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Geoff Fox's avatar

#2 According to Avis tries Harder. So the new ,soon to be #1 Employer in Clallam County is the ?? Wait for it. There it is. The closing OMC ER doors.

You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. I saw a sign yesterday for Ann Henninger for the Board. "What hath God wrought?

Clallam County Taxpayers The geese that give the Golden Egg. And we are so dumb we continue to give "$5 here, a levy passage there, school district fee increase there, ei ei o"

Jeff, great article as always, any Junkyard dog running with your seal of approval?

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Jeff Tozzer's avatar

I just don't know, wish I had more info.

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

Yeah, Ann Henninger? No way. Big part of the problem, in my opinion.

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Michael Heath's avatar

Beware of the candidates that "suddenly" have the most serious visible "backing" from sources that no one is ever really told about~! The ONLY good candidates will be "grass root" supported, because of their KNOWN track record of honorable good faith efforts. I can think of a few good folks, many who have a presence here on The Watchdog, who would be well suited for the leadership roles that we absolutely need to fill with the best that our community can offer~! Choose wisely~! Sincerely, Mike

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Robert James's avatar

I agree! I said elsewhere...there doesn't need to be a big run-up, but there does need to be open debate and of course the kommissars won't debate like certain Presidential installates wouldn't...and that would be all that would be necessary to display their scheme...they can't debate because that would necessarily expose their agenda(s) and their sponsors, all the way up the chain to the U.N.

I appreciate your positivity as always, Mike!😎

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Robert James's avatar

Commies is as commies does!😱

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Kathy's avatar

OMC: Thank you for your feedback on the timing structure of the meeting. We have noted it and will pass it on.

Translation: We could care less about your feedback.

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

She must have heard Mike French, "Thank you for your feedback". while depositing his chewed off fingernails on 'our' board room floor.

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Kathy's avatar

That's a visual I really didn't need first thing this morning!

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4 reasonable development's avatar

Reason for another shot of whisky in your coffee

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Jennifer's avatar

4 RS, I'll drink to that!

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Robert James's avatar

What a little sleezer! Disgusting!🤮

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Geoff Fox's avatar

"If we wanted to hear from you, we'd call you!"

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Michael Heath's avatar

So true~!

Sincerely, Mike

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Greg O.'s avatar

The entire hospital board needs to be relieved of their duties. Im curious how much money has found its way into people's pockets instead of helping our community. What is not shocking is that their is a big fat D next to everyone of these corrupt people. Really wish our town would figure this out and stop voting for dumb people and even dumber ideas to save what they continue to screw up.

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Chris Clark's avatar

Couldn’t agree with you more, they’ve all drank the koolaid and try to keep gaslighting us

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ANDREA L HANA's avatar

Oh, they aren't "dumb". They know exactly what they are doing. The "D", in this case is for: "dishonest", "dishonorable", "deceitful", "disreputable", and "double-dealing".

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Robert James's avatar

Tell it!😊

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No One Important's avatar

The hospital may be yet another money laundering operation....

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Michael Heath's avatar

Very wise comment my friend~!

Sincerely, Mike

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AFB's avatar

The democrats want to keep a 'county' hospital, so this operation can continue.

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Robert James's avatar

The entire medicare medical system has been weaponized and decompensated...AND a money laundering scheme!😱

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Chris Clark's avatar

True, I have a girlfriend who’s a hospital auditor for Medicare and the fraud she finds

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Denise Lapio's avatar

Thank you for the update, Jeff. I am truly concerned for the very survival of the county's medical facilities. The damage that bad voting has done is deep. I'm sorry to say that the only way to turn this hospital debacle around is to let EVERYONE suffer the consequences. Too many voters are starry-eyed about the Tribe, the Commissioners, the City Councilmembers, the Board members, and certain political slogans to ever see the truth. Those people got us into this mess, and they will keep us in this mess and making bad, bad decisions because they are too entrenched in ideology to ever admit they failed. But with CCWD ever vigilante, Clallam County can be healthy and cared for again.

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Eve So's avatar

Sadly, I agree.

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Robert James's avatar

Vigilant(e)...I like it!😆

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Susan C Bonallo's avatar

I haven’t known or will I associate with a starry eyed voter. Guess I hang with a group of cynics and conspiracy finders. It’s always a money thing, and not exactly hard to determine the players. The ones that feel clever are the easiest to spot, but they don’t even realize it! Yikes!

