Escondido

A recent visit with a patient at Palomar Medical Center Downtown Escondido shows the hospital still serves the community as a medical faci...

Palomar Medical Center Downtown Escondido sold for $18 Million to Integral Communities, a residential home builder.  Palomar Health will con...

More than a year after the Palomar Health Board decided to close the Hospital in Downtown Escondido, it is still open!  More of the inexplic...

"Robroy Fawcett, an Escondido resident speaking for a coalition that wanted to save the hospital, said closing it before the end of fir...

TV interview with 10News regarding closing the Downtown Hospital before fire season.  The Downtown Hospital is in a very safe location with ...

Most of the discussion was held in closed session.  A Trade Secret?!! Board to Decides to Close North County Hospital

Palomar Health (PH) has announced that it will have a meeting in a few days to decide on the closure of the Downtown Palomar Hospital in Esc...

ESCONDIDO: Refurbishment begins at downtown hospital : Escondido "Minor refurbishment has begun at the downtown campus of Palomar Medi...

ESCONDIDO: Pregnant women with emergencies will require transfer from new hospital to old : North County Times - Californian "Under t...

Palomar Pomerado Health is moving forward with a 32% tax rate hike, to $23.50 per 100K of assessed value (AV) from $17.75 per $100K of AV, t...

Palomar Pomerado must arrange financing for an additional $74 million (for a total of $1,057 million) in order to complete its new hospital...

This Elevator at PMC had already been down for 1 week according to PPH Staff as of June 18th. PPH administration is requesting the Board to...

PPH is testing thousands of patients that had been exposed to possible infections, such as hepatitis or HIV PPH testing 3,400 patients

The PPH Board has appointed Steven Yerxa to replace the seat opened by the resignation of Alan Larson. Yerxa was the Chair of the Independen...

PPH has created Arch Health Partners to complete with local medical groups. PPH has loaned $millions to start Palomar Physician Network (a...

PPH designed its new hospital to operate on the basis of "acuity-adaptable" beds. (The Hospital of the Future - 168 Acuity Adaptab...

". . . Michael, are we gonna have another year where we gotta put plastic over on top of the roof at PCCC to keep from having leaks, ...

PPH CEO Michael Covert was given a $154,000 raise by the PPH Board. ESCONDIDO: Hospital CEO's pay rises to $736K per year, plus possible...

Tax rate to pay for Prop BB bonds may need to be raised. The shortfall for FY2010 is projected to be $500,000. Back in 2004, the PPH promise...

This was published in the NCTimes: The new Palomar hospital, he added, is not likely to be finished. " They're $200 million to $300...

According to the NCTimes, "The city and Escondido's two school districts have reached a tentative agreement for dividing up million...

PPH has revised the date for the completion of the new hospital to April 2012 from July 2011. This delay has resulted in the need to pay DP...

Last Fall, I learned that funds from Escondido Redevelopment Agency (Community Development Commission) had been promised to Escondido school...

I predict that PPH will soon need to admit to schedule delays on its new hospital. Page 65 of 70 of the PPH Board Packet for July 13th is t...

PPH claims that the Citracado extension to Valley Parkway, which is not due for completion until a decade after the City gets the money for ...

Union-Tribune Editorial More disclosure Public access needed at Palomar Pomerado Health district 2:00 a.m. June 7, 2009 We are grateful for ...

"The secrecy surrounding Kaiser Permanente's controversial bed "guarantee" at the new Palomar Medical Center has been app...

PPH HIRES COSTCO DESIGNER In yet another signal that the visionary “hospital of the future” is too expensive for today's budget, Palomar...

"PPH president and CEO, Michael Covert, has been denied any bonus this year because of the district’s failure to meet performance stand...

The local newspapers have quit covering much of the latest news at PPH . Stay Informed. Subscribe to INFORMEDCITIZEN on twitter.com http://...

It sounds like an April Fool's joke! The PPH Board is considering a bonus for Covert AFTER a year in which the Medical Village in downt...

