Sandvand has also been a congregation council member in the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway from 1981 to 1990.
The latter was behind a flawed project where patient diagnoses was to be coded in certain ways to be eligible for public funding.
Arntsen was supported by Sandvand and deputy chair Helen Bjørnøy, but was voted down by the rest of the board (Kaare Norum, Einfrid Halvorsen, Anne Mo Grimdalen, Terje Keyn, Morten Falkenberg and Svein Øverland).
Arntsen subsequently had to resign, but in response, the Minister of Health Dagfinn Høybråten promptly relieved the entire board of their positions.
[5] Under a new board, which was composed in early February,[6] Stokke only lasted two weeks in the executive chair.