Influential developer Michael L. Joseph is out after 16 years as chair of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s board of directors, but questions persist about the board’s membership and how this change will affect the hospital’s future.
Michael Joseph had been on Roswell Park’s board for 19 years, including the last 16 as board chair, but had recently faced a growing chorus calling for his removal from that post after his development company was hit last week with a federal racial discrimination lawsuit.
How it all shakes out has big implications, with the board having the authority to direct the planning, operation and policies of Roswell Park, a public-benefit corporation that employs nearly 4,000 people, generates more than $1.1 billion in revenue and cares for more than 46,000 patients annually.
With nearly every board member serving on an expired term – as was the case with Joseph, before he resigned following allegations of racism leveled against his development firm – Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders have the ability to make sweeping changes on the board.
“I will be making decisions to fill a number of vacancies that have occurred, and examine holdovers, and make sure that the very best board is there to work to take Roswell even to…
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