This WEek the Kern Valley Healthcare D"istrict in it's Transparent Monthly meeting forum, Will be bringing news to it's valley residents and Patient pool, the new Salary Increase for KVHD CEO, Timothy McGlew.
McGlew, who came to the Kern River Valley, following the sudden resignation of former CEO, and avid "solitaire" fan, Rick Carter, who resigned shortly into his Kern River Valley career, and Salary, with benefits including Travel, planes, trains and a Stipend for lunch.
When Residents thought the 175K a year salary given Carter for his time at the Helm of KVHD, along with his Fringe benefits, would by them a grand leader,Along Came Tim MCglew, whose salary has Eclipsed them all.
This Month, McGlew will see his salary again Ascend into an Atmosphere of "AUSTERITY" every where in Goverment, EXCEPT: KVHD.
THe Ceo, MCGlew, coming from a background with the HOME FOR JEWISH PARENTS, and a Project of substantial worth, working with KVHD Debt Control PRogram, CAl MTG. who CONTROLS the Hospital's bond indenture, was FAMILiAR with McGlew. They had Worked with him on a project for the HJP, to the tune of 60 million.
Though 60 million is a STarter figure, at the Jewish home, this was a Real figure that has been pAID out at KVHD. The tiny community hospital has paid out over 60 million on the DEBT related to the 1988, BOND INDENTURE, it was afforded by CAL MTG.
In return the community, comprised of a demographic of mostly retired persons, disabled, and elderly residents, were mired in controversy starting with a nursing Center which was projected to contain 140 beds and constructed only half that at 70, but at the twice the projected cost. Residents are repeatedly asked to BAIL out the hospital with a tax themselves measure.
BAil OUT and RAise the SAlARy in the same breath, has been the attitude of the recent regime run by Mcglew.
McGlew, has spoken of the Home for Jewish PArents construction project and his RELATIONSHIP with CAL MTG. Debt holder, however, McGlew has avoided questions as to this subject when it did not relate directly to the KVHD bailout attempted in 2010.
McGlew, and Board member, Bob Jamison, as the radio Disc JOck, took the CEO and CFO, Chet Beedle aboard his Radio talk show and Shook the town down for votes on tax "MEASURE "G" for McGlew two years ago.
Expanding the KVHD hospital has been set aside until 2014, when the hospital strategic plan has scheduled an other attempt at getting help by having local tax payers, pay more in property taxes.
Mcglew and KVH D CFO, CHet Beedle, both, in 2010, urged community leaders to support their Measure G, and CLAIMED to have 80 percent Community support to do this. After the Ballots were counted there was a Sigh of Disbelief as the "TAX AND SNIFF" measure apparently did not appeal to local KNoses.
The CEO, will share his new salary level this week at the TRanslucent or parent or whatever, meeting.
The KVHD BOD meeting begins at 5:30 pm on WEd. Sept. 5th, in the Cafeteria.
Also, on the menu this week, is a peek a the top echelon, Who has THE STrings aNd Where Do they ATTACH ? CAL Mtg. is the Special this week, imposing a sTANdard, of DEBT resolution, that eXTends into the Future, the INTEREST goes on, at a rate we cannot afford to pay.
SEE what is new at the TOP, as CApitAL improvement, would Be approved.
CAl mtg. and the OFFICE OF STATEWIDE heaLTHCARE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT. AND how do they know ASPEN STreet ARchitects? And why are they hanging on to KVHD?
Inquiring minds will know, this an d more...
Persistance and Tenacity, requires a new chapter, a new beginning....
Showing posts with label CEO Tim McGlew. Show all posts
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Monday, September 3, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Representing the Truth and Compassion, Underserved community....
Well, It's that time again, it's time to talk truth and no more "polite talk."
I'm sure there are those unwilling to abide the TRUTh, and they are certainly enjoying a Renaissance of deception, but there is no other cause I prefer, no other reason to do any of this, as this is my banner.
With that said, we enter the NEW AGE of KVHD and politically prompted policy makers and law enforcement "reinforcement" as there was a slide to the side of "JUST US" and no justice, as Defendants in the KVHD elder abuse case, have walked away with little more than slaps on the wrist.
Okay, now it's my turn.
Today, August 22, 2012, Pamela Ott, former KVHD CEO, has her hearing in the Kern County Superior Court today, awaiting a plea deal. Ott is expected to get the same treatment as former co-worker, Dr. Hoshang Pormir, was let loose of elder abuse charges and plead "out" to conspiracy charges, leaving him with a 3 year probation sentence.
Ott, who was treated as a martyr by KVHD board members, after her resignation in 2007, even to the degree that she was taken onto the local radio station, and given a defense venue by Bob Jamison, disc jokey, and board member, to defend her actions.
Jamison who has repeatedly used his radio vocation to mix with his hospital side job as board member, and none of it has been uncontroversial.
Ott's status will be updated as I find out what exactly has happened, to fail all of us. Ott has credentials that should actually be a "cautionary tale" to those in human resources, the justice department or anywhere else there would be an expected degree transparency.
Ott has gotten a few helping hands as she has managed to be chased around, from the Kern River Valley to Sierra Kings in Reedley, as she is suspected of many violations against these districts. However, the likelyhood that these will ever be reckoned by those in the "HEALTHCARE WELFARE" industry which feeds architects, lawyers, bond salesmen, immoral activity of the ugliest kind, is remote.
BUT, I won't stop. And we will revisit some of Ott's top ten crimes, as that's all I have to time for. LOL
Fresno county DA office, refused to take a report or to discuss implications stemming from the Sierra Kings District hospital bankruptcy where some amount of merit was given to reports there was THEFT of FUNDs from the local GOB and even loss of EMPLOYEE pension funds. Ott worked with Barbara Jennings, who were both "let loose" by the Sierra Kings Board of directors, shortly before the financial crisis hit rock bottom.
My interference apparently was not well received, as I have created an awful atmosphere of INsisting upon this idle, uncomfortable idea of Truth. Nasty stuff I guess.
The WEINER IS...
Elder abuse, is reprehensible, but using elder abuse to get elected GOVERnor, Mr. Brown, is DISGUStING. And that is exactly what Governor Jerry Brown did to this community. In 2010 he used the Kern River Valley, the Attorney General's office and reputation, to Launch himself to the Capitol and begin his AUsterity wars, I'll call them.
In this process, he used much media attraction and attention, weighing in about the KVHD elder abuse case, calling it the "worst he had seen."
Also, using HOLLYwood or Weird to project his "lawfulness" to the crowd of voters back in 2009 and 2010, as he said repeatedly, he was NOT running, and that all the fanfare was about his justice seeking missiles, which have missed our hospital and valley, and are on their way back to the governor's mansion as I write...lol
Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, got Personal Visits from the AG, and well, we got a lot of hot air, as we are simply a town of backward simpletons without a grain of sense, and a notorious need to trust the wrong people and giving credit where it was NOT due.
So, on the list of TO DO is my new austerity measure: NO MORE POLITE Chit CHat, just hard hitting words and truth. Indeed,
"Kabala" Harris where is the magic?
Another political figure who has been subtracted from our equation has been the new and current Attorney General, Kamala Harris, who rode into her role on the Coat tails of Jerry Brown.
Harris used rhetoric such as "you don't have to lose your principles to serve in government" as a platform to take the helm from Brown as the former prosecutor, was voted in to the office alongside her "mentor" Jerry in 2010.
She has been MUTE, unseen, a force of NOTHING, a existential AG, who was JUST there and not justice as we have sought remedies to the problems that occurred at KVHD and Sierra Kings.
Why should she move into any position after her foray as a political figure HIDING from a fight which would keep her a viable volleyball in the political FUTURE where she would likely be used as a candidate, Manchurian, LOL, for the DEMOCRATIC party? And the less she says, the less she has to explain come election time. And as a black woman, prosecutor, a light skinned African American, HOLY CASH COW, she meets all the "demo" requirements to exceed and surpass demographics which even cross party lines.
She's meant to be the virgin as she creates a RESUME of political office.
Not fooling us all though.
Timmy's toy box...
The CEO of KVHD, TIm Mcglew, is expected to recieved another raise in two weeks, as the administrator has been held accountable as the number one paid CEO at the smallest hospital in Kern County.
How a hospital so financially distressed, calling it's community to BAIL THEM out of bad decisions which have left them in debt, understaffed, and under suspicion of at the least being EVASIVE, would be justifying the expense of paying more than 200K in good money for a Suit and tie type of administrator is questionable.
Some response will be requested as this has happened again, another year, another raise, and another round of ring around the payroll.
GO SEE CAL, GO SEE CAL...
My goal is to make our DEBTOR, Cal Mtg. in the office of Statewide Healthcare Planning and Development, OSHPD, a HOUSEHOLD name in the healthcare financial industry, as the debt suffered by the hospital was created by these lenders back in 1988. It was a small hospital, in need of expansion, worth less than one million, but receiving a Bond endenture of 22 million.
NO Collateral, no problem CAl Mtg. said in 1988, as they dropped off a bag of money, spent on construction which lend itself to only completely HALF the glass, and not half full either.
THE skilled nursing facility was to be created as 140 bed project, coming in with 70 beds, at the end, and no accounting of WHERE did the money go?
Board members, Cal Mtg. operatives, have denied and been evasive, as to the disposition of all those monies, and they have had the hubris to believe that we as a community, will pay this off and indebt ourselves into 30 years of increased property taxes. (Yeah, right)
So far, this community has held strong to not being taxed, but that tune of VOLUNTARY taxation without representation has been challenged to the north, as Governor Jerry Brown has added money to our property taxes for fire fighting, but he avoids calling it a tax, or allowing any VOTE by the public in opposition.
This involuntary taxation is going to be a problem, as the Governor, has created an environment of usurping civil and public rights.
So when the hospital decides it can no longer remain in business taking small handouts instead of the big money, we may see something of a THREAT to tax.
Cal Mtg. has held the position that KVHD can NOT bankrupt on this bond debt, and recently made a new LOAN to keep them up on their payments of the original sin, and putting this off on another generation which will inherit the on going debt.
Why can't KVHD bankrupt? Why can't we have a lower priced CEO? Why do we need a CFO? And why are the financial records so difficult and so confusing that board members regularly request CFO CheT Beedle explain the "facts" to them.
Ask the board, how KVHD is doing financially, and you may just have A Kern Valley Sun article about them being in the "black." But how would a public healthcare district explain that they are in the black EXCEPT for the debt part. Again, low regard for the community, so low that they are willing to take advantage of the trusting nature, offering indefensible explanations, and does not appreciate when local figures find problems with their financial crunching.
One woman who found a 75K error on the books was taunted, derided, hung up by phone, and disrespected in every manner.
Bored or Board?
This year there are THREE count them, three board seats up for grabs, as Dr. Robert Gross, Victoria Alwin, and Bob Jamison are up for re-election. Jamison is the only candidate heading for pasture, but in his wake, new QAB radio owner, Charlie Busch, reaches out to voters to continue the intimacy between radio and healthcare by entering the race. Busch, being seen at his very first board meeting last month, will be the only candidate not well known to local voters.
Gross, who has many irons in the KVHD fire, and Alwin who has served as Timekeeper and board leader for a few years, are back at it, running again. Gross, owner of Sienna Wellness, a former DIRECTOR of Rural Health this past year, contracted as SNF Medical provider, seen in the acute care and ER, and now again, running for the board.
Barbara Casas, a board member of former repute, will join the race too, aside John Blythe and Tom Wright, both familiar names and often opposing opinions to the status quo.
