"It's a Crisis" - Massive Increase in the Number of Dead Forces Funeral Homes in Norway to Store the Dead in Garage
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
"It's a Crisis" - Massive Increase in the Number of Dead Forces Funeral Homes in Norway to Store the Dead in Garage
"It's a Crisis" - Massive Increase in the Number of Dead Forces Funeral Homes in Norway to Store the Dead in Garage
Friday, December 16, 2022
How much money did the Whitehouse Covid Community Corps hand out?
@P_McCulloughMD on the Covid Community Corps: "that program infused over $13 billion into 276 agencies ... This is the largest government bribe in history. And that explains why Obstetricians and Gynecologists went along with vaccination in pregnant women"
https://mobile.twitter.com/StarkNakedBrief/status/1603408260199026688
Members of the COVID-19 Community Corps
https://wecandothis.hhs.gov/members-covid-19-community-corps
Monday, December 12, 2022
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Senator Ron Johnson Hosts Expert Forum on Covid Vaccines (12/7/22)
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson hosts a forum of world-renowned experts in Public Health, Science, Medicine, Law, and Journalism, in a public forum titled,
‘Covid-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work, and Possible Causes of Injuries,’
held in the U.S. Senate’s Hart Building, on Capitol Hill. He will also hear testimony from victims of Covid vaccine injury.
Speakers Include Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Robert Malone, ICAN Attorney, Aaron Siri, Esq., OpenVAERS Founder, Liz Willner, Edward Dowd, Dr. Harvey Risch, Dr. Ryan Cole, Journalist, Del Bigtree, and more.
How profitable has the Winchester Medical Center been since Y2K?
Finally was able to locate the missing in excess of revenue (profit) figures for Valley Health System's Winchester Medical Center for 2013, 2014 and 2017 in Winchester without the cooperation of VHS CEO/Pres. Mark Nantz since the information was requested back in February of 2022.
Since Y2K, WMC has profited nearly a billion dollars, while coming in at $917,387,142. That is an impressive annual average of $43,685,102.
The Winchester Medical Center continues to turn out annual multi-million dollar profits.
Why should the citizens of Winchester carry the burden with their taxes going up from real estate to water/sewer bills and now a rain tax ... where will it ever end?
Since Y2K, WMC has profited nearly a billion dollars, while coming in at $917,387,142. That is an impressive annual average of $43,685,102.
The Winchester Medical Center continues to turn out annual multi-million dollar profits.
Why should the citizens of Winchester carry the burden with their taxes going up from real estate to water/sewer bills and now a rain tax ... where will it ever end?
2000 $11,917,1272001 $ 4,262,9442002 $25,868,7662003 $35,113,9212004 $46,711,9312005 $54,346,6792006 $57,422,7892007 $66,617,9612008 $ 9,500,9112009 $53,757,3902010 $53,104,4202011 $62,029,2462012 $50,522,3252013 $28,625,2152014 $47,715,5312015 $71,439,1192016 $58,416,0602017 $52,889,0192018 $78,884,5792019 $29,826,2562020 $18,414,953
Perspectives from Dr Peter McCullough on the Vaccines
‘It looks like the messenger RNA IS transferring from the vaccinated to the unvaccinated’ ~ Dr Peter McCullough
Dr McCullough explains the horrific side effects from the bioweapon shots
"The Band-Aid Has Been Ripped off the Entire Vaccine Agenda" - Dr. Peter McCullough.
https://twitter.com/_Janey_J/status/1598398431667650575
Dr McCullough explains the horrific side effects from the bioweapon shots
https://twitter.com/JamieSale/status/1599802406183006210
"The Band-Aid Has Been Ripped off the Entire Vaccine Agenda" - Dr. Peter McCullough.
https://twitter.com/DrRan_/status/1597768835943526402
https://twitter.com/_Janey_J/status/1599545098634596353
https://twitter.com/KenJohn78863089/status/1597456592580284416
What is being uncovered right in front of us with the corruption
The following is another Open Forum submitted to the Winchester Star and NVDaily last night December 6th. Keep in mind, only allowed 500 words. My previous submission on Valley Health's staff shortages to both papers never went to print and those submissions are approaching a month old already. For the record, when the former editorial editor was at the Winchester Star, I don't recall any of my submissions not going to print.
What is being uncovered right in front of us with the corruption
What President Trump said:
So after Elon Musk has released the twitter files, is everyone OK with the fact that the Biden campaign colluded with twitter to censor Hunter's Laptop and censor/ban any users not sharing their narrative if affecting the outcome of the 2020?
