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Celia Juni wrote on Jul 1, 2009 8:57 PM:

" AR:My first blog was 6-30,someone told me my name was on hear.As i said before i do not hide behind a bogus name! You say that you been involved with the hospital for 20yrs (that narrows down your id),as far as "supporting people" I do not publicize who I do or do not. I carry no grudge(life to short) I support the causes I believe in.and what is "maleign" (spell check please) who you thought was me was someone else.As you can see I print my name. GOODBY "




Peg wrote on Jul 1, 2009 2:19 PM:

" Area....I know Celia, have known Celia and have seen her in her position at the SNF. I don't know what makes you think you know any more than she does after working there for so long. Maybe you know different things but I assure you that until you have worked inside...you really don't know squat. I know there's no winning with you becoz you know everything about everything but I just couldn't let you defame a good person. And Celia resigned...she was not "let go". "




Area Republican wrote on Jun 30, 2009 9:16 PM:

" Celia: I have known who you are since you first started posting on this blog. I also know more then you do about the hospital and what has happened for over 20 years. I know you did work as Activities Director for awhile. I don't know why you were "let go" but you were. Stop trying to maleign the hospital, and stop supporting the people who are raping it. There are many people in this valley who have much more time involved and are far more concerned then to carry a grudge. Find another cause to support. "




Celia Juni wrote on Jun 30, 2009 11:06 AM:

" To Area Republican
I guess you don't really know me. Because if you did you would know more about the truth of what has been going on at the skilled nursing facility. So don't be using my name in your petty comments!!! Are you one of those people that just listen to what other people think or are you a person that cares enough to really go to our hospital and see with your own eyes what is going on, I bet not! If I have something to say I will use MY NAME CELIA not hide behind Area Republican. "




to Area Rep wrote on Jun 30, 2009 9:34 AM:

" Good grief! What WOULD you NOT blame on "libs"? They aren't responsible for everything thats wrong....look inside of your party, my friend. Infidels, rapists, liars, thieves....get real now! "




Area Republican wrote on Jun 29, 2009 7:44 PM:

" .....And you, Red, make sound bites that are so familiar from Laura Hart, Peg and Celia and another "Nurse" who used to work at the facility; sound bites which depict none of the truth, but everything the "libs" want everyone to believe so they can have control of a hospital that has an income of over $60 Million Revenue annualy. You are too late to get on the payroll however, the Knights have that all "sewed up already." "




Red wrote on Jun 28, 2009 2:57 PM:

" You sound like one of the incumbent hospital board members…part of the group that sat on their hands while the management dug a financial hole they will probable never recover from, allowed Pam (former CEO ) to manage the hospital like HILTER completely killing moral, and ignoring serious internal issues, lying to the public about the unnecessary need for a bond, ignoring the problems in the managed care facility which led to arrest of several of her employees…but I forget, your from the party of NO led by RUSH. Who needs or wants oversite ???? "




Red wrote on Jun 28, 2009 2:53 PM:

" To the area republican
You sound like a real republican “had some schooling in administration,” some schooling as in a Bachelor of Science Degree? ..Sounds like a republican half truth to me "




irregular size 1 wrote on Jun 27, 2009 12:05 AM:

" Mr Van Lente would probably not come on this blog to defend himself, but he is a nice man, I've met him.
And Tom Wright is friendly and calm, as I know him too.
I would recommend some restraint writing about people outside the scope of your knowledge.
The conversational element of the blog is lost on you. May I ask if you speak like this to everyone. Thank you. "




puerilism 1 wrote on Jun 26, 2009 7:13 PM:

" (I wonder if anybody will recognize me) Yes, I'd like to say I haven't written here before, but I do not like the attitude of this Laura Hart. It's childishness.
(I just can't make a clean exit. sorry I'm giddy about the KVHD board meeting next week at 5:30 pm in the cafeteria of the hospital in Mt. Mesa. Turn right or left at the gas station, go straight down and look left. There is an old building and that's the hospital. See you there.) "




opie wrote on Jun 26, 2009 7:05 PM:

" Thanks, Laura. We’ll look you up as needed. "




Laura Hart wrote on Jun 26, 2009 3:44 PM:

" Okay, dopie, you must not have read my blog, because you would see early on there was a blog dedicated to the people who died. But then, I guess, you really don't care do you?
Area repugnance, could you get off of Tom Wright's back. He knows more about what he's doing than you know how to type a blog.
I think you should meld names: the dopie area repugnant.
(sorry, I'm sniping again)
If there is actual information anyone needs to know, please just look me up. But I'm bored with this idiocy. "