The "new" DPR contract has significant potential for later cost increases. The proposed contract has a baseline amount for DPR of ...

Jim Vander Spek writes another insightful letter: The latest news out of PPH is not encouraging. After Prop BB was passed and this agency an...

"The hospital of the future' being built in western Escondido is projected to cost $934 million, more than four times as much as a ...

The PPH Board member never ask probing questions of PPH CEO Michael Covert. For that reason, Covert has again blindsided with further cost i...

The costs for PPH's expansion plan have spiraled out of control until it hitting a ceiling of implausibility. PPH cannot hope to rais...

Scripps Coastal Medical has acquire the Penn/Elm Medical Group in Escondido, having offices across the street from Palomar Medical Center. S...

I was surprised to read a very informative article about last night's special meeting by the PPH Board of Directors. PPH may scale back ...

PPH decided to delay issuance of both ARS revenue bonds reissuance and GO (Prop BB) bond issuance because of market conditions on Wall St...

The incumbent won re-election. The 2-year open seat was won my Jerry Kaufman, who was past member of the ICOC, before resigning for an appa...

The PPH Board just voted to issue $110 million of Prop BB authorized bonds two years ahead of schedule . The original schedule for the third...

Palomar Medical Center, the heart of downtown Escondido, has been saved! Citizens for a Downtown Hospital are to be congratulated for keepi...

A number of challengers have signed up to run against the present PPH Board. A new vision at PPH is sorely needed. Challengers include ex-Sa...

It appears that PPH's costly new hospital is affecting care at the existing hospitals. "Some Palomar Pomerado Health employees said...

A doctor sues PPH, and CEO Covert, over the termination of his right to practice at any PPH facility. Read the full story at: The Paper: The...

The San Diego Union-Tribune Monday, June 30, 2008, Page B6 Full airing, please Palomar Pomerado pact shouldn’t be hidden The publicly owned ...

The Editors at the Union Tribune wrote: "In the meantime, we call on the Palomar Pomerado trustees to do the right thing and expose the...

The Union Tribune has two articles about the cost overruns for the new hospital, the funding cuts to the downtown Medical Village project, a...

PPH is laying off 67 full-time employees and 19 part-timers to reduce overhead costs. PPH currently has 2,663 full time employees. More is a...

The Paper recently forwarded a redacted copy of the secret Kaiser Agreement to me. I have since found out that other media outlets had recei...

PPH is "hoping" to save $50 million by changing General Contractors for the new PMC West / Kaiser Hospital in the ERTC. Wow! Good ...

Last Thursday, I tried to post a comment on this North County Times article: Palomar Pomerado pours concrete for new hospital. Here is the c...

The Mayor of Escondido, Lori Holt Pfeiler, went to silly lengths to prevent the video presentation of Escondido resident Wally Gutierrez. Mo...

Lyle Davis publishes "The Paper" a weekly distributed in San Diego's North County region. During the preparation of an article...

In 2006, PPH refinanced bonds, and issued new bonds. These bonds were auction rate securities having an interest rates determined by weekly ...

An Informed Citizen Concerned About The Downtown Hospital has generated videos from past City Council meetings to highlight the promises ma...

Look at PPH's 32 acre ERTC medical campus. After $811 million is spent, the campus will sport big parking lots, a big vacant field, and ...

PPH claims it is going to create a destination Medical Village in downtown Escondido. The current plan would require the closing of Valley B...

The City of Escondido formed a "Hospital Ad Hoc Committee" to work with the Palomar Pomerado Hospital District regarding the ERTC...

H.G. Fenton is proposing to build a University Office and Medical Park on Discovery Street in San Marcos. This is just west of CSU San Marco...

OSPHD has recently posted information about SB306 on its website. http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/fdd/sb1953/index.html (Near the bottom of the pag...

The North County Times ran an article written by Wally Gutierrez and myself, "Vibrant Downtown Medical Village At Risk": http://ww...