The FBI and lord only knows what other Gov't agencies were in on it too. Now we just learned that twitter’s general counsel was the disgraced FBI general counsel, James Baker who was fired for his involvement in passing along all the hogwash against President Trump. He was reviewing and slow walking the release of the twitters files. The FBI had a special backdoor online portal to twitter for censorship purposes. Musk fired him today December 6 as he was exited out of twitter headquarters.
Elon Musk produced the proof of a tampered election of 2020 and that is ok with others who do not like President Trump? Amazing as more truth is coming each week. We heard that Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg spent something like $400 plus million in the election. Who knows what Google did?
I do not know what is worse, the big steal of 2020 or people actually voting for Biden/Harris & believing he/she was better for our country than President Trump?
Just mind boggling people burnt their vote on that incompetent corrupt individual named Joe Biden who sold out America to China.
I will say this, the fake news media can pick out any of us and lie about us daily 24x7. If someone asks about you, others will say, well he/she is bad because that is what they say on TV and the controlled narrative on social media. People need to wake the heck up!
President Trump was not supposed to win in 2016 but we all know individuals who voted for the very first time and beat the algorithm. As for 2020, the democrats and China had to come up with something to derail the Trump train and did they ever with COVID-19. What did Nancy Pelsoi say for the 2020 election? President Trump will have the lead during the day, but wait until all the mail-in ballots come in. Wonder who ordered the code red to stop the count in those critical counties that night? Then magically the next morning Biden is declared the winner by a slim margin.
To close, as for a President for 2024, show me an individual who beat 16 others, beat the evil wicked Clinton machine and withstood 4 years of abyss in the Whitehouse and our economy was better than ever in recent years, then I will consider.
FYI :
We Now Know Why There Was a Delay With Round 2 of the 'Twitter Files'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2022/12/06/we-now-know-why-there-was-a-delay-with-twitter-files-n2616839
Tweets from @thebradfordfile ... https://mobile.twitter.com/thebradfordfile
What is being uncovered right in front of us with the corruption
What President Trump said:
So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great "Founders" did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!
So after Elon Musk has released the twitter files, is everyone OK with the fact that the Biden campaign colluded with twitter to censor Hunter's Laptop and censor/ban any users not sharing their narrative if affecting the outcome of the 2020?
The FBI and lord only knows what other Gov't agencies were in on it too. Now we just learned that twitter’s general counsel was the disgraced FBI general counsel, James Baker who was fired for his involvement in passing along all the hogwash against President Trump. He was reviewing and slow walking the release of the twitters files. The FBI had a special backdoor online portal to twitter for censorship purposes. Musk fired him today December 6 as he was exited out of twitter headquarters.
Sunday news shows for December 4, 2022.
Elon Musk produced the proof of a tampered election of 2020 and that is ok with others who do not like President Trump? Amazing as more truth is coming each week. We heard that Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg spent something like $400 plus million in the election. Who knows what Google did?
I do not know what is worse, the big steal of 2020 or people actually voting for Biden/Harris & believing he/she was better for our country than President Trump?
Just mind boggling people burnt their vote on that incompetent corrupt individual named Joe Biden who sold out America to China.
I will say this, the fake news media can pick out any of us and lie about us daily 24x7. If someone asks about you, others will say, well he/she is bad because that is what they say on TV and the controlled narrative on social media. People need to wake the heck up!
President Trump was not supposed to win in 2016 but we all know individuals who voted for the very first time and beat the algorithm. As for 2020, the democrats and China had to come up with something to derail the Trump train and did they ever with COVID-19. What did Nancy Pelsoi say for the 2020 election? President Trump will have the lead during the day, but wait until all the mail-in ballots come in. Wonder who ordered the code red to stop the count in those critical counties that night? Then magically the next morning Biden is declared the winner by a slim margin.
To close, as for a President for 2024, show me an individual who beat 16 others, beat the evil wicked Clinton machine and withstood 4 years of abyss in the Whitehouse and our economy was better than ever in recent years, then I will consider.
FYI :
We Now Know Why There Was a Delay With Round 2 of the 'Twitter Files'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2022/12/06/we-now-know-why-there-was-a-delay-with-twitter-files-n2616839
Tweets from @thebradfordfile ... https://mobile.twitter.com/thebradfordfile
"The FBI used twitter to interfere in a presidential election, so the media is focused on Trump."
