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The Times has learned that Rainycrest administrator Darryl Galusha no longer is in his position.
Just what transpired remains shrouded in secrecy.
Ted Scholten, president and CEO of Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc., refused to shed any light on the situation when contacted by the Times on Monday.
“No comment” was his reply to an e-mailed question asking to confirm or deny that Galusha had been terminated.
Follow-up questions submitted to Scholten by the Times via e-mail yesterday morning were not answered as of press time today.
The Times also contacted Galusha on Monday.
“Unfortunately, all I can offer is no comment,” he said in an e-mailed response.
“Thank you and best wishes.”
Galusha, originally from Fort Frances, was named administrator at Rainycrest in 2013, replacing Edie Bodnar.
He previously was director of care at Pinecrest Home for the Aged in Kenora while simultaneously holding the position of assistant district administrator for the homes in Dryden and Red Lake.
The Times had heard a petition was planned calling for Galusha’s reinstatement.
But Bill Gushulak, chair of the Rainycrest Family Council, said yesterday he wasn’t aware of one.
“I haven’t heard anything on it and I haven’t been involved in it at all,” he noted in a phone interview.
“We have not had a Family Council meeting since this happened.”
Riverside isn’t saying when Galusha was let go, by whom, and why.
It is known, however, that the move came just days after a published article in the Times last Wednesday on Fort Solutions Group—a consulting service Galusha recently started up with Lisa Sheppard.
There also is no word if an interim administrator has been named or when the search for a new one will begin.
