I'll say again, I don't understand how a publicly elected board can meet in secret and do deals behind the public's back without a violation of the Open Public Meetings Act. Or, is this another case of elected officials using highly paid bureaucrats to do all the work in secret as to not break any laws. Hmm, seems like we have a theme here.
OMC threatening to remove maternity care and Trauma care is a totally despicable fear tactic. Darryl should be ashamed. Those are actually the only things a rural hospital absolutely should provide. Scaring people to vote a certain way is the oldest political trick in the book. I'm growing tired of it.
SOCIOPATHS CANNOT BE SHAMED! THEY ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO REMOVE AND if that were possible, they are still free to create more grift, corruption, collusion, etc.
These 'beings' may look like normal humans, if there is such a thing, but they are monsters. 'They' have no credibility at all. Only profit and power mean anything to them and they will stop at NOTHING to get it! 😎
When they floated the levy lift, they did say that it would not provide enough revenue to keep OMC/OMP afloat. They would still run short of revenues. They’re pushing the merger with Jefferson because some locals are afraid they’ll lose the ability to get abortions if OMC becomes part of better-funded Virginia Mason.
Both my wife and I have worked for OMP and let me tell you, you don’t need an MBA to see the mismanagement is entrenched and terrible.
Can you take a stab at the root cause of this mismanagement? Failure to attract better talent because of our remote location/cost of housing? Hire family and friends (ethics)... something else?
I think the biggest problem used to be — and maybe still is — the hiring of unqualified local/family candidates. Lately, I’ve know of one person who generously gave 3.5 months of notice before she left; management was very slow or unwilling to act and eventually was unable to attract candidates from outside or inside the area. They ended up with a patchwork of other personnel covering her clinical position.
Bingo. Nepotism has been alive and well in the OMC leadership for many years. This has started to slowly change but the damage has been done with unqualified people. The current CEO included.
While I was there, I saw supervisory staff hired who had zero clinical/medical experience. Management in its wisdom hired people with just casino experience and or without being too specific, even less related to working with people.
There was an unofficial push in OMP a few years ago to hire and promote women to management positions. I can’t think of any men in OMP management positions and only one or two in supervisory positions. With men comprising about half of the population, you’d think they’d hire at least a couple.
It's not unusual to hire unqualified medical staff when a hospital has to cover a sudden short term staff shortage. In a rural ER where I worked, we needed to cover the night shift when the regular ER Doctor got sick. That night the ER Doctor was a Psychiatrist...he had a wonderful bedside manner but useless ER knowledge. He lucked out, no major emergencies that night that he couldn't talk the patient through.
One of the most prominent deficits, according to the PDN and their supporters, is the lack of "good schools" for top shelf doctor's, children which the school district overheads lap up like honey, and clearly illustrates who they are catering to, not local taxpayers. I receive no benefit from either local school districts, other than excess spending on new buildings and watching the Fairview School morph into a venue for special interest group's "retreats". At any rate, the OMC lies run deep and convoluted, along with every other medical facility from Virginia Mason Franciscan, formerly in Port Angeles, to the Tribal Clinics, all subsidized by our tax dollars in ways that most working people cannot even begin to imagine, because they are too busy trying to stay alive, not having the luxury of time to investigate. However, victimhood is not an attractive suit, or a path to independence. Nothing is free, or without diligent pursuit. I have been asked many times, "Oh, are your related to the Dr. Wellers? No." Once again, Thanks Jeff.
In my career in community journalism, I covered plenty of wealthy school districts and those not so much. Believe me, wealthy professional families don’t care about school buildings much. They care about programs, they care about staff, they care about who their kids will be with and they care about scores, graduation rates and college placements. Building new school buildings in Sequim and PA is not going to bring in new doctors.
" ...our family have been Clallam County residents since 1930, arriving from Minnesota and Michigan; Millworkers, Mechanics, Welders and Fishermen, Stewards of the Earth, and skilled workers, mostly private sector.
Structured like another NGO? Sounds like quasie Canadian healthcare. Except they tap my health insurance pretty hard. No wonder it takes so long to get an appointment. When did their finances take a dump? When the Bibbin invasion started in in 2020?
It started in 1910 when Rockefeller took control of medicine through the AMA.
Look it up.
These vampires and leeches are LONG-TERM planners...intergenerational planners...just because it was 'a long time ago' doesn't mean it isn't here now.
'The past isn't dead...it isn't even the past'...all that has gone on 'before' still lives in our psyches and cultures...that is why we only have NOW to make any difference...today is tomorrows history and the only point of input we have, but we need context in order to understand where we are and how we got here!🥸
I have no trust in that hospital. They misdiagnosed my late husband so many times, I don’t use the hospital, I drive all the way to Seattle or Olympia where good doctors and hospitals are and I use to be in the medical field.
You have to wait 7 or more hours in the ER, even for severe immunocompromised people. Many people I know around the area go over to Jefferson for ER. The hospital bleeds money because they have to pay for traveling nurses and doctors, does that tell you something
According to a trusted source, the ER physicians are an independent corporate collective...they are NOT our doctors. Can't remember what it's called!
Old Vet had to receive OMC care and was billed $2300, separately, by this corporate consortium and it took a lot of effort but they eventually 'waived' the fees as he is LOW income.