"None of the bad thing Democrats predicted from Elon Musk buying twitter have happened, but they have been exposed as cheaters, liars, and frauds.""This is bigger than twitter. Elon Musk is exposing the entire corrupt system of the ruling class."LOL. "We didn't see the FBI collusion with twitter because the FBI guy was still there hiding it." You cannot make this shit up.
"If Elon Musk didn't buy twitter, the FBI would still be silencing voices for the regime."
"Elon Musk is about to expose the FBI in a very public way. This drama is better than anything on TV."
"James Baker tried to rig the 2016 election and was rewarded w a job at twitter to rig the 2020 election."
"If you think what James Baker was doing at twitter is evil, wait till you hear what he did to Trump."
"So basically the FBI still had their guy in twitter until today. It's going to get a lot worse for Democrats."
"Remember when they raided Rudy Giuliani because the Hunter laptop was real? That really happened."
"The FBI worked as hard to protect Biden as it did to destroy Trump."
"Since the entire world now knows the Hunter laptop is real, perhaps it's time to focus on the millions he was laundering his corrupt father."
Monday, December 5, 2022
Another Study Confirms Myocarditis Post Jab (Dr. Joseph Mercola)
Getting COVID-19 shots significantly increases the risk of myocarditis, which reduces your heart's ability to pump and can cause rapid or abnormal heart rhythms that can be deadly.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- A study estimated the incidence of myocarditis after COVID-19 shots and compared it with expected rates in British Columbia; a significantly increased risk of myocarditis was found following COVID-19 jabs
- While seven myocarditis cases would be expected within seven days, the study found 99 cases among those who’d received the shots
- Within 21 days post-vaccination, 141 cases of myocarditis occurred. The expected rate was 20
- This worked out to a myocarditis rate of 1.37 per 100,000 COVID-19 doses, compared with an expected rate of 0.39 per 100,000 people who did not get the shots
- Rates of myocarditis after COVID-19 shots were highest among males, those aged 18 to 29 years, people who received a Moderna COVID-19 shot and people who received two doses
- The rate of myocarditis among males aged 18 to 29 who received Moderna’s COVID-19 shot was 22.9 per 100,000
Sunday, December 4, 2022
An Invisible Prison Has Been Built Just for You (Dr. Joseph Mercola)
December 4, 2022
All the pieces are now coming together to control the global population, and this digital prison is already mostly built. When it's finished, it will be the final lockdown of mankind.
Dr. Joseph Mercola
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/invisible-prison-digital-id?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
All the pieces are now coming together to control the global population, and this digital prison is already mostly built. When it's finished, it will be the final lockdown of mankind.
Dr. Joseph MercolaSTORY AT-A-GLANCE
- An international vaccine passport, digital identity, a social credit system and a central bank digital currency (CBDC) form a digital control system that will lock down the population in perpetuity
- Facial recognition is an essential part of the control structure, as it’s the “password” to your digital identity
- By the end of 2022, there will be 1 billion data collecting surveillance cameras in the world, all connected to the internet and artificial intelligence (AI). Cameras and audio recording devices in cell phones, automobiles and smart appliances also collect and share data
- All these data are then used to give each person an individual score, based on their behavior, expression and interaction with the world. Ultimately, your social credit score, will dictate what you can and cannot do, what you can buy and where you can go
- Artificial intelligence (AI) is an absolutely crucial component, without which the control system cannot work. The easiest way to push against this system is to starve AI of data by refusing to use technologies that collect and share your personal data
https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/invisible-prison-digital-id?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Canadian doctor says officials should be jailed for the ‘big kill’ caused by COVID jab, restrictions
Canadian doctor says officials should be jailed for the ‘big kill’ caused by COVID jab, restrictions
'Child sacrifice didn’t work for the Aztecs, it didn’t make the rain fall, and it won’t save granny in the nursing home.'
Dr. Roger Hodkinson in an Oct. 2018 videoWestern Medical / Youtube screen grab
Kennedy
Hall
Thu Dec 1, 2022 - 5:26 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Roger Hodkinson said on a recent podcast that leaders in Canada and the rest of the world have perpetrated the “biggest kill ever in medicine’s history” as a result of COVID lockdowns and vaccine coercion.
Asked if people should simply “forgive and forget,” he quickly said, “Absolutely not.”
“I am vengeful,” he continued. “It’s not a time to say ‘I’m sorry.’ It’s a time to put these bastards in jail.”
He added that he is calling what has happened “the big kill,” which he said was caused “directly because of the intervention of these idiots into health care.”
