SoHum Health and South Fork High Partner to Support Youth Sports
Press release from SoHum Health:
In March 2021, regulations were loosened to allow organized sports to return to schools, with strict COVID-19 requirements in place. Youth athletes are required to undergo weekly COVID-19 testing in order to participate. South Fork High administrators were eager to bring sports back to their students and reached out to SoHum Health to determine how to do so safely. Since then, SoHum Health has been sending staff members to the school campus every week to collect specimen from all student athletes and coaching staff. The specimen are brought back to Jerold Phelps Community Hospital Laboratory to be tested. This partnership has allowed local youth to participate in the sports they love, with peace of mind for their families, fellow students, and community.
Life in a pandemic is constantly evolving. Local education and healthcare professionals have worked hard to keep our schools safe, while giving the students the best sports season possible. With sports being such an important part of the High School experience for many, SoHum Health is happy to do their part to support local children in their health and development. Go Cubs!
For more information about COVID-19 testing and health services available at SoHum Health visit sohumhealth.org or call (707) 923-3921.
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Life in the pandemic may lurch towards normalcy, if enough folks get vaccinated, but “evolution” is hardly an appropriate description of what is happening…
“Evolution”, meanwhile, certainly does not describe the process at SHCHD, and, it looks like another year with the same old Board, with the ancient Corrine Stromstad in charge, David Ordonez, a similarly superannuated individual who sits and knows little, and the rest of the clueless members, supposedly elected by somebody or other…
Down in Administration, we have the worst HR department in the industry, although they did get a new “Director” recently to replace the last gal, who was hired by Harry Jasper, probably since she was easy on the eye, however unqualified she was…
Then there is the clueless and wholly ineffective Matt Rees, a known nepotist, famous for jumping the line to get the first vaccine dose, and, the incomparably crooked and vicious narcissist COO, Kent Scown, who should have retired long ago, or been fired due to his many conflicts of interest…
No, evolution will not ever occur there, on Cedar Street, and in Garberville, today is the mirror-image of yesterday, only, the decay is a day older, the odor of desperation, a day riper…
Namaste SHCHD, we’re counting on you?
So you got fired…..get over it.
That’s what I always loved about Garberville/Redway:
The “charming” locals!
You are not on the Board any more, Dave. You may not get to see what other people might know…
Namaste, Mr Kirby, be well…
Thanks for the compliment? My husband thinks I’m pretty hot.
May not have had any HR experience prior, but I did learn a lot ot SoHum — happier now that I’m not there and much more knowledgable in my field. Glad to have moved on.
All the best of luck to you and your bitterness! 🙂
And:
Mr Kirby is pleased to discuss “assets”, but I am reminded by your comment that, in the case of SHCHD, some assets arrive with little experience, while some arrive with huge amounts of experience, but both will be treated to the same “charms” at the hands of the local folks…
I, myself, had more than 2 decades of experience operating a small business, as Mr Kirby apparently still does, and, I did HR myself, payroll, interviews, employee taxes and all… I wouldn’t touch that job, at a District Hospital, and, some of the least amazing HR departments anywhere at all, can be found in the offices at Northern California District Hospitals…
I’m happy to imagine that even you, probably, have some choice stories to tell…
The point is, we are all just learning, and even I, who worked many years before stepping foot into a small hospital, learned plenty that I never wanted to know, before my career was over…
As Mr Kirby compares SHCHD to Redwood Rural: really, SHCHD is basically a Federal Facility! The money comes mainly from Medicare and Medicaid, even the funding for the “Old School Building being Converted Into a Hospital” will come from the CARES act and the USDA… Only the smallest part will come from donations and local taxes…
For this is the disconnect: Redwood Rural is a Federally Funded Clinic, and SHCHD is “like” a Federally Funded Clinic, except that SHCHD lacks the standards expected from a Federally Funded Clinic…
I am glad you came with nothing and left with experience… I came with experience, and left with, well my retirement account, to be sure, but not with nothing!
I left with knowledge, and increased ability, and the sureness that I could move forward to the next gig, for as long as I wanted to do it.
So, as they say, what else can the district do for you?
Namaste, Easy On The Eye, be well!
I know that the district is an incredibly valuable asset and along with Redwoods Rural makes us extremely fortunate as a small community to have this level of healthcare. I am also familiar with your work history at other healthcare facilities so I understand your hostility…Namaste S.D.
