Cheers to a Successful Fundraiser at Benbow Inn: Wine Tasting Event Raises $121,445 for Southern Humboldt Hospital!
![Former Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman with Johnny Casali, a popular cannabis grower in Southern Humboldt both working to raise money for the hospital. [Photos from the phone of Kym Kemp]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tom-Allman-and-Johnny-Casali.jpg)
Former Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman with Johnny Casali, a popular cannabis grower in Southern Humboldt, both working to raise money for the hospital. [Photos from the phone of Kym Kemp]
Pat Neighbors, CEO of Vocality Community Credit Union, took on the role of master of ceremonies for the live auction. Her quick calculations and infectious enthusiasm kept the crowd engaged and the funds rolling in. “Chelsea [Brown], the Foundation auction committee (board members), and crew set us up for success,” Neighbors told us. “Our hosts, John and Teresa Porter, made all the great connections with the wineries as always and provided us with that beautiful venue for the day.”
She went on to say, “We couldn’t have asked for a better weather afternoon at the Benbow Historic Inn for the event. The food from all of our local caterers was excellent, the wine was flowing, and the guests gave from the heart—success! It was a big group effort, and I got the fun of working with Tom Allman again this year. He’s a terrific auctioneer and a real friend to our community.”
But it wasn’t just wine, laughter, and spirited bidding that filled the air at Benbow Inn. The architect team from Ratcliff, who are responsible for designing the new hospital and clinic for SoHum Health, were on hand to showcase the latest plans and answer any questions from the curious and eager supporters. The new hospital and clinic are set to bring modern healthcare to Southern Humboldt, and those at the event’s commitment to the cause was evident.
Supervisor Michelle Bushnell speaking at the event is a big supporter of the new hospital. In the background, Pat Neighbors, CEO of Vocality Community Credit Union consults with Tom Allman. (Also, the man with the blue shirt had the coolest mask that he made himself!)
The SoHum Health Foundation’s fundraiser was a true testament to the power of community support and the determination to bring essential healthcare services to the region. With a whopping $121,445 raised, the dream of a Southern Humboldt Hospital is one step closer to becoming a reality.
As we toast to this successful fundraiser at Benbow Inn, we extend our gratitude to everyone who contributed, bid, and made this event possible. Together, the community is building a healthier and brighter future for Southern Humboldt—one auction paddle raise at a time!
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More propaganda, more exposure to the faces of corruption, and another insulting attempt to create “funding” to be used for contractors…
How much money given, how much progress has been made since the elections to raise property taxes and the threats to “close the hospital”?
I do commend the donors, and I myself have given the questionable organization’s my own funds, because I want to see if they can actually build anything at all, besides empty promises…
Since I heard Harry Jasper’s assertions that “we are going to build a new hospital by 2024”, I shook my head, looked at what they had and the people in charge, and said to myself:
“Sure you are”…
Now, the faces have changed (some of them), but the abilities have not.
They can study, they can plan, but they don’t really have the money and they certainly lack the ability, the moral structure or the proper sort of leadership…
Every time I see Mrs Bushnell on these pages, I am reminded of her conflicts of interest, her meager accomplishments and exactly what she represents…
The hospital-project has benefited someone, but not the people of SoHum, or the hundreds of former employees who were sold a bill of goods, a concept that did not exist, the “Family-Style District Hospital”…
In the 12 years that have passed, new hospitals have actually been built, in Willits and Alturas, but many other District Hospitals have failed and been handed over to management and corporations, in Willows, Colusa, Fort Bragg, Ukiah, Yuba City, Tulare et al…
Even if the smiling faces of your crooked Supervisor and the wealthiest of the pot-farmers eventually manage to scam enough money to build a building on the site that is too small, lacks egress and adequate parking and the ability to land a helicopter, we are all advised to remember that a building is not a hospital; it takes competent and adequate staff, and that staff needs somewhere to live…
Even Adventist Health smiles and plans and promises, but where are the employee dormitories, the staffing increases, the decent salaries?
A quick trip to Adventist Clearlake or Providence Fortuna will show that you can operate a filthy and antiquated facility while promising something better, but it takes leadership, integrity and abilities, along with community support and stacks of funding…
A Hundred Thousand or five million, they just don’t have what it takes, and they keep on selling you something they just can’t accomplish…
Meanwhile, they pay low, they maintain the employment of the worst leaders, the community elects bad leaders, and Casali stands up and promotes himself…
A sad show, a giant lie, an impossible charade, and a weak effort, as usual…
What part of the Benbow Inn is in a bid old tent?
