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By WILLIAM HAGLE

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Former Councilmember Paul Freeman publicly excoriated hospital officials Tuesday at the City Council meeting for allegedly misappropriating funds.

Former Laguna Beach mayor and political consultant Paul Freeman on Tuesday demanded the City Council seek an accounting of restricted donations to the South Coast Medical Center Foundation, which was dissolved last month the same day Adventist Health announced a buyer for the 205-bed hospital.

Freeman, who had no formal involvement with the hospital or its foundation, told council members Adventist executives subjected foundation members and its chairman, Cecil Spearman, to "undue pressure" to go along with the foundation's dissolution or risk the hospital's closure. Foundation assets include a medical office building appraised recently at $8.9 million, which SCMC intends to sell as part of the package to its new buyer.

Freeman told the council he was compelled to come forward and disclose his conversation with Spearman, who had confided in him. Ultimately, Freeman decided the community's interests were paramount. "They've lost sight… of the difference between rules and ethics. Rules are something imposed…Ethics are something we should embrace," said Freeman in a statement. He went on to censure hospital executives for "unadulterated greed that colors how they view the world and their role in it…"

Councilmember Elizabeth Pearson, the foundation's former executive director, excused herself during Freeman's statement. She declined comment afterwards.

Roseville-based Adventist Health, which has subsidized $44 million in operating losses by SCMC during its 10-year ownership, on Nov. 14 announced St. Joseph Health Systems the winning bidder. Terms were not disclosed.

Adventist spokeswoman Alicia Gonzalez called Freeman's allegations inaccurate hearsay.

She maintained that absorbing foundation assets was an "ordinary and necessary" step in compliance with Adventist Health's original 1998 acquisition agreement. The foundation's own attorney concurred, Gonzalez pointed out.

Adventist Health and South Coast Medical Center does not intend to retain the restricted assets, she said.

SCMC chief executive, Bruce Christian, was said to be on vacation and could not be reached for comment.

Freeman now joins several other former board members in alleging Adventist Health wrongfully appropriated foundation contributions designated by donors for specific purposes, such as a proposed cancer center.

The state's attorney general will hold a public hearing on the proposed acquisition and must approve the deal.

In an interview, Spearman denies having been pressured by anyone. "We should all remember that the foundation money will stay right with the hospital. I've been in touch with the St. Joseph's foundation director and she said when the sale is complete, she will see that all the monies are safely where they belong and that the new foundation is absolutely above board and operating to an equal standard with Mission Hospital."

Nevertheless, Spearman concedes that hospital officials rather than foundation executives controlled foundation accounting in recent years. The 2007 results are still incomplete and have not been made public for donors or interested parties. "Questions should be answered to the satisfaction of those wanting to know," Spearman said.

Former foundation board member Sue Morrison, local donor and developer Joe Hanauer, and Dana Point's mayor Joel Bishop have in recent weeks joined Spearman and Freeman in calling for public disclosure of the foundation's 2007 records.

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