Comments on: Tulare hospital board receives financial update

By: The truth

The truth — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:51:43 +0000

Enuf, I have enough of your ignorance. Why do you assume that anyone who doesn’t agree with you is Benny himself? Perhaps I have a brain and I am able to think for myself instead of following the mass? What happened to “innocent until proven guilty”? You all condemned and vilified Benny because you’re a board member? See how erroneous these accusations are?
The DA is investigating and it’s a good thing for his political gain since he’s running for office. If nothing comes up he needs to pay for all the cost instead of the tax payers dollars. Unfortunately, these board members are completely inexperienced as far as running the hospital and they are wasting money just switching management company and the end result will just be more turmoil. They do not have a MBA or any advanced degree to take on this challenging task. It was easy to throw out HCCA by defacing them and bring down the hospital because of pure unjustified hatred for Benny and crew. Why are we paying for their personal vendetta?
What have we gained? Time will unravel and you will see how ignorant you have been.

By: 1whoknows

1whoknows — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 06:32:25 +0000

As more comes out about just how deplorable this entire situation is, we must all remember those that got us to the point. The past board of Sherrie Bell, Parmod Kumar, Rosalina Avitia, Richard Torres, Laura Gadke and eventually Linda Wilbourn. They all turned a blind eye to their elected responsibility and kept ignoring what was right in front of them. Was it just stupidity or did they benefit somehow.

Wipfli is appearing to be ineffective in their 3 months of being in place, cut your losses board and get them out. Almost no one should be working in a closed hospital.

By: Enuf

Enuf — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 02:55:07 +0000

Evolutions needs to hold on to the money they make and reinvest in their facility. Instead of dumping it into the black hole where it will end up in somebody’s pocket out the door, you can bet on it.

By: Enuf

Enuf — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 02:50:41 +0000

Well…THETRUTH is most likely Benny himself on the beach somewhere. Otherwise yep, above comments are all observent and spot on. nothing ever ever changes at Tulare Hospital.

Another interesting observation. the guy in the sportcoat talking to Kevin in the 1st minute of video is none other than Evan Rayner. Recognize him as the previously failed CEO at Corcoran Hospital. Went on to fail at Tehachapi, Madera and other places. He always seems to get fired before his contract is up so he has a nice cash flow till the next fail. Now he shows up at a TRMC board meeting. Why is Tulare hospital a magnet for the bottom feeders?? Because NOTHING CHANGES here. The same nursing supervisor is still working full time. The same xray supervisor. The same BS interim CEO’s getting a piece. Please, please clean house!!!

By: THE TRUTH

THE TRUTH — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:43:02 +0000

EH you are on the dot! Wipfli are charging about the same as HCCA without any risk. At least HCCA loaned money to the district because of cash flow issues.
“The hospital is hoping to receive significant amounts of outstanding accounts payable — reported in January to approximately total $40m.”
HCCA had a cash flow issues because of the conversion/billing issues. The Board falsely claimed bankruptcy just to kicked out HCCA due to irrational hate and now find themselves in a worse situation with high management cost and a closed hospital. Good job to all those blindly supported the board without knowing what is really going on. Get the big picture people! Don’t follow the hate band wagon without thinking for yourself.

By: EH

EH — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:02:47 +0000

I am finding the double speak here troubling. First Mr Blitz says, HFS/Wipfli aren’t getting paid, then says almost nothing compared to the bills, then Mr Heckathorne says 1.3 M is owed to Wipfli/Hfs and he and Larry aren’t getting it. However in the financials provided on the website it appears they have been paid 231K as of 2/6, if indeed that is the line of expense they are considered consulting. On the 2/28 agenda it was approved by the Board to authorize Heckathorne and Blitz to enter into financial agreements on behalf of the District. Isn’t that what the old Board did with Bennye and Germany? Same agenda approved a contract with a consulting company to research Medi-Cal reimbursement opportunities at 250 an hour plus expenses. Are you kidding me?? A consultant hiring a consultant?? Thought they were the experts?
So if they are owed 1.3M for less than 5 months of work, it’s beginning to look like HCCA management agreement wasn’t so egregious after all, especially cuz 550 people weren’t out of work and a hospital was still open
Wake up Tulare, same old stuff different names. This new Board is no different and getting hoodwinked again

By: Logic

Logic — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:30:35 +0000

Here are some thoughts…Wipfli (the company hired to manage the hospital until it re-opens) has no financial incentive to speed up opening the hospital… There is no incentives written in its contract with the board. Indeed, Wipfli knows it won’t last for long after the hospital opens (perverse incentive).
So far, it charged the hospital $1.3 million so far with no date for reopening.

There has to be government grants (Federal or State) to help a hospital in such a situation. I wonder if Wipfli is doing everything possible to open the hospital.

By: Truthbtold

Truthbtold — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 04:59:23 +0000

It would have been nice if your report mentioned something positive like the fact that Evolutions presented the district with a $56,000 check from last month’s profits