There will be a page dedicated to the election on KVHD Under FIRe, as we look at the potential changes that a new board may bring. And I believe the candidates deserve a chance to say what they will without my interference and snarky comments, so that will as usual be provided.
But snarky comments are born out of frustration with polite, accommodating, behaviors easily mistaken as KINDNESS and fairplay, and I would NOT want that to be the case. lol
Finally, this is a mess. This is a discomfort, disservice, a nightmare for many people and a nasty reminder that money does grow in public healthcare districts, and it breeds contempt for those they should only be interested in SERVING.
I'm gearing up to GETTING 'er DONE, so let's get started.
New video on YOUTUBE, KVHD under FIRE, and a trip NORTH will be on the menu in the next few weeks.
Laura Hart
I'm sure there are those unwilling to abide the TRUTh, and they are certainly enjoying a Renaissance of deception, but there is no other cause I prefer, no other reason to do any of this, as this is my banner.
With that said, we enter the NEW AGE of KVHD and politically prompted policy makers and law enforcement "reinforcement" as there was a slide to the side of "JUST US" and no justice, as Defendants in the KVHD elder abuse case, have walked away with little more than slaps on the wrist.
Okay, now it's my turn.
Today, August 22, 2012, Pamela Ott, former KVHD CEO, has her hearing in the Kern County Superior Court today, awaiting a plea deal. Ott is expected to get the same treatment as former co-worker, Dr. Hoshang Pormir, was let loose of elder abuse charges and plead "out" to conspiracy charges, leaving him with a 3 year probation sentence.
Ott, who was treated as a martyr by KVHD board members, after her resignation in 2007, even to the degree that she was taken onto the local radio station, and given a defense venue by Bob Jamison, disc jokey, and board member, to defend her actions.
Jamison who has repeatedly used his radio vocation to mix with his hospital side job as board member, and none of it has been uncontroversial.
Ott's status will be updated as I find out what exactly has happened, to fail all of us. Ott has credentials that should actually be a "cautionary tale" to those in human resources, the justice department or anywhere else there would be an expected degree transparency.
Ott has gotten a few helping hands as she has managed to be chased around, from the Kern River Valley to Sierra Kings in Reedley, as she is suspected of many violations against these districts. However, the likelyhood that these will ever be reckoned by those in the "HEALTHCARE WELFARE" industry which feeds architects, lawyers, bond salesmen, immoral activity of the ugliest kind, is remote.
BUT, I won't stop. And we will revisit some of Ott's top ten crimes, as that's all I have to time for. LOL
Fresno county DA office, refused to take a report or to discuss implications stemming from the Sierra Kings District hospital bankruptcy where some amount of merit was given to reports there was THEFT of FUNDs from the local GOB and even loss of EMPLOYEE pension funds. Ott worked with Barbara Jennings, who were both "let loose" by the Sierra Kings Board of directors, shortly before the financial crisis hit rock bottom.
My interference apparently was not well received, as I have created an awful atmosphere of INsisting upon this idle, uncomfortable idea of Truth. Nasty stuff I guess.
The WEINER IS...
Elder abuse, is reprehensible, but using elder abuse to get elected GOVERnor, Mr. Brown, is DISGUStING. And that is exactly what Governor Jerry Brown did to this community. In 2010 he used the Kern River Valley, the Attorney General's office and reputation, to Launch himself to the Capitol and begin his AUsterity wars, I'll call them.
In this process, he used much media attraction and attention, weighing in about the KVHD elder abuse case, calling it the "worst he had seen."
Also, using HOLLYwood or Weird to project his "lawfulness" to the crowd of voters back in 2009 and 2010, as he said repeatedly, he was NOT running, and that all the fanfare was about his justice seeking missiles, which have missed our hospital and valley, and are on their way back to the governor's mansion as I write...lol
Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, got Personal Visits from the AG, and well, we got a lot of hot air, as we are simply a town of backward simpletons without a grain of sense, and a notorious need to trust the wrong people and giving credit where it was NOT due.
So, on the list of TO DO is my new austerity measure: NO MORE POLITE Chit CHat, just hard hitting words and truth. Indeed,
"Kabala" Harris where is the magic?
Another political figure who has been subtracted from our equation has been the new and current Attorney General, Kamala Harris, who rode into her role on the Coat tails of Jerry Brown.
Harris used rhetoric such as "you don't have to lose your principles to serve in government" as a platform to take the helm from Brown as the former prosecutor, was voted in to the office alongside her "mentor" Jerry in 2010.
She has been MUTE, unseen, a force of NOTHING, a existential AG, who was JUST there and not justice as we have sought remedies to the problems that occurred at KVHD and Sierra Kings.
Why should she move into any position after her foray as a political figure HIDING from a fight which would keep her a viable volleyball in the political FUTURE where she would likely be used as a candidate, Manchurian, LOL, for the DEMOCRATIC party? And the less she says, the less she has to explain come election time. And as a black woman, prosecutor, a light skinned African American, HOLY CASH COW, she meets all the "demo" requirements to exceed and surpass demographics which even cross party lines.
She's meant to be the virgin as she creates a RESUME of political office.
Not fooling us all though.
Timmy's toy box...
The CEO of KVHD, TIm Mcglew, is expected to recieved another raise in two weeks, as the administrator has been held accountable as the number one paid CEO at the smallest hospital in Kern County.
How a hospital so financially distressed, calling it's community to BAIL THEM out of bad decisions which have left them in debt, understaffed, and under suspicion of at the least being EVASIVE, would be justifying the expense of paying more than 200K in good money for a Suit and tie type of administrator is questionable.
Some response will be requested as this has happened again, another year, another raise, and another round of ring around the payroll.
GO SEE CAL, GO SEE CAL...
My goal is to make our DEBTOR, Cal Mtg. in the office of Statewide Healthcare Planning and Development, OSHPD, a HOUSEHOLD name in the healthcare financial industry, as the debt suffered by the hospital was created by these lenders back in 1988. It was a small hospital, in need of expansion, worth less than one million, but receiving a Bond endenture of 22 million.
NO Collateral, no problem CAl Mtg. said in 1988, as they dropped off a bag of money, spent on construction which lend itself to only completely HALF the glass, and not half full either.
THE skilled nursing facility was to be created as 140 bed project, coming in with 70 beds, at the end, and no accounting of WHERE did the money go?
Board members, Cal Mtg. operatives, have denied and been evasive, as to the disposition of all those monies, and they have had the hubris to believe that we as a community, will pay this off and indebt ourselves into 30 years of increased property taxes. (Yeah, right)
So far, this community has held strong to not being taxed, but that tune of VOLUNTARY taxation without representation has been challenged to the north, as Governor Jerry Brown has added money to our property taxes for fire fighting, but he avoids calling it a tax, or allowing any VOTE by the public in opposition.
This involuntary taxation is going to be a problem, as the Governor, has created an environment of usurping civil and public rights.
So when the hospital decides it can no longer remain in business taking small handouts instead of the big money, we may see something of a THREAT to tax.
Cal Mtg. has held the position that KVHD can NOT bankrupt on this bond debt, and recently made a new LOAN to keep them up on their payments of the original sin, and putting this off on another generation which will inherit the on going debt.
Why can't KVHD bankrupt? Why can't we have a lower priced CEO? Why do we need a CFO? And why are the financial records so difficult and so confusing that board members regularly request CFO CheT Beedle explain the "facts" to them.
Ask the board, how KVHD is doing financially, and you may just have A Kern Valley Sun article about them being in the "black." But how would a public healthcare district explain that they are in the black EXCEPT for the debt part. Again, low regard for the community, so low that they are willing to take advantage of the trusting nature, offering indefensible explanations, and does not appreciate when local figures find problems with their financial crunching.
One woman who found a 75K error on the books was taunted, derided, hung up by phone, and disrespected in every manner.
Bored or Board?
This year there are THREE count them, three board seats up for grabs, as Dr. Robert Gross, Victoria Alwin, and Bob Jamison are up for re-election. Jamison is the only candidate heading for pasture, but in his wake, new QAB radio owner, Charlie Busch, reaches out to voters to continue the intimacy between radio and healthcare by entering the race. Busch, being seen at his very first board meeting last month, will be the only candidate not well known to local voters.
Gross, who has many irons in the KVHD fire, and Alwin who has served as Timekeeper and board leader for a few years, are back at it, running again. Gross, owner of Sienna Wellness, a former DIRECTOR of Rural Health this past year, contracted as SNF Medical provider, seen in the acute care and ER, and now again, running for the board.
Barbara Casas, a board member of former repute, will join the race too, aside John Blythe and Tom Wright, both familiar names and often opposing opinions to the status quo.
There will be a page dedicated to the election on KVHD Under FIRe, as we look at the potential changes that a new board may bring. And I believe the candidates deserve a chance to say what they will without my interference and snarky comments, so that will as usual be provided.
But snarky comments are born out of frustration with polite, accommodating, behaviors easily mistaken as KINDNESS and fairplay, and I would NOT want that to be the case. lol
Finally, this is a mess. This is a discomfort, disservice, a nightmare for many people and a nasty reminder that money does grow in public healthcare districts, and it breeds contempt for those they should only be interested in SERVING.
I'm gearing up to GETTING 'er DONE, so let's get started.
New video on YOUTUBE, KVHD under FIRE, and a trip NORTH will be on the menu in the next few weeks.
Laura Hart
Friday, June 22, 2012
They are all doing it...
The case at the Kern Valley Healthcare District is not a special situation. It is not unique. It is too familiar in that there are those who desire money, power, recognition, etc. who want to be special, are spreading rapidly all throughout our system.
They have robbed us of our trust in their deep misunderstanding of what has happened to them.
That deep deception foists itself upon us all. From our small community where some chose to ignore the growing illness or even accept it all the way to the people feeding off the top where they no longer remain hidden.
Greed has dug a hole as some are in a constant state of seeking more.
This lead Pamela Ott, former KVHD CEO, to lie and convince us that she was here at KVHD and at Sierra Kings to help make healthcare better for all.
It was a wonderful notion, but it was not her true intention.
Dr. Hoshang Pormir, was mislead and swept away by the people who would do anything to control a tiny hospital.
He left his oath as physician healer to go down this empty road.
Gwen Hughes another victim of this deceit took it upon herself to harm patients under the orders of those such as KVHD board members, Bob Jamison, Brad Armstrong, JoAnne Jones, CNO, Sharon Brucker, CFO, Chet Beedle.
Then others came such as CEO's Rick Carter and Tim McGlew. They didn't come for our benefit they came seeking their own.
Even new CNO, sold out to the false power. Mark Gordon held out as long as he could. Now it's almost impossible to get a true word from him.
But these people are truly victims of victims as on top you will find those who are prey to the fake power of control.
Jerry Brown your California Governor has been eating at the same table.
His justice could not possibly tear apart a whole system? Could he?
Only if he was in a position not in the deceit.
Could someone so entrenched in the power of deception be able to even see truth anymore?
There is only suffering for these people.
A felony for these defendants who hide in shame, is nothing compared to what these people are suffering with and will until they give it up.
I know they are not the only ones. I know this is what has happened to them. I do hope that they can recover their real truth and move forward. But these depths of untruth are difficult to navigate. The bigger it gets the more it consumes.
But that is what KVHD under Fire caused which was to expose truth to such a degree that there would be no further deception. They are duly exposed all of them from your local ER to Obama care.
Telling the truth was my service. It was NEVER a burden to carry. It freed me when it was spoken.
It is our obligation and only real tool against such corruption. SPEAK TRUTH no matter what if only for yourself.
The powers that be have admitted that there is pervasive deception and we cannot trust in them to bring us truth. We can see it and if we can we don't linger in revenge or false justice. The courts are full of untruth. They have been perverted for the sake of power.
