Big claims in a small courtBob Jamison, rural radio wrangler, public healthcare district "trustee," shown here not answering my questions at a KVHD board meeting.
Let us begin the story of how two media outlets, one with an advertising contract to protect, and the other in a dual role reporting news but other role as publicly elected board member of the Kern Valley Healthcare District.
I've blogged my criticisms as to the situation here in the Kern River Valley, an insular community, in the mountains and surrounding the lake with the leaky damn, Lake Isabella.
This community was rocked by claims of elder abuse in it's only hospital last year, part of the Kern Valley Healthcare District, a public district, with elected board members, who were working not so much together, more as a quorum.
In this blog, these three board members are known as "the sticky three" as they stuck together during any situation when one were challenged, such as the one we are talking about now, Mr. Bob Jamison, radio star and healthcare district official, an interesting combination.
He was the talk of the town
When I first came along in 2005, covering the district for the only other local "news" paper, Mr. Jamison, was freely covering whatever he liked as far as news coverage, and his sharp angles he put on the hospital stories was a first for me.
During 2006, Jamison came in handy, as the hospital was throwing together a general obligation bond party hoping to get 12.5 million from the community, replacing the acute care wing outside the cafeteria, atop the grassy knoll, which turned out to be a bad place as a leech line was the obstruction to that plan.
When the going got tough one left the other howled
By the end of 2006 many things had gone wrong at the hospital, particularly in the nursing center, where several patients were alleged to have received improper drugs, and a California Attorney General, Jerry Brown, recently repeated that drugs were being given like candy to restrain the patients.
The employees didn't trust the administrators, or the board, with two exceptions, who became the first targets for board member and radio entertainer, Bob Jamison.
Here is a blog Jamison put up on the QAB LLC website, also including the name of ABC news radio, but this one wasn't to be about me: this one was about the other two board members who didn't ride with the quorum, Robert and Kathryn Knight.
Robert Knight was on the board, but when his wife Kay won a seat at the end of 2006, Jamison didn't take well to that, and began his own attacks.
Email to me alerting me to look at his work of defamation he had put up on the radio company's website. He seems shocked that nobody has caught on to his games or that nobody appreciated this clever ploy to put the blog up and take it down before anyone would know.
Here he attacks Bob and Kay Knight, demeaning their criticism of the hospital's plan to throw an architectural design together and hope that the monies from the community would pay for it. In the end, the community was eventually told that the money would not have been enough to complete the project, or a plan that couldn't be completed.
The email, the blog, and the photo
Let us begin the story of how two media outlets, one with an advertising contract to protect, and the other in a dual role reporting news but other role as publicly elected board member of the Kern Valley Healthcare District.
I've blogged my criticisms as to the situation here in the Kern River Valley, an insular community, in the mountains and surrounding the lake with the leaky damn, Lake Isabella.
This community was rocked by claims of elder abuse in it's only hospital last year, part of the Kern Valley Healthcare District, a public district, with elected board members, who were working not so much together, more as a quorum.
In this blog, these three board members are known as "the sticky three" as they stuck together during any situation when one were challenged, such as the one we are talking about now, Mr. Bob Jamison, radio star and healthcare district official, an interesting combination.
He was the talk of the town
When I first came along in 2005, covering the district for the only other local "news" paper, Mr. Jamison, was freely covering whatever he liked as far as news coverage, and his sharp angles he put on the hospital stories was a first for me.
During 2006, Jamison came in handy, as the hospital was throwing together a general obligation bond party hoping to get 12.5 million from the community, replacing the acute care wing outside the cafeteria, atop the grassy knoll, which turned out to be a bad place as a leech line was the obstruction to that plan.
When the going got tough one left the other howled
By the end of 2006 many things had gone wrong at the hospital, particularly in the nursing center, where several patients were alleged to have received improper drugs, and a California Attorney General, Jerry Brown, recently repeated that drugs were being given like candy to restrain the patients.
The employees didn't trust the administrators, or the board, with two exceptions, who became the first targets for board member and radio entertainer, Bob Jamison.
Here is a blog Jamison put up on the QAB LLC website, also including the name of ABC news radio, but this one wasn't to be about me: this one was about the other two board members who didn't ride with the quorum, Robert and Kathryn Knight.
Robert Knight was on the board, but when his wife Kay won a seat at the end of 2006, Jamison didn't take well to that, and began his own attacks.
Email to me alerting me to look at his work of defamation he had put up on the radio company's website. He seems shocked that nobody has caught on to his games or that nobody appreciated this clever ploy to put the blog up and take it down before anyone would know.
Here he attacks Bob and Kay Knight, demeaning their criticism of the hospital's plan to throw an architectural design together and hope that the monies from the community would pay for it. In the end, the community was eventually told that the money would not have been enough to complete the project, or a plan that couldn't be completed.
The email, the blog, and the photo
----- Original Message -----
From: Jamison
To: Laura Hart
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: did you...