OH FFS get a grip man….
The patio…
Spoken like somebody who has no idea how hard it is to get something done in this area. The hospital actually has been quite busy over the last couple of year. They have purchased several pieces of property in town and are in the middle of renovating them. Housing for doctors and nurses, A place for an optometrists and a permanent place for the pharmacy along with starting the plans for the hospital. Building a hospital in California is not an easy task, the regulations are staggering. At the rate Garberville and Redway are shriveling up and dying a large hospital might be one of the largest sources of employment in the area.
You forgot to mention the SHCSD wants to expand services into Fortuna:
https://humboldtlafco.org/wp-content/uploads/6A_SHCHD-OAS-Optometry-Services.pdf
And according to public records, SoHum Health has been one of the largest employers in Southern Humboldt:
https://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/SpecialDistricts/SpecialDistrict.aspx?entityid=1533&year=2022
And maybe you can say why the SoHum Health Foundation has transformed over $1,391,299.17 of its donations/revenue to the Humboldt Area Foundation and who else has access to that funding?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/175voZmNDlGB3UVo36zI2tVzHqDBZyJs4/view?usp=sharing
Thank you for this Ed, as usual.
$9.72 Million in wages and benefits, from what income?
Where is the money coming from?
$208,000 for a staff CLS? Fifth highest paid?
$360,000 for the CEO?
Looks like legal weed been berry berry good to SoHum Health…
https://sohumhealth.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022.03.22-Finance-Packet.pdf
Running a Pharmacy is profitable…
OH, and $137,000 for Kristen Rees…
Maybe because they are renovating 7 separate buildings in Garberville, and have hired several companies to start designing the new hospital?
Let me guess, you cannot remember which of the 7 separate buildings in Garberville the SHCHD is renovating?
Here is the last time the SHCHD/Foundation made or documented any plans:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KfpaPTRUh7_30WjZWpZyKJ0dB1xgdrxG/view?usp=sharing
Then you have this, from the Headwater Fund a year earlier:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N9kQY-oSZJ-_kDQMMFrOnuhC4jVKa044/view?usp=sharing
This is from last year and the fear is the Foundation has been counting its chickens before they have hatched:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nBssUc6sZXxBbG0I64-SeFju15TVw1Ev/view?usp=sharing
What I found time after time, the SHCHD and Foundation can talk about how much money they have raised for the new hospital, they cannot show that revenue in their Quarterly Financials Statements or 990 Tax Returns. At some point soon, the SHCHD chickens will come home to roost.
The other issue the SHCHD cannot produce, is a engineering report that confirms that the existing Jerold Phelps Hospital cannot and will not be able to comply with the new statewide seismic requirements on January 1, 2030. But yet, the SHCHD plans on spending $5.6M in infrastructure upgrade renovation of the Jerold Phelps Hospital, knowing it will not meet new state seismic requirements?
Thanks Ed, as usual…
After reviewing the financials, I am amused that the Rees family of Fortuna is paid nearly a half million/year in salary and benefits.
How they support two people working in the lab with nearly $400,000 in salary and benefits is also staggering, but even Surprise Valley Hospital paid $230,000 to their CLS, probably the highest paid CLS in the state and SVCHD’s highest paid employee…
I guess those COVID PCR’s are very profitable, which is odd in an industry which, in other states, is sending lab testing out to contractors, since lab tests in general are not exactly a cash cow…
Kent Scown makes $190,000? Huh?
The “Vacant lot” referred to above, belongs to Scown, to the best of my knowledge…
As they grow and spend on themselves, remember please that this is a “Public Agency”, and gee, they are looking well beyond their brief by planning to expand into Fortuna and compete for Optometric services…
Thing change quickly, and looking at the growth is the salary and benefits over the last 5 years is pretty interesting, in a reportedly “collapsing” economic environment…
Good luck collecting the pledges, and remember to donate to your hospice, and to donate blood when you have an opportunity, while you carefully consider the management of your healthcare district…
Also recall that Stromstad and Truitt, between them about 180 years old, retain their death grip on the Board, and probably will until they are wheeled into the SNF, which will undoubtedly still be located in the “seismically inadequate” crusty old building on Cedar Street…
Isn’t it amazing, that in an area that identifies as “Severely Disadvantaged Communities”, on top of the economic downturn and recession within the cannabis industry in Southern Humboldt, in just a matter of hours, the community could raise over $121K?
