SoHum Health Community Hospital Construction Update
Press release from Southern Humboldt Community Hospital. (Please wait a minute for the PDF to load):
Aug 2024 Hospital Update
Please note this reporter’s husband is on the hospital board.
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A pleasant dream, inches from the Freeway…
I wonder where all the patient’s will park…
If you like pictures, and believe in the dreams contained in CGI, go for it…
Remember, you are paying the clowns in charge millions, while they talk about a new hospital…
I hope it gets built, just to see if it can be, but they should tear down the “Old School” and get rid of the Old-School Board and Admin…
(Please note that the author of this comment was separated from SHCHD, during a general purge of higher-paid employees, during a time of low cash-flow)
That rendering is way off as the Playhouse doesn’t face 101 at all. And the existing property doesn’t seem to be large enough for this. Still in the planning stage and it seems they need a better architect. Hope I’m still alive when this is finished!!!
It’s not off. I understand your mistake because I made it too at first. On page 2 of the pdf (click the arrows on the lower left), there is another drawing that has Sprowl Creek Road and Redwood Highway (101) in tiny letters. But here is a very crude map by me on a Google Map to explain. (C is Clinic and H is Hospital)
Hey Kym, above you has stated at the bottom of the “Press Release”:
“Please note this reporter’s husband is on the hospital board.”
I thought he was on the Southern Humboldt Community Healthcare District Board, which is a public agency?
Because the Jerold Phelps Community Hospital does have a completely separate non-public Administration Board, which are listed here:
https://sohumhealth.org/about/administration/
He’s on the board of directors. https://sohumhealth.org/about/governing-board/
Thank you for clarifying that.
Looks good on paper.
Proposed in 2012, complete in 2028…
I think they should convert Garberville to a “gated community”, and sell whatever is there to Seniors, who could then drive around in Golf Carts enjoying their retirement…
You could charge them HOA’s, and when they get old, stick them in your SNF, which will probably be located on the old property, in Mobile Homes like the library, sheriff’s office etc, and the “New Veteran’s Center”, which also took a heck of a long time to get built…
The site of the old Veterans Hall remains leveled.
Haven’t actually been to GBV, in a minute…
I will come to see the place, when the thing is done, if I live that long…
I believe you are correct that a small space was proposed to be included, for the Veterans to gather, in the Sheriff’s Office/Library complex…
I’m not sure of that came to fruition…
More recently…
…the old Veterans Hall was subsequently leveled, and remains leveled to this day…
Not even a flagstaff remains…
Well, it’s not even exactly leveled…
It’s more of a pit that remains…
The main difference between the Vets Hall/Building and the Healthcare District; the Healthcare District has a 501c3 Foundation, that raises tax exempt donations and funnels it thru a Humboldt Area Foundation “Mid-term Fund” and “Long-term Fund”, with no public oversite, even in their 990 tax returns. Since 2018/2019, the Healthcare Foundation has raised Millions with no oversight other than the Healthcare District. Who has the control of all the revenue and assets the Healthcare Foundation has collected. Its too bad the Vets could not have raised the kind of funding the Healthcare Foundation has…
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/946172987
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IXlqPQnDgo40_JnAkV9hiqhvSgdbtOLA/view?usp=sharing
You yourself posted the schedule of salaries which the Admin receives…
Note to Matt Rees:
You are a fiduciary, and have a responsibility to improve the community.
Hiring your own Daughter gives an appearance of corruption, through nepotism, which is the most commonly encountered form of corruption, and, nepotism is a glaring conflict of interest.
You should be fired, for many reasons, but floating along on the promise of a “New Hospital”, is very remarkable…
We call this a “long con”…
Best of luck in your future endeavors.
You mean this:
https://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/SpecialDistricts/SpecialDistrict.aspx?entityid=1533&year=2022
Thank you, again…
SHCHD is robbing the public blind, and just 5 employees, the CEO, the CFO, the “Compliance Officer” and the 2 CLS’s, are paid over a million dollars, which looks to be about 10% of total wages/benefits…
Matt and Kristen are neat crooks, and don’t even live in the district…
I believe that SHCHD has a policy to not hire Family Members, when they supervise each other…
Naughty…
The new hospital will also be robing the South Fork Eel River of over 4 Million gallons a year, plus use the same or more water from converting the old hospital into a larger Skilled Nursing Facility, and adding future development plans for a new short term worker hostel and long term worker apartment complex using and generating even more water and sewer usage. Say good by to the river by the end of the summer.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KfpaPTRUh7_30WjZWpZyKJ0dB1xgdrxG/view?usp=sharing
Plus GSD has some problems with who they are sharing the River bar with:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o-P3XIw_P3Qo8fMw9BdBkwYf4tbtlxq3/view?usp=sharing
Oh yeah, the Community Park is planning on putting a new Football Sports Field down at the Park and use anywhere between 1.4 to 2.1 Million gallons of water for irrigation a year.
The people who should be concerned about having enough water are the local down stream users, i.e. Redway…
Finally some thing we can be proud of. A addition like this will see a in flux of doctor’s whom want to work in an state of the art facility. Resulting in a increase of housing which will aleviate the home less crisis by providing additional houses. Thank you all for voting for the tax to fund this sorely needed facility. It takes a village.
You hope. I know Willits is having a hard time recruiting docs.
