"Clalit Health Fund is like a football team that changes coach every six months, the players do not know what the owner wants and what the coach wants. That way you can not go anywhere," a senior senior official in Clalit Health Services described this week. .
Clalit, which insures about 4.5 million Israelis and is considered one of the largest health organizations in the world, has undergone a series of upheavals in recent years and has suffered from instability, which recently peaked with what appears to be the imminent and inevitable resignation of the current CEO, Ruth Ralbag.
Ralbag, 61, took office just nine months ago, and was the first CEO appointed by board chairman John Locker, but soon the idyll between the two ended.
Clalit executives talk about Locker's centralized management style, which tends to interfere with the CEO's decisions. In recent weeks, the tension between the chairman of the board and the CEO has intensified, to the point of disconnecting and canceling tours and meetings.
Keeping their buttocks
A former senior Clalit official confirms that "instead of engaging in work plans and advancing plans, the fund is busy fighting the image and scandals, which is a sabotage of day-to-day work.
There is a very high level of suspicion.
"Senior executives do not know whether to work in front of the CEO or with the chairman, and meet with Locker to keep their butt."
The Clalit management says that the tour of Haifa was canceled for other reasons, noting that joint meetings of the two are taking place.
A former senior official at the fund concluded: "Clalit is a large ship that is currently in a storm and is shaking. It will not sink, but the question is what price the fund's insured and its employees pay. When the workers are restless, it radiates on the insured."
Clalit stated: "Clalit conducts itself in accordance with the rules of proper corporate governance, including regular working meetings with the CEO, which continue to be conducted in an orderly manner.
The decision to examine Clalit's conflict of interest was made by Clalit's board of directors, and until a final inspection report of the auditor is submitted, we can not comment on it. Clalit's ongoing activities continue as planned. "
The full story on Friday in the "Israel Hashavua" supplement
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