No court can bring truth, only true hearts have it. And you know who you are.
Best to all.
They have robbed us of our trust in their deep misunderstanding of what has happened to them.
That deep deception foists itself upon us all. From our small community where some chose to ignore the growing illness or even accept it all the way to the people feeding off the top where they no longer remain hidden.
Greed has dug a hole as some are in a constant state of seeking more.
This lead Pamela Ott, former KVHD CEO, to lie and convince us that she was here at KVHD and at Sierra Kings to help make healthcare better for all.
It was a wonderful notion, but it was not her true intention.
Dr. Hoshang Pormir, was mislead and swept away by the people who would do anything to control a tiny hospital.
He left his oath as physician healer to go down this empty road.
Gwen Hughes another victim of this deceit took it upon herself to harm patients under the orders of those such as KVHD board members, Bob Jamison, Brad Armstrong, JoAnne Jones, CNO, Sharon Brucker, CFO, Chet Beedle.
Then others came such as CEO's Rick Carter and Tim McGlew. They didn't come for our benefit they came seeking their own.
Even new CNO, sold out to the false power. Mark Gordon held out as long as he could. Now it's almost impossible to get a true word from him.
But these people are truly victims of victims as on top you will find those who are prey to the fake power of control.
Jerry Brown your California Governor has been eating at the same table.
His justice could not possibly tear apart a whole system? Could he?
Only if he was in a position not in the deceit.
Could someone so entrenched in the power of deception be able to even see truth anymore?
There is only suffering for these people.
A felony for these defendants who hide in shame, is nothing compared to what these people are suffering with and will until they give it up.
I know they are not the only ones. I know this is what has happened to them. I do hope that they can recover their real truth and move forward. But these depths of untruth are difficult to navigate. The bigger it gets the more it consumes.
But that is what KVHD under Fire caused which was to expose truth to such a degree that there would be no further deception. They are duly exposed all of them from your local ER to Obama care.
Telling the truth was my service. It was NEVER a burden to carry. It freed me when it was spoken.
It is our obligation and only real tool against such corruption. SPEAK TRUTH no matter what if only for yourself.
The powers that be have admitted that there is pervasive deception and we cannot trust in them to bring us truth. We can see it and if we can we don't linger in revenge or false justice. The courts are full of untruth. They have been perverted for the sake of power.
No court can bring truth, only true hearts have it. And you know who you are.
Best to all.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Pics from March 2012 board meeting...
Meeting highlights:
Cal Mtg. cannot afford to travel to the district to oversee board meetings says KVHD CEO Tim McGlew.
New wound care specialist who also does plastic surgery...
Kern Health systems has 100 million dollars just sitting around waiting for KVHD...
Mental health help for victims of suicide at high school.
New Cal Mtg. deferment best in California.
KVHDunderFire: a channel for us all to tune into....http://www.youtube.com/user/kvhdunderfire?feature=results_main
Cal Mtg. cannot afford to travel to the district to oversee board meetings says KVHD CEO Tim McGlew.
New wound care specialist who also does plastic surgery...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
KVHD board member, hospitalist, Dr. Gross now interim at Rural Health Clinic
If you're a patient of the Rural Health Clinic in Mount Mesa, Ca, then you've been through a lot of changes in the last few months, as former clinic manager, Dr. Jack Nadler, headed out for new pastures leaving a big gap in local healthcare.
One patient seeing new RHC PA, Christine Black, looked at her prescription when she arrived home to find Kern Valley Healthcare District, board member, hospitalist, and owner of Sienna Wellness, Dr. Robert Gross' name on it.
Gross, who owns Sienna Wellness, just down the street from the Rurual Health Clinic, has been working all angles recently as he is reported by KVHD attorney, Scott Nave, to be the interim doctor for the beleaguered clinic.
You may not see him, he must be quite busy as he is watching the hospital, his own clinic and now rural health, but he's the man behind the medications for the PA who came on after the clinic lost Stacey Bohn PA and shortly after, Dr. Nadler.
What kind of conflict could this cause, other than patients wondering how Dr. Gross' name appeared on their medication when they not only didn't know he was practicing at the clinic, and also have never seen him as a patient?
I tend to wonder if Dr. Gross has not overstepped this time taking on the clinic along with all his other responsibilities. And to continue to be in a position such as board member would seem to put him in a constant state of conflict of interest as he would be expected to objectively vote on many things that would concern the hospital and clinic... not to mention his own compensation.
But I suspect the question would be better put to Dr. Gross himself who maybe running the "Gross Healthcare District" soon. What's next? Board member, David Derr, working in the kitchen for extra cash or Victoria Alwin taking a percentage of the district's next desperate attempt at taxing valley residents, Measure Duh?
I'll email him now and get the response to you as soon as possible. FYI, the question has been put to KVHD, CEO, Tim McGlew, and so far, there has been no response. (McGlew must still be in meetings...)
One patient seeing new RHC PA, Christine Black, looked at her prescription when she arrived home to find Kern Valley Healthcare District, board member, hospitalist, and owner of Sienna Wellness, Dr. Robert Gross' name on it.
Gross, who owns Sienna Wellness, just down the street from the Rurual Health Clinic, has been working all angles recently as he is reported by KVHD attorney, Scott Nave, to be the interim doctor for the beleaguered clinic.
You may not see him, he must be quite busy as he is watching the hospital, his own clinic and now rural health, but he's the man behind the medications for the PA who came on after the clinic lost Stacey Bohn PA and shortly after, Dr. Nadler.
What kind of conflict could this cause, other than patients wondering how Dr. Gross' name appeared on their medication when they not only didn't know he was practicing at the clinic, and also have never seen him as a patient?
I tend to wonder if Dr. Gross has not overstepped this time taking on the clinic along with all his other responsibilities. And to continue to be in a position such as board member would seem to put him in a constant state of conflict of interest as he would be expected to objectively vote on many things that would concern the hospital and clinic... not to mention his own compensation.
But I suspect the question would be better put to Dr. Gross himself who maybe running the "Gross Healthcare District" soon. What's next? Board member, David Derr, working in the kitchen for extra cash or Victoria Alwin taking a percentage of the district's next desperate attempt at taxing valley residents, Measure Duh?
I'll email him now and get the response to you as soon as possible. FYI, the question has been put to KVHD, CEO, Tim McGlew, and so far, there has been no response. (McGlew must still be in meetings...)
Thursday, November 3, 2011
KVHD board November board meeting: Are these the final hours for the hospital ?
KVHD UNDER WATER?
Newest board member, David Derr, a former fireman may want to bring out his hoses, as the hospital board meeting revealed serious problems with their longevity.
Many people were surprised, but why should they have been? Possibly because they were unaware of the problems taking place due to the district's lack of honest communication with its community members.
There are many diehards, such as Reverend, Charles White, who sat with Pamela Ott going over plans for the 2006 GOB election. White has been allowed to go to meetings such as the strategic planning meeting in 2008, where board members, voted to give, before elder abuse charges were filed, 25K dollars only to Pamela Ott. Hmm...
(White shown above, at the December 2, 2010, board meeting, when the board agreed to bring on attorney David Weinstein to offer financial options.)
I again brought this to the attention of Scott Nave of Lemieux and O'neill, the board attorney, why the public was not allowed to attend the strategic planning event, as Bob Jamison, then board chairman, said in the minutes from 2008, the meeting was closed to the public.
Then how did Chuck White and former board member, Chuck Wild, manage to make it to this meeting?
These are the people who have kept secrets, as they knew before I did, that in 2006, the GOB construction plans were not doable. Why didn't they tell us, me, the Attorney General? Charles White who works closely with KRVR, knew, but did not alert anyone.
(CEO, Tim McGlew, shown listening to audience questions and comments)
The community has a choice: the time is now. However, if the hospital happens to fail, we will have to pay the debt with our property taxes. I've never heard them tell us that. But there is much more to this: we need a hospital, only we need to work together to get it.
And we need administrators, board members, board counsel, that are new and not attached to each other like screaming kids in a haunted house.
New people, new day. And more oversight, meaning help from the county and state, to put this together and functional.
It is obvious this group has failed. The problem is that they didn't learn from their mistakes and have never really faced what they have done that brought us to this point. Did the CFO and his pharmacy buddy, Elmo, really need free rent? Or were they taking advantage?
We have all had the chance to help, but most people hid and ran off. Some got sick fighting to get their jobs back. Many moved away.
The CEO, simply took two raises, and now complains they didn't know it was coming.
They didn't know I was coming to the meeting last night either, but I came because of the news regarding the cuts to reimbursement, and a few other things. Though I wanted to stay home as I am quitting smoking and not in a great mood, I thought it best to go, as the hospital got quiet...as they say before the storm.
McGlew talked about a figure of 1.8 million they were facing to lose, and I thought I would remind them they survived 2.5 million they overpaid to Sycamore Management, the group brought aboard the SNF in 2007, according to the CFO, to "stave off Cal mtg," the insurer of the debt that never seems to show up on the profit and loss statements.
They have also paid millions over the years to get contractors to help put humpty dumpty back together again. That didn't work out, paying top dollar, while you are broke? But again, this is how this district has been operating for 22 plus years.
Now is the time to think about the ramifications of allowing others to run such an important component to the community without oversight.
Check their wallets and briefcases if they try to leave
KVHD has no one to blame but themselves. The one constant in the last eleven years has been the CFO, Chet Beedle, and with some logic we can assume that he probably should have been replaced for a variety of troubling reasons. But no action has been taken by anyone, including Cal Mtg. who has been lied to by the "expert in critical care access" accounting, as Mabel Chan, case manager for the hospital, referred to our CFO in an email.
(KVHD Chairwoman, Victoria Alwin, may have to find other people to try and control, as timing the public comments and banging her gavel, have not made her popular. But it may not be much longer that we have to listen to this judge-like chair, who has forgotten her "roots." Alwin, a former critic of the hospital prior to being elected, has been on the defensive of her own performance in the last two years...)
As I said, the Kern Valley Healthcare District board of Directors have no one to blame...however, they always find someone or something other than themselves. The CEO, started his usual round of excuses starting with California Governor Jerry Brown and moved up the line regarding the federal changes in Medicare reimbursement brought to you by President Obama.
The eleven years of financial leadership by CFO, Chet Beedle, shows the hospital administrators and certain board members, did not have the qualifications or tenacity to protect the district. But we never tried anything new in all those years here in the valley.
Oh, forgive me, they did try something new when Beedle cut staff in 2005, preparing for a campaign run for a GOB, they used chemical restraints and free labor from the hospital auxiliary volunteers to keep the nursing center open.
They have been asleep on the job.
Now we need a hospital, and most remarks from residents were conflicted. "I want a hospital, not this one."
I rephrased the question, would you like to keep this hospital if there were radical changes to the administration and board and medical providers? Then the answer became clear to everyone. YES!
Don't let them take the hospital away: it's the administrators, board, and their friends who need to go.
I explained that we can and will have a hospital. The problem which has been here for eons, is the valley's inability to understand what has happened. We were sold out in 1988, selling more revenue bonds to try and complete the hospital expansion that contracted in the course of the work.
They failed to complete the whole project, and therefore doomed this valley to forever have to deal with a debt that could remove healthcare forever unless we move quickly.
We need to start over, remove the high salaries, which the CEO, when asked if he would pitch in some of his salary, stated they are only "pennies?" He indicated taking money from his pocket and other administrators would do nothing in the face of his speech on our "serious issues."
How many pennies did his Jaguar cost?