Area Republican wrote on Jun 25, 2009 9:04 PM:

" To Red: I know both of the male candidates, Tom Wright had some schooling in administration, however, a requirement of the Healthcare District is that the candidate HAS TO HAVE EXPERIENCED AT LEAST TWO YEARS AS CEO in A SIMULAR POSITION. Tom Wright makes comments in meetings where Kay Knight chairs that are incredulous! He has absolutely none of the qualifications and even if he did, he still would not qualify...let's face it, he is not EXECUTIVE material. And Mr. Van Lente, appeared on the scene three years ago, has on-line degrees (questionable short term experience) not qualified! "




opie wrote on Jun 25, 2009 7:18 PM:

" Laura, I post as “opie”, not “To Laura Hart.” If you want to go on talking, you’d do well to keep to the subject that brought us together: That would be Fannie Mae Brinkley, Eddie Dolenc, and Joseph Shepter. Is there some commemorative for them on your blog? I wasn’t able to find it the one time I went there. "




Red wrote on Jun 25, 2009 7:07 PM:

" to...Area Republican wrote on Jun 11, 2009 9:56 PM

You do not know as much as you think !!! I know for a fact that one of the males interviewed has both the education and experience for the job. PLEASE do some home work before sticking your foot in mouth. When people see such glaring untrue assumption your credibility is dissolved…everything else you say is met with earned skepticism. "




Laura Hart wrote on Jun 25, 2009 11:07 AM:

" Well Opie, again, you are as right as you are pedantic. I hope you don't mind that I'm amused by this. I do suffer from bouts of ennui and certainly could use someone like you to brighten my day.
Now that we know you have a passion for the lexicon, is there anything else about you we should know?
Or is this some charade you wish to continue?
Since you decided to use the term puerilism to describe or diagnose me, I will tell you a new website and blog are coming soon which may illuminate things. "




to Laura Hart wrote on Jun 25, 2009 8:56 AM:

" Puerilism synonyms from Roget’s International Thesaurus: puerility, childishness, infantilism. From Webster’s: puerilism n. Psychiatry (1920-1925) Childishness in the behavior of an adult. From thefreedictionary.com: puerilism n. Childish behavior in an adult, especially as a symptom of mental illness. "




Laura Hart wrote on Jun 25, 2009 12:59 AM:

" Opie: Puerilism is pretty strong stuff, it's a medical term. Anyone outside the medical field would have said, your puerile behavior detracts from the information.
Then you attacked all on the blog as sniping children. You're angry about something.
It wouldn't be as childish as just wanting to attack because you have some personal interest in all of this?
It certainly wasn't meant to be healing in any way.
I'll take your comments to my blog and fiddle with them there. Now I can blame it all on puerilism. Doctor, we can't save her...see you there, Opie. "




opie wrote on Jun 24, 2009 6:57 PM:

" More to Laura: Look at your own blog and tell me how you differentiate between a constructive point and a snide remark; the snide remarks win out ten to one, and trash what might otherwise be a respectable work. It’s beyond me how any of you stupid, sniping children can ever hope to create an environment where any kind of healing might be possible. You’ve lost the public’s respect, and rightfully so. I wouldn’t trust you with a hamster, much less a family member. "




opie wrote on Jun 24, 2009 6:54 PM:

" To Laura: Who said only two people are accountable? And why should you be arrested, unless you’ve committed a crime? It took three criminals (by which I mean people who broke the law—is that clearer?) to abuse, even murder, those helpless old people, and a whole slew of onlookers and overseers to accept the crimes as workaday routine. Some of those onlookers, yourself included, are currently filling these pages with petty, stupid sniping; just look at your own most recent post to Area Republican, and tell me what motivates you other than puerilism. "




Laura Hart wrote on Jun 24, 2009 12:08 PM:

" Okay, if two people are the only one's accountable, then everybody who worked there at the time should be arrested and brought to justice. And the leadership should go down too. If your logic is to apply to both of them, it applies to everybody, ombudsman, DHS, and most certainly the board, who knew exactly what was happening. In fact they were angry when DHS was contacted. Now is it just two or the whole bunch? Try to stay away from judgment; use logic. I'm at fault too and wish I could have helped earlier. "




to Laura wrote on Jun 24, 2009 7:06 AM:

" I don't consider them as victims but participants in one of the worst things you can do to a human....chemical restraints. No one forced Dr. Pormir to sign improper orders way afer the fact...he should have stopped the administration of those drugs when the orders were presented to him for signature. Bad situation yes....victim no! The people who were given the drugs were the victims. "




opie wrote on Jun 23, 2009 9:42 PM:

" More to Laura: The trouble is that Dr. Pormir and Debbie Hayes chose not to fight for the patients entrusted to their care. They put their careers first, committed crimes against those patients, and trusted a lot of idiots to look out for them. To say that “they were victims too” shows a terrible insensitivity to the real victims and their families. In light of the horrors those people have suffered, a little more taste and a little less sniping on your part would be much appreciated. "




opie wrote on Jun 23, 2009 9:39 PM:

" Laura, your being a “witness” doesn’t make you an authority on any moral issue; it just means you were there and so what. Yes, Dr. Pormir and Debbie Hayes were caught in a “bad situation,” and others are culpable. "




Laura Hart wrote on Jun 23, 2009 6:21 PM:

" Two years ago is not where it ended. So, if you're under that delusion, then just keep your fantasy alive. My point, tasteless or not, comes from being a witness, not an opinion. Dr. Pormir and Debbie Hayes were caught in a bad situation as they trusted an ex CEO, Chet Beedle, Bob Jamison, Brad Armstrong, CNO's and the indicted, the DON, Gwen Hughes. They quashed the truth. Lied to the authorities. Doesn't that make them culpable? Help could've come sooner and death may have been avoided. But if you can't get it, don't sweat it. "




opie to to opie others wrote on Jun 23, 2009 10:03 AM:

" I’d be more convinced that the hospital is safe if elsewhere on this site I weren’t hearing Dr. Pormir’s criminal actions called wholly acceptable and not hearing anyone but myself object to that. What keeps you people from learning through experience—in this case, tragic experience, costing lives? Also I found Laura Hart’s reminder that “Dr. Pormir and Debbie Hayes are victims too” to be the most tasteless remark I’ve read here, and that’s saying a lot. "




opie wrote on Jun 23, 2009 9:54 AM:

" Ms. Truth: How can you go on deluding yourself that having an “insider’s” take on our hospital makes you impressive rather than suspect? "




to opie others wrote on Jun 23, 2009 7:08 AM:

" It IS a safe place! You all forget that these events are more than two years old and the financial situation is real and now. As far as Laura goes, she's on a mission and won't let go....too sad. I, for one, am pretty sick of the hospital bashing....tell me honestly that you'd rather go to Bakersfield! "




The Truth wrote on Jun 23, 2009 5:01 AM:

" Oh for Peat Sakes, OPIE-PEG-CELIA--- or what ever your name is today, why don't you stop trying to validate something you know nothing about? Why do you want to keep maleigning the Healthcare District? If it closes, what would you do to earn your small living besides being an ombudsman? "




opie wrote on Jun 22, 2009 9:55 PM:

" Since the chatter’s off course anyway, would any of you who spent time around the SNF when Fannie Mae Brinkley, Eddie Dolenc, and Joseph Shepter were alive mind telling me about them? I’d like to think they mattered and still matter, but no one ever mentions them. Can any of you who excuse our hospital for its “lapses of judgment” speak up on behalf of its victims? Why is the hospital’s financial situation, bad as it is, more important than the fact of its not being a very safe place? "




The Truth wrote on Jun 22, 2009 7:10 PM:

" "The chatter on this blog is mostly "off course now"....well that is true Laura, because you keep printing wrong information which you also put on your blog site...and this newspaper, just like your written articles which almost closed both the hospital and this newspaper are once again given credit by this newspaper....well lets see how long you last printing lies about the District this time....you are really off course in your thinking yourself. Too bad, so sad! "




Laura Hart wrote on Jun 20, 2009 11:59 AM:

" Area Republican purveyor of misinformation: Bully for you and your bull. I just wish there were intelligent people taking as much time to blog so there could be some serious discussion. But I understand budget cuts from the state probably have cut back on your medication. I hope you feel better some day. Try Rubick's cube, it will keep you occuppied and off the keyboard. "




Area Rep wrote on Jun 20, 2009 1:01 AM:

" Tom: I am surprised at your comment; I was under the impression you were interviewed for the job of CEO and obviously they felt you had the qualifications to fill that role, and here you are, the humble Respiratory Therapy tech, giving the wonderful "stacked board of directors" (Bob Knights verbage)credit for selecting two very qualified leaders....well, they should be, as that is what the title and education calls for in the job! Bully for you! "




Tom Wright wrote on Jun 19, 2009 4:07 PM:

