8,149-square foot Stonebridge home was inbuilt 1928 and owned by Standard Register earlier than Kiley and her then-husband purchased it in 2002, based on the Montgomery County Auditor’s workplace. The house is at present valued at $984,830, based on the auditor.

Kiley stated Fred Manchur contacted her about shopping for the home in February 2008. He needed $43,361 to cowl the price of some repairs, and was to offer documentation of the work and return any portion of the cash not used for these repairs, based on court docket paperwork.

In July 2009 Kiley sued the Manchurs, saying they’d did not reside as much as the restore settlement. The Manchurs filed a counterclaim saying they have been nonetheless awaiting documentation of the repairs and had discovered further issues with the home.

In a February 2010 deposition Kiley stated the Kettering Medical Center Network restore estimate dated April 22, 2008, was offered to her because the inspection outcomes and estimated price of issues needing mounted.

Fred Manchur was requested throughout his September 2010 deposition who ready the restore estimates marked “Kettering Medical Center Network.” He stated he must analysis that however famous that if it had been carried out by somebody on the Kettering Medical Center Network it will have been carried out at his instruction, based on the transcript of Manchur’s deposition.

The decision of that query will not be included within the lawsuit because the Manchurs and Kiley settled the lawsuit after mediation, and it was dismissed in July 2011.

The Manchurs obtained financing by way of the Kettering Medical Center Network Credit Union for $306,000 once they purchased the house on May 16, 2008, and have been launched from that mortgage in 2012, based on paperwork filed on the Montgomery County Recorder’s workplace.

They additionally had mortgages backed by the Stonebridge home with the Kettering Health Network Credit Union for $216,000 in 2012 and $480,000 in 2015, each of which have been later launched, and an “open end” mortgage for $409,500 in 2020, based on paperwork on the recorder’s workplace

Manchur pay

Manchur grew to become the community president in January 2009 and was named CEO in December 2010 following the retirement of the earlier CEO, Frank Perez. Last yr Manchur took a go away of absence earlier than retiring efficient Dec. 31, based on a Nov. 2 Kettering Health information launch.

As CEO Manchur’s whole annual compensation fluctuated broadly, reaching greater than $5 million in 2017, based on this newspaper’s evaluation of Kettering Adventist Healthcare’s IRS tax returns from 2015 to 2021, the latest yr accessible.

The kind doesn’t specify particulars in regards to the $3.4 million in “other reportable compensation” that helped push his whole that top in 2017.

Manchur’s 2021 base pay was $1.68 million in 2021. That yr he additionally acquired a $407,160 bonus and incentive compensation, different reportable compensation of $82,317 and retirement, deferred compensation, and nontaxable advantages totaling $42,994, based on the non-profit’s tax returns.

That put his whole compensation at $2.2 million for 2021.

In different years Manchur was paid as follows:

In April Kettering Health announced that Michael Gentry, former chief working officer at Sentara Healthcare headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, would take over as community CEO on July 3.

Gentry replaces Interim CEO Michael Mewhirter.

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