Ernie,

As someone who 'hasn't followed' the Palm Drive situation, you seem to believe you know a lot about the finances. Is this because you have studied them and have a background in hospital...

Jonathan,

This story is not about heroes or villains but whether we will accept failure as our only option.
It is not about Dan Smith, Nancy Dobbs, or Frank Mayhew, it is about all of us as an...

Here's a copy of the letter I sent to the editor of Sonoma West Times & News, in protest of the yellow journalism (full of mistruths, nasty, provocative) of their front page article this week, Dec....

there is no champion of Palm Drive Hospital more committed than Dr. Richard Powers. He is the humane face of medicine, especially community medicine. He has been involved in planning for the future...

The critical campaign to elect the doc and the cop; Richard Powers and Dennis Colthust, to the Palm Drive District Board, recently released a new video, in which both candidates appear. Please check...

It was five weeks ago, soon after I started investigating the Palm Drive closing, when I attended the April 23 hearing.

That's when I first started hearing the allegations of "conflict of...

Thank you to all of you who post. I am particularly grateful for the insightful and informative post from farmerdan. As someone who is a third generation Sebastopol resident, the closing of Palm...

I also would like to point out that the employees of PDH did furloughs last year all summer, we gave up retirement contributions for months, we were pigeonholed into only one choice for healthcare...

We have been told that the ambulance costs $250/hr to be sitting at the hospital. This equates to $6,000 a day or $180,000 a month. This is far more money than the ENTIRE HOSPITAL lost in 2013, it's...

Scamperwillow,

First, I want to agree with you that the Palm Drive District Board members are not "self-interested, vindictive people." I have found no evidence of any corruption on the part of...

Behind Palm Drive Hospital's Closing Part II: Wells Fargo Bank & the Shutdown Playbook

How A Bondholder-Friendly Shutdown Playbook Secretly Sunk Our Hospital

By Jonathan Greenberg
For...

Thank you Jonathan! We need this kind of intelligent investigative reporting to expose what went on behind the doors that forced the closure of Palm Drive Hospital. And recently rated by Consumer...

The article is as accurate as my notes at the bankruptcy hearing, which I attended, and the numerous interviews that I did. If there is any documentable inaccuracy found by anyone, I hope they reply...

If this article is accurate it underlines in boldface the claims of those arguing the Board of Directors never negotiated in good faith and are deserving of immediate termination. They have failed in...

Palm Drive’s Lawyers Say That
The Public Does Not Want to
Re-Open the Emergency Room

By Jonathan Greenberg
WaccoBB.net
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