Kern Valley Sun Tanned Hide

Kern Valley Sun “Solar Flairs”

“The Shortened Days of our Lives,” the Soap opera of the Welfare/HEALTHCARE system, we lovingly call “KVHD under FIRE” rides round the land to find the Antagonist of greater proportion than a local subsidiary of Sub-moral Characters, but…we are always willing to take on the AIDERS and ABETTERS.

The local region, rather isolated, in a valley, The Kern River Valley, has a unique “containment” of media as there are two local types of weekly tabloids: The Kern Valley Sun and the Kern River Courier.

Also included in your package of “information packaging,” and of course, handling charges, the potentially derailing data not for public consumption, is the local radio station QAB, owned by Charlie Busch.

(Charlie Busch is a candidate for the KVHD board of Directors seat this election)

All three of these media outlets handle the local region only. Since media relies on advertising for it’s income, it’s no stretch to understand that they are going to protect their own salaries. (And that of their keepers)

Right KVHD administrators? These Healthcare Welfare Recipients know that playing with the “starving” and impoverished media outlets is a cheap, and efficient public relations team, as the more hungry they are, the less you will have to feed them.

(The Bakersfield Press stays off the KRV, unwilling to make a commitment to the valley. Drinks our Milk shake ups, but not buying our Cattle. News is scattered, over a broad area, specifics are a rare treat, but there are some, spotty efforts. Yes, they also please their master too.)

So, it goes that with Tim McGlew, CEO, of the Kern Valley Healthcare District, recipient of a pay scale far above that of the equal sized hospitals, which were created ideally to aide the “underserved” and Rural communities.

It was Front page news last week, as the hospital and it’s CEO‘s salary, headlined the tabloids priority list, receiving his pay increase from a board of directors elected for oversight.

Let’s just begin with the words Written, by Susan Barr, (the lower the Bar, the more likely to trip over it,) but she writes that the public agrees that McGlew deserved another raise.

The whole VALLEY? Lol

Outsiders, government officials, “RATIONAL individuals too? California Hospital Association?”

It’s a boot licking maneuver to begin speaking of the raise as a subject of interest, then to make a lazy strike at the reality, by saying, “The public agrees he deserves it,” is puerile.

“Jamey and Johnny think Mcglew deserves more money, because I said so, that‘s why” could have just as easily been implanted in that story.

But to add to this obvious Sycophant like gesture on the part of the effort to rally support for a public relations ploy, Barr makes a statement that not only did McGlew get a raise, but ALL The hospital employees received raises too. (Happy days are here again begins playing when the page is turned)

Isn’t that good to hear?
Hospital employees are you getting this? lol

She did not, however, mention the off-setting report that when McGlew received his first financial pat on the butt two years ago, the EMPLOYEES did NOT get a pay adjustment or raise.

So, to have the SUN flair up with this Sales pitch, burns us all out on the idea we can expect to hear any sort of discernment or distinguishing between their own “Special media needs” agenda and that of the hospital.

Or any other matter, such as the DAM project. The Sun is a joy to work AGAINST as writing about the Sun is about as EASy as making Rice Crispy treats. (let me throw a little flour on my face, phew!)

Also MISSING is the information about past CEO salaries and benefits.

Hmm, wonder why? Lol

This is an important feature of an article that is directed at ACTUALLY conveying something other than financial Desperation on the part of the newspaper.

That may have been a road less traveled, and certainly would NOT have helped McGlew’s position, but it could have been noted that over-spending, lenient hiring practices, lack of oversight, extra benefits, are all hallmarks of the KVHD history.

If McGlew had said, “no” to his increase, donated it to his favorite KVHD cause, such as “Women’s issues,” we may have well ALL agreed. Doing something kind is rarely polarizing. Taking another salary increase in an impoverished community, is…

Who is Doctor Montez?

The KVHD Rural Health Clinically dead after Dr. Jack Nadler left his position late last year, got a revival as the SUN beamed in on the latest replacement.

The new doctor on staff, Dr. Montez.

After a year of having Board member, Skilled nursing Facility medical Directors, Sienna Wellness owner, Dr. Robert Gross, DO, sign pharmaceutical prescriptions for surprised patients who had only been seen by the Physician’s Assistants at Rural Health, the hospital found it’s new doctor. 

Montez, a Self declared, OBGYN, which is tough to figure why this is the first time I have ever heard of a doctor “Self Declaring” anything, has been given the STATUS card of bringing women into the “Self declared” clinics to treat FEMALE issues.

And in a way that apparently only SELF DECLARED OBGYN’s can do it, with flair.

The Sun brought this new idea to our attention with several articles highlighting the SELF DECLARING physician, Dr. Montez, as an advocate for women.

McGlew may have founded this term, Self Declaring, women’s advocate, but the KV Sun picked it up and wrote away on it. They put the buzz on and the bees did the rest.