BTW, you still have to have supplemental in Canada and it's not cheap. Lived there 12 years.
Only the basics are covered and their system is as corrupt and ineffectual as ours.
Migrants line up there and plug ER for colds, flu's, tummy aches, finger cuts, etc.
My 'family doctor' prescribed more than 6 pills and apologized that the only thing he could do was prescribe 'these poisons'!
I stopped all pharmaceuticals and still have problems but they are better than under 'treatment'. It's 'Treatment' alright!
I know, sometimes some 'drugs' are helpful but most people end up with 'poly-pharmacy' complications.
Over 90,000 die in U.S. each year due to 'treatment'. It's called 'iatrogenic.'
Pharmacy: from pharmakeia...sorcerer or poisoner...check it out.😱
Robert, would this be independent contractors called 'locum tenens' ? Many anesthesiologist groups are independent...and bill separately. Any staff member, including Doctors can be locum tenens.
I imagine anyone reading this has had to fight their Insurance Company to pay their bills. It's standard for an insurance company to deny a claim when first billed. It's the attrition rate that they count on. People either don't understand the billing process or just give in. It's a medical jungle out there.
There is something wrong with the administration. They now have "progressed" to using switchboard operators to intercept return calls to your physicians office. I understand why liberals love socialized medicine, because its FREE!
They dispensed remdesivir after it was pulled from the market. They followed the AMA game plan right to a t. People did not see their loved ones again until they were in the morgue. They rarely gave an anti-body shot. I saw healthy people die suddenly. How could anyone feel safe going there. I saw a culling and I do not.
The FIRST round of culling!😱. Took a lot of good healthy people too.
There were reported 8 'official' covid deaths among the elderly and infirm in care facilities during scamdemic 1.0 according to 'scary berry'. You know, the same number who would have 'normally' died of pneumonia/flu in any year...that was the 'official' number of 'c-19 deaths' for which the entire county was locked down.
Many, many more...no one knows the exact number...were taken out by toxic jabs...we know 3 people who had severe symptoms who have not fully recovered and know of several more healthy people who 'died suddenly'. There are videos out there covering this phenomenon. I believe there is one called Died Suddenly...check it out if you are curious.
There is no more talk of cold/flu/pneumonia....there is only endless created designer variants and 'emerging' diseases!
If you want to be healthy don't comply...but if you do comply...leave the rest of us the hell alone! Vampires are real! TRUTH, JUSTICE, LIBERTY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND TOUGH LOVE😊
Biden ordered the culling of 100,000,000 chickens a couple of days before Trump's Inauguration. All in the name of saving fowl and humans from the Bird Flu. Since then, has there been any news about this Bird Flu?
David Wolfe spoke to the CC Commissioners to beg for their endorsement and blamed the OMC red ink on Medicare reimbursement shortfalls. OMC sent out large full-color card stock flyers begging the taxpayers to vote to save it by doubling our property taxes. The stench of mendacity is constant here in CC. Sadly, these grifters will continue to use the same scam, and the same people will fall for it despite vowing never to be taken again. The liars and thieves win, because people make the temptation too easy to resist.
I always wondered why do NON PROPERTY owners get to vote on what bonds & levies are going to affect only the property owners taxes? Doesn’t seem like a fair system.
OMC is failing for a number of reasons, mainly because it is just big enough to not be considered a rural hospital, but not big enough to get the benefits of a large hospital. It’s always going to be a no win situation.
I agree on the taxpayer only vote issue. If you have a vested interest in something, you pay more attention to the details. Too many questions for too many problems. Right now it seems overwhelming, but I believe with the right leadership, all can be solved.
I have never been a patient at Olympic Medical Center (Olympic Memorial Hospital being the original name) since the day I drew my first breath there, in 1952, the year OMH opened for "business". I have never understood the name change, as the facility was named in honor of Veterans who gave their lives for the freedoms once enjoyed by all Americans, and have been diminishing ever since. In as far as holdings, OMC has property in Hawaii, among others, that have been donatd by well-meaning former patients and their families. OMC and the OMC Foundation's (non-profit/NGO) transparency isn't even close to translucent, more like opaque at best. They have done well via OMCF's tax exempted gifts and JTKT (herein after referred to as The Tribe), reciprocally, as well. Does anyone recall the Thomas Family Cancer Center in Sequim that just quietly became OMC Cancer Center after the "naming rights" contract was cancelled? I am certain that a sit-down with the Thomas Family would provide
new perspective. The PDN suggests that I can read their take on that fisaco if I subscribe and pay them $73/year for their paper that isn't even enough to start a fire or wrap non-existent fish. Many of us were cut from the herd when PDN refused to present news as opposed to indoctrination, and we cancelled our subscriptions, some dating back to the former Port Angeles Evening News from the 1950s. Our cancellations have made us better investigators and more informed, at least. Main stream media, with censorship and outright omission, are alive in Olympic Peninsula periodicals.