Please note, the CEO of Vocality Community Credit Union and CEO of the Jerold Phelps Hospital are on the SoHum Heath Foundation Board:
https://sohumhealthfoundation.org/why/who-we-are/
It is amazing! And shows what a great community lives here.
No, it shows how a community lives a lie, plain and simple.
I was there. You weren’t. I’m a grower. You’re not. I live here and know locals. My guess is you don’t know folks here as well as I do any more and you definitely don’t know their connection to cannabis.
I would say the vast majority had little to no connection with cannabis (my presumption of your insinuation)–the business is sadly collapsing—let alone had a connection to illegal/non environmentally produced cannabis. There are only about 1000 illegal farms in the entire county now. There were cannabis farmers there of course. I was there. Johnny Casali whose farm is a showcase for the DFW on an environmental ways to grow cannabis was a donator. There were others. But the folks that ravage the community environmentally weren’t there. Because they don’t care about the community.
But in any case, even assuming the worse case scenario that evil, environmentally disgusting, water sucking growers (I’m trying to take your perspective) took some of their ill gotten gains and supported a hospital for all……………..Oh, my god…the horror. They chose community over Bali or fancy car payment or whatever frivolous way they could have spent their money. Why, why, why do you begrudge a hospital in SoHum? Why hate on folks for raising money for a way to help people? I can not for the life of me imagine your parents hating a hospital here.
Wow, not sure where all that is coming from, must needed to vent and scapegoat someone?
I was asked by an old family friend still living in the area, to look into the Hospital District, namely the Hospital Foundation side of things, including their financials, because they know I am good at researching tax exempt organizations. So I did and what I found was allot of smoke and mirrors, with allot of publicly disclosed donations not showing up in the Foundations quarterly financial statements or their 990 tax return. You can ask CEO Rees or COO Scown. I emailed the SHCHD Board and the Hospital Foundation, with only either Rees or Scown responding, claiming they have nothing to do with the Foundation.
Let me give you a couple examples; 1) The Hospital Foundation keeps telling people they have “successfully garnered” $4.15M in funding for the new Hospital, but cannot show that amount of revenue in either their financial statements or tax returns:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N9kQY-oSZJ-_kDQMMFrOnuhC4jVKa044/view?usp=sharing
2) There have been two large donations made public on this website:
https://kymkemp.com/2019/11/21/vocality-donates-100000-each-to-redwoods-rural-and-shchd-at-chamber-mixer-in-sohum-last-night/
https://kymkemp.com/2021/12/17/stephen-dazey-donates-200000-towards-his-1000000-pledge-for-a-new-hospital-in-garberville/
Both of those two donations do not or are not included in the Foundation Quarterly Financial Statements or 990 Tax return. And no one at the SHCHD or Foundation cannot address or answer that question.
My comments on this blog have nothing to do with cannabis, you are putting words in my mouth. It has to do the donations the Hospital Foundation is claiming they are receiving, that does not add up in their financial statements or tax returns.
Follow the money, or the so called money. No one in your community wants to ask, where is all the money at?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIiz_Uh3MZU
When you imply instead of state outright, you leave yourself open to interpretation.
What did I “imply”, that made you go on and on and on about nothing I stated or discussed?
Let me guess ,you haven’t driven through Garberville for a while?otherwise you’d see the signs on the buildings that they purchased and are getting ready to renovate… Ed it really is a shame that you don’t realicate your energy towards something constructive.
No, you would be wrong, I drove thru Garberville 2 weeks ago. So what streets besides Redwood Drive would I need to find these signs and buildings?
You live in Lake County! If you hate Humboldt so much why do you dominate the conversation on this website daily? People in the community raised money for a good cause. Can’t it be that simple? Being positive is waaay better than being negative. Negativity is a way to be divisive and tear people apart. Positivity brings people together and creates unity. If you don’t have anything nice to say many times it’s better to say nothing at all…….
Totally agree…another NOT LOCAL complainer. Go away, take care of business where YOU live and stop being relentlessly negative about things that are none of your business…
And there you are, the chronic complainer. NOTHING is good enough for you….And I thought I was a curmudgeon. Kudos to the folks that set up the Auction…and that man in the blue shirt with the cool mask is my son. Congratulations and can’t wait to see our new hospital grow!!!! We need it. Thank you all.
