This article has been updated to match the version in the March 2 edition of the Voice. The only things missing from Wednesday’s Tulare Local Healthcare District meeting were an announcer, a bell, round cards, and popcorn. The meeting started on a down note — officials with the district announced Fitch Ratings, a major credit ratings […]
Two things were made clear during Wednesday’s three-hour-long Tulare Local Healthcare District (TLHCD) Board of Directors meeting: there are now two distinct factions of board members — and they’ve got distinctly different ideas on how to end up with a successful hospital. The faction of existing board members — comprised of Dr. Parmod Kumar, Richard […]
Opponents of Dr. Parmod Kumar have been told that the recall of the long-time Tulare Local Healthcare District (TLHCD) Board of Directors member can continue, according to a statement from Citizens for Hospital Accountability, the group pursuing the recall. The hospital accountability group gathered 1,414 signatures, out of which 1,180 were valid, and 32 were […]
HCCA/Tulare Regional Medical Center announced today that, for the first time it has successfully achieved the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ requirements for ‘Meaningful Use’ of electronic health records and thus qualifies to receive substantial monetary rewards. Shawn Burgess, Chief Information Officer at HCCA/TRMC, applauded the staff and providers at Tulare’s hospital for their […]
In early 2016, the Tulare Local Healthcare District (TLHCD) took on an unexpected role as a financial lender for a hospital in Lone Pine, Calif., extending it a $500,000 line of credit. Both the Lone Pine hospital and Tulare Regional Medical Center are managed by Healthcare Conglomerate Associates (HCCA), a Tulare-based company, that has taken […]
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 […]
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 […]