How interesting and revealing~! So, this OMC Board president Ann Henninger clown admits that the secret closed-door meetings that are suddenly now the OMC hospitals dubious and suspicious policy, right after they tricked the general public to bail their mismanagement atrocities out, is "ok" because no decisions have been made~? What~? I would think that the local general public was definitely owed a voice in what the OMC was plotting to do BEFORE any material decisions would be made. ESPECIALLY after the general public was victimized by the usual "fear porn" BS of the OMC hospital and the coconspirator criminals within and outside of our local government matrix~! ALL of these slimy and underhanded tactics make perfect sense if folks consider that this same OMC hospital, like most if not all hospitals in the US, are now scrambling in a quiet panic to get ready for the epic backlash for their roles in the COVID & deadly fake "vaccine" mass murder democide attack on folks~! We here, and many who are paying close attention to what is currently unfolding in the US & world, are monitoring the truth about the COVID and deadly fake "vaccine" attack slowly heading towards the general public like a freight train, so you can be assured that these criminals in hospital management who are responsible for engaging in the largest scale mass murder democide in history know EXACTLY what they have done and are working overtime to avoid their financial responsibilities and criminal prosecutions for their crimes against humanity~! They know that they are ALL in DEEP trouble and it will only be a matter of time before they are forced to face justice, so these slippery underhanded tactics are completely transparent if you know what you are witnessing~! Just like the dangerous horrific Monsanto "Round Up" atrocities, Monsanto attempted to deflect and dodge their civil & criminal liabilities by "selling" out to Bayer when things started to get too hot for them in the courts, so this is an old criminal tactic to put layers of corporate confusions and as many pre-planned "excuses" in place BEFORE they are forced to face justice for their intentional crimes against humanity~! Why else would the OMC have the so-called "need" to go dark with their internal business matters, right after the general public supposedly bailed them out of their financial concerns~? How long has the OMC been plotting to sell out and sell the general public out~? Bad faith would be a compliment to the OMC management people, especially under these circumstances~! Just another day in the corrupt world of those who hide behind their closed-door meetings to continue with their criminal agendas~! Sincerely, Mike
We do our best to stay healthy, eat good food and not heavily processes food, drink good clean water (no fluoride), no vaccines, and we definitely get plenty of exercise here on our funny farm ;-) We steer clear of the jabbed and the sickly these days~! Ivermectin every other week, several other natural supplements, and detox regularly~! Yes, do your own research and be your own best medical advisor ;-) We can't save everyone, especially the low information & low Intelligence crowd, but we sure will need all of the good Intelligent folks that we can get~! Cheers! M
Re the request for info. If the Hospital doesn't use a P&L, which is very possible as a non profit, then their response is correct. Non exists...... They have no obligation to offer guidance to facilitate a request. Right?...
Perhaps they do have statements but they need to be asked for correctly. By the name.of the document. Like a Statement of Activities or an Income Statement?
Of course, that isn't my point. That indeed is another issue. The existence of that info and how to get it, is the point. The matter of the publication of it is separate, if indeed, it exists. But, this is precisely how government says NO while still complying with the law. No different than how they riled up public fear by using percentages to express Covid deaths, "100% increase in deaths this week, mask up, stay home...." without telling us the details. One 96 year old in a care home, passed last week and another 98 year old this week....they are technically correct and abusively misleading at the same time, with a smile on their faces. It is not unlike the broad gap folks will jump between Legal and Ethical.
The fact that 'non exist' does not excuse non existence of P&L. Transparency is the issue. It may be legal, but surely doesn't appear moral to tax and not represent the facts. How does hiding the P&L from the "bank" (tax payer) show good faith?
This is not the point of my comment either. There is no "hiding" when the request is requesting something that doesn't exist by that name. If somebody came to the door of your house, looking for you and asked for BOB....if you don't OFFER that you indeed are called Eric, and instead say "there is no Bob at this address"... are you wrong to have answered that way?..... THAT is government. That is the MO of most publicly accountable institutions and offices today. To be "technically correct" as a compliance model. This evolved out of CYA mentality, a litigious society and avoiding accountability. You can't be fired for being correct when ethics is no longer the standard but instead, compliance with legal definitions is.
Yeah, I think it's too late. Ethics are now up to the individual character of leadership to establish higher standards and not rest easy on the simplicity of "is it legal?" vs "is it ethical?"....many, including todays "Leaders" seem to be ok with the fact that LEGAL is the LOWEST acceptable standard....
If I may ask, to do what? Ethics is a broad brush term that can be applied in so many situations. Ethical behavior can be as mundane as simply telling the truth, to something most codes are written for such as being in a public position to assign a contract to a vendor who is a relative without disclosing that relationship. I'm trying to understand what you'd like to see.
Ethics would expect that the institution, in this case, OMC, respond with guidance along with their answer. Something like. "NO P&L exists"....followed by "we don't use P&L but instead, we use a Statement of acrivities, please re-request for that and we will provide a copy" it is both compliant AND recognizes the objective of the request..
That's the difference.
I disagree about the broad brush of ethics. Ethics is the HIGHEST standard we can achieve. There is none higher. Whereas legal is "Good enough"....so we need to expect leadership to consider Ethics above compliance with legal minimum standards and expectations. which would you
prefer?
Prince did an interview with Larry King years ago about his Handshake deals. He expressed that "if you can't trust a handshake deal, you certainly can't trust a paper contract....Ethics is the high standard caputred within the handshake. Legal is the lowest standard enumerated in the terms of the contract.....
