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	<title>Comments on: UPDATED: HCCA to TRMC Board Majority: Cease. Desist. Prepare for Legal Action.</title>
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		<title>By: FormerTRMC/</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/08/11/hcca-new-trmc-majority-cease-desist-prepare-legal-action/#comment-9743</link>
		<dc:creator>FormerTRMC/</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2017 07:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who&#039;s footing the bill for this expensive LA law firm,? Is this another bill we have to pay as taxpayers? As I read the cease and desist letter, for sure many things were left out.
One thing that was said is that we had about 1/2 dozen CFO&#039;s in 7 years. Why was that? I know for a 
fact that we had some great
qualified candidates that applied, BUT the board, both for the CEO 
positions and the CFO positions
Elected to hire only Interim Administrative positions, why was that at the time we had qualified canadates?
Well, now I might think it was because they didn&#039;t want anyone getting to close to the books????







We all wondered why they keep hiring only temporary Administrative staff at the time some of us were invited in the interview process.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who&#8217;s footing the bill for this expensive LA law firm,? Is this another bill we have to pay as taxpayers? As I read the cease and desist letter, for sure many things were left out.<br />
One thing that was said is that we had about 1/2 dozen CFO&#8217;s in 7 years. Why was that? I know for a<br />
fact that we had some great<br />
qualified candidates that applied, BUT the board, both for the CEO<br />
positions and the CFO positions<br />
Elected to hire only Interim Administrative positions, why was that at the time we had qualified canadates?<br />
Well, now I might think it was because they didn&#8217;t want anyone getting to close to the books????</p>
<p>We all wondered why they keep hiring only temporary Administrative staff at the time some of us were invited in the interview process.</p>
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		<title>By: Yankee Doodle</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/08/11/hcca-new-trmc-majority-cease-desist-prepare-legal-action/#comment-9741</link>
		<dc:creator>Yankee Doodle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Benny and Kumar, you are in Tulare only to exploit our people.  We are not the Palestinians.  We are not the Untouchables.  We are American citizens and we dont get pushed around.  We stand up to bullies.  That is what democracy is all about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Benny and Kumar, you are in Tulare only to exploit our people.  We are not the Palestinians.  We are not the Untouchables.  We are American citizens and we dont get pushed around.  We stand up to bullies.  That is what democracy is all about.</p>
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		<title>By: TRMC employee</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/08/11/hcca-new-trmc-majority-cease-desist-prepare-legal-action/#comment-9740</link>
		<dc:creator>TRMC employee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The attorney&#039;s letter is basically asking The Board not to criticize HCCA.   How ridiculous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The attorney&#8217;s letter is basically asking The Board not to criticize HCCA.   How ridiculous.</p>
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		<title>By: Tulare True</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/08/11/hcca-new-trmc-majority-cease-desist-prepare-legal-action/#comment-9729</link>
		<dc:creator>Tulare True</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 04:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is time for the new Board Majority to terminate HCCA and send Benny and Kumar packing. If Torres and Wilburn continue to miss meetings remove them. In most elected positions if you miss three consecutive unexcused meetings you are removed. 

I also was informed that even volunteers have been told not to discuss the Hospital, census or issues pretaining to HCCA. Talk about First Amendment violations!! This is America not North Korea!!

Hold Bell, Gadke, Torres, Wilburn, and Kumar personally liable for the financial losses that have been incurred. Ignorance is no excuse they were suppose to represent the Citizens of Tulare. We are now indentured to a property tax for 30 years for what to benefit a for profit company.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is time for the new Board Majority to terminate HCCA and send Benny and Kumar packing. If Torres and Wilburn continue to miss meetings remove them. In most elected positions if you miss three consecutive unexcused meetings you are removed. </p>
<p>I also was informed that even volunteers have been told not to discuss the Hospital, census or issues pretaining to HCCA. Talk about First Amendment violations!! This is America not North Korea!!</p>
<p>Hold Bell, Gadke, Torres, Wilburn, and Kumar personally liable for the financial losses that have been incurred. Ignorance is no excuse they were suppose to represent the Citizens of Tulare. We are now indentured to a property tax for 30 years for what to benefit a for profit company.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel J. Dick</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/08/11/hcca-new-trmc-majority-cease-desist-prepare-legal-action/#comment-9727</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel J. Dick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 01:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Having worked for Community Medical Centers in Fresno, it is my strongly held opinion that we need Federal legislation to make it illegal to provide any government funds to any healthcare organization that does not have in place strong accountability to an outside third party organization chartered and empowered to investigate and remove all in leadership complicit in bullying, abusing, firing, discriminating against, or retaliating against those who report corruption, patient safety issues, ethics issues, legal issues, contract violations, fraud, and such.  I think every exiting employee should be given an exit interview with that third party and that any employee having left the organization in the past should be given an open door to report past violations and retaliations.  I believe they should be empowered and chartered with restoring employment to those who had been unjustly dismissed into a position of equal or higher position, should be protected from being forced to return to the management team who took action against them earlier, and that they should be given restitution for all illicit losses and have their status, seniority, and benefits restored in full.

