EDITORIAL: Erlanger's security issue.(Editorial)

Aug. 09--When Erlanger Hospital executives and its ever-compliant board members decided to outsource the jobs of their highly lauded, veteran internal security team to a private contractor in March, the executives pledged two things: That current officers would get first consideration for their jobs under a new business model, and that the business would go to the lowest and best bidder. Instead, Erlanger executives failed to honor either promise. And now, the rationale for the shift -- which added nearly $1 million a year to the hospital's security costs-- has also fallen apart. Contrary to assertions by Erlanger's Doug Fisher, vice president of government and corporate affairs, Erlanger would have had no trouble continuing to have its security officers commissioned by the city, Chattanooga city …