Why don’t you give us all your employment history here in Humboldt? It would give us all an insight into your unrelenting negativity.
It was a different ballgame, pre-covid Dave…
After the recession, everyone had it hard, and I was laid off by Quest, after 10 years, at the age of 57. Quest gave me severance of $120,000. Ended up in Humboldt by accident, worked at JPH for a year, Redwood as a Per Diem for 6 months, Kimaw for a year… Also worked as a contractor in other places that paid well.
Now that I’m retired, obviously salaries are all over the place, but little district hospitals need on-call staff, and Suprise Valley paid me $8000/week to cover their lab, so that’s where I went, at age 66…
I also worked at Mendo Coast, hated it and quit, Howard Hospital which I also quit, refused to work at Mad River since it’s so backwards and old school and low paying… Turned down a position at Mayers and PDH since they pay shit, worked at Eastern Plumas for awhile which was too crazy for me, and Trinity Hospital, which I actually enjoyed!
I was recently asked to cover a contract on Catalina, at Avalon Hospital, but was unable to go when they needed coverage…
I am nearly 72, but I know folks my age who are still working shifts…
I worked commercial laboratory operations 34 years, before stumbling into your little hospital, where I was disrespected, lied to, and treated like crap. I actually operated a commercial laboratory owned by my family for 24 years.
Happy now, Dave?
Haven’t seen a take this naïve in a long time! You certainly write well, but you obviously have no idea about the challenges to finishing a project like this. Study up a little bit on what the hospital has been up to, before gracing us with your wisdom.
Careful.
I know exactly that building a hospital is an exasperating experience, and far more expensive than the estimates presented on these pages… Just getting by the inspections might take till 2034…
If they are renovating houses in Garberville, well heck, they might as well just tear them down and start over…
Houses were donated to SHCHD, and I stayed in two of them, so watch out calling people inexperienced!
The nurses house was next door to the lot where the milk trucks roared all night, and, rather unpleasant…
If the whole town is going to be SoHum Health, well heck, they will need to clear some lots just for parking!
Even when they had only 50 employees, egress to Cedar St was a problem, and parking was nearly impossible. They had almost no outdoor lighting and it was no fun being on call and walking into the “employees entrance” at 0300…
I know way more than you might expect, about building and hospitals and GBV…
Opening the Commercial Pharmacy after the one at Ray’s closed was about the smartest thing they did, and go back on these pages to see who was calling for SHCHD to do this…
It’s profitable now, but the delivery pharmacies and the commercial clinics of the future may change the nature of healthcare forever, although not in little towns in SoHum…
Hospitals need patients who have insurance, and SHCHD has a preponderance of patients on Medi-Cal and Medicare, so clinics and profitable lines of business are recommended, as I have stated many times over the last 8 years or so…
Housing staff is extremely important to success, so I hope that works out, especially if they have 140 employees, in actual fact…
Garberville is a very challenging environment, and change will be everywhere at once, so best of luck, moving forward…
[edit] get a life. You haven’t been able to hold down a healthcare job for years. Do you realize professionals from all over the state talk about you…. You’ve been fired from one side of the state to the next. From Cedarville/Alturas south into the desert and all in between. Why don’t you stop harassing this facility just because you’re disgruntled. You should find something better to do, healthcare in Garberville is a positive thing.
I agree that Madrone is the best Supervisor.
If you don’t like other people’s comments, you shouldn’t read them.
Insults are against Ms Kemp’s rules. Your statements are untrue, and fundamentally incorrect.
Take a deep breath. Everything is going to get better soon…
So you weren’t fired for gross negligence?
Does this mean that they will lower my proprerty tax ? Or remove my hospital tax from my taxes ? why am I paying for the hospital that ran my doctor off ?
It does seem like they should stop taxing the community if they have enough money to be buying up multiple chunks of that same community while collecting those same taxes…
They obviously aren’t hurting for money if they are swooping up distressed local properties right and left like slumlords, even with the supposed intention of renovating them…
That is an expensive, unnecessary, and frivolous proposition.
That’s not what I signed up to pay for with my hospital taxes.
But, I guess that’s what you get, when you are dealing with scowndrels.
You don’t like the new pharmacy that saves folks from having to drive to Eureka or wait for Eureka pharmacies to send prescriptions down? I love it. They are so efficient and helpful and our money stays local. You don’t want our hospital to provide medical services we need? C’mon, this is amazing what is happening. Our little hospital (as well as Redwoods Rural) are providing some solid benefits for our community. I love the idea of an optometrist in SoHum. I love the idea of good housing for medical personnel so that we don’t have so much trouble attracting them and keeping them.