Broad brush, as I suggested didn't and doesn't water down that ethics is the highest standard. That was the distinction I was trying to draw out. What ethics was he talking about, wanting.
Olympic Medical Center filed 990n (non profit tax returns) up until 2021 under EIN 91-1285758, then they became Clallam County Public Hospital District 2 with an EIN 91-6001709, and as a "public charity" became exempt from state and federal taxes.
"Hospitals and health systems across the country provide 24/7 health care to patients and communities daily. In addition to access to life-saving care, communities receive benefits and services unique to their location. Nonprofit hospitals are exempt from federal and some state and local taxes."
DID ANYONE KNOW THIS??.... so the name of the place is actually Clallam County Public Hospital District 2 (District 1 is in Forks).
What it means is the entity changed from a PRIVATE HOSPITAL to a PUBLIC HOSPITAL ... and 50% of its support comes from the public. Did anyone know this? Were we told this at any point?
Public hospitals, while often providing essential and accessible healthcare, can face challenges like longer wait times, limited privacy, and potentially lower quality of care due to budget constraints and staffing issues. Additionally, patients may have less choice regarding specialists and healthcare providers. AND there is zero financial reporting requirements to the state, or to the federal government.
I usually do not share personal experiences....However I see this as a critical community announcement - WE must take a stand. OMC has been given sufficient time to gt better....Clearly they are not. I DO NOT MIND PAYING FOR SERVICES RENDERED......OMC, sadly is one big joke.....
Personal recent experience being admitted twice for over 10 days in 2 weeks OMC's "experience" and quality hospitalists almost KILLED ME. They failed to properly diagnose a severe kidney issue that was the driving force of my problems, they never added a kidney specialist (do they have one?) to the care team nor did they tell me what was going on....I asked several times. I caught campy lobactor infection either from their improperly cooked chicken or the horrid house keeping / cleaning. They were planning to release me with a white cell count INCREASING without being at all interested in what was causing this...saying " people with cancer can have increased white cells counts...the thing was I had not been confirmed to have cancer. They simply "assumed" since the MRI/Ultrasounds were inconclusive and it was easiest for them to release me with a referral to Swedish surgical in Seattle.
Upon my second release from OMC and not having a very positive experience, my family insisted I come stay with them in Bothell which is surrounded by QUALITY MEDICAL SERVICES.
3 DAYS later I found the need to seek emergency medical care at Evergreen Hospital for near kidney failure - a situation that OMC NEVER mentioned. I was an in patient for 24 days while they properly diagnosed my severe Kidney issue needing expert daily care to save the kidney and for me to avoid dialysis.... I also got proper care for gallbladder issues which they were sure was cancer...BY the way OMC - biopsy NO CANCER.
There is much that I will be looking at in the near future as I get my health back....OMC and I need a
long, direct conversation; health department needs to be involved; MEDICARE NEEDS TO BE ENCORAGED TO ALLOW SEQUIM TO USE ST MICHALES IN Silverdale or Jefferson n Port Townsend; Rep Tharinger and Bernbaum who are working hard to raise funds for OMC need to know money thrown at the problem IS NOT the SOLUTION. I am thankful that I have an ongoing relationship with Ste Tharinger...session over soon time for service conversation.
We LOVED Sequim but you can only enjoy it if you are alive and well. In a matter of a few days we decided to leave our home of over 10 years and move .
My comments are only about OMC and not the exceptional care I got and continue to get from my doctors at Sequim Medical Associates. They can only be effective with proper hospital back up.
Seniors should be provided with QUALITY basic medial services - OMC seems only to want the profits.
SORRY NEIGHBORS THIS IS A FIGHT FOR BETTER MEDCIAL CARE YOU NEED TO DEMAND. THE OPTIONS ARE JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Fear mongering at its finest. Our entire county and state is a joke. Mail in voting has to go.
Mail in voting is a scam and you are 100% right that it must be stopped~!
Great comment~!
Sincerely,
Mike
I'll say again, I don't understand how a publicly elected board can meet in secret and do deals behind the public's back without a violation of the Open Public Meetings Act. Or, is this another case of elected officials using highly paid bureaucrats to do all the work in secret as to not break any laws. Hmm, seems like we have a theme here.
OMC threatening to remove maternity care and Trauma care is a totally despicable fear tactic. Darryl should be ashamed. Those are actually the only things a rural hospital absolutely should provide. Scaring people to vote a certain way is the oldest political trick in the book. I'm growing tired of it.
SOCIOPATHS CANNOT BE SHAMED! THEY ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO REMOVE AND if that were possible, they are still free to create more grift, corruption, collusion, etc.
These 'beings' may look like normal humans, if there is such a thing, but they are monsters. 'They' have no credibility at all. Only profit and power mean anything to them and they will stop at NOTHING to get it! 😎
When they floated the levy lift, they did say that it would not provide enough revenue to keep OMC/OMP afloat. They would still run short of revenues. They’re pushing the merger with Jefferson because some locals are afraid they’ll lose the ability to get abortions if OMC becomes part of better-funded Virginia Mason.
Both my wife and I have worked for OMP and let me tell you, you don’t need an MBA to see the mismanagement is entrenched and terrible.
