Christopher feisthamel biography

White, the agency's chief financial officer, was placed on paid leave a week ago.

Christopher Feisthamel is the Chief Operating Officer at Mental Health Retardation based in Cranston, Rhode Island.

That question is never clearly answered in the emails that Power and White exchanged that day and in the weeks that followed. In this acronym-laced email, she wrote White: "I sincerely believed [sic] that no one at EOHHS [or maybe even HR had any intention of making this work and they played the HR system and his greed so that no one would have to take the responsibility that the Secretary had indicted [sic] she would do.

Among his past jobs: COO in the state treasurer's office from under then Treas. Gina Raimondo. And the newly released emails provides a glimpse of the complex - and in some ways, arcane - state personnel rules that allow a laid off, non-union employee to "bump" a less senior employee out of their job or allow them to stay home, not working but still getting paid.

The man at the center of this behind-the-scenes drama was Christopher Feisthamel, the $, a year "Chief of Operations and Financial Management" at the state-run Slater Missing: biography.

Power resigned as director in April, citing an illness in her family as the reason. White was placed on paid leave, for unstated reasons, a week ago. Feisthamel is the only one in this drama with his job intact while a reorganization is underway at BHDDH. As with many stories emanating out of the dysfunctional state agency that runs the state hospital, it is hard to tell.

Feisthamel has declined comment. The Journal has attempted to reach Power and White. Neither has responded to inquiries. But the emails have come to light at a time when the hospital is fighting to keep its accreditation, in the wake of a scathing report by a national accreditation organization on both the "decrepit" physical condition of the buildings and grounds and the sometimes toxic work environment.

The report referenced the results of interviews "with nursing staff, physicians and [an] inpatient at Zambarano All indicate pervasive distrust, fear of retribution and multiple resignations of physician and nursing staff.