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	<title>Comments on: After TRMC Closure, Area Hospitals Prepare for Influx</title>
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		<title>By: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</title>
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		<dc:creator>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Today they were supposed to hand out our final checks after 1. Some of us even called Hr to confirm if they were going to be handing them out. Guess what this crooked hospital did to us!! Yep they didn’t pay us! Left before 1 (so no employee can go inside the HR department). We had to hear it from our security that there were no checks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today they were supposed to hand out our final checks after 1. Some of us even called Hr to confirm if they were going to be handing them out. Guess what this crooked hospital did to us!! Yep they didn’t pay us! Left before 1 (so no employee can go inside the HR department). We had to hear it from our security that there were no checks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: just a thought</title>
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		<dc:creator>just a thought</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 18:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11494&quot;&gt;Mickey&lt;/a&gt;.

LOL!!  yeah - ok - sure, Micky..LOL!!

And I bet crooked Dr Kumar was the BEST doctor there in your eyes...HAHA!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11494">Mickey</a>.</p>
<p>LOL!!  yeah &#8211; ok &#8211; sure, Micky..LOL!!</p>
<p>And I bet crooked Dr Kumar was the BEST doctor there in your eyes&#8230;HAHA!!</p>
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		<title>By: truthbtold</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11511</link>
		<dc:creator>truthbtold</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 04:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11493&quot;&gt;Mickey&lt;/a&gt;.

Hey Mickey would you have preferred to have Benny mortgage the hospital property to put more money in his pockets while putting less patients in beds?   Benny&#039;s plans were to continue bleeding out taxpayer money for himself.  At least no we can work towards a viable hospital and welcoming back our wonderful employees to our public hospital</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11493">Mickey</a>.</p>
<p>Hey Mickey would you have preferred to have Benny mortgage the hospital property to put more money in his pockets while putting less patients in beds?   Benny&#8217;s plans were to continue bleeding out taxpayer money for himself.  At least no we can work towards a viable hospital and welcoming back our wonderful employees to our public hospital</p>
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		<title>By: Truth16</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11510</link>
		<dc:creator>Truth16</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 02:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11506&quot;&gt;Watched the whole thing&lt;/a&gt;.

What in this circumstances allowed for a 3 day notice? Supposedly these employees have no hours but they are still employees and since there were receivables still coming in there was no need to do that on such notice. It is a real stretch that HCCA qualifies for one of the three reasons allowable by law.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11506">Watched the whole thing</a>.</p>
<p>What in this circumstances allowed for a 3 day notice? Supposedly these employees have no hours but they are still employees and since there were receivables still coming in there was no need to do that on such notice. It is a real stretch that HCCA qualifies for one of the three reasons allowable by law.</p>
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		<title>By: Folsom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Folsom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 01:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11506&quot;&gt;Watched the whole thing&lt;/a&gt;.

I wonder how many employees are going to be contacting the labor board tomorrow, apparently they have no idea if they are going to be paid Thursday no communication  no updates even with a full administrative staff on the campus, Unbelievable...haven’t these employees been through enough already.  Do you get your kicks treating people like garbage Benny and Kumar, how are you sleeping at night. Bet you aren’t up at night worring about paying your obligations what a legacy you leave,there isn’t a word that can even explain your actions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11506">Watched the whole thing</a>.</p>
<p>I wonder how many employees are going to be contacting the labor board tomorrow, apparently they have no idea if they are going to be paid Thursday no communication  no updates even with a full administrative staff on the campus, Unbelievable&#8230;haven’t these employees been through enough already.  Do you get your kicks treating people like garbage Benny and Kumar, how are you sleeping at night. Bet you aren’t up at night worring about paying your obligations what a legacy you leave,there isn’t a word that can even explain your actions.</p>
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		<title>By: Watched the whole thing</title>
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		<dc:creator>Watched the whole thing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 01:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11492&quot;&gt;Truth16&lt;/a&gt;.

The WARN notice was required to be sent by HCCA as soon as the Judge decreed that they had to leave by 11/27 - they were going to no longer employee over 500 people after that date and the law allows for less than 60 days notice for extraordinary business circumstances and allows a company to give as much notice as possible - which this was. The WARN notice was standard and well within the letter and intent of the law- the response by the board was not standard.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11492">Truth16</a>.</p>
<p>The WARN notice was required to be sent by HCCA as soon as the Judge decreed that they had to leave by 11/27 &#8211; they were going to no longer employee over 500 people after that date and the law allows for less than 60 days notice for extraordinary business circumstances and allows a company to give as much notice as possible &#8211; which this was. The WARN notice was standard and well within the letter and intent of the law- the response by the board was not standard.</p>
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		<title>By: Mickey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mickey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pablo, I am so sorry. This is sad,  I understand your situation. One of my famy members refuses to go to KDH, they did nothing for him. Tulare Hospital  gave him the best care. Today we are lucky to have him with us. 
This is my family story, so yesss &quot; we had great care and great doctors in Tulare &quot;  My story, my experience!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pablo, I am so sorry. This is sad,  I understand your situation. One of my famy members refuses to go to KDH, they did nothing for him. Tulare Hospital  gave him the best care. Today we are lucky to have him with us.<br />
This is my family story, so yesss &#8221; we had great care and great doctors in Tulare &#8221;  My story, my experience!</p>
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		<title>By: Mickey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mickey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have no confidence in the new board. There is no plan and for people to think they can actually make a difference, please!  Barbara your level of ignorance just makes me laugh. Look around the joke is on you!! Bully!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have no confidence in the new board. There is no plan and for people to think they can actually make a difference, please!  Barbara your level of ignorance just makes me laugh. Look around the joke is on you!! Bully!</p>
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		<title>By: Truth16</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truth16</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 06:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11478&quot;&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;.

Your sorely mistaken, who closed it was Benzeevi. He issued a WARN letter to the staff with an immediate layoff, 3 days notice. That could have permanently closed the hospital, instead the board one upped ole Benny and suspended the license. This way the hospital can re-open and people can be re-employed.

By the to you and all the employees the way that WARN letter was issued and handled looks questionable. Severe penalties to the employer for not adhering to that law. But Benzeevi doesn&#039;t seem to care about laws nor the employees.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11478">&#8230;</a>.</p>
<p>Your sorely mistaken, who closed it was Benzeevi. He issued a WARN letter to the staff with an immediate layoff, 3 days notice. That could have permanently closed the hospital, instead the board one upped ole Benny and suspended the license. This way the hospital can re-open and people can be re-employed.</p>
<p>By the to you and all the employees the way that WARN letter was issued and handled looks questionable. Severe penalties to the employer for not adhering to that law. But Benzeevi doesn&#8217;t seem to care about laws nor the employees.</p>
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		<title>By: The REAL Shawn Burgess</title>
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		<dc:creator>The REAL Shawn Burgess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2017/11/02/trmc-closure-area-hospitals-prepare-influx/#comment-11467&quot;&gt;Anonymous&lt;/a&gt;.

Thank you Tony. I appreciate the action taken to remove my name from the post in question.</description>
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<p>Thank you Tony. I appreciate the action taken to remove my name from the post in question.</p>
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