The Becton, Dickinson and Company gave more money to HUMC than Valley
The Becton, Dickinson and Company website says that the company gave more money to HUMC than they did to Valley.
Please tell me how the BD site material contradicts what I said in the 1.03 post above. The press release about his current job was from here via BD site link:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=64106&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1589149&highlight=
The contributions report was from here:
http://www.bd.com/investors/pdfs/CharitableContributions.pdf
I have no doubt he's for it as Chair of Valley's Trustees, never tried to imply anything differant. Ray Gilmartin was also on Valley's board when he was BD's CEO and I think during some of the time he was CEO at Merck, too.
But it seems incongruent with the view that BD has any big agenda in terms of Valley that BD as a company would then give more to HUMC than it did to Valley, who has so bitterly fought HUMC over Pascack.
BD is a medical company, so sure they are going to be in favor of hospitals in general. But by donations, they were over 4x more in favor of HUMC than they were in favor of Valley for the year in the report on their web site.
Point I was also trying to make is that BD seems to have very transparent and clear info, while getting info on Valley board and finances seems much harder and murkier- but many other hospitals provide that info on their web sites.
For a business (albeit NPO) that seems to talk about how it helps the community so much and how impt that is, you'd think Valley would be more upfront about disclosing such info, as many of their peers do.
But it seems incongruent with the view that BD has any big agenda in terms of Valley that BD as a company would then give more to HUMC than it did to Valley, who has so bitterly fought HUMC over Pascack.
BD is a medical company, so sure they are going to be in favor of hospitals in general. But by donations, they were over 4x more in favor of HUMC than they were in favor of Valley for the year in the report on their web site.
Point I was also trying to make is that BD seems to have very transparent and clear info, while getting info on Valley board and finances seems much harder and murkier- but many other hospitals provide that info on their web sites.
For a business (albeit NPO) that seems to talk about how it helps the community so much and how impt that is, you'd think Valley would be more upfront about disclosing such info, as many of their peers do.