As much as he said politicians are to blame, he said that “physicians are principally culpably because they have allowed government jackboots to influence how they manage their patients, which has never, ever happened before.”
Hodkinson was particularly harsh on physicians who looked “into the eyes of a pregnant woman and [told] her that this experimental product [vaccine] is safe.”
“How can you do that as a physician?”
He added that any physicians “that has done that should be in jail.”
Freedom of Information Act requests revealed a striking uptick in miscarriages in women who had been jabbed, including during the later parts of pregnancy.
Hodkinson’s views expressed on the podcast echo statements he made at a Rebel News event in Calgary.
After becoming emotional relaying the horror of sick people dying without loved ones present due to COVID restrictions, he said, “What about our children? Now being vaccinated against something they don’t need, and being killed by it.”
He called the push to jab kids “child sacrifice to appease these new gods,” which he called “technocrats” and “idiocrats.”
“Child sacrifice didn’t work for the Aztecs, it didn’t make the rain fall, and it won’t save granny in the nursing home.”
Kennedy
Hall
Thu Dec 1, 2022 - 5:26 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Roger Hodkinson said on a recent podcast that leaders in Canada and the rest of the world have perpetrated the “biggest kill ever in medicine’s history” as a result of COVID lockdowns and vaccine coercion.
Asked if people should simply “forgive and forget,” he quickly said, “Absolutely not.”
“I am vengeful,” he continued. “It’s not a time to say ‘I’m sorry.’ It’s a time to put these bastards in jail.”
He added that he is calling what has happened “the big kill,” which he said was caused “directly because of the intervention of these idiots into health care.”
As much as he said politicians are to blame, he said that “physicians are principally culpably because they have allowed government jackboots to influence how they manage their patients, which has never, ever happened before.”
Hodkinson was particularly harsh on physicians who looked “into the eyes of a pregnant woman and [told] her that this experimental product [vaccine] is safe.”
“How can you do that as a physician?”
He added that any physicians “that has done that should be in jail.”
Freedom of Information Act requests revealed a striking uptick in miscarriages in women who had been jabbed, including during the later parts of pregnancy.
Hodkinson’s views expressed on the podcast echo statements he made at a Rebel News event in Calgary.
After becoming emotional relaying the horror of sick people dying without loved ones present due to COVID restrictions, he said, “What about our children? Now being vaccinated against something they don’t need, and being killed by it.”
He called the push to jab kids “child sacrifice to appease these new gods,” which he called “technocrats” and “idiocrats.”
“Child sacrifice didn’t work for the Aztecs, it didn’t make the rain fall, and it won’t save granny in the nursing home.”
Friday, December 2, 2022
re: Economic Development for Winchester (Open Letter to Council via email from Robina Rich Bouffault)
From: robinarich5@gmail.com <robinarich5@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, December 2, 2022 7:49 AM
To: Amy Simmons <Amy.Simmons@winchesterva.gov>; Corey Sullivan <corey.sullivan@winchesterva.com>; David Smith <david.smith@winchesterva.com>; Emily Deangelis <emily.deangelis@winchesterva.com>; John Hill <john.hill@winchesterva.com>; Kathy Tagnesi <kathy.tagnesi@winchesterva.com>; Kim Herbstritt <kim.herbstritt@winchesterva.com>; Les Veach <les.veach@winchesterva.com>; Phillip Milstead <phillip.milstead@winchesterva.com>; Richard Bell <richard.bell@winchesterva.gov>
Cc: Dan Hoffman <dan.hoffman@winchesterva.com>
Subject: Economic Development for Winchester
Open Letter to the Winchester City Council – via email
All -
I refer to City Manager Dan Hoffman’s Star Open Forum of November 21st “Recent Open Forum contained inaccuracies”.
Mr. Hoffman was hired in August 2020 and, as a “newbie” to Winchester, having come from Florida, he can be forgiven for not being totally familiar with the erratic meanderings of the city’s recent development attempts.
Stating that Mr. Youmans “has never proposed a new development” is disingenuous at best. Mr. Youmans is a long-term veteran of the city’s current confused economic development objectives, which have mutated depending on who was directing the conversation. He has learned to be flexible, trying to adapt city ordinances to the wishes of the EDA and/or Planning Commission members and/or City Council’s vagaries. It has become a dizzying job in the last few years.
In 2017 a new EDA Director was hired, (since departed), who used taxpayers’ funds to purchase two properties located on Piccadilly/Kent and Piccadilly/Cameron, initially called Piccadilly Street Investments LLC and Cameron Street Investments LLC. The first property cost taxpayers, including demolition, $1,449,000. The second property (Winchester Towers) cost $1,443,000.
