Parting is such sweet sorrow — especially when it means you get $2.33 million in cash from the troubled nonprofit hospital system you have left behind.
According to newly released financial disclosures, Nashville-based St. Thomas Health Services paid that much to Tom Beeman, president and CEO from 2000 until his departure in early 2005, in the fiscal year after he left the job.
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