The recent $800,000 loan to the Tulare Local Healthcare District (TLHCD) was used to settle a past due balance with Cardinal Health, a pharmaceutical supplier, public documents reveal. And while officials with the district — which owns the Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC) — were negotiating that loan, they were also attempting to settle their […]
Documents, provided to the Valley Voice through a Public Records Act request, show that the entirety of the $800,000 loan the Tulare Local Healthcare District (TLHCD) recently approved went to pay off past due invoices to a single supplier–Cardinal Pharmaceuticals. The loan, approved in September 2016, paid back invoices that were due so far back […]
This article has been updated with information about the invoiced repaid with the $800,000 loan. See the section marked ‘UPDATE’ below. The controversy over the Tulare Local Healthcare District’s (TLHCD) $800,000 loan hasn’t died down, if Wednesday’s regularly scheduled TLHCD Board Meeting is any indication. At Wednesday’s meeting, Visalia attorney Michael Lampe presented new information […]
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UPDATE: A statement from the “Sherrie Bell for Hospital Board” Facebook page has stated that the August 29 date on a loan agreement referred to below was “is the date that the bank prepared the document[,] not the date it was signed.” It also states that Bell actually signed the document in “mid September.” Even by the standards […]
A copy of loan documents and a transcript from the September 1 hospital meeting are below. This is a developing story and will be updated.
By any measure, Tulare Local Healthcare District (TLHCD) officials were blindsided at September’s regularly scheduled board meeting. While the meeting’s agenda was routine, and the District received an award for its participation in and promotion of organ donation, the public comment section of the meeting had large surprises in store for the board. Opponents of […]
A lawsuit has been filed against the Tulare Local Healthcare District, alleging that the entity is wasting public funds and violating the public records act. The lawsuit also names Benny Benzeevi, CEO of Healthcare Conglomerate Associates, HCCA itself, and each TLHCD board member individually. Members of Citizens for Hospital Accountability, alongside other Tulare citizens, filed the suit […]
Officials with the Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC) today confirmed rumors that TRMC and, by extension, its partner Healthcare Conglomerate Associates (HCCA) have laid off a small number of staff at the hospital. The news comes on the heels of a similarly timed, but otherwise unrelated lawsuit, alleging the hospital violated the California Public Records […]