Lets’ take the first property on Piccadilly/Kent as an example. Purchased by the EDA in 2017-2018, originally planned for a commercial/residential mixed-use, subsequently called Epicc Lofts, and now called Piccadilly Townes - under construction since April.
Early 2022, developers Aikens purchased the property from the EDA for $480,000. They will theoretically pay an additional “50% of the total profit” with payment due only after the LAST townhouse sells. (Question: who decides what the “total profit” will be?).
The original plans have morphed from a mixed-use project with self-contained parking in a five-story building, to the current 16 three-story residential townhouses under construction, with only 16 on-site parking spaces provided. As the townhouses are all 2 and 3-bedrooms, there will undoubtedly be quite a few cars with no parking spaces, left to park either on Kent or other streets close by. The 30% required green space was fudged by selling the small adjacent public park to Aikens as well.
In March, 2022, the EDA was suggesting that the sales prices of the townhouses would be in the “$250,000 to $300,000” range. They are currently being advertised between $399,000 and $429,000. Hardly “affordable housing”.
In 2019, the B.A.R. had a meeting clearly confirming that vinyl windows would not be allowed in the Old Town Winchester district. You wouldn’t know it by looking at the Aiken townhouses, which all have – you guessed it – vinyl windows. No mullions, of course.
Now the city is faced with a similar situation with the Cameron Square project undertaken by Richmond developers Lynx Ventures. Same problems – 100% residential, far too many apartments in a very small space, no green space, insufficient parking; all of which will only increase taxes and traffic congestion downtown.
Why is the City allowing this, or even promoting it against their own ordinances?
In the interest of the well-being of the city and its residents, it’s time for Council, the Planning Commission and the EDA to seriously reconsider their flawed “economic development” approach.
Thank you for taking the above into consideration when deliberating on future economic development in the City.
Robina Rich Bouffault
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Biden’s Bounty on Your Life: Hospitals’ Incentive Payments for COVID-19
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. and Ali Shultz, J.D. – https://www.truthforhealth.org/
November 17, 2021
Upon admission to a once-trusted hospital, American patients with COVID-19 become virtual prisoners, subjected to a rigid treatment protocol with roots in Ezekiel Emanuel’s “Complete Lives System” for rationing medical care in those over age 50. They have a shockingly high mortality rate. How and why is this happening, and what can be done about it?
As exposed in audio recordings, hospital executives in Arizona admitted meeting several times a week to lower standards of care, with coordinated restrictions on visitation rights. Most COVID-19 patients’ families are deliberately kept in the dark about what is really being done to their loved ones.
The combination that enables this tragic and avoidable loss of hundreds of thousands of lives includes (1) The CARES Act, which provides hospitals with bonus incentive payments for all things related to COVID-19 (testing, diagnosing, admitting to hospital, use of remdesivir and ventilators, reporting COVID-19 deaths, and vaccinations) and (2) waivers of customary and long-standing patient rights by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
In 2020, the Texas Hospital Association submitted requests for waivers to CMS. According to Texas attorney Jerri Ward, “CMS has granted ‘waivers’ of federal law regarding patient rights. Specifically, CMS purports to allow hospitals to violate the rights of patients or their surrogates with regard to medical record access, to have patient visitation, and to be free from seclusion.” She notes that “rights do not come from the hospital or CMS and cannot be waived, as that is the antithesis of a ‘right.’ The purported waivers are meant to isolate and gain total control over the patient and to deny patient and patient’s decision-maker the ability to exercise informed consent.”
Creating a “National Pandemic Emergency” provided justification for such sweeping actions that override individual physician medical decision-making and patients’ rights. The CARES Act provides incentives for hospitals to use treatments dictated solely by the federal government under the auspices of the NIH. These “bounties” must be paid back if not “earned” by making the COVID-19 diagnosis and following the COVID-19 protocol.
The hospital payments include:A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with government-paid fee to hospital.
Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital.
A 20 percent “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for use of remdesivir instead of medicines such as Ivermectin.
Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated.
More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19.
A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners.
CMS implemented “value-based” payment programs that track data such as how many workers at a healthcare facility receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Now we see why many hospitals implemented COVID-19 vaccine mandates. They are paid more.
Outside hospitals, physician MIPS quality metrics link doctors’ income to performance-based pay for treating patients with COVID-19 EUA drugs. Failure to report information to CMS can cost the physician 4% of reimbursement.
