To the DOJ, DHS, Kern Co. DA, Cal Mtg.

This message is to say to these oversight agencies that you have not done a proper and thorough job with your investigation. You may have brought down three people who you might think are the problems, or the cause of the problems in our Skilled Nursing Facility.
But I'm here to say that when I saw that you had a certain witness for your prosecution, I knew you didn't know much about what really happened to our public healthcare district.
I'll ask, where were you when three board members were committing Brown Act violations, quite openly. (See entry, Brown Act) These board members, knew, clearly what was happening in the skilled, but went out of there way to claim it was all in the mind of this ailing reporter. (See sticky three)
What about conflict of interest? I reported it.
What about staff not having proper credentials? I reported it.
What about the state's low cost loan program which seems to be bad, strong arm lending practices? I reported it.
And about Cal Mtg., under the auspices of OSHPD, an office that actually makes money off of these loans; they brought in the virus to the hospital which has lead to the district becoming ill.
Here is some more information you may want to know regarding your witness to the prosection. Here's an excerpt from the indictments. People that know the truth, like me, like staff, former employees and some members of the community know how far off you are with your prosecution:
On May 27, 2008, I interviewed Pamela Ott, former CEO/Administrator for KVHD. Ott
stated that Gwen Hughes was the DON at KVHD when she was the CEO/Administrator. Ott
stated that during the time DPH conducted their investigation in January 2007, she was informed
of accusations from the staff that residents had been held down in order to give them forceful
injections of medications.
Ott stated that the nurses came to her to voice their concerns with Hughes being rude and
cruel to staff, but was never made aware of the psychotropic medications being used or Hughes
threatening staff for refusal to administer these medications. Only after DPH conducted their
investigation was Ott informed that KVHD resident, Louise Zimmerman, had been given a
forceful injection of Respiridol without her consent.
Ott stated that she and her staff conducted a full internal investigation of the forceful use
of psychotropic medication and found the accusation to be legitimate. The investigation found
that Zimmerman was biting, kicking, and hitting others and that the IDT had recommended to
Pormir the use of Respiridol to treat her. Their internal investigation found that staff were
directed by Hughes to go into Zimmerman’s room to participate in administering the forceful
People v. Huges, et al., Felony Complaint
injection to her. The internal investigation found that staff distracted Zimmerman. Then an
injection was given to her without her consent. In this investigation, Pormir stated that he
approved the use of psychotropics on Zimmerman.
Ott stated that there was a written report completed regarding this internal investigation.
This investigation is located at KVHD in the Quality Improvement (QI) file.
Ott stated that she considered the incident in which Zimmerman received a forceful
injection of psychotropics as elder abuse at the highest level.

I can't help reading this and feeling sick to my stomach. Employees tried to tell her but she was the oppressive force brought in by a management Company called Brim, when Cal Mtg. came in when they weren't getting their money. And their CEO, Dave Green, brought on Ott with glowing reports as the new CEO. Didn't they check her credentials?
Apparently, DHS did not notice that she was the adminstrator of the SNF up until Gwen Hughes got there. Obviously, they didn't dig too deep and took her at face value.

Here's another email, with elements missing to protect other people.
-----Original Message-----
From: hartofthekrv@msn.com
To: @netscape.net
Sent: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 11:51 AM
Subject:
Hi Pam:

Also, I have to say I was quite bummed out about what happened with the Knights at the SNF party. Apparently the Knights were invited to the event, Kay made 60 blankets for the residents; so what did Gwen think she was doing running them off or running over them? Has the hospital lost it's manners, decorum in all of this? I didn't think it was funny or amusing. My thoughts are that the residents deserved the attention; it was their Christmas party for god's sake. Instead everyone was off worrying about the Knights. Very disappointing. Hell, even during times of war, Christmas is a sacred time for many; and is usually involved with a truce for the holiday.
Anyway, those are my thoughts for the day. Take care. Laura

----- Original Message -----
From: @aim.com
To: hartofthekrv@msn.com
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 8:24 AM
Subject:

Knights = You're right, we have been wallowing in the mud just about enough. Right again - If they had not been in the nursing center peering into resident rooms and disturbing employees during work time, things would have been very different for the Christmas party. In fact, I have apologized to them and told them that I wished that they would have attended the party. By the way, against everyone's better judgment, I have allowed Knight's mother to be admitted to the SNF (They have decided that she is not able to live at home any longer). They promise to "behave". Hopefully, the Knights will now see the importance of having local health care services when needed.
Pamela Ott
Bakersfield, CA 93312

Now, I don't need to spell this out, I hope, because it's quite obvious, even in December 2006, Ott did not want the Knights (board members) in the skilled nursing facility because Knight had already been warning everyone that there were problems. But they had wanted to trust the leader, as we all did, that it wasn't so. They entrusted their mother, because like the rest of us in the valley, we believed the lies perpetrated on us by your "witness."

I missed seeing the Knights in the indictments; did they even get interviewed?

Knight's mother died in the SNF, and quickly too. Another board member actually told a member of the public about Knight's mother in the SNF, disregarding his privacy. There was a complaint.

So, what do we need to do to get this right and correct? I have not been interviewed and I have much evidence to support everything I'm saying. And I have a list of other "true" witnesses that should be interviewed.

Please, let's get this right. There are reputations and lives at stake. I have written a loose proposal to Cal Mtg. for relief from the debt.

Hopefully we will get some word back about working out a deal to help the biggest employer and only healthcare provider in the community, our KVHD.

Don't forget, the montly board meeting is this coming Wed. March 4, at 5:30 pm in the cafeteria at the hospital.