C’mon, I know you love SoHum like I do. Having a good hospital is as essential as having good fire departments. This is the community coming together to support that. I was there and it was heartwarming to watch folks dig deep to help make this community better.
Please don’t put words in my mouth, Kym…
I didn’t say that, “I didn’t like the new pharmacy”, nor did I say that I “don’t want our hospital to provide medical services we need”…
Both of those things ARE what I voted to pay hospital taxes for…
And I didn’t mention the Auction at all…
So this quote is misplaced…
“This is the community coming together to support that. I was there and it was heartwarming to watch folks dig deep to help make this community better.”
I have absolutely no problem with hospital fundraisers.
This is I DID say, that you deftly skirted around…
“It does seem like they should stop taxing the community if they have enough money to be buying up multiple chunks of that same community while collecting those same taxes…”
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What I don’t give a shit about, and didn’t vote to tax myself on , was funding a fucking useless optometrist’s office, and in no way, shape, nor form, did I intend to tax myself for paying for “housing for medical personnel”…
Just like everyone else, the medical personnel should pay for they’re own damn housing, not me!
Have you been to the hospital lately?
Spoken to any of the medical personnel…???
I have.
Some just pocket their hefty provided housing stipend, and elect to live in non local trailer parks, earning them what amounts to considerable additional income.
I have no problem with the housing stipend, or whatever the medical personnel choose to do, or not do,with it, that is completely their choice.
What is NOT my responsibility to pay for with my taxes, is a fucking optometrist, their office, or ANY fucking So Hum Hospital or Clinic housing, WHATSOEVER!
As far as I am concerned, the purchase of any frivolities at all, while the Hospital and/or Clinic is perpetually taxing the community because of some story that they are hurting for money and can’t make ends meet, and we will supposedly lose the hospital and clinic without those taxes, is graft, corruption, and complete bullshit.
If you are going to counter what I have written, at least stick to countering what I have actually written, please.
Please don’t make it sound like I am against what I am definitely not against.
If you want to attract and keep medical personnel to and in our area, then PAY them the extra that would otherwise be dubiously “offered” to them in “provided” housing, instead of withholding it to build some Hospital dynasty that swoops up all the houses that would otherwise be available for BETTER PAID medical personnel.
If they were better paid, and didn’t have to compete with the hospital for the few available homes or housing, then maybe they would able to elect to purchase a home in the area, and end up staying here.
What I have a problem with, is that the taxpayers are getting taken for a ride.
If you would address anything that I have said, please address that, even if you are AOK with the taxpayers getting taken for a ride…
Have you seen the hospital or clinic’s new electric bike(s)… …and multiple new commute vehicles for the big wigs?
Contributing to my hospital is one thing, providing them with foolishly spent and overseen welfare is entirely another.
The hospital is not going to pay for their housing. They are fixing 5 house that were built in the 40-50s that haven’t had any good up keep for decades to offer as rentals to prospective doctors and nurses to hope and entice some better quality people to the area. Housing has been a big problem for them.
Talk to some medical personnel. The lack of housing is a major problem up north here, I imagine it’s only worse down your way. Dr’s and nurses can’t find nice housing and that contributes to the dissatisfaction that drives them away.
Part of having a functional local health care system is having adequate housing for the people who operate that system
Purchasing housing is made all the more difficult if everyone one must compete with the hospital for every locally available home that comes up for sale.
It’s a catch-22.
I’m enjoying your last sentence…
Well, you can work at SHCHD, but your job will be temporary…
It’s nice that they want to build out a real pharmacy, and the housing they did have, was rudimentary and reserved for ER Docs and a few nurses, long ago… Many of the other suggestions I made years ago actually came to pass…
The problem in SoHum is conflict of interest, like for instance housing people at Mr Scown’s family motel at district expense, and Mr Rees hiring his own family members while he doesn’t even live in the district!