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

This is one way ‘the Closer’ sucks as much money out of our hospital as he can before skipping to the next town. We are then left with paying off the defaulted loans. Without recordings of Olympic Medical Center (OMC) board meetings, we cannot see and hear what is really happening. Don’t pay any attention to the man behind the curtain. I believe the letter of intent to University of Washington Medicine is a smoke screen to divert our attention away from the real objective of syphoning off as much cash as possible and then closing. I believe that the OMC board has not been, nor is willing to relinquish any power to the other partners it has said it wanted to partner with. I would like to see those board members, who are community minded, step up at their meetings and fight for the truth to come out. I know there is more than one board member with some integrity left. Its time to fight for all of us.

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Geoff Fox's avatar

Smokescreen, good word. The letter says, "a path forward that benefits both organizations". Like the investors on Shark Tank, I am not looking to invest in a money pit, So what is in it for the UW? If stock holders can go to a public company's stockholders meeting and vote on changes to company policy, why can't we attend a board meeting and clean out the old board - whose hospital is this? the Boards or the Community? Maybe one of the great values now being taught and learned in our country, isn't I have broad shoulders so lay it on me, the new value is "I don't take any personal responsibility for my actions."

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Robert James's avatar

UW is a for-profit corporation!🥸

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Susan's avatar

Is it? Or is it a state owned university? We wouldn't be paying taxes to a corporation.

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Susan C Bonallo's avatar

Adding the U of W promotes some sort of legitimacy that that OMC has exhausted in the community.It would seem more grants would be potentially be available to a public university than a rural hospital.

I experienced a very defensive attitude when I questioned Sea Grant. The loyalty among thieves is impressive.

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Robert James's avatar

😎

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JJW's avatar

When the company Blackstone was mentioned I immediately seized up.

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Chris Clark's avatar

I felt the same way when I saw Blackstone. UW is a great hospital but they have been bringing in to many politics into the circle. I love UW don’t get me wrong but UW bought Capital medical center/hospital in Olympia and immediately sold it to multicare. This has become some their norm.

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John Worthington's avatar

They invested in the AMA protocol..and got rich culling the population for their own good.

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Jennifer's avatar

Remdesivir Strongly Binds to RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase, Membrane Protein, and Main Protease of SARS-CoV-2: Indication From Molecular Modeling and Simulations

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Scary no? They forgot to put in the Worst Side Affect: Death

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Steve O.'s avatar

Why is Death the worst side effect? I would prefer Death to all of those virulent symptoms just described in extremely vivid detail.

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Steve O.'s avatar

Perhaps Death might be the solution to that huge list of biblical maladies. I feel sick just reading the long list.

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Robert James's avatar

Isn't it just staggering the evil perpetrated on people?

I get depopulation as a theory but to do it so blatantly evilly and for profit...you just really can't get any more psychopathic...the sheer scale makes mass-shootings look like tinker-toys.

The small 'g' gods are at it again! 😵‍💫🫣😱

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Robert James's avatar

I'm going to request to be Remdesilated!😱

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Susan C Bonallo's avatar

Didn’t they buy The New York Stock Exchange? Okay, just kidding, but now I have to wash-up.

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Robert James's avatar

Blackrock, Blackstone, Vanguard and others...pure evil!👿

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Judy Crawley's avatar

Who approves the current expenditures?

WA State, since a "Public Hospital"?

Can Ann just sign a blank check?

Since working there for 13 years (now retired) & patient, experienced many years of the worse "leadership" ever in my 30 year career! I could do nothing about "fixing" functional issues, nor HR personnel issues, inless treatening a lawsuit.

Sad... many good clinical & business ppl that need jobs, yet whoever is holding the "purse strings" is tossing what is left of the $$$ away to out of town, high priced consultants on our $$$.

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John Bowen's avatar

Too much power in hands of too few.

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Michael Heath's avatar

Excellent article Jeff Tozzer~!

Yes, the first "spin doctor" was hired to in turn hire other "spin doctors" to confuse and baffle the sleeping sheep, while the sleeping sheep are blocked from seeing anything that could possibly wake them up, and of course prevented at all costs from ever making any comments on the "official" public record~! Being in compliance with suspiciously questionable "standards" that these very same kinds of slimeballs design, never makes any entity or Individual legitimate~! So, it is yet another matter of "what they don't know won't hurt US" for the criminals who are so obviously very intentionally destroying OUR hospital system and by extension the safety of OUR community~! Yes, in due time "we" (good folks in Clallam County) will "suddenly" be advised that what remains of OUR entire hospital system has been sold to "outsiders" who clearly don't & won't have our best interests in mind. There will, of course, then be all sorts of claims from these shady characters that; "We did disclose our intentions" even though the only folks who made any honorable effort to discover the truth will have been you and those of us who are really acting in good faith~! So predictable~! All of this done by the worst kinds of slithering liars and deceivers who are no doubt getting "paid" richly to do their dirty work behind all of those closed-door conspiracy meetings~! Sincerely, Mike

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Susan C Bonallo's avatar

As always, Michael good content and points. It is so troubling that this is about our only hospital. Bet newcomers would at least reconsider this area to retire. Health care availability is in the top 3 concerns when moving!