McGlew who came aboard as the highest paid CEO in the history of KVHD, may not realize that his salary is NOT pennies to the residents who he is supposed to serve.
Who wants the CEO salary? It's 230K a year, plus all the benefits of not living in the area, or even using the facilities for he and his family's healthcare. Stop, I do know that Mr. McGlew has a disabled child who requires certain special care.
Has he EVER considered that he is not the only one that needs specialized care? We have developmentally disabled residents, ailing people, and services that KVHD cannot provide for the patients in the valley.
Did, CFO, Chester Beedle, not see this situation coming financially as there is a wonderful newsletter from "California Healthline" that keeps me, at least, up to date on the healthcare bills and news.
I offer up the idea to the California legislature: Before a public district can begin the process of gaining money via General Obligation Bonds, it must have a district preliminary vote. That will save the time and trouble of finding out that no one cares about a hospital that has put up murals and paint over their horrific mistakes.
Unfortunately, as you can see on the face of Dr. Gross DO, there is little time left to do the right things, they are far too late...And now we will likely pay for their decisions.
(Dr. Robert Gross DO, KVHD hospitalist, former adversary of the administration who had to hire an attorney regarding the KVHD/ Sienna Wellness clinic, asked that residents write their representatives. The board seems unaware that they are government, elected officials in a public district, with public monies, and they should be writing on our behalf. But they ignored this too long and now we have to decide for them as they had nothing but excuses, scapegoats, and long faces at last night's meeting)
Hello to all involved in the 2009 subverted attempt to save the hospital?
In 2009, I saw this coming...where was the board? They were trying to stop negotiations with Cal Mtg. and because of bullying it happened. We never made it past Chet Beedle, Brad Armstrong or former CEO, Rick Carter, who Victoria Alwin blamed for stopping the potential progress last August 2010.
How exactly did Rick Carter stop the negotiation on his own? He didn't, it was a group effort. This is why these people cannot blame anyone but themselves, as they have not shown any leadership or foresight.
They saw the day coming, or if they didn't, then they should just step down now and avoid certain repercussions.
We had support to deal with it. Why didn't this board override Mr. Carter, Alwin's villain, and do what we had needed to do for 20 years?
McGloom and McBeedle stop second attempt at negotiation
I have some ideas, and solutions, but the community now needs some back up, such as that attorney they ignored for one year, and when David Weinstein came around to shore up the information regarding our chances of negotiating with Cal Mtg. or even bankruptcy, but four board members and the administration held the meeting off while signing on to another Cal mtg. debt relief given the district so they would not burden the valley residents with a GOB. (this is according to Cal mtg. and some documents: the board asked for this email and unlike my PRA requests, I got them their information last night.)
Only last week, the CEO, began speaking about the new GOB. At this board meeting, however, he said there may well be no GOB. But we have heard so many stories, as Beedle told us Cal Mtg. was going to help last night too. I will ask for the documents that go along with Beedle's statement.
If McGlew who could have slimmed his salary, along with CFO, Beedle, and a few others, focused on the main issue, quality patient healthcare, reasonable salaries, services the community has been begging for, we may have been able to plan for the future.
Even with the debt, prudent spending could've perpetuated the district's lifespan. That was never the case. They were not saving for a rainy day, and look soaked now...by everyone.
Don't forget, as owners, and voters in this valley, you will need to decide which of the options the hospital has left that would potentially bring in new faces, ideas, and direction and allow us to have quality healthcare.
We need people who have the "time" and the intelligence, who don't change their personalities with a sip of power, who REALLY want to help, and not simply offer lip service.
Board attorney, Scott Nave, did not like my questions and instructed the board to do "whatever" they want to do, such as not answering (that's an old one Scott), or sending it to McGlew for an answer. I'm sorry, I have sent complaints from dozens of residents having problems, and the CEO, always promises, but somehow rarely follows through.
However, I would like to clarify that Mr. Nave broke loose about me, that I had tried to sue the hospital several times.
While the gal with the timer banged her gavel, I reminded Scott, that I repeatedly said if I were going to sue, I would want a class action suit where all people who were hurt, degraded, billed improperly, defamed, can be redeemed.
Are we a class action act? We need to move fast...if that is the will of the community.
So, to clarify, I was quite ill after my negligent treatment, or criminal, depends on the lawyers you speak with, on 1/20/11. This occurred after I complained repeatedly to the CEO, that I needed help, and the ER was calling people "junkies," ignoring the complaints of an elderly woman who said her daughter was abusing her, and on Christmas night the 72 year old woman was escorted outside the ER to the chairs where she was moaning in pain.
(It was a Merry Christmas)
Again, this is so irresponsible and cruel, that we cannot allow ourselves to be victimized by people who may just walk away with a pension, a tremendous salary, and move on while we the valley pay the debt they so lovingly will be leaving us.
But don't worry, I plan on following their careers...
Next year is another election
With another election year coming up, and a GOB on top of the list of strategic planning, we can jump aboard that election and help bring about change.
As our Governor, the one being blamed for the problems that may take down the hospital, said before he was elected, "we have to break down to break through," and here we are with the timing perfect for this community to take back our hospital from the parasitic spending practices and lack of transparency, which is what they hide behind.
Sierra Kings survived
We have spoken of elder abuse charged, Pamela Ott, the KVHD CEO, who was allowed to escape to another hospital in Reedley, California.
While KVHD was sleeping, Sierra Kings, another public healthcare district, has been through financial turmoil brought on by mismanagement, allegedly Pamela Ott, but they went into bankruptcy...the constant fear here in the valley.
The Valley of Fear
With fearful employees, and witnesses biting at the bit to tell their stories to someone who will listen, KVHD, went down another road, missing ARRA funds, running off volunteers who offered their skills to help upgrade services, took advantage of all those pennies, and now, we have a video of Tim McGlew giving us the bad news.
However, the good news is that Sierra Kings made it thru the bankruptcy, had community support to do it, and they are letting loose the HFS company who managed this whole "turn around" project as they are now back in operation with a happy community.(See Reedley Exponent for the full details)
(HFS, is the company who came to KVHD for an "operation's review" and was tagged with leaving "giant holes" in the report. But somehow they helped Sierra Kings...doesn't make sense, unless you are a KVHDer.)
It is possible to save the hospital, it is not when people don't complain, or they don't have the courage to speak up, or work together, when things fall apart. I'm hearing more and more from the inside of the hospital, and I can tell you they WANT to talk about what is going on.
The even bigger picture
We have options such as selling the hospital, but then we have to consider other issues facing this valley as well. Such as years of work on our "dangerous dam." This could cause closure of the 178 to Bakersfield for years.
It may offer some employment, but in the long run, this valley has not looked ahead, and is running into it's own walls...the hospital would be also effected. Have they considered that too? I'm sure they haven't as they are busy spraying water as their pants are on fire.
But again, we are looking at things too late. We failed in every respect, all of us. Now we have to find out what the reality is, and go from there.
According to George Stahl, writer for the Kern Valley Sun, the hospital is expected to fail. The Sun can be thanked for helping this happen, as if the truth were available to all, we could have handled it. But that never happens in the KRV...
Tim's speech: video and details coming up...McGlew slams critical access care report of quality and safety issues at CAH rural hospitals. Waiting for response from CAH to McGlew's statement.
Board member, Robert Gross, admitted that KVHD has safety issues. All video, coming soon...
Newest board member, David Derr, a former fireman may want to bring out his hoses, as the hospital board meeting revealed serious problems with their longevity.Many people were surprised, but why should they have been? Possibly because they were unaware of the problems taking place due to the district's lack of honest communication with its community members.
There are many diehards, such as Reverend, Charles White, who sat with Pamela Ott going over plans for the 2006 GOB election. White has been allowed to go to meetings such as the strategic planning meeting in 2008, where board members, voted to give, before elder abuse charges were filed, 25K dollars only to Pamela Ott. Hmm...
(White shown above, at the December 2, 2010, board meeting, when the board agreed to bring on attorney David Weinstein to offer financial options.) I again brought this to the attention of Scott Nave of Lemieux and O'neill, the board attorney, why the public was not allowed to attend the strategic planning event, as Bob Jamison, then board chairman, said in the minutes from 2008, the meeting was closed to the public.
Then how did Chuck White and former board member, Chuck Wild, manage to make it to this meeting?
These are the people who have kept secrets, as they knew before I did, that in 2006, the GOB construction plans were not doable. Why didn't they tell us, me, the Attorney General? Charles White who works closely with KRVR, knew, but did not alert anyone.
(CEO, Tim McGlew, shown listening to audience questions and comments) The community has a choice: the time is now. However, if the hospital happens to fail, we will have to pay the debt with our property taxes. I've never heard them tell us that. But there is much more to this: we need a hospital, only we need to work together to get it.
And we need administrators, board members, board counsel, that are new and not attached to each other like screaming kids in a haunted house.
New people, new day. And more oversight, meaning help from the county and state, to put this together and functional.
It is obvious this group has failed. The problem is that they didn't learn from their mistakes and have never really faced what they have done that brought us to this point. Did the CFO and his pharmacy buddy, Elmo, really need free rent? Or were they taking advantage?
We have all had the chance to help, but most people hid and ran off. Some got sick fighting to get their jobs back. Many moved away.
The CEO, simply took two raises, and now complains they didn't know it was coming.
They didn't know I was coming to the meeting last night either, but I came because of the news regarding the cuts to reimbursement, and a few other things. Though I wanted to stay home as I am quitting smoking and not in a great mood, I thought it best to go, as the hospital got quiet...as they say before the storm.
McGlew talked about a figure of 1.8 million they were facing to lose, and I thought I would remind them they survived 2.5 million they overpaid to Sycamore Management, the group brought aboard the SNF in 2007, according to the CFO, to "stave off Cal mtg," the insurer of the debt that never seems to show up on the profit and loss statements.
They have also paid millions over the years to get contractors to help put humpty dumpty back together again. That didn't work out, paying top dollar, while you are broke? But again, this is how this district has been operating for 22 plus years.
Now is the time to think about the ramifications of allowing others to run such an important component to the community without oversight.
Check their wallets and briefcases if they try to leave
KVHD has no one to blame but themselves. The one constant in the last eleven years has been the CFO, Chet Beedle, and with some logic we can assume that he probably should have been replaced for a variety of troubling reasons. But no action has been taken by anyone, including Cal Mtg. who has been lied to by the "expert in critical care access" accounting, as Mabel Chan, case manager for the hospital, referred to our CFO in an email.
(KVHD Chairwoman, Victoria Alwin, may have to find other people to try and control, as timing the public comments and banging her gavel, have not made her popular. But it may not be much longer that we have to listen to this judge-like chair, who has forgotten her "roots." Alwin, a former critic of the hospital prior to being elected, has been on the defensive of her own performance in the last two years...) As I said, the Kern Valley Healthcare District board of Directors have no one to blame...however, they always find someone or something other than themselves. The CEO, started his usual round of excuses starting with California Governor Jerry Brown and moved up the line regarding the federal changes in Medicare reimbursement brought to you by President Obama.
The eleven years of financial leadership by CFO, Chet Beedle, shows the hospital administrators and certain board members, did not have the qualifications or tenacity to protect the district. But we never tried anything new in all those years here in the valley.Oh, forgive me, they did try something new when Beedle cut staff in 2005, preparing for a campaign run for a GOB, they used chemical restraints and free labor from the hospital auxiliary volunteers to keep the nursing center open.
They have been asleep on the job.
Now we need a hospital, and most remarks from residents were conflicted. "I want a hospital, not this one."I rephrased the question, would you like to keep this hospital if there were radical changes to the administration and board and medical providers? Then the answer became clear to everyone. YES!