I also believe that those who engage in such cowardly, petty, infantile behavior as filing harassing and defaming restraining orders, free speech violating cease and desist notices, and illicit and harassing threats of frivolous litigation or who spend corporate funds on such illicit activity should be subject to firing and having their HR record stained and their actions documented and published if they are public figures so it will be hard for them to return to the same role and violate others in the same way ever again.  And if crimes are committed, they should be called to account for those whether they are crimes of fraud, corruption, breach of contract, harassment, or involving any kinds of intimidation or taking advantage of ordinary people&#039;s assumed lack of awareness of the law.

For us as the public to put up with this kind of adolescent, corrupt, asinine, petty, cowardly, dishonest, bullying behavior is unforgivable.  For the greater good of patients, employees, and society, we need such petty, power hungry charlatans and bullies and jerks to be ripped out of power and replaced by someone who has integrity and heart and competence.

And this is true regardless of which health care organization.  The notion that a corporation can hide from OSHA on the basis of being a non-profit or a privately owned corporation is unacceptable.  And furthermore, the fact that regional centers may be the largest consumers of legal services does not give them a right to be able to depend on our courts to prostitute justice like a two bit whore giving favor to those with the money and power lest some judge end up on the operating table in a hospital with employees under the thumb of an unhappy administrator.

Let the courts rule justly and make a just and honest administration happy rather than ruling corruptly and making a corrupt leadership happy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having worked for Community Medical Centers in Fresno, it is my strongly held opinion that we need Federal legislation to make it illegal to provide any government funds to any healthcare organization that does not have in place strong accountability to an outside third party organization chartered and empowered to investigate and remove all in leadership complicit in bullying, abusing, firing, discriminating against, or retaliating against those who report corruption, patient safety issues, ethics issues, legal issues, contract violations, fraud, and such.  I think every exiting employee should be given an exit interview with that third party and that any employee having left the organization in the past should be given an open door to report past violations and retaliations.  I believe they should be empowered and chartered with restoring employment to those who had been unjustly dismissed into a position of equal or higher position, should be protected from being forced to return to the management team who took action against them earlier, and that they should be given restitution for all illicit losses and have their status, seniority, and benefits restored in full.</p>
<p>I also believe that those who engage in such cowardly, petty, infantile behavior as filing harassing and defaming restraining orders, free speech violating cease and desist notices, and illicit and harassing threats of frivolous litigation or who spend corporate funds on such illicit activity should be subject to firing and having their HR record stained and their actions documented and published if they are public figures so it will be hard for them to return to the same role and violate others in the same way ever again.  And if crimes are committed, they should be called to account for those whether they are crimes of fraud, corruption, breach of contract, harassment, or involving any kinds of intimidation or taking advantage of ordinary people&#8217;s assumed lack of awareness of the law.</p>
<p>For us as the public to put up with this kind of adolescent, corrupt, asinine, petty, cowardly, dishonest, bullying behavior is unforgivable.  For the greater good of patients, employees, and society, we need such petty, power hungry charlatans and bullies and jerks to be ripped out of power and replaced by someone who has integrity and heart and competence.</p>
<p>And this is true regardless of which health care organization.  The notion that a corporation can hide from OSHA on the basis of being a non-profit or a privately owned corporation is unacceptable.  And furthermore, the fact that regional centers may be the largest consumers of legal services does not give them a right to be able to depend on our courts to prostitute justice like a two bit whore giving favor to those with the money and power lest some judge end up on the operating table in a hospital with employees under the thumb of an unhappy administrator.</p>
<p>Let the courts rule justly and make a just and honest administration happy rather than ruling corruptly and making a corrupt leadership happy.</p>
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		<title>By: TRMC employee</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/08/11/hcca-new-trmc-majority-cease-desist-prepare-legal-action/#comment-9710</link>
		<dc:creator>TRMC employee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The new majority of the board is simply doing what they were elected to do.   We may have to end up giving Benny the thief Benzeevi some money to facilitate his departure, but the sooner he goes, the sooner we can stop the bleeding and build a decent public hospital.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new majority of the board is simply doing what they were elected to do.   We may have to end up giving Benny the thief Benzeevi some money to facilitate his departure, but the sooner he goes, the sooner we can stop the bleeding and build a decent public hospital.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger McPhetridge</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roger McPhetridge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 05:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It would behoove the current majority board to invest in a forensic audit of both the hospital and the new tower.  We need to find the money trail. Bell,Gadke,wilbourn, Torres are dedicated drink the punch followers of Kumar.. Until that is done we will never know. I would like to see TRMC partner with KDDH and let them run the place properly. There are to many benefits to name here to get that to happen. It would help the citizens of the district from Searlimart to visalia and as wide as woodpile to Waukena .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It would behoove the current majority board to invest in a forensic audit of both the hospital and the new tower.  We need to find the money trail. Bell,Gadke,wilbourn, Torres are dedicated drink the punch followers of Kumar.. Until that is done we will never know. I would like to see TRMC partner with KDDH and let them run the place properly. There are to many benefits to name here to get that to happen. It would help the citizens of the district from Searlimart to visalia and as wide as woodpile to Waukena .</p>
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		<title>By: TRMC Employee 91</title>
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		<dc:creator>TRMC Employee 91</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>2 things forgotten....
1. While TLHCD can not solicit or hire us current employees, we can certainly QUIT and then be rehired by TLHCD. So take that for data!!!