Can you take a stab at the root cause of this mismanagement? Failure to attract better talent because of our remote location/cost of housing? Hire family and friends (ethics)... something else?
I think the biggest problem used to be — and maybe still is — the hiring of unqualified local/family candidates. Lately, I’ve know of one person who generously gave 3.5 months of notice before she left; management was very slow or unwilling to act and eventually was unable to attract candidates from outside or inside the area. They ended up with a patchwork of other personnel covering her clinical position.
Bingo. Nepotism has been alive and well in the OMC leadership for many years. This has started to slowly change but the damage has been done with unqualified people. The current CEO included.
Unqualified people hiring unqualified people. As one manager’s friend told me once, “At least [these local people] are willing to work here.”
An ethics program would address that.
While I was there, I saw supervisory staff hired who had zero clinical/medical experience. Management in its wisdom hired people with just casino experience and or without being too specific, even less related to working with people.
There was an unofficial push in OMP a few years ago to hire and promote women to management positions. I can’t think of any men in OMP management positions and only one or two in supervisory positions. With men comprising about half of the population, you’d think they’d hire at least a couple.
DEI...Devil's Evil Intentions😎
It's not unusual to hire unqualified medical staff when a hospital has to cover a sudden short term staff shortage. In a rural ER where I worked, we needed to cover the night shift when the regular ER Doctor got sick. That night the ER Doctor was a Psychiatrist...he had a wonderful bedside manner but useless ER knowledge. He lucked out, no major emergencies that night that he couldn't talk the patient through.
Mark, I was wondering about the qualifications of hired individuals. You answered that thought.
One of the most prominent deficits, according to the PDN and their supporters, is the lack of "good schools" for top shelf doctor's, children which the school district overheads lap up like honey, and clearly illustrates who they are catering to, not local taxpayers. I receive no benefit from either local school districts, other than excess spending on new buildings and watching the Fairview School morph into a venue for special interest group's "retreats". At any rate, the OMC lies run deep and convoluted, along with every other medical facility from Virginia Mason Franciscan, formerly in Port Angeles, to the Tribal Clinics, all subsidized by our tax dollars in ways that most working people cannot even begin to imagine, because they are too busy trying to stay alive, not having the luxury of time to investigate. However, victimhood is not an attractive suit, or a path to independence. Nothing is free, or without diligent pursuit. I have been asked many times, "Oh, are your related to the Dr. Wellers? No." Once again, Thanks Jeff.
In my career in community journalism, I covered plenty of wealthy school districts and those not so much. Believe me, wealthy professional families don’t care about school buildings much. They care about programs, they care about staff, they care about who their kids will be with and they care about scores, graduation rates and college placements. Building new school buildings in Sequim and PA is not going to bring in new doctors.
Thank you, for that honest assessment, and your integrity, Mark.
I always enjoy your comments.
" ...our family have been Clallam County residents since 1930, arriving from Minnesota and Michigan; Millworkers, Mechanics, Welders and Fishermen, Stewards of the Earth, and skilled workers, mostly private sector.
😱🤪👽😳😎 Like Jeff says...'it's going to get REAL interesting'. What a shit show!
Structured like another NGO? Sounds like quasie Canadian healthcare. Except they tap my health insurance pretty hard. No wonder it takes so long to get an appointment. When did their finances take a dump? When the Bibbin invasion started in in 2020?
It started in 1910 when Rockefeller took control of medicine through the AMA.
Look it up.
These vampires and leeches are LONG-TERM planners...intergenerational planners...just because it was 'a long time ago' doesn't mean it isn't here now.
'The past isn't dead...it isn't even the past'...all that has gone on 'before' still lives in our psyches and cultures...that is why we only have NOW to make any difference...today is tomorrows history and the only point of input we have, but we need context in order to understand where we are and how we got here!🥸
I have no trust in that hospital. They misdiagnosed my late husband so many times, I don’t use the hospital, I drive all the way to Seattle or Olympia where good doctors and hospitals are and I use to be in the medical field.
You have to wait 7 or more hours in the ER, even for severe immunocompromised people. Many people I know around the area go over to Jefferson for ER. The hospital bleeds money because they have to pay for traveling nurses and doctors, does that tell you something
According to a trusted source, the ER physicians are an independent corporate collective...they are NOT our doctors. Can't remember what it's called!
Old Vet had to receive OMC care and was billed $2300, separately, by this corporate consortium and it took a lot of effort but they eventually 'waived' the fees as he is LOW income.
BTW, you still have to have supplemental in Canada and it's not cheap. Lived there 12 years.
Only the basics are covered and their system is as corrupt and ineffectual as ours.
Migrants line up there and plug ER for colds, flu's, tummy aches, finger cuts, etc.
My 'family doctor' prescribed more than 6 pills and apologized that the only thing he could do was prescribe 'these poisons'!
I stopped all pharmaceuticals and still have problems but they are better than under 'treatment'. It's 'Treatment' alright!
I know, sometimes some 'drugs' are helpful but most people end up with 'poly-pharmacy' complications.
Over 90,000 die in U.S. each year due to 'treatment'. It's called 'iatrogenic.'
