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	<title>Comments on: Adventist accused of COVID avoidance, profiteering during 2020 infection surge</title>
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		<title>By: Esperanza</title>
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		<dc:creator>Esperanza</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 14:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106478&quot;&gt;Staton&lt;/a&gt;.

This is a case of calling the kettle black when in reality he is the only one with obscure motives.There is no secret of how KDH and their executives have maintained a monopoly. They do their best to rid themselves of competition and that is their MO. KDH&#039;s medical teaching program is causing them major liability but who is going to go up against them, Esparza, maybe? Super. Ct. No. VCU256571)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106478">Staton</a>.</p>
<p>This is a case of calling the kettle black when in reality he is the only one with obscure motives.There is no secret of how KDH and their executives have maintained a monopoly. They do their best to rid themselves of competition and that is their MO. KDH&#8217;s medical teaching program is causing them major liability but who is going to go up against them, Esparza, maybe? Super. Ct. No. VCU256571)</p>
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		<title>By: Rachel Reigns</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rachel Reigns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106504&quot;&gt;Xavier Avila&lt;/a&gt;.

@Xavier Avila You got some nerve sharing YOUR Opinion pertaining to HOSPITALS. 
Take a long look at the “Tower Of Shame”, in Tulare!! 
You’re the last person that should be making ANY STATEMENTS ABOUT HOSPITALS!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106504">Xavier Avila</a>.</p>
<p>@Xavier Avila You got some nerve sharing YOUR Opinion pertaining to HOSPITALS.<br />
Take a long look at the “Tower Of Shame”, in Tulare!!<br />
You’re the last person that should be making ANY STATEMENTS ABOUT HOSPITALS!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Janie Mercado</title>
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		<dc:creator>Janie Mercado</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2021 18:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(Adventist health is the problem?)
A 70-year-old patient at Kaweah Delta Medical Center had his eye socket shattered in an attack by a roommate who hospital officials knew to be violent and schizophrenic, according to a state oversight agency report. 

In the report released Thursday, the agency stated the hospital did not properly supervise the aggressive patient who had attacked before.

The California Department of Public Health fined the hospital $52,000 after finding Kaweah Delta failed to provide safety in the February 2018 incident

The California Department of Public Health has again found Kaweah Delta Medical Center had inadequate nursing levels in one of the hospital&#039;s medical units.

The staffing levels so concerned Kaweah Delta nurses, they told state investigators the quality of care for patients was in jeopardy, according to the publicly available report</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Adventist health is the problem?)<br />
A 70-year-old patient at Kaweah Delta Medical Center had his eye socket shattered in an attack by a roommate who hospital officials knew to be violent and schizophrenic, according to a state oversight agency report. </p>
<p>In the report released Thursday, the agency stated the hospital did not properly supervise the aggressive patient who had attacked before.</p>
<p>The California Department of Public Health fined the hospital $52,000 after finding Kaweah Delta failed to provide safety in the February 2018 incident</p>
<p>The California Department of Public Health has again found Kaweah Delta Medical Center had inadequate nursing levels in one of the hospital&#8217;s medical units.</p>
<p>The staffing levels so concerned Kaweah Delta nurses, they told state investigators the quality of care for patients was in jeopardy, according to the publicly available report</p>
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		<title>By: Janie Mercardo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Janie Mercardo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2021 18:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(Adventist health is the problem?)

Failure to monitor and prevent theft and abuse of federally-controlled drugs by a contracted employee who worked in the emergency department and the former Department Chair of Anesthesia at Kaweah Health Medical Center led health authorities to threaten sanctions that could have resulted in the Kaweah Delta Health Care District losing a substantial portion of its federal funding.

According to an inspection report by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), an ongoing pattern of negligence on the part of the district’s governing board, administrators and care providers in securing the hospital’s supply of dangerous controlled pharmaceuticals against theft and mishandling led to the overdose death of a contracted employed in a public restroom at its main facility.

Kaweah Health CEO Gary Herbst said there now appears to be “a direct correlation” between two recent diversion events—instances of healthcare workers stealing prescription medication—at Kaweah Health and the delay in the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) greenlighting of the expanded emergency department</description>
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<p>Failure to monitor and prevent theft and abuse of federally-controlled drugs by a contracted employee who worked in the emergency department and the former Department Chair of Anesthesia at Kaweah Health Medical Center led health authorities to threaten sanctions that could have resulted in the Kaweah Delta Health Care District losing a substantial portion of its federal funding.</p>
<p>According to an inspection report by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), an ongoing pattern of negligence on the part of the district’s governing board, administrators and care providers in securing the hospital’s supply of dangerous controlled pharmaceuticals against theft and mishandling led to the overdose death of a contracted employed in a public restroom at its main facility.</p>
<p>Kaweah Health CEO Gary Herbst said there now appears to be “a direct correlation” between two recent diversion events—instances of healthcare workers stealing prescription medication—at Kaweah Health and the delay in the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) greenlighting of the expanded emergency department</p>
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		<title>By: Laura Florez-McCusker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Laura Florez-McCusker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 03:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106698&quot;&gt;Judy&lt;/a&gt;.

