Comments on: Visalia Medical Clinic to break up with Kaweah Health, eyeing partnership with Adventist Health

By: Pat S.

Pat S. — Wed, 03 May 2023 18:55:30 +0000

Will physicians still be able to send you to Kaweah Health hospital (formally KDDH) for procedures, surgeries and admitting, or will they have to send you to Hanford or Tulare hospitals?

By: Pat Soper

Pat Soper — Wed, 03 May 2023 18:54:15 +0000

Will physicians still be able to send you to Kaweah Health hospital (formally KDDH) for procedures and surgeries and admitting or will they have to send you to Hanford or Tulare hospitals?

By: Jack Lowery

Jack Lowery — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:00:14 +0000

I saw a doctor January 24 of this year. I was prescribed medication today is March 15, 2023. I still am unable to retrieve said prescription from pharmacy while waiting on prior authorization. I have called seven times the pharmacy and seven times they sell your medical clinic to the doctor that prescribed was told it’s handled, I have Medicare Medi-Cal… They switched my Medi-Cal to HealthNet at the first of the year. Nothing I can do about it I was forced to do it by the powers that be now I have to pay out-of-pocket because they took me off my original Medi-Cal I’ve had since the 70s I’ve been disabled since the 80s. I am a four time cancer survivor , I’ve had four spinal surgery for fusion. I called WellCare for the first time last evening. I’m told no one is sending them anything regarding me or my prescription I have to have another spinal surgery in less than 90 days more fusion and an implant. I need this medication for my body to be prepared for my upcoming surgery. Nobody is doing anything.
The receptionist for this particular doctor is beginning to get annoyed because I’m contacting them too frequently… BUT…. Nothing is getting done even with me contacting them nothing getting done if I don’t contact him for real nothings getting done I need the meds what do I do? No one has an answer they just keep telling me I’ll see to it the doctor does blah blah blah, and it’s not getting done and I’m not a strong fan of Kaweah Delta either they’re too big for the britches, because can you say MONOPOLIES

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 03:55:18 +0000

I just hope that the good doctors at Visalia Medical Clinic are able to stay but if not I hope that they somehow are able and willing to stay in the area and continue seeing patients that don’t wish to leave them. To Adventist Health and the Board members of the Visalia Medical Clinic, it makes no sense to take a well run clinic with doctors successfully treating their patients only to bust it up and throw away a winning hand. In otherwards, if it ain’t broke it doesn’t need fixing. If that is your aim you will end up driving people away. It never pays to get in-between patients and their doctors, as many will take that quite personal. Keep the clinic in tact please.

By: Janae

Janae — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 07:14:14 +0000

Gary herbst has run kaweah into the ground! I agree with Jamie! Go to that website and see his salary as well as Diane Cox, Keri noeske.. so on! They can’t afford to pay their employees and treat them right but they spend money on re branding, their own bonuses and salaries, but their employees are ran to the ground physically and mentally! They are giving them the $1,000 bonus that the state is making them give, but didn’t apply for the extra $500 bonus that other hospitals are giving their employees but they surely are pocketing quite a bit for themselves. And to ask their employees to write letters to newsome for money to the hospital or tell their employees it’s a good idea to donate back your bonus.. get real! The Central Valley should know the real truth what is really going on at the hospital and how it got in a financial hole! Not to mention not allowing their employees to transfer to other departments to better themselves. These poor nurses and staff, I wish they had more options as far as better leadership for them!

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:13:45 +0000

Well, we’re not fans of Kaweah in this house.

By: Yolanda H

Yolanda H — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 07:22:30 +0000

As a longtime patient of VMC I am concerned that I will have to change doctors as Adventist is not in my network with my employer provided insurance. I am not a fan of Adventist based on past family care.

By: Jamie Stone

Jamie Stone — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 01:04:37 +0000

I hope this is a big financial blow to Kaweah Delta, a CEO paid well over a million dollars- See transparent California- but cries to the state for assistance and the nursing crisis created over decades of putting the dollar over safe, competent, quality care for patients.

By: Geraldine Cardoza

Geraldine Cardoza — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 04:01:19 +0000

When will the patients know all the details?