You mean I slave every day writing this stuff, working my fingers to the bone, trying to keep the public informed of the facts, all the facts, and nothing but the facts, and your not even reading it? Lets just say... certain members of hospital management sometimes refer to me as "Huevos Maximus". It was on the website for two days.
Bob
From: Jamison
To: Laura Hart
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: did you...
You mean I slave every day writing this stuff, working my fingers to the bone, trying to keep the public informed of the facts, all the facts, and nothing but the facts, and your not even reading it? Lets just say... certain members of hospital management sometimes refer to me as "Huevos Maximus". It was on the website for two days.
Bob
(This fake resolution below was created by a friend of Jamison's and also the husband of former board member, JoAnn Jones. Jones husband ran for the board and lost, but was apparently busy doing some fun photoshop work for Mr. Jamison.)
Resolution No. 07-01
BEFORE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE KERN VALLEY HEALTHCARE DISTRICT
OF KERN COUNTY
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
WHEREAS, the Board recognizes the diligence of Mr. Knight in pursuing his mission to curtail the financial viability of the district, even in the face of the reprehensibly honest, above board and competent tactics of the remainder of the Board and district administration to neutralize the harmful effects of Mr. Knight’s actions.
WHEREAS, the Board applauds Mr. Knight’s actions to defeat Measure M. While some would characterize those actions as evidence of a weak character, smarmy disingenuousness and a predilection towards self serving unethical behavior, the Board recognizes Mr. Knight’s laudable motivation: he did it for the district staff. Mr. Knight, and only Mr. Knight, recognized the unacceptable negative impact the passage of Measure M, and the threatening 21st Century medical treatments and practitioners that passage would bring, could have on staff.
WHEREAS, the Board recognizes the foresight of both Mr. and Mrs. Knight to enhance the friction between the minority of board members and district administration by promising district funds to purchase the votes of district staff for Mrs. Knight.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED, DETERMINED AND ORDERED by the Board of Directors of the Kern Valley Health Care District as follows:
Section 1. Recitals. All of the foregoing recitals are true.
Section 2. Dedication of New Acute Care and Emergency Services Wing. The Board does hereby order and request that the extant Acute Care and Emergency Services building be razed, and replaced by a facility that reflects the positive contribution that the Knights have and will make to the betterment of the district. Further, this new facility is ordered to be dedicated as the “Bob and Kay Knight Acute Care and Emergency Services Wing of the Kern Valley Hospital”. An artist conception of this new wing is attached.
BEFORE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE KERN VALLEY HEALTHCARE DISTRICT
OF KERN COUNTY
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
WHEREAS, the Board recognizes the diligence of Mr. Knight in pursuing his mission to curtail the financial viability of the district, even in the face of the reprehensibly honest, above board and competent tactics of the remainder of the Board and district administration to neutralize the harmful effects of Mr. Knight’s actions.
WHEREAS, the Board applauds Mr. Knight’s actions to defeat Measure M. While some would characterize those actions as evidence of a weak character, smarmy disingenuousness and a predilection towards self serving unethical behavior, the Board recognizes Mr. Knight’s laudable motivation: he did it for the district staff. Mr. Knight, and only Mr. Knight, recognized the unacceptable negative impact the passage of Measure M, and the threatening 21st Century medical treatments and practitioners that passage would bring, could have on staff.
WHEREAS, the Board recognizes the foresight of both Mr. and Mrs. Knight to enhance the friction between the minority of board members and district administration by promising district funds to purchase the votes of district staff for Mrs. Knight.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED, DETERMINED AND ORDERED by the Board of Directors of the Kern Valley Health Care District as follows:
Section 1. Recitals. All of the foregoing recitals are true.
Section 2. Dedication of New Acute Care and Emergency Services Wing. The Board does hereby order and request that the extant Acute Care and Emergency Services building be razed, and replaced by a facility that reflects the positive contribution that the Knights have and will make to the betterment of the district. Further, this new facility is ordered to be dedicated as the “Bob and Kay Knight Acute Care and Emergency Services Wing of the Kern Valley Hospital”. An artist conception of this new wing is attached.
Next up: Jamison brings former CEO, Pamela Ott, onto the radio show for an hour while she explains that she knew that medications were properly administered, as there were "bubble wrap" containers left over, meaning to the top administrator of a public healthcare district that was good enough for her to see an empty container lying about or in the trash. I guess solid proof of the medications were given safely and properly.
We wanted equal time and wrote a request to the owner for that time that Ott was allowed on the radio to make her last stand at Jamison's "tower of power."
I call it Jamison, but the responsibility for truth in news and radio would be the owner's themselves as well, as they did nothing to stop the conflict of interest and the defaming practices.
Then the story gets more graphic and moves on to when I had asked for a job at the station, but got the run around, along with some unwanted attention.
The QAB and Bob Jamison story begins as we have a date in small claims court here in the valley coming up soon. And the Kern Valley Sun Newspaper story will begin as we will be seeing them in court too. It's the year of accountability...
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