KD
Well said ! The role of a board member is leadership and Not experience running a hospital or the finances. Board members hire the CEO and hold the CEO accountable. The Board should insure transparency . Had the community were allowed to read the MSA before the old board blindly voted for it , things may have turned up differently , that’s if the old board would have listened. Personally I’m in favor of the board forming committees made up of a few board members and citizens. This would be an excellent way for the community to get involved with their Hospital and it is an excellent way for the board to utilize the expertise of skilled citizens. An Example would be a finance committee, made up of two board members and 4 to 6 expert citizens and the CFO . This committee would look at the total financial out look as well as loans , bonds or any other financial issues. They can make recommendations to the board . Ultimately the board would have the final say. For me the board position is not about knowing how to run a hospital it’s about knowing how to prevent the crooks from taking over and holding the CEO accountable for the total performance of the Hospital especially the quality of care and financial health . Broad members sould not be easy to fooled or CoolAid drinkers . We saw one board member flip sides , resign from the board and go to work for HCCA . Elect people who are dedicated to the community and the Hospital that serves them . You’re expamle of a doctor serving on the board is an excellent example of people thinking they need a expert on the board . Sometimes experts can have a personal agenda. Beware of people running for board or city councils looking to cash in from their positions .

Natural tendency of good people is to keep away from problems/mess.

Dr Rashid & Dr Patel have relocated to Visalia and have no reason to come back – except perhaps to play politics, if they so choose. Dr Fabella & Pradeep Kamboj use hospitalist and has nothing much to do with hospital. Dr Miyakawa sends his patients to Sansum clinic and was just a puppet of Kumar. Without Kumar, he may not have courage to come back. He is of no use anyway. Dr Kuo, Evans and Smith (Ron) never left. They care for this community and stayed despite hating Benny. Dr Hong has been chased away to Visalia by Shawn & then by Benny but may come back since he has so many patients who would appreciate not having to travel. Dr Loeffler has his hands full and will not come back to work. Dr Pawan is of no value to hospital as his specialty is almost 100% outpatient. Dr Parmod Kumar may not choose to come back either.

We will need good surgeons, hospitalist, ER doctors. We have good/decent OBG – Betre, Parul, Kang, Borberg.
What we need most is leadership that focuses on good of community rather than personal politics.

Roger that. The certain members of the city council, the shady contractors who support people like Kumar, clean out anybody who has a vote to sell.

They lost basically all doctors except the Benny-Kumar flunkies Ostrom in the ER and Mackaluso in the Radology. Loyal to the end with their gold contracts and side deals. Still a good core group of doctors on the sidelines in Tulare who would come back and make up the new medical staff: Betre, Kamboj, Evans, Pediatric group, anesthesia group, Rashid, Hong, Kuo, Miyakawa, Patel, Loeffler, Patel, Fabella, Pawan, RonSmith. To name a few.

Interesting you’re blaming Steve Harrell for HCCA no longer employing 400 people… Will you give him the credit once the Hospital reopens creating 400 jobs? All I did was speak to his character because I know him. I don’t know Phil Smith although I’m sure he’s a great person as the article stated. At least both these men stepped up to try and help make a change, rather than sit in the back of the room giggling while HCCA refuses to give passwords/keys and plays games with 400 peoples livelihood. However, like I said, I doubt Steve will be intimidated by you and your Cackle of Hyenas in the back of the room where you clearly belong.

I do hope as I am typing this that an investigation is in the works. The citizens of Tulare are NOT HAPPY about all the corruption that is going on in this town and want an answer to where all their tax money went!!

Citizens for Hospital Accountability has without a doubt proven their commitment to rid the corruption infecting Tulare.
I am so grateful for the work they have done…

Maybe they will branch out to, “Citizens for Tulare Accountability”, and get many active to get rid of the rest of the trash in this town.

Did we lose specialists at Hillman? Yes
Did we lose the best Internist & ICU doctor, Dr Rashid? Yes
Did we lose good surgeons? Yes
Did we lose hospitalist group? Yes
Did we lose Anesthesia group? Yes
Did we lose Orthopedics? Yes

Are Dr Rucker, Dr Chopra. Dr Ding, Dr. Cohen still waiting for their paycheck from Hillman for work done long time before bankruptcy? Yes

So, how exactly do you expect to run this hospital?

We cae e. That is wjy Bennie is gone.. Tulare spoke and the board listened.

This was meant for Reality Bites not KD. Sorry KD.