I've been experimenting with different things on the computer, different links, alerts, feeds and so on, and I came across an alert about the Kern Valley Healthcare District. I'm not really good at any of this, that's why I keep trying, but I noticed there was a site called "leapfrog" which gave a rating to hospitals.
Two hospitals we know of didn't answer the rating request and therefore were not included in the overall data base.
Those two hospitals known to us as the Kern Valley Healthcare District and the Sierra Kings Healthcare District, both former employers of Pamela Ott, CEO, now charged in an elder abuse scandal at KVHD.
She recently was cited as allowing employees to sedate patients for "staff convenience" which we are still trying to figure out what that actually means but someday I hope to know.
But what I found interesting on this site, which I will give you the link to look at yourself, was the statistic about safety.
If that statistic is accurate or in context, it's scary to think that it's safer to be away from preventable medical mistakes which outnumber annual deaths due to car accidents, breast cancer and AIDs, at the time, they put the report as made in 1999.
I imagine those figures are out of date and of whack, but it goes to show that there are heavy prices to be paid from errors at hospitals, clinics, nursing centers, operating rooms, even simple tests.
KVHD is not in here, but it's one of many ways of looking at a hospital and deciding whether to go there or not, or whether a nursing home is as good as it looks. Using tools such as these could help steer you or a loved one out of potential mediocre or possibly dangerous situation.
No other options here.
But we have no other option here in the KRV and until we make a serious change in the name of quality, there will be fewer older people coming here to retire. And likely the hospital will go too.
http://www.leapfroggroup.org/about_us
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