Monday, September 06, 2004

Simple Solutions for Supervisor Keith Carson

Caregivers have given up on trying to reason with Cambio Health Solutions. They have taken it to the politicians, hundreds of the medical center’s employees and patients have called, visited, or written the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. Supervisors Keith Carson and Alice Lai-Bitker hide in their offices and send out hapless staff members. The coalition of community groups, labor groups, patients and staff who passed Measure “A” are being ignored by the Cambio Health Solutions and the Board of Supervisors.

But don’t despair, the Dirt is listening, it feels your pain and frustration. More importantly it hears the leadership plan emerging from the many voices who fought for Measure “A” and want to see the medical center thrive. So Keith, Buddy, these are four simple steps that will stop walkouts, lockouts, bad press, bad medicine, and those pesky visits from hundreds of union employees.

First
Get a real CEO for the medical center someone with experience managing a public hospital by December 2004.

Second
Review Cambio Health Solutions performance and make the gruesome details available to the public who voted for Measure “A”.

Third
Delay the layoffs until a real CEO takes over and has time to develop a strategic plan.

Fourth
Continue to support the medical center financially. You asked the public to support this institution with a sales tax, so lead by example and make good on Measure “A” campaign promises.

I could say more but I don’t want to overwhelm our local leaders.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

IF THE BOARD DOSEN'T GET THE HINT, WELL ITS TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE. DOES THE TAXPAYERS' KNOW THAT THEIR TAX DOLLARS ARE FLOWING TENNESSE STATE, WHO REEPING
THESE WONDERFUL BENEFITS,(MEANING YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING OUT OF THE STATE
TO MANAGE OUR HOSPITAL) THEN WE MUST FIRE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND HIRE A
NEW CREW OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, FROM NEW YORK OR ANY OTHER STATE SINCE WERE A CHARITY STATE LETS CONTRACT EVERYBODY OUT. IF WE CAN'T MANAGE OUR TAX DOLLARS IN ARE OWN STATE, WHATS NEXT ANOTHER COUNTRIES. WE NEED TO EVALUATE
THE INTEGRITY OF THE POLICTICIANS, IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS. GET HOOK ON
PHONICS!

Anonymous said...

Hi DD, Like your comments and perspective. I work at ACMC also and it's pretty crazy. I agree we need to get rid of the supervisors too, cause they put the Board of trustees together. I'm wondering why there are no staff people on the Board of Trustees. And it's true, Cambio is totally breaking trust with the voters of Ala Co. I'm sure they wouldn't be here if there were no extra tax money.