LBJ hospital is advertising for a new Chief Financial Officer

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The LBJ hospital is advertising for a new Chief Financial Officer, which has been held by Reverend Rapi Emau Amosa for the last six years. In a brief interview with Samoa News over the phone, Rev. Amosa confirmed that he is still working at the hospital.

“I am still working at the hospital but I cannot comment on any of your questions,” he said.

In the Samoa News edition, dated Monday, May 23, 2022, an advertisement is published by the American Samoa Medical Center Authority regarding the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) position.

According to the advertisement the CFO is responsible for the implementation, management, and safeguarding of the Institution’s healthcare management plans and its associated systems.

Other responsibilities are further listed including “a direct leadership role in the decision-making process of LBJ’s fiscal and accounting systems, affecting its overall healthcare policies, procedures, and processes,” as well as being “responsible for executing the financial strategy of the American Samoa Medical Center Authority aim to advance and improve the quality of its healthcare delivery system, thereby ensuring that consistent quality of medical services is rendered and received by all resident of American Samoa seeking medical attention and treatment.”

Samoa New also reached out to the hospital CEO Moefaauo Bill Emmesley for comments via email through his secretary Penina Steffany, but there has been no response as of press time.

In March of this year, Rev Amosa was appointed as Acting CEO of the hospital after Faumuina Taufete’e John Faumuina tendered his resignation from office.

However, Rev Amosa was replaced by the LBJ Board of Directors and in a press release the Board said that Amosa’s primary duties as CFO of LBJ, “was shortcoming” and the additional burden placed on him as Interim CEO, with extracurricular duties were not being met.

The board replaced Rev Amosa with Moefaauo William Emmsley, as acting LBJ CEO. Moefaauo, at the time, was a member of the LBJ BoD.

In April of this year, Moefaauo was selected for CEO after the LBJ board’s search was done by the “book,” — according to a press release issued by the hospital’s board of directors. His position is for the next two years, and the press release noted that the board decision was unanimous.

Moefaauo was one of 9 applicants for the CEO position.