" First, I thank the Board members for their choice of CEO and CCO candidates. It is obvious they exercised good judgement and clear thought in this selection process. Secondly, I believe Laura Hart is corrct on all points in her June, 19th comment in that one of our greatest concerns should be our financial situation. I have seen Cal Mortgage push a management group through our doors three times in the years since completion of our skilled nursing ctr. Lets hope this Board and management team can find a better solution "




Laura hart wrote on Jun 19, 2009 10:29 AM:

" I have to say that the chatter on this blog is mostly off course right now.
The biggest worry is not the CEO and CCO, it is the lack of money the hospital has to pay for its debt of 17 million.
In August the hospital will clean out the reserve account to pay the bond payment.
In 1999, this happened before, blamed on a certain former board member.
Cal Mtg. came in and fired the CEO, and literally took over the hospital.
We need to worry about that come August. "




fyi wrote on Jun 19, 2009 1:46 AM:

" Your comment regarding the new CCO was incorrect. Cynthia Burciga is a Registered Nurse, not a Medical Doctor or a board certified neurosurgeon, as printed at the end of the 6th paragraph. "




Area Republican wrote on Jun 16, 2009 11:54 PM:

" To "Get the Facts" Well, I don't know where you got the idea that I am negative about the hospital; I am telling you about the fact some people support the ones who are not very honest and are doing all they can to "make a living" off the Healthcare District and that is what I voice here! You know who they are, and so do I! "




to area rep wrote on Jun 15, 2009 5:19 PM:

" act like an authority on everything to do with the hospital? With two posts you come to that conclusion? "people are not hired for CEO positions because they are friendly with "the staff"...." Oh for goodness sake....I know how the world works...I was in the corporate world for over 30 years. AND if you don't have the cooperation and the respect from your staff, they will not be willing to perform for you. Stop being so negative about our hospital or give us your real name and do something about it. "




Area Republican wrote on Jun 13, 2009 12:43 PM:

" To "Get the facts"....why did you say...."The fact is...Tracy's application came in after the deadline." That statement means you know for a fact that is true. That in itself sounds like an excuse of someone who shuffled the application to me. How are you "in the know on that "fact?" Come on....stop calling the "kettle black" when you yourself act like an authority on everything to do with the hospital. "




Area Republican wrote on Jun 13, 2009 12:38 PM:

" To "Get the Facts" I assume you are a friend of hers because that is how you speak in every one of your comments about Kay Knight (Like you get your information directly from her). Also, for your information, people are not hired for CEO positions because they are friendly with "the staff"....they are hired because they are qualified, and have the potential to help "the bottom line," maybe something you don't understand. The hospital is not in this area for just the welfare of the employees, it is here because the tax payers pay for it to be! "




Get the facts wrote on Jun 13, 2009 7:24 AM:

" Why do you assume that Kay told me anything?! You're really a prize....there was and often is a deadline to submit applications in the real world. How do you know who and how many they interviewed anyway? She wouldn't have gotten the job anyway....she is not liked by the staff. "




Area Republican wrote on Jun 11, 2009 9:56 PM:

" I know for a fact, when a CEO candidate is considered, there is no deadline until the time for interviewing by the Board of Trustees. There were 2 candidates interviewed who did not fit one requirement of the search; no experience, no education, not worthy of an interview, however, both males were friends of Kay Knight, so they were given interviews at special meetings paid for by the District. Kay Knight is mistaken if she told you any different and you are the one who is clueless! I will not be surprised at the outcome of this! "




Editor wrote on Jun 11, 2009 6:20 PM:

" To FYI: Can you be more specific about the comment submitted yesterday, but not yet posted? "




Get the facts Rep wrote on Jun 11, 2009 10:25 AM:

" The fact is....Tracy's application came in after the deadline. Stop blaming Kay for everything; especially when you don't have a clue to begin with! "




Area Republican wrote on Jun 10, 2009 6:52 PM:

" Yeah, I wonder why Human Resources didn't interview Tracy, and why it was left up to the two trustees to make sure she was included? Another example of "micro-management" from the meddling Kay Knight! Someone must have had instructions to follow the Chair's lead on this...of course, the truth will never be revealed however, never is with those who are elected to this Board! Rotten, purely rotten and manipulative to the core! "




KRVer wrote on Jun 10, 2009 7:19 AM:

" Another lively meeting....they get better and better every month! IMHO, too bad Brown didn't get her interview but glad she's on her way out.....may have 'cleaned up' SNF but with bullying and unethical tactics....and a great deal of expense....certainly don't need an entire hospital run that way! Bye Tracy! "