During his dean’s report, Dr. Bruce Shack, dean of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, addressed a resolution passed in the previous monthly board meeting that directed Erlanger to review and enforce the terms of the hospital’s affiliation agreement with the University of Tennessee and its Health Sciences Center.
“As all the board members know, we are currently involved in conflict resolution issues with the hospital,” Shack said. “[Erlanger CEO Kevin] Spiegel and I meet regularly, and we’ve recently brought the chancellor, Dr. [Steve] Schwab, into these meetings via telephone conference so that we plan to go through each of the items one by one and resolve them all.”