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Wyckoff
Heights
engineers
comeback
In 17-month drama,
CEO leads Brooklyn
hospital from $17M
hole to $2M profit
BY BARBARA BENSON
On Christmas weekend of 2011, the
board of trustees at Wyckoff Heights
Medical Center fired its chief executive and replaced him with a former
parole-board chairman as part of a
bold plan to avoid a forced merger with
two local hospitals.
Since the end of that year, when the
Brooklyn-based hospital lost $16.7
million, Wyckoff has not lacked for
drama.
The new CEO, Ramon Rodriguez,
See WYCKOFF on Page 24
At Girl Scouts’ HQ, the
cookies are crumbling
Who’s
ahead? Do
the math
The mayoral race is
now a numbers game
of money, polls, votes
New leadership makes waves as pension debt forces change
NEWSPAPER
The Girl Scouts of the USA store at
its Fifth Avenue headquarters offers
a book series carrying the tagline,
“It’s your world—change it! A Leadership Journey.”Their colorful covers
beckon with titles like An Agent of
Change, which promises advice on
becoming a great leader, and Amaze:
The Twists and Turns of Getting Along.
Maybe the books should be required reading for Girl Scouts executives. The leadership at the 101year-old organization faces a pile-on
of challenges that include steadily
declining membership, an enormous
pension deficit and infighting at
some local offices. The turmoil
sparked a group of young Scout
staffers around the country to launch
-20%
DROP IN GIRL
SCOUTS
MEMBERSHIP
in the past 10
years
an organization last month called
The Future Is Ours that’s publicly
pressuring for change.
Yet the executive brought in at the
end of 2011 to transform the Girl
Scouts has earned mixed reviews.Last
month, the Advertising Women of
New York honored Girl Scouts CEO
Anna Maria Chávez for revitalizing
the iconic organization. By contrast, a
See GIRL SCOUT on Page 24
BY ANDREW J. HAWKINS
buck ennis
BY THERESA AGOVINO
With the mayoral primary a little more
than 100 days away, the Democratic
candidates are crunching the numbers
that they’ll need to get to City Hall:
money, poll support and, of course,
votes.Time is also a key factor, as most
candidates are trying to extend the
contest while one is eager to run out
See MATH on Page 21
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