I enjoyed the photos of this event on Facebook, but Mrs Bushnell looks exhausted, so I hope she gets some rest… Michelle is the leader in conflict-of-interest, IMO, and remember, she barely defeated Ms Fennell…
SoHum Health did receive a chunk of COVID-money, so I hope some of you are watching how much of the earmarked funds end up in their general fund…
Yes, SHCHD is the largest employer after the County of Humboldt, but I sold out early and left, predicting the demise of GBV/Redway long ago…
Hey, they need a facility there, and it will take large donors and a bigger site, but a larger entity will be around to take over the job…
Every hospital is using one employee to do the work of three, so it’s no surprise that SHCHD still is trying to fill the same positions, year after year…
Local prejudices, general apathy and lack of services and supplies will not help anybody, but when someone shows up and tries to help, and also invests in the community, the community tends to view that person as “privileged”, and “not from here”, and then the hostility begins…
It is the same in other communities, and you have more wealth than some, less than others… The disparity between wealthy and poor is marked, in SoHum, but congratulations on a festive event and a spirited passing of the hat… Honestly, I have an interest in hospitals, but I no longer have any desire to work in one…
Congratulations to everyone involved in this success! I was there, too, and enjoyed both the afternoon and the solid feeling of community. It’s a lot easier to criticize and tear efforts apart than it is to actually create something, so I will continue to support those who are creating and building, especially with the goal of improving our community. Thank you all!
Why don’t rich people just donate to the hospital? Why do they have to be coddled and entertained and drink special wine so they can get together with their other special rich people in exclusive events? Soooo classy. I find it disgusting the way we worship and congratulate the wealthy for just doing what they should do anyway. But they are better than regular people and we must cater to their sense of superiority. Peasants looking up to their lords and betters- we haven’t really gotten away from that…
True as it may be, compassion for all is our charge; the wealthy can afford more elaborate distractions from their misery.
What a lovely thing to happen. Generous people trying to help. To get and keep this dream alive it will require a dedicated revenue stream. Paying customers with insurance.
The fact that he Healthcare District and Phelps Hospital are up and running is due to a community willing to fight for its survival. Back in the 90s we almost lost the hospital. Went into bankruptcy. With the help of experts and the passing of an increase in the parcel tax we prevailed. When the hospital was designated a Critical Access Hospital reimbursement improved. The last vote on the parcel tax passed by 75% majority which is unheard of for a tax measure. The fact that a small town hospital is capable of maintaining a 24 hour Emergency Room is a testament to the hard work of a number of local heroes both on the district staff and citizen volunteers. Keep on keeping on.
I wouldn’t trust anything that comes out of Allman’s mouth.
Who got the gun and ammo?
I am so happy to see this fundraising campaign continue to be so successful! Both SoHum Health and RRHC are doing so well and providing very needed services to our community. The new hospital will prove to be a critical piece of our SoHum community infrastructure!
As quality of life declines en masse sick care is set to be a booming industry.
Having an epic hospital won’t save GBV.
It should be obvious that certain individuals are fleecing the citizens of SoHum for large salaries.
Stealing the funds got them into bankruptcy, previously, when they had a crooked administrator.
When Mr Jasper came onboard and ousted the pill pushers, the whole thing nearly crashed, and Mr Jasper spent years hiding behind drawn shades since he thought he would be assassinated…
The same Board members that allowed Mr Jasper to leave to Utah, monthly, for days at a time, still control the District, and we are reminded that when Harry himself became a “severed employee”, Mr Rees was already working there, as an accountant…
The Board spent $50,000 trying to recruit a new CEO, and when the recruiters gave up, they just made Rees the boss…
Rees had already been blown out of Mayers Memorial, and some little hospital in Nevada, but now, 8 years later, he is paid $360,000 in salary and benefits, and his Daughter, who he quietly made “Director of QC and Compliance” is paid $137,000…
This is a nice Compensation Profile in a Hospital with a Net Worth of less than $15,000,000!
Kent Scown, who probably leads the Real Estate side of the District, is also ensconced in the fleecing, since he is a landowner and a wheeler-dealer in cheap real estate in GBV… He apparently makes nearly $200,000/year himself…
All these fine folks are snuffling up the funds raised by selling you “District Tax” and many other schemes to obtain funds for them to waste and, er, steal… Like Grants, gifts in cash, etc etc…
Nobody cares, and the same people defend the whole mess, but at least you don’t have to drive to target for your Ativan…
Remember, Mr Jasper, when the cash-on-hand got low, would start firing everyone, and these things run with a circular motion, so we certainly hope to see results from the fundraising, but I wouldn’t expect too much, given the crooked nature of daily life at SHCHD…
Recent notes from the board indicate that the pharmacy fills “3000 scripts/day”, and I suspect this was a typo, but, if true, the district may well beat out Kimaw for total RX sales…