Kern Valley Sun Tanned Hide

Kern Valley Sun “Solar Flairs”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The whole VALLEY? Lol

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hmm, wonder why? Lol

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

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

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

Who is Doctor Montez?

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

The new doctor on staff, Dr. Montez.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(got quiet out there.)

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

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

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

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

That is where our choices end.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where did they get an idea like that? Lol

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who wants a Grilled Cheese?

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

More on  CAUGHT YOU--23...

Who is running the Kern Valley Healthcare District: really?

Lying to your creditor: CFO Chester N. Beedle

Perusing emails written to and from the Kern Valley Healthcare District CFO, Chet Beedle, I have a theory that either Cal Mtg. insurer of this community's debt is easily duped, or they are fine with having Mr. Beedle sending out emails regarding things not so "transparent."

Beedle has been with the district or formerly with the district's management company that hired former CEO of KHD, Pamela Ott, currently charged with elder abuse.

Dave Green and Chet Beedle came on board the sinking ship in 2000, after the obvious overwhelming debt from the expansion project which was initially estimated to cost 13 million, and finally climbed up to 22 million, and yet the construction only created half the initial project.

Management companies have combed thru this valley scribbling notes, charging large sums, regarding saving a hospital ruined by debt and incompetence. Chet Beedle came from such a company, called BRIM.

(under construction: see you soon)



(Current KVHD CEO, Tim McGlew, came on board in July of 2009, in his first year he started a campaign for a "bailout" called Measure G. All the management companies, that have been involved in trying to create a solution by charging "Wall Street" prices, have overwhelmed the districts bank account, and ALWAYS the first suggestion is a tax hike. And now once again, via our new and old friends, another GOB is on the way. Watch you wallet.)



Sent: Monday, Sept. 10, 2007 10:35:24 am
From: Chet Beedle
Subject: Hi

The answer to your questions are as follows:
1) Dr. Gross wants to be the hospitalist medical director for KVHD, but he wants significantly more money to do so.
2) Yes, KVHD lost over one million dollars on their capitation contract with BFMC. The district does currently have a contract with BFMC, but it is a fee for service contract.
3) The answer to your question is yes. Cal Mtg. and the bondholders have already discussed bringing in a management company due to KVHD not meeting their bond covenants. I have staved them off by saying that we have already done this with Sycamore Asset Management Co. They will not continue to wait forever.

Thanks for the confidence about the financial position of the district for the last four years. I am just concerned that we are no longer in that position and I am not currently able to reverse that trend.

I am waiting to see if Bob Jamison will take Rick Carter to Exchange. Have a good day!

Chet Beedle


Beedle's Resume shows a sharp shooter

Reading Beedle's email showing that he has the clout to actually ignore Cal Mtg., or stave them off, mislead them, you can suddenly see a link with his resume:

3) Assisted two California district hospitals with obtaining operating lines of credit that were guaranteed by the Cal Mortgage program of the State of California.

This is quite confusing as the CFO manager of KVHD's money and perpetuity, claims to have saved district hospitals, arranging Chapter 11 reorganizations, has strategic planning strategies, but he went to school in 1976, and then prior to his arrival in these here mountains, he finally got his masters in Business at La Verne University.

But in his email, he dramatically reveals he cannot keep up with the debt that had been created before and after his arrival. For Beedle to have all this experience, I would imagine, that the situation financially was the truth.

What could he have done to assist two hospitals to obtain Lines of Credit from Cal Mtg? Fungible monies, for old debts, it seems this is how it is done. No bankruptcy with Cal Mtg., but that doesn't mean there aren't other ideas.

Current CEO, Tim McGlew, also had a relationship with the OSHPD office of Cal Mtg. when he worked for the "Home for Jewish Parents" on a multimillion dollar expansion project

There is nothing illegal about a line of credit, except when the insurer of your debt is the only one who can obtain credit for the beleaguered healthcare district. The problem is that the board and administration seemed toknow ltte about

Constitutional rights: we have none or so they say

Did he say "done deal" or "Dung Beetle?"

The Kern Valley Healthcare District February 2011 board of directors meeting was supposed to be a prelude to an "action" the board had made in December to bring on a law firm which was scheduled to answer questions regarding different options the district had in regard to its debt with state lender and heavy weight Cal Mtg.

David Weinstein, now slightly famous in this town, as Kern Valley Sun reporter, Susan Barr, the newspaper's apparent legal expert, keeps mentioning the attorney in her "stories" as she doesn't believe he can out horsepower our lender/co-conspirator, Cal Mtg. She has asked questions, made allusions, but would NOT take the evidence of such or even contact the firm to truly keep this town appraised of their options.

So, we have some interesting things in the works, it appears, as CFO, (chief flunky of OSHPD) Chet Beedle, has said that there is a "deal" going down with Cal Mtg. and it is a "done deal." (okay? I'm assuming the board hasn't voted as that is never of concern to Mr. Beedle who big bad Cal Mtg. hides behind: pretty pathetic Mr. Morey)

According to Sue Barr's articles Weinstein is untested or untrue, but we have yet to hear from him, so how can she assume that and include it in the newspaper?

