hope for a new beginning

This blog is to inform the Kern River Valley about the truth as I've witnessed it of what has happened to the Kern Valley Healthcare District.

I’m sure everyone one of you who has taken the time to read this now have an understanding of what has really happened at the district.

We’ve had some really bad times in the last few years; we had a CEO with funny credentials that came from a college called Kennedy-Western University. Now it’s Warren National University:

Find out more about KWU/WNU here and these are the findings of a 2004 FBI investigation on the college.

The next CEO, hit the road pretty quickly coming into a shark tank isn't easy, I'm sure.

There was a cover up about the Skilled Nursing Facility which went on for two years. The only board member willing to give out the information about the possible closure last year, was Robert Knight. The only reason it got press outside our area was the fact there was a public notice put in the Bakersfield Californian giving the KVHD a month to make corrections or it would be closed.

With the sticky three board members, Armstrong, Casas and Jamison making all the decisions and voting exactly how they please, the district shut it’s doors to the public and hid out, truncating the board meetings. However, the number of Brown Act violations is incredible. No notice to the public for the strategic meeting ; making decisions without the other two board members; and shutting down the public when they try to speak at the board meetings.

They have stood by their decisions such as Measure M, the conflict of interest with the architectural firm which is part of another group the hospital paid; they have short staffed the hospital and fell into using the Nursing registry which is an expensive alternative to keeping employees in the valley and happy; And they paid close to a million dollars to a company in the SNF which was unable to fix all the problems prompting them to use another company now currently employed.

Hopefully, there will be more change other than putting on a party hat and saying everything is good.

The public deserves information that is true and complete. Not another round of consent agenda and let's go home.

We will watch and see.








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