The union alleges the authority overpaid [$23 million to the] two contracting firms who help manage the hospital. The union argues that money could have been used to recruit much-needed staff. READ MORE
The union alleges the authority overpaid [$23 million to the] two contracting firms who help manage the hospital. The union argues that money could have been used to recruit much-needed staff. READ MORE
“The short-staffed and exhausted safety net hospital workers demand answers on how the Kern County Hospital Authority overpaid the firm employing hospital administrators by $23 million and why it cannot provide an explanation or why there’s no investigation. READ MORE
The Kern County Hospital Authority board did a do-over last month. Members held a ‘special’ meeting to make up for the one where the public was illegally locked out. It may have seemed to some to be a magnanimous, inclusionary gesture by the board. In fact, members had broken the state’s open-meeting law that allows […]
Although the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ACS) was created to provide ambulatory surgeries, it’s also providing ’boutique spa services and cosmetic surgeries’ to residents outside of the county ‘at the expense of investments that could improve the quality of care provided to indigent residents’ the lawsuit charges. READ MORE
Audits showed that KMC’s chronic money problems ranged from handling petty cash to a patient billing system riddled with bad data to an inmate care program where staff overcalculated what the hospital was owed in a single year by $6 million. But this time the cost of the mistakes is a gut-wrenching $64 million. (The […]