Recruiting is easy, retention is another matter…
Adventist Induction training exists at every level, when working there, and they call it “rounding”, which is a process of getting you to work 6 days for 5 days pay, while expecting you to do the work of 3 when they could only hire 1…
At least they didn’t tell me to “take out the trash”, but Howard Hospital has marked turnover problems…
Yur kidding… yes ?
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>”… flux of doctor’s whom want to work…”
Flux means an in and out flow. In with inexperienced… out experienced. Probably true.
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“… in an state of the art facility”
MRI ? CAT ? PET ? AIT ? Robotic Surgical equipment ?
Don’t think so.
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>”Resulting in a increase of housing which will aleviate the home less crisis by providing additional houses.”
Eh ? With the demise of dope money… lots of ‘farms’ available… for the right price that is.
I think ALF34’s comment was a bit sarcastic…
Sarcasm and humor are about as related as SHCHD and modern healthcare…
In a rural area, the money to build comes from USDA, or, from the Federal Government, who also pays for most of the care dispensed, through Medicaid and Medicare…
As far as staffing, people need to realize that working in a place like GBV requires attractive accommodations, a working town government, and Administration capable of management, long term, all of which SHCHD lacks…
You can pay an ER Doc $10,000/week, but it does not mean he will stick around long, especially in winter…
When faced with corruption, incompetence and nepotism, many employees will exit early, so there’s that…
Yup. That’s why I asked… ‘Yur Kidding’.
Can you provide any supporting studies to backup your claims?
As far as “It takes a village”, Southern Humboldt is not your average “village”, its a scofflaw, black market, underground economy village. Take for example the SoHum Health Foundation, who made public, they had “garnered” $4.15 Million to put toward the new hospital, had a big “Milestone Celebration” party and everything:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N9kQY-oSZJ-_kDQMMFrOnuhC4jVKa044/view?usp=sharing
However, according to the Foundations 2023 tax return, they have only raised half of that ($2.1 Million).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yb4gEw9zjKodNtSqLUEiTsiQct_rg6FO/view?usp=sharing
And then, you have this admission submitted by Chelsea Brown November 22, 2022:
“The decline in the local economy is threatening some of the Foundation’s
long term capital campaign pledges. It remains to be seen how much of a
setback there will be. Foundation staff will be actively looking for additional
revenue streams from corporations, foundations, grants and vendors.”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nBssUc6sZXxBbG0I64-SeFju15TVw1Ev/view?usp=sharing
And all of this is just the tip of the iceberg; there are two big publicized donations missing from their quarterly financial statements and tax returns, to the tune of $300,000.00 and they donated over $32,000.00 in exercise equipment to the Southern Humboldt Community Park, not for up at the new hospital?
All in all, it does take a village, to ask questions and follow the money, cause its amazing who’s pocket it shows up in.
Here is your Southern Humboldt Community Healthcare Foundation Board…
https://sohumhealthfoundation.org/why/who-we-are/
Thanks Ed.
Perfectly noted.
You aren’t part of this village Ed. You don’t live here and your constant negativity and OBSESSION with anything we do here is highly annoying. Give it a rest.
Ed is doing god’s work…if not for Ed the smugness epidemic in SoHum would be even more deadly to life~
Have a nice day “)
Like it or not, I was a part of that village from 1961 to 2015. And what you call “negativity” is what I call the truth and it seems you cannot handle the truth…
I sincerely wish them the best of luck in getting this done. It would be a boon for all the area. I wonder if Garberville could be a mini destination for medical tourism instead of pot? A place where older people from all over will pay for housing in retirement? It certainly could be a different direction in public serices than the rest of the county.
Have you looked at housing here? Very few, highly overpriced properties in town for sale. Until we address housing we won’t attract any permanent staff. We keep losing our doctors! Two in the last three years.
Did they have to sue pg+e to get electricity to the facility?
This is the medical care complex that Southern Humboldt needs, and I hope it comes to fruition; however, it’s hard to believe that sufficient money can be raised to build it. And I am skeptical about staffing, no matter how good the facility itself is. I live in Lake County, where we have two hospitals (both of them owned by hospital chains, Sutter and Adventist) with all of the same facilities planned for SoHum, plus birthing centers and ICUs. Very nice. BUT the whole area has a tough time holding on to doctors, whether family care generalists or specialists. I have had 5 different cardiologists in 10 years; all of my previous cardiologists have retired. My current cardio doc, whom I just “met” this month, is 74 years old and lives in Arizona; he sees his patients virtually on a Zoom-like program, assisted by a nurse at the Lakeport clinic. Docs and others just don’t seem to want to stay in rural areas. Maybe it’s money, maybe it’s the lack of a large medical community to provide them with resources and colleagues; maybe it’s the lack of good housing; maybe it’s (in both our counties and many others) the drug scene. But in any case, the best facility money can buy is worthless without good practitioners to staff it, people who make a commitment and become part of the community.
Helicopter pad? What emergency service or trauma treatment are they going to provide that would make it worth while to transport there instead of Willits, Eureka or other out of area facilities? Fortuna hospital gets bi passed all the time because they have no level 2 trauma unit, stroke unit or Stemi center ( heart attack) I’m not trying to be negative, just curious. I mean if you get loaded in a Medivac Heli from anywhere within 20 miles of Garberville, once your in the air wouldn’t they just go to a more equipped hospital only a few more air min away? All in all.. I hope this works out for the community, anything is an upgrade from the current facility.
A medical helicopter ride is most likely headed to Santa Rosa.
Pretty sure that people are misunderstanding what this Garberville ‘hospital’ is (a small regional health center)… and is not (a fully functional hospital).