Comments on: Tulare hospital board discusses Adventist contracts

By: smh

smh — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:02:53 +0000

In my dealings with the IT manager (Dan Sedano) I always found him combative and incompetent. Good riddance to that guy.

By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:32:31 +0000

Is this happening so it will be convenient to define the future narrative. Let’s see – the bond was spent correctly and HCCA was just trying to do the best they could. The previous board was trying to do everything right, even though they didn’t understand they were responsible for safe care. Audit shows perfect books, DA files nothing.

Nothing criminal or abnormal here so please trust us with another bond as we put the same people in charge. No Thank You!

By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:23:30 +0000

In reply to Soul of the valley.

The board is planning to wash their hands of it and not be responsible for the care at the hospital. They only care about it opening and have no idea what they are doing to Tulare. We are destined for low quality care with the same players back in place. Just whsaw n you think everything can change it just stays the same.

By: Just Watching

Just Watching — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:32:33 +0000

It gets better! Medsphere, the IT management company, just fired the IT manager because he refused to give Ed Humphrey, TRMC’s CIO and Thomas Grove, the acting CIO, administrator access into the email archive system. The IT manager was also the Information Security Officer. By eliminating him and his security oversight the CIO and acting CIO now have the ability to delete, change, or modify this very sensitive archive system. I think Medsphere, the IT company needs to be looked at closer.

By: Soul of the valley

Soul of the valley — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 05:23:39 +0000

In reply to Luis Solano.

Do you mean that it can be compared to Mayo Clinic and Cleveland clinic , do you read newspaper , it was ranked lowest to lowest in ranking in consumer report. Most of the chiefs cannot be credentialed in Kaweah Delta , let alone to CRMC , it must be made mandatory for the board members that they must be treated in new Tulare hospital. I feel why we are punished for living in Tulare for such substandard care for wrong decisions taken by incompetent board.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:32:35 +0000

In reply to frustrated.

Check the $700,000 withdrawal with the DA. He did make the statement that that was the amounts taken out by HCCA! Believe it was at the hospital meeting he stormed out of when people were booing him just prior to the election!!

By: J

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:00:43 +0000

This board is the one who bankrupted the hospital.

By: Still Wondering

Still Wondering — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:47:47 +0000

In reply to Wondering.

I am so glad you brought Mr. Ward’s name up. He was open about the resources he needed to complete his investigation of HCCA and hopefully Boluki squandering 84 million dollars, but now that he has been reelected, he is very quiet. What has happened to the investigation? When will the key players including the previous Board members be indicted? The community will not pass another bond without seeing where every penny is spent and who is going to jail for misappropriating the last 84M.

By: angry

angry — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:04:30 +0000

It just looks to me that the board is so desperate to hand over their responsibility to another company. They can wash their hands once they hand it over and the district and citizens will have zero control going on forward. This is what Northcraft intended from day one? There is something that is driving him. Adventist may be better or worse, we just don’t know, but the idea of losing total control over our hospital is what the board wants? We are now forced with that as the only viable option. The next step to to pass the bond….and who knows who will really benefit from all of this.

By: Dwight Christenson

Dwight Christenson — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 19:02:48 +0000

In reply to J.

J, I understand the concerns everyone in Tulare has about “handing over the keys” and leasing the hospital to another chain. As an employee of Advensist Health, and a property owner in Tulare, Adventist Health is a very different company that HCCA.

We are a large and successful healthcare chain with a provable and documented history of success in bringing high quality healthcare, especially to underserved areas. HCCA has none of that.