The former chief behavioral health officer at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau has been charged with theft and is accused of stealing $108,000 from the health care facility. Via AlaskaBeacon
Bartlett Regional Hospital is owned by the City and Borough of Juneau, which conducted an internal investigation that ultimately led to Thursday’s indictment.
“We became aware of this particular issue and problem through our internal whistleblowing process and we’re grateful to the employees that raised those concerns,” said Robert Barr, the deputy city manager.“It was a fairly lengthy investigation and we provided the details and the results of that investigation to the district attorney for their use in the current active criminal case,” he said.The city has since put additional expenditure checks and balances into place at Bartlett.
“Examples of that sort of thing include that Mr. Tyk himself personally now reviews all credit card expenditures on a monthly basis and has put in a more robust process for the use of purchase orders as opposed to the use of credit cards,” Barr said. Barr would not say more about Grigg’s arrest: “We are sensitive to the fact that it is an ongoing, active criminal case.”
Grigg left as part of a senior leadership shakeup at the hospital that began in September 2021. The chief executive officer at the time, Rose Lawhorne,
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