Wes Booysen
Envision Healthcare is turning over several leaves in its executive suite, which will soon see three C-level positions turn over and two execs step into new senior vice president positions as President and CEO Jim Rechtin nears his first anniversary with the company.
Among the executives preparing to step aside is CFO Wes Booysen, who joined Envision
less than five months ago after more than a decade at Molson Coors. In a statement, Envision said Booysen will step down at the end of January for personal reasons and be replaced on an interim basis by Henry Howe, who also will be the company’s full-time executive VP of enterprise strategy and financial planning. Howe joined Nashville-based Envision in April to help Rechtin, who took the helm
In the final weeks before the Nov. 3 election, supporters of a down-in-the-weeds
effort to overturn a tax law in Colorado received a cascade of big checks, for a grand total of more than $2 million.
All came from Kent Thiry, the former CEO of DaVita, one of the
largest kidney care companies in the country. This was not the first time he donated big to a ballot initiative aimed at tweaking the nitty-gritty details of how Colorado functions. Nor will it be the last.
Thiry has
given at least $5.9 million to Colorado ballot measures since 2011 and all of them won, according to a KHN review of Colorado campaign finance data. According to data from the
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SACRAMENTO The nation s dialysis industry has poured $233 million into California campaigns over the past four years, establishing its leading companies as a formidable political force eager to protect their bottom line and influence state policy.
Most of the money the industry spent from Jan. 1, 2017, through Nov. 30, 2020, funded the defeat of two union-backed ballot measures that would have regulated dialysis clinics and eaten into their profits. But the companies and their trade association also stepped up their offense, dedicating about $16.4 million to lobbying and political contributions during the same period, a California Healthline analysis of state campaign finance records shows.
The dialysis industry has poured $233 million into California campaigns, establishing its leading companies as a formidable political force eager to protect their bottom line and influence state policy.