Pharmacy: from pharmakeia...sorcerer or poisoner...check it out.😱
You are correct, they use an agency as I would call it but the people don’t realize this is going on until they get their bills and they aren’t cheap
SOUND PHYSICIANS of 'Tacoma'!
They bill separately from 'the hospital'!
Can anyone say SCAM?
Robert, would this be independent contractors called 'locum tenens' ? Many anesthesiologist groups are independent...and bill separately. Any staff member, including Doctors can be locum tenens.
I imagine anyone reading this has had to fight their Insurance Company to pay their bills. It's standard for an insurance company to deny a claim when first billed. It's the attrition rate that they count on. People either don't understand the billing process or just give in. It's a medical jungle out there.
Robert, "...the ER physicians are an independent corporate collective...Can't remember what it's called!"
It's Clallam County's version: Doctors With No Borders.
No Borders, Boundaries, Morals or Ethics! Not all of course but as a whole!
Sound Physicians...sounds fishy!😊
There is something wrong with the administration. They now have "progressed" to using switchboard operators to intercept return calls to your physicians office. I understand why liberals love socialized medicine, because its FREE!
For every reader here who has ever thought of making a public records request. Two very fine videos.
https://youtu.be/ibHoH4xq0Fg?si=bO_9Vrmw_f4pMfgS
https://youtu.be/mufJ4APxSYs?si=kmt2noVxq0QVUXO_
Wait, hasn't the hospital been buying up property all over our town and opening office after offices? Do they even pay property tax?
They dispensed remdesivir after it was pulled from the market. They followed the AMA game plan right to a t. People did not see their loved ones again until they were in the morgue. They rarely gave an anti-body shot. I saw healthy people die suddenly. How could anyone feel safe going there. I saw a culling and I do not.
The FIRST round of culling!😱. Took a lot of good healthy people too.
There were reported 8 'official' covid deaths among the elderly and infirm in care facilities during scamdemic 1.0 according to 'scary berry'. You know, the same number who would have 'normally' died of pneumonia/flu in any year...that was the 'official' number of 'c-19 deaths' for which the entire county was locked down.
Many, many more...no one knows the exact number...were taken out by toxic jabs...we know 3 people who had severe symptoms who have not fully recovered and know of several more healthy people who 'died suddenly'. There are videos out there covering this phenomenon. I believe there is one called Died Suddenly...check it out if you are curious.
There is no more talk of cold/flu/pneumonia....there is only endless created designer variants and 'emerging' diseases!
If you want to be healthy don't comply...but if you do comply...leave the rest of us the hell alone! Vampires are real! TRUTH, JUSTICE, LIBERTY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND TOUGH LOVE😊
Biden ordered the culling of 100,000,000 chickens a couple of days before Trump's Inauguration. All in the name of saving fowl and humans from the Bird Flu. Since then, has there been any news about this Bird Flu?
The ends justify the means!😱
David Wolfe spoke to the CC Commissioners to beg for their endorsement and blamed the OMC red ink on Medicare reimbursement shortfalls. OMC sent out large full-color card stock flyers begging the taxpayers to vote to save it by doubling our property taxes. The stench of mendacity is constant here in CC. Sadly, these grifters will continue to use the same scam, and the same people will fall for it despite vowing never to be taken again. The liars and thieves win, because people make the temptation too easy to resist.
I always wondered why do NON PROPERTY owners get to vote on what bonds & levies are going to affect only the property owners taxes? Doesn’t seem like a fair system.
OMC is failing for a number of reasons, mainly because it is just big enough to not be considered a rural hospital, but not big enough to get the benefits of a large hospital. It’s always going to be a no win situation.
I agree on the taxpayer only vote issue. If you have a vested interest in something, you pay more attention to the details. Too many questions for too many problems. Right now it seems overwhelming, but I believe with the right leadership, all can be solved.
I have never been a patient at Olympic Medical Center (Olympic Memorial Hospital being the original name) since the day I drew my first breath there, in 1952, the year OMH opened for "business". I have never understood the name change, as the facility was named in honor of Veterans who gave their lives for the freedoms once enjoyed by all Americans, and have been diminishing ever since. In as far as holdings, OMC has property in Hawaii, among others, that have been donatd by well-meaning former patients and their families. OMC and the OMC Foundation's (non-profit/NGO) transparency isn't even close to translucent, more like opaque at best. They have done well via OMCF's tax exempted gifts and JTKT (herein after referred to as The Tribe), reciprocally, as well. Does anyone recall the Thomas Family Cancer Center in Sequim that just quietly became OMC Cancer Center after the "naming rights" contract was cancelled? I am certain that a sit-down with the Thomas Family would provide
new perspective. The PDN suggests that I can read their take on that fisaco if I subscribe and pay them $73/year for their paper that isn't even enough to start a fire or wrap non-existent fish. Many of us were cut from the herd when PDN refused to present news as opposed to indoctrination, and we cancelled our subscriptions, some dating back to the former Port Angeles Evening News from the 1950s. Our cancellations have made us better investigators and more informed, at least. Main stream media, with censorship and outright omission, are alive in Olympic Peninsula periodicals.
Timothy, thank you for this informative read. It binds some things together that I have been wondering about.