I asked the hospital if there any sort of BILLING advantages to having a SELF DECLARED OBGYN on board, but was quickly lead down the confusing lane of “you’ll have to ask so and so and they can’t really talk about it, “oh, that’s the clinic business,” and there is no way for me to tell.”

But I tried to find a reason initially that this status of self declaration, there has to be a reason. However, there have been other issues arising, which I will keep readers appraised, as to why this is an issue.

KVHD has gotten brave again as they are willing to speak in a reality they shape in a weekly newspaper.

My rationale is to ERR on the side of LESS people being hurt by the practices at KVHD. Certainly there are successes in this district, but they are ONLY that way as standards have gotten so low, that we the customer begin to think if we were not hurt, killed, scarred, choked, overdosed, under dosed, mentally abused, left in the broom closet, that we DID OKAY!

Closer inspection of the treatment of the district is really showing it’s got a GREAT FAÇADE and a lousy interior.

This does not mean that there are not compassionate and dedicated individuals working in the district, I think there are always those who RISE above the circumstances.

But then there’s the media, who forget that the WATCH is an important function, it’s one for the PUBLIC and those who CARE.

So, for fun and comedy, stick to where the SUN don’t shine, but for those who may rely on healthcare or have sick family members, of importance to them, find another source.

There may not be one yet, but there is space on the internet for any concerned, studious, type who may want to serve a heapin’
helping of hospitality.

The other tabloid coming from Wofford Heights, did not take up the role of researching the hospital either. They have shied away from controversy, but they do apparently do ADS for KVHD and have some interactions.

Whether they like it or not, omission of facts, or concerns, are just as deceptive as openly shaping stories to reflect a positive picture.

The Courier played it conservative, considering the demographic of folks in this region, they were from an era, where if “you don’t have something nice to say, say nothing at all.”

(got quiet out there.)

How insane, to avoid the WHOLE of the parts, to eliminate data necessary for critical understanding of the issue?

I was not INVITED to the hospital expenditure called the Strategic Plan event, as I was told I could ONLY come if I had positive questions.

Well, I consider questions positive by nature, but if they are limiting my questions or anyone else’s, then it’s NOT a reliable result.

And if the Courier, like the SUN, is but a messenger for the hospital administration’s concern that it is BETTER TO LOOK GOOD than to be GOOD at what you do, then it’s best to drop any claim to be here for the community good.

That is where our choices end.

No amount of time and effort has been spared in my attempts to EXPOSE the players at this hospital and above the limits of the KRV. And until there is JUSTICE I will always be right behind, waiting for the Wildebeest to Stumble, and then again, I’ll give chase.

For now, I will take my effort to another level, not that this higher level is actually level, it’s formed of a more solid bulwark, but that is my specialty, working with the BULL.

But these are the folks who feed at a much bigger, more plentiful trough, no less pigging out, just a bigger food bowl. They are also responsible for the system in place which allows the tiny KVHD to routinely bring in their own auditors, select their own media, pay out huge sums of money, hire friends, get away with murder basically.

The victims of such deeds, are here in the KRV, and it is all of us, including those who would collude and cloud the record as it has not been straight nor does it appear to be headed in that direction any time soon.

These Healthcare/Welfare recipients are victimizing themselves, buried deep in deceit and even willing to lie and criticize their own food chain to get ahead.

While I keep them jumping, they’re exposed to being eaten by a bigger fish than I.

Playing one side against the other can be a dangerous proposition. They are forgetting where their bread is buttered.

Yes, 80% of Cal Mtg. (Bond Debt Holder) employees, most especially Mabel Chan,  Believed that in 2010 KVHD residents would vote to TAX their own properties to settle the debt.

Where did they get an idea like that? Lol

SUSPECTS: Chet Beedle, CFO, KVHD? Tim McGlew CEO? Caldwell, Flores and Winters, sellers of these tax bonds called GOB’s?

Gullible Travels everywhere, even to the top echelon, where being DUPED by these rural health magnates, must have brought some SHAME as Measure G plummeted to defeat. LOL

Yet, Cal Mtg. continues to make excuses for KVHD, without realizing how ridiculous and at times, look at the records, criticizing them, publicly railing against them, or openly telling stories of how one such CFO, could pull the wool over their eyes.

If Cal Mtg. reads the KV Sun, they are probably appeased.

The local media have a new dam on the truth, regarding this project on the lake too. Politically speaking, the likes Congressman Kevin McCarthy and Senator Jean Fuller, the Army Corps of Engineers, pretend to make friends such as the SUN so they can fill the paper with their own propaganda.

Or as I note with the political cats on a hot tin roof, they AVOID talking altogether on the subject.

(I’m Sure Romeo from Fuller’s office is going to explain one day why she thinks an INDEPENDENT STUDY is not necessary for the dam project. Or McCarthy will tidy up the questions about how this 40 million Spending spree has been a great influx of cash for his office.)

It’s a maze and the rats are fighting for the cheese, and I’m making sandwiches.

Who wants a Grilled Cheese?

It’s a simple love story of MONEY and POWER, and the victims of such victims. A CATCH 22.

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