Comments on: Auditors examine Tulare hospital’s closure, shed doubt on reopening efforts

By: Mickey

Mickey — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 21:25:49 +0000

There you go, you asked you have it…… Still not happy with the results because you refuse to accept and see the truth. Deanne & company what a disappointment you couldn’t prove that all your especulations and accusations were wrong. Please Tularians let’s stop reading all the BS she writes seeking attention in a very negative way!

By: Still Wondering

Still Wondering — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 02:57:21 +0000

I completely agree with you on every point Deanne. Shawn Boluki also had a CFO, Fred Capozella, that knew about the spending of the bond bond money and failed to oversee revenue collections properly. The accounts receivables were out of control then as well. He left the hospital very suddenly. There was a controller who had been there many years who knew bond expenses were not appropriate just as he knew that under Benzeevi that expenses were not accrued or entered into the system thus showing us all the fairy tale picture of how Benzeevi was saving the hospital. And, as I stated before, all of Boluki and Benzeevi’s senior managers need to be held accountable for colluding to defraud the feds, the State and the district. I know this is a serious accusation but from 2008-2017 millions of dollars were handled inappropriately.

By: Voice of reason

Voice of reason — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 23:33:33 +0000

In reply to Dorothy Carr.

Most of the bond money was spent pre-HCCA. If there are significant irregularities, it is likely the previous management’s responsibility. HCCA has a lot to answer for, but not most of the bond spending.

By: Deanne Martin-Soares

Deanne Martin-Soares — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 19:24:53 +0000

I don’t think there was anyone that wanted to see the audit more than I and yet I was very disappointed to read the outcome. I must have been naive to think that the District was going to receive an Audit. An audit is to conduct an official financial examination of an individual’s or organization’s accounts. When you review the guidelines of this highly sought after audit it is obvious that an “official financial examination” did not occur.

The audit spent way too much energy on identifying that HCCA was a poor selection, the contract was horrible, they poorly managed, overspent, didn’t pay vendors and business declined under their leadership, or lack thereof. Most of this information could have been written by some of the citizens or the Valley Voice that researched this debacle over the past few years.

What was also well known was the previous board’s biased selection that wasn’t based on any of the requested measurable criteria for the Request for Proposal to identify an alignment partner in 2013. It was nice to see the consulting firm’s scorecard provided in the audit, disappointing to know the board was provided it at the time. Through record request Bruce Greene told me no documents existed, an obvious lie.

What we know:
• $138 million had been spent on the “Tower project and other smaller renovation projects.”
• The auditors identified accounting errors of $6.5 million in 2015 alone.
• The audit focused on 2013 moving forward.
• The bond oversight committee did not report to the board from 2008-2011
• The majority of the $138 million was spent in a 4-year period from 2009-2013, pre-HCCA.

What wasn’t addressed:
• Why the board stopped the forensic audit in November 2012.
• Why the 2012 audited financials were never approved in a board meeting.
• Why the District finally submitted the 2012 audited financials on March 27th of this year to Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. Why were they not public before this time?
• Why under Shawn Bolouki financial history of the District was rewritten to indicate previous years fiscal losses.
• The board member that was closely tied to finances, bond oversight and construction. The board member that meeting after meeting assured everyone that everything was fine.

I realize the amount of work it would be to really get some answers. Answers unfortunately we are never going to receive.

By: tularepatriot

tularepatriot — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 17:48:17 +0000

In reply to Former employee.

My understanding is that Parmod Kumar is practicing at Sierra View in Porterville. At this point, he should not be getting any patients in this county. Bensleesy should, and I believe will end up behind bars (unless he feels a sudden urge to “plant a tree in Israel”).

By: Still Wondering

Still Wondering — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 03:33:22 +0000

The misappropriated 84 million dollars bond money was spent by Shawn Boluki, the CEO before HCCA came. He was the reason the hospital was near bankruptcy when the bids went out for a new management company. It was not Benzeevi who spent the majority of the bond money, it was Boluki. He brought a team of people from LA and one from the county to hold the senior management positions. They and Kumar were all well aware the of the management of the bond money. They need to be exposed to the community like Benzeevi and Germany.

By: Former employee

Former employee — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 00:09:33 +0000

HCCA was already in the bag before any of the other hospitals gave there pitch. It was horribly obvious during the board meeting. Another words” you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”.
Kumar and Bensleezy buddied up long before the vote.
Things were horrible at the hospital after there take over.

By: Dorothy Carr

Dorothy Carr — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:41:03 +0000

In reply to Joseph Oldenbourg.

I have wondered for a long time why more isn’t being said about the missing bond money. Is the DA on top of this and ‘Benzeevi’s finance dance’ and just can’t say anything yet?

By: Joseph Oldenbourg

Joseph Oldenbourg — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:48:32 +0000

In reply to Optimist50.

I read the entire JLAC audit and found it woefully lacking. Its conclusions? HCCA–bad. The previous board–bad. I hope this didn’t cost much. We already knew everything in the report. Call me a dreamer, but I was hoping for illumination on the missing bond money and a detailed choreography of Benzeevi’s finance dance.

By: Optimist50

Optimist50 — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:56:47 +0000

In reply to Hokaipo.

Did you read the article or the report? Are the state auditors naysayers?