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Robert James's avatar

Pitchforks and lanterns!🤪

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Michael Heath's avatar

Yes, the rabbit hole definitely leads to the UN and then much much deeper, going back thousands of years beyond that~! These criminals of humanity have very old bloodlines that go WAY back into the ancient world my friend, so it is little wonder that over the centuries they have gained more & more control through their evil dealings and underhanded deceptive ways~! These 3rd rate clowns in our local & national governments today are heading for a total wipe out and I find it hilarious that they don't even know that their time is already up ;-) I completely understand how most people would not know how deep these scumbags have infiltrated into society, but this too shall pass in due time because there are no other options but to take the criminals of humanity completely off of the gameboard now. Much has already been done very quietly without disturbing the sleeping sheep, and I am monitoring a lot more that is taking place now, but there will be a time when more public reveals and disclosures need to be made so that folks start to catch up slowly but surely. I am not giving my "opinions" but I can understand that many would assume that I am. I just happen to be an accomplished legal & economic analyst with a heavy background in history, as well as over 50 years of studying and learning US Military law, codes, and tactics that most in the military never learn ;-) It is not that hard to understand what is really going on, for someone who has sacrificed a great many years of life to study these things. I just happened to be one of the rare Individuals who devoted my life to this "crappola"! Ha! The average people are not supposed to understand Military style signaling and what is really going on, because that would defeat the whole purpose of it. I strongly suggest that you look up "Derek Johnson Rattletrap 1776" if you are really interested in learning about what is REALLY unfolding and where "we" (America and the world) is right now~! Derek is an absolute expert in US Military law, code, and protocol. The pitchforks, torches, tar, and feathers may not be necessary at all, because US Military Tribunals are fair, hard, and expedient (and many have already been adjudicated ;-) Keep the faith my friend, because "we have only just begun to fight" as the great John Paul Jones once said~!

These criminals will receive "Tarlton's Quarter" (American Revolutionary War ;-))

Cheers~!

Mike

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TJ's avatar

I'll say it again until people really understand....

Hospitals are not for patients. Schools are not for children. Governments are not for citizens.

They are solely for the politicians to transfer taxpayer money into the pockets of employees through high salaries and benefits to buy a voting block.

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John Bowen's avatar

When We the People allow them .How did all this work so well just decades ago ? Because the public was involved going to town halls ,pta ,Grange meetings .Society has become too comfortable the middle class has been bought off no longer wanting to be bothered ..Now things have gotten so bad out of control people are finally waking up .

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TJ's avatar

I'm not sure society has become too comfortable, but it has definitely become too busy and expensive. You can blame the federal reserve (another scam entity to transfer tax payer money into private hands) for destroying the value of the dollar and making the average American either on welfare or working nonstop to cover bills. Those on welfare or employed by the government don't want the gravy $ to stop and those working to keep their heads above water funding the whole mess don't have time to attend meetings purposely held during work hours.

Nothing changes until we stop writing checks to the government.

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John Bowen's avatar

You are right these meetings should be held at night so.more people can attend .

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Robert James's avatar

The Creature From Jekyll Island!🧟👿😱

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Robert James's avatar

Hospitals are for profit and genocide.

Schools are for brainwashing and radicalizing.

Governments are for Mind-Control

Military Industrial Complex is all of those things and more!😱

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Susan C Bonallo's avatar

Don’t go to a hospital if you are over 60. You can check in and you may check out, if you get the sloppy pun!

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Geoff Fox's avatar

If and when the doors close at OMC I imagine that the County will continue to bill and collect the hospital levy from landowners until the year??

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4 reasonable development's avatar

Where is the sunset clause Randy? The ship is sinking and we’re all going down because the life boats are empty except for the decision makers making the big tax payer bucks! When will sheep learn, if you’ve ever watched them they never ever do. So don’t be a sheep.

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Geoff Fox's avatar

Bet the neat part is all the new housing going up in the county will get to pay the hospital levy also - even if the doors are shut. "My god how the money rolls in. Rolls in. Rolls in!

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Lori Jayne's avatar

If there is no hospital the levy will cease. That's what I was told.

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Geoff Fox's avatar

Maybe all you readers of the PDN saw that at tonight's meeting at 5pm the Sequim City Council is discussing litigation or potential litigation in executive session at this special meeting. Might it be about the Moratorium Decision???