Don't let them take the hospital away: it's the administrators, board, and their friends who need to go.
I explained that we can and will have a hospital. The problem which has been here for eons, is the valley's inability to understand what has happened. We were sold out in 1988, selling more revenue bonds to try and complete the hospital expansion that contracted in the course of the work.
They failed to complete the whole project, and therefore doomed this valley to forever have to deal with a debt that could remove healthcare forever unless we move quickly.
We need to start over, remove the high salaries, which the CEO, when asked if he would pitch in some of his salary, stated they are only "pennies?" He indicated taking money from his pocket and other administrators would do nothing in the face of his speech on our "serious issues."
How many pennies did his Jaguar cost?
McGlew who came aboard as the highest paid CEO in the history of KVHD, may not realize that his salary is NOT pennies to the residents who he is supposed to serve.
Who wants the CEO salary? It's 230K a year, plus all the benefits of not living in the area, or even using the facilities for he and his family's healthcare. Stop, I do know that Mr. McGlew has a disabled child who requires certain special care.
Has he EVER considered that he is not the only one that needs specialized care? We have developmentally disabled residents, ailing people, and services that KVHD cannot provide for the patients in the valley.
Did, CFO, Chester Beedle, not see this situation coming financially as there is a wonderful newsletter from "California Healthline" that keeps me, at least, up to date on the healthcare bills and news.
I offer up the idea to the California legislature: Before a public district can begin the process of gaining money via General Obligation Bonds, it must have a district preliminary vote. That will save the time and trouble of finding out that no one cares about a hospital that has put up murals and paint over their horrific mistakes.
Unfortunately, as you can see on the face of Dr. Gross DO, there is little time left to do the right things, they are far too late...And now we will likely pay for their decisions.
(Dr. Robert Gross DO, KVHD hospitalist, former adversary of the administration who had to hire an attorney regarding the KVHD/ Sienna Wellness clinic, asked that residents write their representatives. The board seems unaware that they are government, elected officials in a public district, with public monies, and they should be writing on our behalf. But they ignored this too long and now we have to decide for them as they had nothing but excuses, scapegoats, and long faces at last night's meeting) Hello to all involved in the 2009 subverted attempt to save the hospital?
In 2009, I saw this coming...where was the board? They were trying to stop negotiations with Cal Mtg. and because of bullying it happened. We never made it past Chet Beedle, Brad Armstrong or former CEO, Rick Carter, who Victoria Alwin blamed for stopping the potential progress last August 2010.
How exactly did Rick Carter stop the negotiation on his own? He didn't, it was a group effort. This is why these people cannot blame anyone but themselves, as they have not shown any leadership or foresight.
They saw the day coming, or if they didn't, then they should just step down now and avoid certain repercussions.
We had support to deal with it. Why didn't this board override Mr. Carter, Alwin's villain, and do what we had needed to do for 20 years?
McGloom and McBeedle stop second attempt at negotiation
I have some ideas, and solutions, but the community now needs some back up, such as that attorney they ignored for one year, and when David Weinstein came around to shore up the information regarding our chances of negotiating with Cal Mtg. or even bankruptcy, but four board members and the administration held the meeting off while signing on to another Cal mtg. debt relief given the district so they would not burden the valley residents with a GOB. (this is according to Cal mtg. and some documents: the board asked for this email and unlike my PRA requests, I got them their information last night.)
Only last week, the CEO, began speaking about the new GOB. At this board meeting, however, he said there may well be no GOB. But we have heard so many stories, as Beedle told us Cal Mtg. was going to help last night too. I will ask for the documents that go along with Beedle's statement.
If McGlew who could have slimmed his salary, along with CFO, Beedle, and a few others, focused on the main issue, quality patient healthcare, reasonable salaries, services the community has been begging for, we may have been able to plan for the future.
Even with the debt, prudent spending could've perpetuated the district's lifespan. That was never the case. They were not saving for a rainy day, and look soaked now...by everyone.
Don't forget, as owners, and voters in this valley, you will need to decide which of the options the hospital has left that would potentially bring in new faces, ideas, and direction and allow us to have quality healthcare.
We need people who have the "time" and the intelligence, who don't change their personalities with a sip of power, who REALLY want to help, and not simply offer lip service.
Board attorney, Scott Nave, did not like my questions and instructed the board to do "whatever" they want to do, such as not answering (that's an old one Scott), or sending it to McGlew for an answer. I'm sorry, I have sent complaints from dozens of residents having problems, and the CEO, always promises, but somehow rarely follows through.However, I would like to clarify that Mr. Nave broke loose about me, that I had tried to sue the hospital several times.
While the gal with the timer banged her gavel, I reminded Scott, that I repeatedly said if I were going to sue, I would want a class action suit where all people who were hurt, degraded, billed improperly, defamed, can be redeemed.
Are we a class action act? We need to move fast...if that is the will of the community.
So, to clarify, I was quite ill after my negligent treatment, or criminal, depends on the lawyers you speak with, on 1/20/11. This occurred after I complained repeatedly to the CEO, that I needed help, and the ER was calling people "junkies," ignoring the complaints of an elderly woman who said her daughter was abusing her, and on Christmas night the 72 year old woman was escorted outside the ER to the chairs where she was moaning in pain.
(It was a Merry Christmas)
Again, this is so irresponsible and cruel, that we cannot allow ourselves to be victimized by people who may just walk away with a pension, a tremendous salary, and move on while we the valley pay the debt they so lovingly will be leaving us.
But don't worry, I plan on following their careers...
Next year is another election
With another election year coming up, and a GOB on top of the list of strategic planning, we can jump aboard that election and help bring about change.
As our Governor, the one being blamed for the problems that may take down the hospital, said before he was elected, "we have to break down to break through," and here we are with the timing perfect for this community to take back our hospital from the parasitic spending practices and lack of transparency, which is what they hide behind.
Sierra Kings survived
We have spoken of elder abuse charged, Pamela Ott, the KVHD CEO, who was allowed to escape to another hospital in Reedley, California.
While KVHD was sleeping, Sierra Kings, another public healthcare district, has been through financial turmoil brought on by mismanagement, allegedly Pamela Ott, but they went into bankruptcy...the constant fear here in the valley.
The Valley of Fear
With fearful employees, and witnesses biting at the bit to tell their stories to someone who will listen, KVHD, went down another road, missing ARRA funds, running off volunteers who offered their skills to help upgrade services, took advantage of all those pennies, and now, we have a video of Tim McGlew giving us the bad news.
However, the good news is that Sierra Kings made it thru the bankruptcy, had community support to do it, and they are letting loose the HFS company who managed this whole "turn around" project as they are now back in operation with a happy community.(See Reedley Exponent for the full details)
(HFS, is the company who came to KVHD for an "operation's review" and was tagged with leaving "giant holes" in the report. But somehow they helped Sierra Kings...doesn't make sense, unless you are a KVHDer.)
It is possible to save the hospital, it is not when people don't complain, or they don't have the courage to speak up, or work together, when things fall apart. I'm hearing more and more from the inside of the hospital, and I can tell you they WANT to talk about what is going on.
The even bigger picture
We have options such as selling the hospital, but then we have to consider other issues facing this valley as well. Such as years of work on our "dangerous dam." This could cause closure of the 178 to Bakersfield for years.
It may offer some employment, but in the long run, this valley has not looked ahead, and is running into it's own walls...the hospital would be also effected. Have they considered that too? I'm sure they haven't as they are busy spraying water as their pants are on fire.
But again, we are looking at things too late. We failed in every respect, all of us. Now we have to find out what the reality is, and go from there.
According to George Stahl, writer for the Kern Valley Sun, the hospital is expected to fail. The Sun can be thanked for helping this happen, as if the truth were available to all, we could have handled it. But that never happens in the KRV...
Tim's speech: video and details coming up...McGlew slams critical access care report of quality and safety issues at CAH rural hospitals. Waiting for response from CAH to McGlew's statement.
Board member, Robert Gross, admitted that KVHD has safety issues. All video, coming soon...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
UPDATED:New tax measure talk of the town: Cal Mtg. and KVHD
Uncle Tim and Uncle Chet want you, but mostly your money
The news is out, the first item in the latest strategic plan is the very thing that KVHD administrators and board members don't like to talk about...your money becoming their money...taxes.
The 2010 Measure G, fell like a rock in the election under the pressure of a failing economy as hospital administrators quickly threw together a 20 million dollar GOB without notifying the community until late in the election year or having solid plans to share with people who had questions.
It probably didn't help that also in August of 2010, CEO Tim McGlew, took a raise while employees salaries were frozen, then they came to the community for more money which was to put on a new ER with radiology. McGlew is also the highest paid CEO to date, coming into a 25 bed acute care hospital, at over 200K dollars, annually, with two raises in two years, and two defaults in two years.
(How would that justify a merit raise which should be the standard in the industry using practical as well as ethical policies when paying its hired help?)
It's the Government's fault: they are government
CFO, Chet Beedle has been relieved to blame the on-going hospital financial problems on the current recession, but anyone with a knowledge of the district's history, knows this started 25 years ago when the district borrowed against valley property owners taxes to expand the hospital.
They sold bonds. Revenue bonds.
And those who know the history also understand that excuses and scapegoating are almost what they do best at KVHD.
The original sin
The expansion deal of 1986, as we know, went bad, and we paid twice as much and only built half the construction project. Do your math. You will need to add a lot of zeros, but this cost not only money, but the quality of healthcare in the valley. The ability keep up with rapidly changing technology. The inability to keep and retain quality and community requested services.
It also left them antiquated, with equipment such as PHACO machines for cataract surgery, and cardiac equipment purchased by the KVHD Hospital Foundation, stored away, not put to use, though I'm sure it was depreciated.
Hard to believe, but we had two PHACO units, and one was stored in the closet of a chiropractor for several years until he asked them to remove it. (The lack of sense and continuity in their spending is outrageous, we have barely touched on it yet)
Why should you care?
This is your debt. If you own property within the boundaries of the Kern Valley Healthcare District: you own that debt. If the hospital stops existing and paying that debt, you will begin paying that debt. Ask the residents of Concord or Pittsburgh, California, as they are finally nearing the end of paying state creditor with the office of statewide healthcare planning and development, OSHPD, our friends and anchor, CAL MTG.
The reason for my redundancy on this issue, is that many residents do not understand that they are the debt holders. When the hospital added another 6.8 million this year, I did not hear anyone flinch, when they apparently "agreed" with the district to go forward with this "Beedle deal," and encumber themselves further.
But that's not the whole story: The GOB and the new debt reserve/ not a loan though
Board Counsel, Scott Nave wrote to me shortly after I sought information from Cal Mtg. regarding the latest encumbrance, 6.8 million you and your family and future offspring recently spent.
There is a serious conflict in this area, where Mr. Nave, of Leimeux and Oneill, and the legal counsel for Cal Mtg., Don Morey, have completely different stories regarding this latest financial venture created by CFO, Chet Beedle, who has his own story, as well as CEO, Tim McGlew.
What happened to our rights?
In an effort to understand the deal, as the timing was shortly before the board voted to allow the community to hear information from another attorney, David Weinstein, who was to speak regarding all the options the district might have concerning negotiating with debt insurer, Cal Mtg. or the viability of bankruptcy, etc.
Weinstein's visit, which was solely informational, and cost less than the seat warmers in KVHD CEO, Tim McGlew's Jaguar convertible, should have been accessible prior to the decision to go forward with another "quasi-financial" deal with Cal Mtg.