2. All the contract states is the District can not break the contract per se. HOWEVER, it says nowhere that a SUSPENSION of a contract is not a relm of possibility. It further goes on to state profit is a factor for a good contract. But ANY REASONABLE COURT, after reviewing all financial records and vendors NOT PAID, NOT TO MENTION BOUNCED EMPLOYEE CHECKS, NON PAYMENT OF VENDORS AND DOCTORS FOR DAYS, WEEKS, OR MONTHS, would not have an issue voiding a contract and not paying HCCA anymore money.

Bottom line, HCCA will be found out soon  enough after McCormick and Barstow forensic review of financials and interviews with employees will not fair well. And trust me when I say this, nearly every employee would have no problem giving a deposition into the running of this hospital. 
The employees get the same rhetoric speeches from upper management saying everything is ok. ITS NOT OK TO DO WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!!
Ask these questions:
Why can we not pay our bills on time?
Why doesnt HCCA show the public the financials from HCCA? HCCA is entrusted with public money, and is required to show where money is going and what bills are being paid.
The truth is where the money is and the source of who controls said monies. 
Finally, with the other businesses that Benzeevi has, the question stands,  where is the money coming from for these newly formed businesses?
The employees of HCCA are educated enough to know when behavior like this is wrong on all levels.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2 things forgotten&#8230;.<br />
1. While TLHCD can not solicit or hire us current employees, we can certainly QUIT and then be rehired by TLHCD. So take that for data!!!</p>
<p>2. All the contract states is the District can not break the contract per se. HOWEVER, it says nowhere that a SUSPENSION of a contract is not a relm of possibility. It further goes on to state profit is a factor for a good contract. But ANY REASONABLE COURT, after reviewing all financial records and vendors NOT PAID, NOT TO MENTION BOUNCED EMPLOYEE CHECKS, NON PAYMENT OF VENDORS AND DOCTORS FOR DAYS, WEEKS, OR MONTHS, would not have an issue voiding a contract and not paying HCCA anymore money.</p>
<p>Bottom line, HCCA will be found out soon  enough after McCormick and Barstow forensic review of financials and interviews with employees will not fair well. And trust me when I say this, nearly every employee would have no problem giving a deposition into the running of this hospital.<br />
The employees get the same rhetoric speeches from upper management saying everything is ok. ITS NOT OK TO DO WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!!<br />
Ask these questions:<br />
Why can we not pay our bills on time?<br />
Why doesnt HCCA show the public the financials from HCCA? HCCA is entrusted with public money, and is required to show where money is going and what bills are being paid.<br />
The truth is where the money is and the source of who controls said monies.<br />
Finally, with the other businesses that Benzeevi has, the question stands,  where is the money coming from for these newly formed businesses?<br />
The employees of HCCA are educated enough to know when behavior like this is wrong on all levels.</p>
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		<title>By: Joseph Oldenbourg</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/08/11/hcca-new-trmc-majority-cease-desist-prepare-legal-action/#comment-9686</link>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Oldenbourg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2017 16:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/08/11/hcca-new-trmc-majority-cease-desist-prepare-legal-action/#comment-9685&quot;&gt;Speakmymind&lt;/a&gt;.

I have addressed precisely this in my forthcoming column. I say: Recall.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/08/11/hcca-new-trmc-majority-cease-desist-prepare-legal-action/#comment-9685">Speakmymind</a>.</p>
<p>I have addressed precisely this in my forthcoming column. I say: Recall.</p>
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		<title>By: Speakmymind</title>
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		<dc:creator>Speakmymind</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2017 16:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And the Mayor of Tulare Carlton Jones, has publicly backed Dr Kumar and still does. Carlton is now trying to keep the hospital board from renting the PUBLIC chamber at PUBLIC library. He says the citizens cause trouble and threaten people. All hear say, he has not been to a TRMC board mtg ever. Had he attend the last 2 without HCCA instigators he would see very peaceful, so obviously it not the citizens but HCCA and their clonies that are the problem. Carlton you may want to re read your statement on the city website. You need to represent the citizens and not your campaign contributors.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And the Mayor of Tulare Carlton Jones, has publicly backed Dr Kumar and still does. Carlton is now trying to keep the hospital board from renting the PUBLIC chamber at PUBLIC library. He says the citizens cause trouble and threaten people. All hear say, he has not been to a TRMC board mtg ever. Had he attend the last 2 without HCCA instigators he would see very peaceful, so obviously it not the citizens but HCCA and their clonies that are the problem. Carlton you may want to re read your statement on the city website. You need to represent the citizens and not your campaign contributors.</p>
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