Comments on: HCCA/TRMC: “This is just more of the same crazy talk.”

By: Auditors examine Tulare hospital's closure, shed doubt on reopening efforts - Valley Voice

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:09:23 +0000

[…] January 2017, the company stated in a Letter to the Editor that many of the ousted doctors “openly boycotted the hospital and […] openly stated their […]

By: Concerned

Concerned — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:23:06 +0000

this article is obviously opinion of Dr Benzeevi……
#1…..so you’re saying since 2012 the MEC has been bad Drs…..well that is when you got your board members seated, I’m sure Rosalinda did everything you instructed her to do….even staying out of a meeting that she was entitled to attend because you thought it didn’t concern her.
#2…..In NO board meeting was there ever any discussion of a loan to Inyo hospital…..it there was please provide the documentation. Anyone can show a profit if they aren’t paying their bills. Seems as though the change of auditors in the middle of an audit is a huge RED FLAG,
#3……since you love history…..which one of your board members has been there from the entire time of all the ‘mess’? Dr Kumar…….You know this is true and we’ve seen the previous board minutes where he is praising Bouluki for bringing in 2 million one month.

Your argument isn’t holding much water…you’re like a sinking ship that keeps springing a leak….fix one, spring another.
And since this is your first hospital to manage, you really don’t know what you’re doing.

I can hardly wait until Sherrie Bells deposition comes out.
We already know Carlton Jones testimony was full of lies. There are community members that will tell exactly what he told them as he also told me the same…..I have it in writing.

By: truthbtold

truthbtold — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 02:56:36 +0000

I don’t think anyone questions the dedication and hard work and exceptional care the employees perform each and everyday. But let’s not avoid the issue of the failed leadership and support given them by a greedy and corrupt leadership that puts profits (i.e.management fees, etc.) before quality of care. And let’s not forget that this same leadership, or lack thereof, that has not run the hospital since 2014, so I am not sure how much longer you can place blame on the past management. YOU own this now.

By: Speakmymind

Speakmymind — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:37:25 +0000

Like the answer to every request for public documents I have done, it will be the same for audit ” No such documents exsist.” It is such a joke. Maybe they can’t do audit, no money to pay employees or vendors.

By: Concerned

Concerned — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 07:46:06 +0000

In reply to Benny Benzeevi.

Benzeevi, call a Saturday morning coffee meeting at Black Bear diner or Apple Annies in that back room and talk to the people….not at us.
You need to be transparent with all the records.
By the way, where is the 2016 Audit that was due October 31st?

By: Concerned for my community

Concerned for my community — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:42:48 +0000

In reply to Benny Benzeevi.

“Clinical excellence”. My father was just there in March of 2016 and thanks to this “clinical excellence”, he is now PARALYZED from the neck down. Had he simply been given an antibiotic instead of being sent home with pain meds and a muscle relaxer, he wouldn’t be in his current state. What is more concerning to me is you know this to be true Dr. Benzeevi. Your statement couldn’t possibly be any further from the truth and you know this.

By: Benny Benzeevi

Benny Benzeevi — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:30:17 +0000

We at HCCA/TRMC are very proud of the exceptional care that our hard working nurses, staff, and physicians provide patients every day. I challenge any local hospital to surpass the clinical excellence that is practiced at our hospital and the caring, compassionate, and attentive, care that is provided. All the negative ratings that are unfairly thrown at our public hospital have substantial errors in methodology that are well documented. Even beyond that, they reflect data from a period BEFORE our hospital was saved. We will soon see where the next ratings stand. I urge each and every one of you to give your local hospital a chance and then see for yourself what kind of care you get here

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:57:19 +0000

I notice HCCA is not bragging about the increasing quality of patient care over the past 33 months.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 05:33:06 +0000

Boy, I sure hope Ms. Johnson has some evidence to back up the allegation the doctors of the MEC were taking bribes from Kaweah Delta. That is a very serious statement, actionable if untrue, I believe.

By: Deanne Martin-Soares

Deanne Martin-Soares — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 04:40:08 +0000

As a past board member I would love to see released documents. Since there is only one person still directing the place for the last 20 years this will be interesting. This same board member has sat on building and finance for numerous years. Eventually the problem with deceit it is hard to keep up with the story.

Wasn’t it in 2013 that the financials for previous years were changed and supposedly the story was no cash reserves ever existed? This was completely untrue. Why did Laura Gadke state this past year that an $18 million check was put into the bank account in 2008 and spent? How does she know that and if so why didn’t she question it years earlier? That means that a lot of money has been spent with no completed tower to show for it.

If HCCA is paid monthly and it appears they have been why does the District owe them a “substantial sum”.

Do you realize how many Chiefs of Staff from the MEC have been attacked and/or taken out since 2001? How many Director of Nurses turned over. These issues aren’t from past board members, they reside with current members of the board.

Tulare regional will never be successful until this has been resolved and resolution begins with Dr. Kumar leaving the board.