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Geoff Fox's avatar

If after all the assets have been sold, and there are still creditors owed money, or if taxes are owed, or if back wages are owed employees. Well I wonder if there isn't a junkyard dog lawyer, willing to find a judge with a sympathetic ear who might just say this was "a community hospital, so step up to the plate community and dig deep and pay off the debts. Just sayin. I look around in our country today and see all these judges making rulings that seem to go every which way.

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Robert James's avatar

Every institution has been infiltrated and if there are any good guys left, they are completely outnumbered...we hear crickets from any good folks in government or industry!🤪

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Susan C Bonallo's avatar

I love your question. Answer is: of course there’s a junk yard dog lawyer. That class is taken in the last semester of law school. Very funny!

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Robert James's avatar

Money, money, money, it's rich man's world!🌎 For now!🤓

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Geoff Fox's avatar

All of Clallam County looks like Bell Hill?

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Robert James's avatar

Live and learn or live and don't learn...those are the choices...God knows I'm learning but I'm learning about evil, mostly!👿

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Robert James's avatar

It probably will be 'saved' by some ungodly arrangement that will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions more with no increase in quality or accountability!😱

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AFB's avatar

yep!

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Chad Young's avatar

I'd be curious to see there P&L. Particularly the line for advertising. Billboards, PDN the local theater etc..

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Robert James's avatar

They can't even do basic math...their billboard says 24/7 X 365.

This mathematical expression says: 24 divide by 7 times 365.

That's 1251.42.

Maybe that's the amount they charge just to walk in the door!?

What a horror movie regular old life has become!😆

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Chad Young's avatar

Your not to far off on the cost to walk in.

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John Bowen's avatar

It's no secret that OMC is the worst hospital in Western Wa. All the other hospitals know ask anybody anywhere and they will say " Oh I heard about that place doctors will shake their heads .No full time good doctor will work at OMC moving his family ,buying a home in town because management terminated a whole staff of doctors because of the one pedo emergency room doctor ? .So if locals have to go elsewhere anyway ,because there are 8 10 hr emergency room waits and when you see someone they don't have the equipment anyway and have to ambulance you out or helicopter so what good is keeping it open when the patient is hemorrhaging the lifeblood of the community our hard earned taxpayer money ?

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No One Important's avatar

True! I waited 10 hrs for a 15-minute cardioversion at OMC ER, while going to Port Townsend ER, another time, they took me in 3 minutes.

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Robert James's avatar

Well, you won't get in in 3 minutes if we all have to go to Port Townsend!🤓

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Susan C Bonallo's avatar

10 hours, you are a special person . I would have lost it at about hour 3.5

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Garry Blankenship's avatar

At the next OMC meeting where management is present a primer presentation on the word "public" should be given. There is a societal false image of all things medicinal being only possible to operate and manage with a Doctorate degree. No discredit intended to the personal investment and intellect that it takes to obtain a medical Doctorate degree, but those degrees do not imply that all those without one are inferior or incompetent. Corruption, incompetence and a lack of common sense is no more or less present in those with or without a doctorate degree. We have a local Board of Health consisting of M.D.s that recently mandated experimental injections which neither affected contraction nor transmission of the targeted disease. That board of Doctorate degrees were so confident in their mandate that they punished and denied citizenship rights to anyone smart enough to not inject. Let us drop this veil of superiority afforded to Doctorate degrees, ( dare I add politicians ? ), and focus on "public".

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Robert James's avatar

I think most of those board members are probably focused on the 'pubic'!🤣

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AFB's avatar

not again! This is a serious matter.

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AFB's avatar

It's going to be hard to fight against this BS coming from 'Wheeler's People", too. Another 'Blame Trump' and Dr. Oz for causing OMC's problems: https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/rural-hospital-faces-medicare-fund-termination/

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Robert James's avatar

We're surrounded!🥸

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Randy Walterson's avatar

Merls Chaos letter in Substack .

Beckers Hospital Review: 759 Hospitals at risk of closure in the US.

Washington State: 19 at risk of closing , 7 at immediate risk of closing in the next 2-3 years !

It did not specify which hospitals .

Seems they hire these special CEOs to purposely tank the target hospitals for hostel take overs or just for the real estate .

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John Bowen's avatar

Because our healthcare system is run by huge corporations that profit off other people's misery.The most expensive healthcare in the world.

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AFB's avatar

Thanks for the links. I found this very informative site: https://ruralhospitals.chqpr.org/Solutions.html It seems that health insurance co. are mainly responsible for this mess. The don't pay out enough. Especially Medicare Advantage plans. Good read.

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Diana Henderson's avatar

Please keep up the theme songs because they are enjoyable!

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Jeff Tozzer's avatar

Ha! Glad you're getting a kick out of them :)

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