But as everything KVHD, they continue to prowl at night, creating business plans that go to financial institutions without board approval, offering tax dollars to gain approval for extra money on their line of credit, holding off anyone who might know more than the CFO or have ties to others that are benefiting from these illegal and unethical practices.
Mr. Weinstein came to the valley, he spoke for 3 hours, but that was after the CFO, and CEO, had safely sealed the latest stop gap agreement for 6.8 million which would have changed the information he would be giving as we asked for information prior to any more spending. And the board voted for it.
You likely didn't hear about the options, as the local media, actually, refused to take the information or cover the story. Ask Sue Barr of the Kern Valley Sun Newspaper or call for a video copy.
So who do we believe?
Okay, two attorneys, a CFO and a CEO, walk into a bar, the first one says...I apologize, but this is a joke, to have to constantly juggle all the different answers that should be simple and straightforward.
As I said, the first item on the new strategic plan is to begin the campaign for another general obligation bond, GOB, that is collected in property taxes from residents of the valley. The bond CANNOT be used to pay the debt, but somehow I believe they will "funge it."
Nave responds in an email:
The District has not eliminated a general obligation bond from future plans. In fact, it was one of the first items in the strategic plan. Cal Mortgage is aware of and, to our knowledge, in concurrence with this plan
But Cal Mtg. said they were clearing up the confusion:
I hope this clears up any confusion surrounding the current situation between the District and the Office. The intent and effect of this plan should be to increase Medicare and Medi-Cal cost reimbursements to the District and lower overall costs, particularly in the short run, to allow the District to implement steps to increase revenue and reduce expenses.
This will result in more time and money which the District can use to improve services, make capital improvements and generate sufficient revenue to support the District’s medical services without the necessity of a general obligation bond measure.
Don Morey
What we have here is one story from KVHD that they are in sync with Cal Mtg. and all believe they should go forward with a tax hike next year.
But as Cal Mtg. responded above, they gave them this last bit of crumbs, to avoid having to overburden this valley with a GOB...so they say.
We're playing hot potato with this
Now, on January 5, 2011, Chet Beedle requested that Cal Mtg. make this agreement, but on December 2, 2010, the board had voted to let the community hear about ALL the financial options, which were to be presented by David Weinstein initially. We asked for this information and the board voted to go forward.
But just as in 2009, when I had asked the board and administrators, and even local government to try and negotiate some sort of deal, a deferment, anything that could stop the bleeding, again the CFO, Chet Beedle, managed to keep that from happening. Beedle and then CEO, Rick Carter, along with Bradley Armstrong, began harassing the board member in favor of attempting a solution.
It was called off, because of bullying on the KVHD end.
Just a minutes
Mr. Beedle repeatedly lied about the financial condition of the hospital on video, and in emails. The only thing Cal Mtg. has done is read the minutes from the meetings and have some secret meetings. That is why I had to protest the minutes at a board meeting, with long time administrative secretary Heidi Sage, who was not putting in my comments verbatim as I had requested.
The film is rather funny, as the board members argued with me that I could NOT pull the minutes from the agenda, as they didn't even know the meeting basics. I guess that is what the board attorney Scott Nave is being paid the big bucks for.
But they also lied to Cal Mtg.
In a series of emails beginning in November of 2009, between KVHD CFO, CEO, and Cal Mtg. case manager, Mabel Chan, it becomes clear that the administration was hiding the dire situation occurring financially from both the community and their insurer.
Beedle was attempting to get a total of one million for his operational line of credit, but was being turned down. He offered up the fact that the bank who would fork over the full million would also get to manage the GOB monies he told Chan that our community was supporting at that time...Feb/March 2010. He said they had 80% support.
According to CEO, Tim McGlew, in an email dated April 2010, they had not done a survey as I had inquired after reading the correspondence, and he was going to "look into it." I'm waiting patiently.
The defeat of the bond measure last year, showed the community has learned more about the issue and turned their backs on the district and sent them a clear message...on a billboard: NO ON MEASURE G.
The Beedle request on behalf of the district:
Here again, Cal Mtg. accepts Beedle's request for assistance as the piggy bank or AKA the debt reserve fund is depleted for the second time in just over ten years.
Yet, Cal Mtg. justifies the deal by simply saying the hospital has been struggling for last few years (it's 25 years to be accurate) and that the district is now attempting to reduce costs.
They also attempted to cut costs in 2005 which lead to an investigation into "short staffing, dehydrated patients, falsifying staffing documents and physical restraints in the nursing center."
It makes you wonder if there isn't some liability on both parties here in the elder abuse case or at any time when the hospital failed to provide proper and legal staffing.
Low rent district
The CFO had free rent for 10 years and now is paying $60 a month, is that what Cal Mtg. is talking about when they say reducing costs, because Beedle only began paying rent shortly before they admitted to the community they were in default on their debt covenant.
But again Beedle on film, told the audience at the July 2010 board meeting, that yes they were in default but received a special "waiver" from Cal Mtg. And when I asked Cal Mtg. what this waiver was about, Don Morey, said he did not know what Chet meant by a waiver.
Again, always discrepancies between the stories from Beedle and McGlew and Cal Mtg.
If you aren't confused now, you will be soon
The news is out, the first item in the latest strategic plan is the very thing that KVHD administrators and board members don't like to talk about...your money becoming their money...taxes.
The 2010 Measure G, fell like a rock in the election under the pressure of a failing economy as hospital administrators quickly threw together a 20 million dollar GOB without notifying the community until late in the election year or having solid plans to share with people who had questions.
It probably didn't help that also in August of 2010, CEO Tim McGlew, took a raise while employees salaries were frozen, then they came to the community for more money which was to put on a new ER with radiology. McGlew is also the highest paid CEO to date, coming into a 25 bed acute care hospital, at over 200K dollars, annually, with two raises in two years, and two defaults in two years.
(How would that justify a merit raise which should be the standard in the industry using practical as well as ethical policies when paying its hired help?)
It's the Government's fault: they are government
CFO, Chet Beedle has been relieved to blame the on-going hospital financial problems on the current recession, but anyone with a knowledge of the district's history, knows this started 25 years ago when the district borrowed against valley property owners taxes to expand the hospital.
They sold bonds. Revenue bonds.
And those who know the history also understand that excuses and scapegoating are almost what they do best at KVHD.
The original sin
The expansion deal of 1986, as we know, went bad, and we paid twice as much and only built half the construction project. Do your math. You will need to add a lot of zeros, but this cost not only money, but the quality of healthcare in the valley. The ability keep up with rapidly changing technology. The inability to keep and retain quality and community requested services.
It also left them antiquated, with equipment such as PHACO machines for cataract surgery, and cardiac equipment purchased by the KVHD Hospital Foundation, stored away, not put to use, though I'm sure it was depreciated.
Hard to believe, but we had two PHACO units, and one was stored in the closet of a chiropractor for several years until he asked them to remove it. (The lack of sense and continuity in their spending is outrageous, we have barely touched on it yet)
Why should you care?
This is your debt. If you own property within the boundaries of the Kern Valley Healthcare District: you own that debt. If the hospital stops existing and paying that debt, you will begin paying that debt. Ask the residents of Concord or Pittsburgh, California, as they are finally nearing the end of paying state creditor with the office of statewide healthcare planning and development, OSHPD, our friends and anchor, CAL MTG.
The reason for my redundancy on this issue, is that many residents do not understand that they are the debt holders. When the hospital added another 6.8 million this year, I did not hear anyone flinch, when they apparently "agreed" with the district to go forward with this "Beedle deal," and encumber themselves further.
But that's not the whole story: The GOB and the new debt reserve/ not a loan though
Board Counsel, Scott Nave wrote to me shortly after I sought information from Cal Mtg. regarding the latest encumbrance, 6.8 million you and your family and future offspring recently spent.
There is a serious conflict in this area, where Mr. Nave, of Leimeux and Oneill, and the legal counsel for Cal Mtg., Don Morey, have completely different stories regarding this latest financial venture created by CFO, Chet Beedle, who has his own story, as well as CEO, Tim McGlew.
What happened to our rights?
In an effort to understand the deal, as the timing was shortly before the board voted to allow the community to hear information from another attorney, David Weinstein, who was to speak regarding all the options the district might have concerning negotiating with debt insurer, Cal Mtg. or the viability of bankruptcy, etc.
Weinstein's visit, which was solely informational, and cost less than the seat warmers in KVHD CEO, Tim McGlew's Jaguar convertible, should have been accessible prior to the decision to go forward with another "quasi-financial" deal with Cal Mtg.
But as everything KVHD, they continue to prowl at night, creating business plans that go to financial institutions without board approval, offering tax dollars to gain approval for extra money on their line of credit, holding off anyone who might know more than the CFO or have ties to others that are benefiting from these illegal and unethical practices.
Mr. Weinstein came to the valley, he spoke for 3 hours, but that was after the CFO, and CEO, had safely sealed the latest stop gap agreement for 6.8 million which would have changed the information he would be giving as we asked for information prior to any more spending. And the board voted for it.
You likely didn't hear about the options, as the local media, actually, refused to take the information or cover the story. Ask Sue Barr of the Kern Valley Sun Newspaper or call for a video copy.
So who do we believe?
Okay, two attorneys, a CFO and a CEO, walk into a bar, the first one says...I apologize, but this is a joke, to have to constantly juggle all the different answers that should be simple and straightforward.
As I said, the first item on the new strategic plan is to begin the campaign for another general obligation bond, GOB, that is collected in property taxes from residents of the valley. The bond CANNOT be used to pay the debt, but somehow I believe they will "funge it."
Nave responds in an email:
The District has not eliminated a general obligation bond from future plans. In fact, it was one of the first items in the strategic plan. Cal Mortgage is aware of and, to our knowledge, in concurrence with this plan
But Cal Mtg. said they were clearing up the confusion:
I hope this clears up any confusion surrounding the current situation between the District and the Office. The intent and effect of this plan should be to increase Medicare and Medi-Cal cost reimbursements to the District and lower overall costs, particularly in the short run, to allow the District to implement steps to increase revenue and reduce expenses.
This will result in more time and money which the District can use to improve services, make capital improvements and generate sufficient revenue to support the District’s medical services without the necessity of a general obligation bond measure.
Don Morey
What we have here is one story from KVHD that they are in sync with Cal Mtg. and all believe they should go forward with a tax hike next year.
But as Cal Mtg. responded above, they gave them this last bit of crumbs, to avoid having to overburden this valley with a GOB...so they say.
We're playing hot potato with this
Now, on January 5, 2011, Chet Beedle requested that Cal Mtg. make this agreement, but on December 2, 2010, the board had voted to let the community hear about ALL the financial options, which were to be presented by David Weinstein initially. We asked for this information and the board voted to go forward.
But just as in 2009, when I had asked the board and administrators, and even local government to try and negotiate some sort of deal, a deferment, anything that could stop the bleeding, again the CFO, Chet Beedle, managed to keep that from happening. Beedle and then CEO, Rick Carter, along with Bradley Armstrong, began harassing the board member in favor of attempting a solution.
It was called off, because of bullying on the KVHD end.
Just a minutes
Mr. Beedle repeatedly lied about the financial condition of the hospital on video, and in emails. The only thing Cal Mtg. has done is read the minutes from the meetings and have some secret meetings. That is why I had to protest the minutes at a board meeting, with long time administrative secretary Heidi Sage, who was not putting in my comments verbatim as I had requested.
The film is rather funny, as the board members argued with me that I could NOT pull the minutes from the agenda, as they didn't even know the meeting basics. I guess that is what the board attorney Scott Nave is being paid the big bucks for.
But they also lied to Cal Mtg.