How interesting and revealing~! So, this OMC Board president Ann Henninger clown admits that the secret closed-door meetings that are suddenly now the OMC hospitals dubious and suspicious policy, right after they tricked the general public to bail their mismanagement atrocities out, is "ok" because no decisions have been made~? What~? I would think that the local general public was definitely owed a voice in what the OMC was plotting to do BEFORE any material decisions would be made. ESPECIALLY after the general public was victimized by the usual "fear porn" BS of the OMC hospital and the coconspirator criminals within and outside of our local government matrix~! ALL of these slimy and underhanded tactics make perfect sense if folks consider that this same OMC hospital, like most if not all hospitals in the US, are now scrambling in a quiet panic to get ready for the epic backlash for their roles in the COVID & deadly fake "vaccine" mass murder democide attack on folks~! We here, and many who are paying close attention to what is currently unfolding in the US & world, are monitoring the truth about the COVID and deadly fake "vaccine" attack slowly heading towards the general public like a freight train, so you can be assured that these criminals in hospital management who are responsible for engaging in the largest scale mass murder democide in history know EXACTLY what they have done and are working overtime to avoid their financial responsibilities and criminal prosecutions for their crimes against humanity~! They know that they are ALL in DEEP trouble and it will only be a matter of time before they are forced to face justice, so these slippery underhanded tactics are completely transparent if you know what you are witnessing~! Just like the dangerous horrific Monsanto "Round Up" atrocities, Monsanto attempted to deflect and dodge their civil & criminal liabilities by "selling" out to Bayer when things started to get too hot for them in the courts, so this is an old criminal tactic to put layers of corporate confusions and as many pre-planned "excuses" in place BEFORE they are forced to face justice for their intentional crimes against humanity~! Why else would the OMC have the so-called "need" to go dark with their internal business matters, right after the general public supposedly bailed them out of their financial concerns~? How long has the OMC been plotting to sell out and sell the general public out~? Bad faith would be a compliment to the OMC management people, especially under these circumstances~! Just another day in the corrupt world of those who hide behind their closed-door meetings to continue with their criminal agendas~! Sincerely, Mike
Yeah. And we are all still subject to the 'spike proteins' being 'shed' by the jabberwockies.
There are 'natural' protocols for helping the immune system deal with it.
Do your own research. 🧐
Robert, also be careful of the flu shot. Many of the 'spike proteins' are now included without your knowledge. Ask before you get your flu shot.
Wow!
We do our best to stay healthy, eat good food and not heavily processes food, drink good clean water (no fluoride), no vaccines, and we definitely get plenty of exercise here on our funny farm ;-) We steer clear of the jabbed and the sickly these days~! Ivermectin every other week, several other natural supplements, and detox regularly~! Yes, do your own research and be your own best medical advisor ;-) We can't save everyone, especially the low information & low Intelligence crowd, but we sure will need all of the good Intelligent folks that we can get~! Cheers! M
Nationwide culling franchise. in my opinion.
GLOBAL franchise!😱
To them Jim Jones was a criminal. They are a for profit Jim Jones without the Kool aide.
Re the request for info. If the Hospital doesn't use a P&L, which is very possible as a non profit, then their response is correct. Non exists...... They have no obligation to offer guidance to facilitate a request. Right?...
Perhaps they do have statements but they need to be asked for correctly. By the name.of the document. Like a Statement of Activities or an Income Statement?
Why would they quit offering that data in their agenda packets and make it, so you have to "use the magic word" to ask for it?
Of course, that isn't my point. That indeed is another issue. The existence of that info and how to get it, is the point. The matter of the publication of it is separate, if indeed, it exists. But, this is precisely how government says NO while still complying with the law. No different than how they riled up public fear by using percentages to express Covid deaths, "100% increase in deaths this week, mask up, stay home...." without telling us the details. One 96 year old in a care home, passed last week and another 98 year old this week....they are technically correct and abusively misleading at the same time, with a smile on their faces. It is not unlike the broad gap folks will jump between Legal and Ethical.
The fact that 'non exist' does not excuse non existence of P&L. Transparency is the issue. It may be legal, but surely doesn't appear moral to tax and not represent the facts. How does hiding the P&L from the "bank" (tax payer) show good faith?
This is not the point of my comment either. There is no "hiding" when the request is requesting something that doesn't exist by that name. If somebody came to the door of your house, looking for you and asked for BOB....if you don't OFFER that you indeed are called Eric, and instead say "there is no Bob at this address"... are you wrong to have answered that way?..... THAT is government. That is the MO of most publicly accountable institutions and offices today. To be "technically correct" as a compliance model. This evolved out of CYA mentality, a litigious society and avoiding accountability. You can't be fired for being correct when ethics is no longer the standard but instead, compliance with legal definitions is.
Thanks for your input. Is it too late to reestablish ethics in our governors? If not, how?
Yeah, I think it's too late. Ethics are now up to the individual character of leadership to establish higher standards and not rest easy on the simplicity of "is it legal?" vs "is it ethical?"....many, including todays "Leaders" seem to be ok with the fact that LEGAL is the LOWEST acceptable standard....