Mr Kirby has absolutely no firsthand knowledge of any person’s work history in any healthcare facility, anywhere, and is advised again to hold his peace.
We are pleased to know that you love your little hospital. Please enjoy it responsibly!
Namaste, Dave, be well…
Dave, Dave, Dave…
Respectfully,
I find VMG’s perspective is probably pretty insightful.
I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says, but I am absolutely sure some of what he says is entirely accurate, maybe even too kind.
He has defended them from some of my firsthand JPH ER observations, so you two have that in common, at least.
He defended their integrity. Generally, that may have been true.
What I experienced was indicative of a completely unacceptable scenario.
Fortunately it was quickly rectified.
My experiences at the Cedar St Complex have been over many decades and I am quite familiar with it’s history, plenty of them, questionable.
I’ve been familiar enough.
They have not been immune to that, it unfortunately, is common elsewhere as well.
Yes there have been and still may be some very competent and ethical employees, doctors to be sure.
There has also been plenty of incompetence and corruption.
Does the terminated administrator that retaliated by leaving with all the accounts receivable records almost 40 years ago ring a bell?
So what did the hospital do?
Re-billed everyone, including me, whether we had paid or not, which
I had, but could produce no receipt, so I was forced to pay yet again, over $1,000.00, at $5.00 an hr, probably 2 months salary, after taxes.
That hurt me at the time, hurt me bad, I was young and poor, with a wife and very young children, in and out of homelessness, and it took a lot of food off our table, and didn’t make keeping a roof over our heads any easier.
I paid that, too. And it wasn’t easy, I take my debts seriously.
And no, after almost 40 yrs, I haven’t forgotten, not even close.
That’s just off the top of my head!
Wait, more recently, I’m seeing, yes it’s getting clearer… Furniture…hmm…
And, a rapter, yes, that’s it! The hospital was hawked!
Shall I continue?
Sometimes it’s the most ethical members of an organization that are hired that are terminated quickly for drawing attention to the more unsavory, inappropriate, aspects of a system.
They just don’t quite fit in.
I’ve been there on more than on occasion quitting or being let go due to my ethics and standards.
Maybe it was the same with VMG.
I will assume that.
Yes, we support our hospital.
That doesn’t mean it couldn’t use a good house cleaning and a lot of polish, and I’m not talking janitorial service.
And a lot less nepotism and cronyism.
How do you deal with that?
So yeah Dave, maybe this guy got fired, and you obviously know who he is, it doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
Maybe he was wronged, maybe not.
Not my business.
Sounds like he worked in healthcare a long time, cut him some slack, that can take a toll on folks and is generally a thankless job.
But why the venom? Is some confidentiality in order? He is respectful to you. I like that. That’s a good thing. It’s a good example for me.
I like hearing what he has to say, and I also respect your desire to defend the honor of our community assets. But…
I’m just not sure that what he says or what you say is more or less warranted.
He wants to see change for the better.
I understand that.
So do I.
Why isn’t that popular?
It should be.
That place could use alot more professional oversight.
They get a lot of public funds, that calls for public scrutiny.
Let it be.
Peace.
I served on the Redwoods Rural board before moving to the Healthcare District board. I assure you I am totally aware of the funding streams of both institutions. Incidentally I think that the fact that the last district parcel tax measure passed with a greater majority than ever before shows the level of support the healthcare district enjoys. We know what a good thing looks like.
It is a good thing that the district takes suggestions, even if it takes them years…
Many items eventually introduced were first suggested by employees and managers, such as replacing the med rec system, much of the lab equipment, starting an outpatient pharmacy, focusing on women’s health etc. Some lines of business may even be profitable…
Suggesting that the district evolve is another one of my admonitions, apparently now just coming into common use!
Evolution is a process of organic change. It has to start somewhere!
I support the mission, I donated to the effort to fund the new hospital. I want to see it become reality. You are damn lucky to have what you have, even if I consider it to be a weak effort.
Namaste Dave, be well…
You know what I see when I go out to South Fork High and collect specimens from their student athletes? Kids who had a piece of their high school experiences stolen from them who are getting a bit of it back, as safely as our healthcare system can make it.
You know what I don’t see? School principals, secretaries, and teachers spending hours a day testing the local student athletes. That’s the reality at most Humboldt schools. Those educators are spending their time doing a laboratory medicine task.
SoHum health has been able to put lab professionals on a lab problem and let the educators in SoHum focus on their own difficult work. That’s worth celebrating, no matter what else drops in the comments section.