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State Takes Control Of Cardinal, Fires Board Of Directors

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has temporarily taken control of Cardinal Innovations Healthcare and  fired Cardinal’s board of directors.

DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen informed lawmakers of the decision in a letter. The letter noted what she called "exorbitant severance" of $3.8 million paid to CEO Richard Toppings and three other executives, and that the state can no longer rely on Cardinal’s board to get the agency in compliance with state regulations.

"DHHS has concluded that we can no longer rely on the Board and executive leadership at Cardinal Innovations to bring Cardinal into compliance with its legal requires," Cohen says in the letter.

Cardinal's board include three county commissioners - Mecklenburg County's George Dunlap, and commissioners from Halifax and Davidson counties.

DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen's letter to lawmakers

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Tom Bullock decided to trade the khaki clad masses and traffic of Washington DC for Charlotte in 2014. Before joining WFAE, Tom spent 15 years working for NPR. Over that time he served as everything from an intern to senior producer of NPR’s Election Unit. Tom also spent five years as the senior producer of NPR’s Foreign Desk where he produced and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon among others. Tom is looking forward to finally convincing his young daughter, Charlotte, that her new hometown was not, in fact, named after her.
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