SITKA -- An interim CEO has begun working at financially troubled Sitka Community Hospital to fill in until a replacement is found for the former CEO who resigned suddenly.
Rob Allen arrived last week from Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he has been living. Allen was raised in Sitka and makes several trips a year to the southeast Alaska town.
The Daily Sitka Sentinel says Allen's appointment follows the Jan. 2 resignation of CEO Jeff Comer, who left town Jan. 4 and returned to his home in Phoenix.
Allen began his new stint last Friday. He says he can serve until April, when his Sitka boat tour business begins for the visitor season.
The Sitka Assembly voted in December to extend a line of credit to the hospital from $500,000 to $1.5 million.