While directors at the Tulare Local Health Care District (TLHCD) turned a collective blind eye to their behavior, at least two of the District’s leaders worked to illegally remove the medical staff at Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC), says Michael Amir, an attorney representing the dispossessed Medical Executive Committee (MEC). The picture Amir paints is […]
Carlton Jones says being Tulare’s first Black mayor isn’t important to him as it will be to that city’s future Black mayors. “When you want to be something, if you can see that it’s doable, then you’ll understand why it’s important to be the first,” Jones said as he awaited his swearing-in. “What’s more important […]
Upwards of 75 parents, teachers and advocates for social justice marched on November 16 in protest of draft regulations they say fall short of protecting California schoolchildren and staff from exposure to hazardous agricultural pesticides, particularly for Latino schoolchildren who are far more likely to attend the most impacted schools. The 4pm march, led by […]
Dr. Parmod Kumar’s days on the Tulare hospital board may be numbered. During the November 8 election, Tulare Local Health Care District (TLHCD) board incumbents—Chairwoman Sherrie Bell and Linda Gadke, who have been central to several controversies there—were rejected harshly at the polls, losing their seats by a two-to-one margin. Now, a recall of Kumar […]
Two of Tulare’s contentious races finally came to a close on election night: Kevin Northcraft and Mike Jamaica came out ahead of their incumbent opponents, Sherrie Bell and Laura Gadke, in the Tulare Local Healthcare District election. Northcraft and Jamaica came in with 65.94% and 63.15% of the vote, respectively, according to final Tulare County […]
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 […]
Hospital officials pursuing a lawsuit against Dr. Abraham Betre were dealt a losing hand in a court hearing Thursday, when Judge David Mathias ruled to keep certain documents publicly available. In the hearing, Mathias adopted a tentative ruling that denied denying the officials’ oral motion to remove from the court’s file a Separate Statement filed by […]
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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 […]