In a series of emails beginning in November of 2009, between KVHD CFO, CEO, and Cal Mtg. case manager, Mabel Chan, it becomes clear that the administration was hiding the dire situation occurring financially from both the community and their insurer.
Beedle was attempting to get a total of one million for his operational line of credit, but was being turned down. He offered up the fact that the bank who would fork over the full million would also get to manage the GOB monies he told Chan that our community was supporting at that time...Feb/March 2010. He said they had 80% support.
According to CEO, Tim McGlew, in an email dated April 2010, they had not done a survey as I had inquired after reading the correspondence, and he was going to "look into it." I'm waiting patiently.
The defeat of the bond measure last year, showed the community has learned more about the issue and turned their backs on the district and sent them a clear message...on a billboard: NO ON MEASURE G.
The Beedle request on behalf of the district:
Here again, Cal Mtg. accepts Beedle's request for assistance as the piggy bank or AKA the debt reserve fund is depleted for the second time in just over ten years.
Yet, Cal Mtg. justifies the deal by simply saying the hospital has been struggling for last few years (it's 25 years to be accurate) and that the district is now attempting to reduce costs.
They also attempted to cut costs in 2005 which lead to an investigation into "short staffing, dehydrated patients, falsifying staffing documents and physical restraints in the nursing center."
It makes you wonder if there isn't some liability on both parties here in the elder abuse case or at any time when the hospital failed to provide proper and legal staffing.
Low rent district
The CFO had free rent for 10 years and now is paying $60 a month, is that what Cal Mtg. is talking about when they say reducing costs, because Beedle only began paying rent shortly before they admitted to the community they were in default on their debt covenant.
But again Beedle on film, told the audience at the July 2010 board meeting, that yes they were in default but received a special "waiver" from Cal Mtg. And when I asked Cal Mtg. what this waiver was about, Don Morey, said he did not know what Chet meant by a waiver.
Again, always discrepancies between the stories from Beedle and McGlew and Cal Mtg.
If you aren't confused now, you will be soon
Monday, October 10, 2011
Playing games with my heart....and yours...KVHD under Fire
Perusing the new Kern Valley Healthcare District "Strategic Plan" (rolling eyes)
I had a some time on my hands along with a strip of tape clinging to my spine this week, so I decided to begin reading the newest strategic plan opened to the public at a special meeting where the administrators at KVHD rushed to bring the plan in under the necessary time frame for those grant monies which were doled out in an interesting arrangement.
Since it was such exciting material I jumped from the table of contents straight to the new pain management section of what I will call the "high hopes and low IQ" report as the irony of this is too funny not to tell you about.
Now the hospital claims to have both an ER and a "skilled" nursing facility, but that is rather a tall order to fulfill those needs. KVHD Skilled nursing amounts to nothing more than an average nursing home can offer.
In the ER you have little in the way of services, or as the locals call it, "the band aid station" and there have been complaints, and remarks on varying sites and in the newspapers, about the "drug seekers" who consume all the time from those who are sober, non-smoking or swearing citizens, waiting patiently for the doctors to get people "high."
The irony begins in that we have an ER where the doctors and staff are so blatantly "anti-pain medication" that I can only laugh at their inability to see their own hypocrisy.
I mean if they really think this a problem rather than defaming and harassing patients, why not speak up and tell your board and manager that there should not be "pain care" here...then add your justifications at the end. (oh that's right, there are some pesky laws about caring for people's pain and not causing aggravated conditions.)
This really is an important issue we must begin to address truthfully and openly, and if you have pain management, I suggest, you begin getting a new bond to build the drug rehab center you will need when those drugs come floating out onto our streets and into the schools and you find them in your kids sock drawer.
Having pain management would be a risky business as the hospital has heard complaint after complaint about doctors and nurses in it's own ER, what would they do with a new contingent of drug addicts?
Taking most pain killers means risking addicting your mind and body to chemicals, which is a decision which should be made with ALL educational information included.
Trust me, this is not how pain management clinics are being operated, I like to call them "legal crackhouses."
A bright young man in the rehab business said they are seeing more and more average people coming in to try and get off medications that they did not know would become problematic.
Chronic pain is tricky business and takes a doctor of some worth to work out the details, keep it safe, offer options outside of simply prescribing pain killers which is what most of them are doing, and to no surprise they are doing well financially. Customers surprisingly come back again and again.
Actually, KVHD CEO, Tim McGlew, told me about the pain management in January at my bedside shortly after I stopped screaming. I'm sure he will tell us all about it, the addict profit margin, which is the bottom line they snort over there you know.
There are times for medications and times for vacations
The pharmaceutical market is flooded with pain medications, new ones, such as one I tried, called Exogal. It was really fun, as I slept the day away getting nothing done. This was not what I needed and did not fit my pain level or my health issues, or my disability.
Pain is not an easy situation even for a doctor to understand, but it comes with its own side effects. Pain can lead to stress on the body and mind, which we know can lead to any amount of ailments.
Exagol is one of many variations of addictive medicines that are to be used at a "HOSPITAL" and not bought from a strung out pharmacy tech or from someone's grandmother's medicine cabinet.
There are many people out there who are in pain, not catching your toe on the coffee table, but passing a bowling ball type of pain, or a broken bone, nerve damage, things that not everyone can relate to and understand, these are serious, on-going problems, which usually involve complex health issues.
Bringing compassion to a person in pain is usually a natural response in normal human beings, however, this is KVHD, and we have to maybe look at why they have become the hardened rocks who think giving out a dose of pain killer to someone in pain is encouraging addiction.
They are obviously not trained
And I've noted that there needs to be serious discussion, not just Obama talk, but real information on how these pain medications, or any others for that matter are to be used and in the most functional way.
If you are nauseous they give you an anti-nausea medicine in the ER. Why? Because this is uncomfortable and it could cause other issues such as dehydration.
What these doctors and staff are failing to gather is that this is the same thing, except that it has to be done without prejudice but obviously with some judgment.
And who can you count on for good judgment? KVHD and a pain clinic? No, I don't think so.
There are so many other things to repair
Before KVHD sails off on the Titanic plan with their "high hopes" they have much that they could do better already, but unfortunately the long run of mismanagement, petty infighting, bullying, registry costs, inbred contracting and the financial catastrophe, have prevented this district from becoming what it had the potential to become.
As we used to say in baseball, it's the fundamentals, and we practiced rigorously until the moves were seamless because we cared about our performance. KVHD has not gotten the basics, they are illiterate to the needs of the community, openly hostile to patients and employees, and now they want to manage more responsibility such as the comfort and well being of pain management patients, or as they say in the ER, "Junkies," "Drug seekers," "crackheads."
Can I see your license please?
First, where does this ER get off supposedly trying to treat my heart condition when they can't fix a broken arm?
Second, umm, why didn't I get told I had a heart condition? There are serious problems with the records, and now the government is pushing money at the electronic records which certainly would help...but somebody still has to gather the information and get it to the patient in time for early detection which costs less both in terms of money and health.
Which in my case, and others who have been sharing information, is a problem they are not even aware of or actively correcting. One person told me she had a test revealed to her after THREE YEARS that she had a gastric issue, which now may require surgery. Go KVHD!
I'm sure the average person can see the danger and the outcome is never in favor of the patient. The law has insured that doctors will not have to incur high costs for liability insurance, so their "service" is unlike normal business practices in that they are allowed to get away...with anything.
The Keystone Cardiologists from the KVHD ER
(pulse and oxygen saturation Saturday, October 8. 2011: I NEED MY NARCAN, Tom, Phil, and the KVHD cardiology team...lead by Dr. Suckapiano)
As I sat reading the latest in KVHD propaganda, or as they call it, the strategic plan, I could hear the thumps in my chest, the very same symptom on the day that KVHD should have killed me, but accidentally left me alive, and I'm kind of grouchy about it too.
Next week I will be given the tests to see if I have to actually go through and have a pacemaker implanted which if it is the proper solution, I will hope I can have it done. Since this recent medical find out of the "KVHD X files" (also known as our medical records) was only uncovered in the last month which is criminal really, I have to begin the tour I should have made last year: to the proper doctors.
It has been a lot to consider that in one visit to the ER at KVHD, that I now face something I had no idea I would be facing at this age.
The only thing about it, is that it at least makes sense this time.
The new KVHD ER threat
What they did in that ER to me was the new threat at the KVHD ER. The doctors were not treating my heart condition that they themselves only knew about, but they treated a drug overdose which wasn't there with a medication called Narcan which is usually just uncomfortable to a reviving overdose victim, but to a heart patient with autoimmune, the response was chest pains, screaming, and stress to my heart.
So, the question becomes, why if this was the proper treatment, did they stonewall me, and not tell me what medication or treatment I was being given? The craven nurse would not even make eye contact.
And secondarily, this is not the treatment for bradycardia, let me be clear, it is a treatment for overdose victims who are in respiratory distress, unconscious, I was driving, walking and talking, until they sure showed me.
Pain management patients need to avoid the KVHD ER until future notice as this is a potentially dangerous practice, as Narcan is usually not a problem if there is a drug overdose, but when it's given to a person who has other or unknown illnesses, it can be harmful. Never allow KVHD to give medications without consent, and if they are unwilling to tell you or write it down for you...RUN!
Danger, either these doctors and nurses purposefully sent me on a injurious, torturous trip, or they are...quacks. I think we need to do some research after we heard our former, suing us, hugging us, surgeon, who came up with a few background issues a patient should be privy to prior to seeking his services.
It's time to see their credentials first: all trust gone
I say, we had Pam Ott's diploma mill credentials, Chet Beedle's amazing resume where he is three places at once, the DON of the SNF not quite all credentials, and this is a public service district, where we have a right to know if the hospital is continuing its practice of hiring people with suspicious backgrounds, or affiliated with someone's friends.
Focus and Execute this blight on the valley
Oh yes, I did get to see the number one strategic plan and you all know what it is, c'mon blog readers, you're smarter, faster and stronger, than other simple consumers...it's a, a, a, GOB!
How did those clever folks over at CCAHN, the new game in town with some old faces, ever come up with that one?
Right, we should pay them tax money, as Chet Beedle, leaves a losing game of playing hospital administrator, he gets the prize of a nice retirement he is currently telling friends and colleagues about his eminent departure from the nasty sore he has left in this valley. His legacy of bogus budgets, lying to creditors, breaking promises, berating employees, will leave a bad taste, even as bad as Cal Water, in our mouths for years to come.
With a decade of Beedle's strung out financial planning, we are currently just that: out of money and time. But don't worry about Chet he's very well vested, more so than anyone else.
The jokes on us and our health
If we as members of this community had taken it upon ourselves to look past all their names on the agenda, their contracts, and truly see that we have not put up a healthcare district to be proud of, but a den of iniquity to be ashamed of. The nurse I met in Bakersfield put it best:
"Oh, I live in Lake Isabella too." He said as he wheeled me out the automatic doors of the hospital.
Of course, being who I am, I responded, "then why are you working down here?"
He put it about as good as it gets, "I did work there 25 years ago, but the administration was so corrupt that I didn't want to have anything to do with it. And nothing has changed."
There's some truth for you...the same conditions exist now which lead to the encumbrance of the community's tax dollars those 25 years ago. Without changing the conditions, we will end up feeding every finance company who eagerly claims they can help us.
(We probably even have a reverse mortgage now that I may have missed on the consent agenda...)
The hospital has been eaten away at as if it were covered in termites. This is not a matter of a few mistakes, this is an ailing hospital, stalked by predators in the healthcare industry who know how to profit from these situations. Such as management companies...BRIM....Sycamore Management Company (via a Beedle email) who keep coming up with the same bail out proposition: "big money" as Chet calls the GOB.