Not that Liked the too late agreement. :(
If I may ask, to do what? Ethics is a broad brush term that can be applied in so many situations. Ethical behavior can be as mundane as simply telling the truth, to something most codes are written for such as being in a public position to assign a contract to a vendor who is a relative without disclosing that relationship. I'm trying to understand what you'd like to see.
Ethics would expect that the institution, in this case, OMC, respond with guidance along with their answer. Something like. "NO P&L exists"....followed by "we don't use P&L but instead, we use a Statement of acrivities, please re-request for that and we will provide a copy" it is both compliant AND recognizes the objective of the request..
That's the difference.
I disagree about the broad brush of ethics. Ethics is the HIGHEST standard we can achieve. There is none higher. Whereas legal is "Good enough"....so we need to expect leadership to consider Ethics above compliance with legal minimum standards and expectations. which would you
prefer?
Prince did an interview with Larry King years ago about his Handshake deals. He expressed that "if you can't trust a handshake deal, you certainly can't trust a paper contract....Ethics is the high standard caputred within the handshake. Legal is the lowest standard enumerated in the terms of the contract.....
Broad brush, as I suggested didn't and doesn't water down that ethics is the highest standard. That was the distinction I was trying to draw out. What ethics was he talking about, wanting.
What faith?👽
Anything to separate people from the truth...protocol, protocol, attorney, attorney!
Can anyone say SCAM?😱
Olympic Medical Center filed 990n (non profit tax returns) up until 2021 under EIN 91-1285758, then they became Clallam County Public Hospital District 2 with an EIN 91-6001709, and as a "public charity" became exempt from state and federal taxes.
"Hospitals and health systems across the country provide 24/7 health care to patients and communities daily. In addition to access to life-saving care, communities receive benefits and services unique to their location. Nonprofit hospitals are exempt from federal and some state and local taxes."
DID ANYONE KNOW THIS??.... so the name of the place is actually Clallam County Public Hospital District 2 (District 1 is in Forks).
What it means is the entity changed from a PRIVATE HOSPITAL to a PUBLIC HOSPITAL ... and 50% of its support comes from the public. Did anyone know this? Were we told this at any point?
Public hospitals, while often providing essential and accessible healthcare, can face challenges like longer wait times, limited privacy, and potentially lower quality of care due to budget constraints and staffing issues. Additionally, patients may have less choice regarding specialists and healthcare providers. AND there is zero financial reporting requirements to the state, or to the federal government.
Which means: to the people.
the most oversight I can find that is easily accessible is from our state auditor's office
https://www.sao.wa.gov/reports-data/audit-reports?en=Clallam%20County%20Public%20Hospital%20District%20No%202&MCAG=1457&StartDate=&EndDate=
Mimi, no I didn't know this.
As you point out, a very big problem... "...they don't exist...." What???
I usually do not share personal experiences....However I see this as a critical community announcement - WE must take a stand. OMC has been given sufficient time to gt better....Clearly they are not. I DO NOT MIND PAYING FOR SERVICES RENDERED......OMC, sadly is one big joke.....
Personal recent experience being admitted twice for over 10 days in 2 weeks OMC's "experience" and quality hospitalists almost KILLED ME. They failed to properly diagnose a severe kidney issue that was the driving force of my problems, they never added a kidney specialist (do they have one?) to the care team nor did they tell me what was going on....I asked several times. I caught campy lobactor infection either from their improperly cooked chicken or the horrid house keeping / cleaning. They were planning to release me with a white cell count INCREASING without being at all interested in what was causing this...saying " people with cancer can have increased white cells counts...the thing was I had not been confirmed to have cancer. They simply "assumed" since the MRI/Ultrasounds were inconclusive and it was easiest for them to release me with a referral to Swedish surgical in Seattle.
Upon my second release from OMC and not having a very positive experience, my family insisted I come stay with them in Bothell which is surrounded by QUALITY MEDICAL SERVICES.
3 DAYS later I found the need to seek emergency medical care at Evergreen Hospital for near kidney failure - a situation that OMC NEVER mentioned. I was an in patient for 24 days while they properly diagnosed my severe Kidney issue needing expert daily care to save the kidney and for me to avoid dialysis.... I also got proper care for gallbladder issues which they were sure was cancer...BY the way OMC - biopsy NO CANCER.
There is much that I will be looking at in the near future as I get my health back....OMC and I need a
long, direct conversation; health department needs to be involved; MEDICARE NEEDS TO BE ENCORAGED TO ALLOW SEQUIM TO USE ST MICHALES IN Silverdale or Jefferson n Port Townsend; Rep Tharinger and Bernbaum who are working hard to raise funds for OMC need to know money thrown at the problem IS NOT the SOLUTION. I am thankful that I have an ongoing relationship with Ste Tharinger...session over soon time for service conversation.
We LOVED Sequim but you can only enjoy it if you are alive and well. In a matter of a few days we decided to leave our home of over 10 years and move .
My comments are only about OMC and not the exceptional care I got and continue to get from my doctors at Sequim Medical Associates. They can only be effective with proper hospital back up.
Seniors should be provided with QUALITY basic medial services - OMC seems only to want the profits.
SORRY NEIGHBORS THIS IS A FIGHT FOR BETTER MEDCIAL CARE YOU NEED TO DEMAND. THE OPTIONS ARE JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE.