It's the valley kid again, in trouble, or actually it's an interesting story up at Sierra Kings District Hospital in Reedley, CA, where Pam Ott is now being blamed for stopping payments on the employee pension account. But the story isn't so clear....
(UPDATE) It's been reported and a complaint filed with the Fresno County DA, that Ott also was able to use the communities general obligation bond monies they voted in specifically for an addition onto their hospital. Somehow, she found a way to move monies that are protected for a specific purpose into the hospital operations account. Hopefully, we will hear news soon on that.)
Sometimes people find other people to blame things on when they don't want to take responsibility and possibly lose their job, friends, spouse, over something which could simply be shifted on to someone else, a doctor, a pharmacist, a nurse, a whole hospital of employees, or however you need to do it to save yourself.
the healthcare shuffle: the blame game
Pam Ott, left our valley here in 2007, as the CEO on the run, she headed up away from criminal investigations, into the Reedley area where she landed a job as a CEO, again.
She put the past behind her, leaving the blame for the nursing center disaster, in the hands of those who unwittingly trusted Miss Ott as she said she had plenty of credentials to handle the SNF.
Ott left with the idea that this was the last we would see of her, bye bye. (idiots)
The blame seemed to fall right in place, onto the people Ott managed convince to help put out the small conflagration taking place at the hospital.
Now it's Ott's turn
Ott didn't get far, as Sierra Kings hospital was on the brink of bankruptcy when the word came down that the California Department of Justice had filed elder abuse charges against her in Sept. 2009.
the Sierra Kings District Board
The board of Directors, claimed they had never heard about Ott's little problems here in the valley at KVHD. (I was so quiet nobody could've heard me) They were shocked and outraged, and put Ott on leave, until the court date, when she was then dismissed from power.
But these things never end there do they?
Ott gets canned, and now Sierra Kings is filing for bankruptcy a month later. According to an article in the Reedley Exponent, the Sierra Kings board of directors is now saying that Ott and her CFO, Barbara Jennings, stopped making payments into the Social Security pension account late last year.
The IRS supposedly came out to tell the board of directors that this was done and that it was quite illegal and could get them booted out of the special pension program.
It's funny when people lie
It seems the hospital board members were appalled by this turn of events and said they didn't know it had happened, and their new CEO, cleared himself too, Sandy Haskins, saying, according to the article that he made sure the payments were made.
Why this leaves poor Ott and her sidekick with all the blame. I wonder how it feels to be blamed for something you may or may not have actually done?
The board members are supposedly looking for a record that they knew about the payment problem when they fired Ott and that was part of the reason she was tossed to the streets.
However, in the article, a link will be at the end so you can read the actual story, the board said it couldn't find the minutes to prove that they had a meeting and knew Ott had not paid the fund.
That sounds fishy?
They know they talked about it, just not when or where the dialogue would be to prove it.
But guess what? They don't have to prove it, they can just say it. Since Ott is already blessed with the title of elder abuser, she's probably capable of these other oversights.
The board in Sierra Kings sounds an awful lot like a certain board of directors I know oh too well here in the valley. (quick to protect themselves of course)
I don't know if Ott did it or if the board just wants to avoid getting stuck with the blame, but I wonder if Ott didn't do it: How does it feel to be scapegoated? How does it feel to be the one everyone blames?
I'll stop now, because I a moments away from saying "na, na,na, nanna."
Read it in the Exponent:
http://www.reedleyexponent.com/articles/2010/03/24/news/doc4baa394719421767508279.txt
Persistance and Tenacity, requires a new chapter, a new beginning....
Our whole community remains up in arms over the damage done by our hospital board. The resistance of the these individuals to ensure the well being of the hospital created a sense of distrust while violating our own rights to responsible information. Your site has opened our eyes as to the origin of the former adminstrator Pamela Ott.
ReplyDeleteOn your site is Mrs. Ott's resume for all to search. It did not take more than a glance to recognize that this woman misrepresented her qualifications to obtain a high paying position.
My concern is that our human resources at Sierra King District Hospital allowed it to happen twice.
How does one overlook something so obvious?