Judy, yes I am the Director of Media Relations at Kaweah Health. I am sorry to hear that we did not meet your expectations. If you or anyone reading this thread are ever unsatisfied with the care you are receiving at Kaweah Health or have received at Kaweah Health, please call Ed Largoza, our Director of Patient Experience, at 559-624-5051. Judy, I will pass your message on to the rest of our leadership team.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106698">Judy</a>.</p>
<p>Judy, yes I am the Director of Media Relations at Kaweah Health. I am sorry to hear that we did not meet your expectations. If you or anyone reading this thread are ever unsatisfied with the care you are receiving at Kaweah Health or have received at Kaweah Health, please call Ed Largoza, our Director of Patient Experience, at 559-624-5051. Judy, I will pass your message on to the rest of our leadership team.</p>
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		<title>By: May</title>
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		<dc:creator>May</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 01:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106507&quot;&gt;Lisa&lt;/a&gt;.

I own 4 houses and you need a  room. You come to my house that is litterally under construction still getting built and I send you another house, in my car, that is fully built and operational, and give you a room.  One year later you cry that I turned you away in your hour of need.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106507">Lisa</a>.</p>
<p>I own 4 houses and you need a  room. You come to my house that is litterally under construction still getting built and I send you another house, in my car, that is fully built and operational, and give you a room.  One year later you cry that I turned you away in your hour of need.</p>
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		<title>By: Barbara</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106710&quot;&gt;Lisa&lt;/a&gt;.

You agree Lisa?  With what?  Stop with the negative comments? Yet you continue on? Uh?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106710">Lisa</a>.</p>
<p>You agree Lisa?  With what?  Stop with the negative comments? Yet you continue on? Uh?</p>
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		<title>By: LeVar B.</title>
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		<dc:creator>LeVar B.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106645&quot;&gt;Laura Florez-McCusker&lt;/a&gt;.

Did he misspeak when he said this?

&quot;Yup and our physicians told us they were taking their surgeries there so we called the State, well, we have almost weekly calls with them, and we called them out on it and so low and behold this week or I think it was last week, Adventist Health announced that they were shutting down all non-emergency inpatient surgeries and Tulare hospital published a graphic showing that they have 29 covid patients in their hospital right now.&quot;

&quot;so we called the State, well, we have almost weekly calls with them, and we called them out on it and so low and behold this week or I think it was last week,&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/10/22/adventist-accused-of-covid-avoidance-profiteering-during-2020-infection-surge/#comment-106645">Laura Florez-McCusker</a>.</p>
<p>Did he misspeak when he said this?</p>
<p>&#8220;Yup and our physicians told us they were taking their surgeries there so we called the State, well, we have almost weekly calls with them, and we called them out on it and so low and behold this week or I think it was last week, Adventist Health announced that they were shutting down all non-emergency inpatient surgeries and Tulare hospital published a graphic showing that they have 29 covid patients in their hospital right now.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;so we called the State, well, we have almost weekly calls with them, and we called them out on it and so low and behold this week or I think it was last week,&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Barbara, I agree.    Has anyone asked if AH is going to be around after 2023??  They sure aren&#039;t going to contribute to the Tower being finished, they want Tulare Taxpayers to do it.    Geez, the latest fundraiser by the Foundation is to get a percentage of pizza profit from Mountain Mike&#039;s.   That&#039;s something a PTA or elementary school would do.  
Tulare&#039;s HOSPITAL needs help.  Not more CLINICS!

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barbara, I agree.    Has anyone asked if AH is going to be around after 2023??  They sure aren&#8217;t going to contribute to the Tower being finished, they want Tulare Taxpayers to do it.    Geez, the latest fundraiser by the Foundation is to get a percentage of pizza profit from Mountain Mike&#8217;s.   That&#8217;s something a PTA or elementary school would do.<br />
Tulare&#8217;s HOSPITAL needs help.  Not more CLINICS!</p>
<p>.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Pack</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Pack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Adventist never turned away 1 covid patient. They moved them to Hanford where they consolidated the care and had additional support from the DOD. 2 ICU docs on at all times, bigger ICU and let&#039;s not forget they did shut down surgical services at their biggest hospital in order to combat the covid surge.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adventist never turned away 1 covid patient. They moved them to Hanford where they consolidated the care and had additional support from the DOD. 2 ICU docs on at all times, bigger ICU and let&#8217;s not forget they did shut down surgical services at their biggest hospital in order to combat the covid surge.</p>
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