But big money, actually any money, is spent recklessly without regard for the owners of the district: us.
Sycamore left with MILLIONS and the owner told me he obtained the contract simply by looking in the newspaper and finding the hospital nursing center was at the point of closure, immediate jeopardy. There's some literal ambulance chasing.
In white collar crime there is a pattern to be established, and I think after a quarter of a century we can now see the pattern, but have "yet" to conquer it.
(Next architectural drawings we paid 10K for last year and probably will again. But we may get help through old chum, David Yarborough, former owner of Aspen Street Architects, who happens to be doing a very similar expansion to his ER at Gridley Memorial.
Yes, Mr. Yarborough, who worked with KVHD on it's seismic plans for several years, is now the CEO, of Gridley, and brought on his former company Aspen Street to help him on his project. Gosh, it's so good to be back together again...sharing ideas, strategic plans, and money. Soon Caldwell, Flores and Winters will rejoin, excuse me, continue their active contract... And it was all Tim McGlew's doing. Thanks Tim.)
I had a some time on my hands along with a strip of tape clinging to my spine this week, so I decided to begin reading the newest strategic plan opened to the public at a special meeting where the administrators at KVHD rushed to bring the plan in under the necessary time frame for those grant monies which were doled out in an interesting arrangement.
Since it was such exciting material I jumped from the table of contents straight to the new pain management section of what I will call the "high hopes and low IQ" report as the irony of this is too funny not to tell you about.
Now the hospital claims to have both an ER and a "skilled" nursing facility, but that is rather a tall order to fulfill those needs. KVHD Skilled nursing amounts to nothing more than an average nursing home can offer.
In the ER you have little in the way of services, or as the locals call it, "the band aid station" and there have been complaints, and remarks on varying sites and in the newspapers, about the "drug seekers" who consume all the time from those who are sober, non-smoking or swearing citizens, waiting patiently for the doctors to get people "high."
The irony begins in that we have an ER where the doctors and staff are so blatantly "anti-pain medication" that I can only laugh at their inability to see their own hypocrisy.
I mean if they really think this a problem rather than defaming and harassing patients, why not speak up and tell your board and manager that there should not be "pain care" here...then add your justifications at the end. (oh that's right, there are some pesky laws about caring for people's pain and not causing aggravated conditions.)
This really is an important issue we must begin to address truthfully and openly, and if you have pain management, I suggest, you begin getting a new bond to build the drug rehab center you will need when those drugs come floating out onto our streets and into the schools and you find them in your kids sock drawer.
Having pain management would be a risky business as the hospital has heard complaint after complaint about doctors and nurses in it's own ER, what would they do with a new contingent of drug addicts?
Taking most pain killers means risking addicting your mind and body to chemicals, which is a decision which should be made with ALL educational information included.
Trust me, this is not how pain management clinics are being operated, I like to call them "legal crackhouses."
A bright young man in the rehab business said they are seeing more and more average people coming in to try and get off medications that they did not know would become problematic.
Chronic pain is tricky business and takes a doctor of some worth to work out the details, keep it safe, offer options outside of simply prescribing pain killers which is what most of them are doing, and to no surprise they are doing well financially. Customers surprisingly come back again and again.
Actually, KVHD CEO, Tim McGlew, told me about the pain management in January at my bedside shortly after I stopped screaming. I'm sure he will tell us all about it, the addict profit margin, which is the bottom line they snort over there you know.
There are times for medications and times for vacations
The pharmaceutical market is flooded with pain medications, new ones, such as one I tried, called Exogal. It was really fun, as I slept the day away getting nothing done. This was not what I needed and did not fit my pain level or my health issues, or my disability.
Pain is not an easy situation even for a doctor to understand, but it comes with its own side effects. Pain can lead to stress on the body and mind, which we know can lead to any amount of ailments.
Exagol is one of many variations of addictive medicines that are to be used at a "HOSPITAL" and not bought from a strung out pharmacy tech or from someone's grandmother's medicine cabinet.
There are many people out there who are in pain, not catching your toe on the coffee table, but passing a bowling ball type of pain, or a broken bone, nerve damage, things that not everyone can relate to and understand, these are serious, on-going problems, which usually involve complex health issues.
Bringing compassion to a person in pain is usually a natural response in normal human beings, however, this is KVHD, and we have to maybe look at why they have become the hardened rocks who think giving out a dose of pain killer to someone in pain is encouraging addiction.
They are obviously not trained
And I've noted that there needs to be serious discussion, not just Obama talk, but real information on how these pain medications, or any others for that matter are to be used and in the most functional way.
If you are nauseous they give you an anti-nausea medicine in the ER. Why? Because this is uncomfortable and it could cause other issues such as dehydration.
What these doctors and staff are failing to gather is that this is the same thing, except that it has to be done without prejudice but obviously with some judgment.
And who can you count on for good judgment? KVHD and a pain clinic? No, I don't think so.
There are so many other things to repair
Before KVHD sails off on the Titanic plan with their "high hopes" they have much that they could do better already, but unfortunately the long run of mismanagement, petty infighting, bullying, registry costs, inbred contracting and the financial catastrophe, have prevented this district from becoming what it had the potential to become.
As we used to say in baseball, it's the fundamentals, and we practiced rigorously until the moves were seamless because we cared about our performance. KVHD has not gotten the basics, they are illiterate to the needs of the community, openly hostile to patients and employees, and now they want to manage more responsibility such as the comfort and well being of pain management patients, or as they say in the ER, "Junkies," "Drug seekers," "crackheads."
Can I see your license please?
First, where does this ER get off supposedly trying to treat my heart condition when they can't fix a broken arm?
Second, umm, why didn't I get told I had a heart condition? There are serious problems with the records, and now the government is pushing money at the electronic records which certainly would help...but somebody still has to gather the information and get it to the patient in time for early detection which costs less both in terms of money and health.
Which in my case, and others who have been sharing information, is a problem they are not even aware of or actively correcting. One person told me she had a test revealed to her after THREE YEARS that she had a gastric issue, which now may require surgery. Go KVHD!
I'm sure the average person can see the danger and the outcome is never in favor of the patient. The law has insured that doctors will not have to incur high costs for liability insurance, so their "service" is unlike normal business practices in that they are allowed to get away...with anything.
The Keystone Cardiologists from the KVHD ER
(pulse and oxygen saturation Saturday, October 8. 2011: I NEED MY NARCAN, Tom, Phil, and the KVHD cardiology team...lead by Dr. Suckapiano)As I sat reading the latest in KVHD propaganda, or as they call it, the strategic plan, I could hear the thumps in my chest, the very same symptom on the day that KVHD should have killed me, but accidentally left me alive, and I'm kind of grouchy about it too.
Next week I will be given the tests to see if I have to actually go through and have a pacemaker implanted which if it is the proper solution, I will hope I can have it done. Since this recent medical find out of the "KVHD X files" (also known as our medical records) was only uncovered in the last month which is criminal really, I have to begin the tour I should have made last year: to the proper doctors.
It has been a lot to consider that in one visit to the ER at KVHD, that I now face something I had no idea I would be facing at this age.
The only thing about it, is that it at least makes sense this time.
The new KVHD ER threat
What they did in that ER to me was the new threat at the KVHD ER. The doctors were not treating my heart condition that they themselves only knew about, but they treated a drug overdose which wasn't there with a medication called Narcan which is usually just uncomfortable to a reviving overdose victim, but to a heart patient with autoimmune, the response was chest pains, screaming, and stress to my heart.
So, the question becomes, why if this was the proper treatment, did they stonewall me, and not tell me what medication or treatment I was being given? The craven nurse would not even make eye contact.
And secondarily, this is not the treatment for bradycardia, let me be clear, it is a treatment for overdose victims who are in respiratory distress, unconscious, I was driving, walking and talking, until they sure showed me.
Pain management patients need to avoid the KVHD ER until future notice as this is a potentially dangerous practice, as Narcan is usually not a problem if there is a drug overdose, but when it's given to a person who has other or unknown illnesses, it can be harmful. Never allow KVHD to give medications without consent, and if they are unwilling to tell you or write it down for you...RUN!
Danger, either these doctors and nurses purposefully sent me on a injurious, torturous trip, or they are...quacks. I think we need to do some research after we heard our former, suing us, hugging us, surgeon, who came up with a few background issues a patient should be privy to prior to seeking his services.
It's time to see their credentials first: all trust gone
I say, we had Pam Ott's diploma mill credentials, Chet Beedle's amazing resume where he is three places at once, the DON of the SNF not quite all credentials, and this is a public service district, where we have a right to know if the hospital is continuing its practice of hiring people with suspicious backgrounds, or affiliated with someone's friends.
Focus and Execute this blight on the valley
Oh yes, I did get to see the number one strategic plan and you all know what it is, c'mon blog readers, you're smarter, faster and stronger, than other simple consumers...it's a, a, a, GOB!
How did those clever folks over at CCAHN, the new game in town with some old faces, ever come up with that one?
Right, we should pay them tax money, as Chet Beedle, leaves a losing game of playing hospital administrator, he gets the prize of a nice retirement he is currently telling friends and colleagues about his eminent departure from the nasty sore he has left in this valley. His legacy of bogus budgets, lying to creditors, breaking promises, berating employees, will leave a bad taste, even as bad as Cal Water, in our mouths for years to come.
With a decade of Beedle's strung out financial planning, we are currently just that: out of money and time. But don't worry about Chet he's very well vested, more so than anyone else.
The jokes on us and our health
If we as members of this community had taken it upon ourselves to look past all their names on the agenda, their contracts, and truly see that we have not put up a healthcare district to be proud of, but a den of iniquity to be ashamed of. The nurse I met in Bakersfield put it best:
"Oh, I live in Lake Isabella too." He said as he wheeled me out the automatic doors of the hospital.
Of course, being who I am, I responded, "then why are you working down here?"
He put it about as good as it gets, "I did work there 25 years ago, but the administration was so corrupt that I didn't want to have anything to do with it. And nothing has changed."
There's some truth for you...the same conditions exist now which lead to the encumbrance of the community's tax dollars those 25 years ago. Without changing the conditions, we will end up feeding every finance company who eagerly claims they can help us.
(We probably even have a reverse mortgage now that I may have missed on the consent agenda...)
The hospital has been eaten away at as if it were covered in termites. This is not a matter of a few mistakes, this is an ailing hospital, stalked by predators in the healthcare industry who know how to profit from these situations. Such as management companies...BRIM....Sycamore Management Company (via a Beedle email) who keep coming up with the same bail out proposition: "big money" as Chet calls the GOB.
But big money, actually any money, is spent recklessly without regard for the owners of the district: us.
Sycamore left with MILLIONS and the owner told me he obtained the contract simply by looking in the newspaper and finding the hospital nursing center was at the point of closure, immediate jeopardy. There's some literal ambulance chasing.
In white collar crime there is a pattern to be established, and I think after a quarter of a century we can now see the pattern, but have "yet" to conquer it.
(Next architectural drawings we paid 10K for last year and probably will again. But we may get help through old chum, David Yarborough, former owner of Aspen Street Architects, who happens to be doing a very similar expansion to his ER at Gridley Memorial.
Yes, Mr. Yarborough, who worked with KVHD on it's seismic plans for several years, is now the CEO, of Gridley, and brought on his former company Aspen Street to help him on his project. Gosh, it's so good to be back together again...sharing ideas, strategic plans, and money. Soon Caldwell, Flores and Winters will rejoin, excuse me, continue their active contract... And it was all Tim McGlew's doing. Thanks Tim.)
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