And Barr didn't mention the board vote in December which was to bring on Weinstein to talk about ALL OUR OPTIONS available, not only the ones brought up by board members such as Dr. Robert Gross DO, Beedle and CEOish Tim McGlew.

Nobody has mentioned that we have the RIGHT to hear this information as it was not a vote to bring this firm on to do anything, it is simply information.

What are they scared of?

Could it be that since Cal Mtg. when they contracted with our lowly hospital in 1988, sold a bunch of bonds, paid themselves off all of their premiums in 2003 via "Chester the investor,"Beedle, took out lines of credit to pay the bondholders in the name of conflict of interest, doesn't want to deal with an attorney who could possibly simply mention that this organization put a clause in the contract voiding rights to bankruptcy?

Doesn't mean we have to bankrupt, but they took away our CONSTITUTIONAL rights, to allow such a clause to be in this "contract." (and some nuts on the board of that time voted for it.)

A weak constitution

How would you feel about losing your rights to have those guns, types like former board member Brad Armstrong, and gun toting chap, he signed this contract with Cal Mtg. would he sign away his pistol too?

Would Sue Barr who was part of the "tea party" (the mob who forgot to read their history books) approve of her right to gather and do whatever, be disallowed? I'm sure she would like to know what her OPTIONS were, and probably not appreciate this not happening based on some reporters ignorance.

Shut up, would be the motto, if we took away freedom of speech...Let's just follow Cal Mtg.'s example and stop all sorts of things allowed under the Constitution of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

They get away with it because of our laziness

As we all can see our rights have been chipped away, and when it comes to a lender such as Cal Mtg. under the auspices of OSHPD, to do this to one hospital (or another?) right in that they have no right to do a bankruptcy is simply...umm, what's the word, CRIMINAL.

Now all I have wanted to hear is from a objective party what can be done to deal with this organization that gets away with money it doesn't deserve.

Should Chet Beedle have paid all the premiums to Cal Mtg. in 2003, along with other expenses to refinance their sagging bonds they peddled due to the advise of such wise firms, as Goldman Sachs, who were bailed out by the federal government?

Cal Mtg. got all their monies due them, 30 years worth, (how that happened ask Beedle) now they get money to help us from going under when they are the ones holding us under.

It still makes me laugh

Not that recently I've had much to laugh about, but when I think back to Dr. Gross DO, a supposed political "progressive" and his statement about how Cal Mtg. has big attorneys who are bigger than anyone we could get, I realize he never considered anything outside of what has been done before. We are chasing our tails, such as the general obligation bond issue.

There's nothing progressive about a person or board or administrator that won't look at options or is too afraid to take up an issue that is obviously absurd: "you can't bankrupt." Geez, look it up. Due your diligence.

What would be extra funny is if the board member, progressive, hospitalist, owner of Sienna Wellness signed a contract which he wasn't happy with, gosh what would he do?

Oh, that's right, his office was supposed to be an urgent care, which would save people in the valley money not having to go to the ER at KVHD. He had high hopes, but instead got an attorney.

However, Gross' attorney was okay because it served him, as he was angry, with Beedle and company. That was fine, as he was representing himself, not the community. However, that has changed hasn't it...hasn't it? (Now I don't think he carries a gun, I know I don't)

Gross seems to be a happy camper now, as he sides always with Beedle never questioning, and even supporting a board member, "mini-Gross," or David Derr, in the election so that he can make sure he has his way. We will never see Gross yelling at Derr, as he has done to his detractors in the past.

So, why can't we hear it

Well, if my guess is correct, Cal Mtg. cannot risk an attorney coming in and possibly suggesting things such as, dum, da, dum, dum, dum: NEGOTIATION. Hide your children, close your doors, roll up the doormat, or run, someone may know more than Sue Barr and Dr. Gross...........

In all fairness, if I were a criminal type organization where kickbacks were not part of a football game, and goals were never met, I'd hide from someone with knowledge too.

Let me in on one little secret: you're stupid KRV

Now, I said that, but what I meant was...you're stupid and gullible that's what I meant, if you believe that two of the highest paid administrators in Kern County, Chet Beedle and Tim McGlew, care a wit about the future of a valley they don't even live in.

That's like asking Jeb Bush to give money to California...duh.

It's not that we are stupid, it is that we don't understand the accounting system, or I'll hold back on this one, the unaccounted for system where 75K dollars can disappear just before the end of the fiscal year. POOF.

And nobody cares? Come on, if you go to the meetings, good for you. If you learn from the meetings, good for everyone.

Sadly, though, we have let our CONSTITUTIONAL rights be laid to rest before us, without a wink from the press, or an angry word from the community, only a few who hide in the background hoping someone else will do the dirty work and contain this fire.

One attorney could cause all this ruckus, paranoia and confusion: Wow, that speaks volumes. Too bad nobody reads between the lines anymore.

I'm in this for good...(we solidified that on 1/20 which was my 9/11) as this is not just our constitutional rights, which is a HUGE issue, but it is the safety of the community to get care.

Cal Mtg. I apologize, I thought you were bigger and badder than this: SCARED OF ONE ATTORNEY.

Think about it...it's funny.