Ben Williams is named CIO for Catholic Healthcare West, coming over from St. Joseph Health System in Orange, CA. Must have been some good money - he was making $644K at St. Joseph in 2005, according to federal forms. No vows of poverty at the new place, either - the president was paid $4.5 million and almost all the VPs were over $1 million, according to the most recent forms. Actually, I was more eloquent back in February: “Humble servant CEO Lloyd Dean made $5.8 million in compensation and benefits in 2005. Read that again slowly … the guy running a nonprofit hospital group out-earned most publicly traded company CEOs. So much for a vow of poverty. Even their HR VP made $1.9 million. What the hell is that all about? You’re telling me that a Catholic-run hospital group has to pay $1.9 million a year to get someone to run HR? And they’re supposed to be a non-profit? Ridiculous. Excessive. Embarrassing. I’m not out of adjectives, but I’ll stop.”