Because of obfuscation with medical coding and legal jargon, we cannot be certain of the actual amount each hospital receives per COVID-19 patient. But Attorney Thomas Renz and CMS whistleblowers have calculated a total payment of at least $100,000 per patient.
What does this mean for your health and safety as a patient in the hospital?
There are deaths from the government-directed COVID treatments. For remdesivir, studies show that 71–75 percent of patients suffer an adverse effect, and the drug often had to be stopped after five to ten days because of these effects, such as kidney and liver damage, and death. Remdesivir trials during the 2018 West African Ebola outbreak had to be discontinued because death rate exceeded 50%. Yet, in 2020, Anthony Fauci directed that remdesivir was to be the drug hospitals use to treat COVID-19, even when the COVID clinical trials of remdesivir showed similar adverse effects.
In ventilated patients, the death toll is staggering. A National Library of Medicine January 2021 report of 69 studies involving more than 57,000 patients concluded that fatality rates were 45 percent in COVID-19 patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation, increasing to 84 percent in older patients. Renz announced at a Truth for Health Foundation Press Conference that CMS data showed that in Texas hospitals, 84.9% percent of all patients died after more than 96 hours on a ventilator.
Then there are deaths from restrictions on effective treatments for hospitalized patients. Renz and a team of data analysts have estimated that more than 800,000 deaths in America’s hospitals, in COVID-19 and other patients, have been caused by approaches restricting fluids, nutrition, antibiotics, effective antivirals, anti-inflammatories, and therapeutic doses of anti-coagulants.
We now see government-dictated medical care at its worst in our history since the federal government mandated these ineffective and dangerous treatments for COVID-19, and then created financial incentives for hospitals and doctors to use only those “approved” (and paid for) approaches.
Our formerly trusted medical community of hospitals and hospital-employed medical staff have effectively become “bounty hunters” for your life. Patients need to now take unprecedented steps to avoid going into the hospital for COVID-19.
Patients need to take active steps to plan before getting sick to use early home-based treatment of COVID-19 that can help you save your life.
Why is "The National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention" out soliciting mayors of cities to promote the COVID jabs that are proving to be worthless?
Are these mayors and individuals doing this voluntarily or are they getting paid to make such statements?
Wonder if Big Pharma has made any donations to this non-profit?
John M Clymer (Exec. Director) salary for years 2019 back to 2013 are the following that includes reportable compensation via W2 plus estimated amount of other compensation from the organization & related organizations.
2019 - $262,1202018 - $247,6892017 - $222,0892016 - $222,9632015 - $209,0372014 - $209,0372013 - $229,358
Review the IRS990's at the following link:
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
COVID vaccines, How it started vs. how it's going!
COVID vaccines, How it started vs. how it's going!
A quick 2min overview of all the news media headlines from the start of COVID to current times.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1597834732209045505
Fauci Taps Wuhan Institute Of Virology’s ‘Longtime’ Gain-Of-Function Research Partner Advising People How To ‘Make Money’ Off Pandemics To Run Pandemic Drug Development Network.
Fauci Taps Wuhan Institute Of Virology’s ‘Longtime’ Gain-Of-Function Research Partner Advising People How To ‘Make Money’ Off Pandemics To Run Pandemic Drug Development Network.
BY: NATALIE WINTERS / WARROOM.ORG
https://warroom.org/2022/11/30/fauci-taps-wuhan-institute-of-virologys-longtime-gain-of-function-research-partner/
Finally, true physicians get a seat at the table, and speak truth loudly!
Finally, true physicians get a seat at the table, and speak truth loudly.
We need more speaking out, like about the massive rise in strokes & cancers & excess mortality & miscarriages.
Never forget the near complete silence of the OB's, cardiologists, neurologists, & oncologists.
https://twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1597708474519289857
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Who will foot the bill for the newly created positions within Central Admin Office of Winchester Public Schools?
What happens when the Redesigning Educator Pathways And Connecting HR systems (REACH) grant is exhausted?
The Winchester Public Schools Central Administration Office states all of these newly created positions in CAO are funded by the Redesigning Educator Pathways And Connecting HR systems (REACH) grant.
OK, but when the grant funds are exhausted, how will these salaries be funded or will all of these positions be eliminated?
Open Forum: Do the numbers justify a need for a WPS spokesperson?
Was there really a need for a spokesperson for the Winchester Public Schools?
I am very much aware it’s a combo deal where the majority of the individual’s time is spent working for WPS and less than half of their other time will be working in the Winchester Parks and Recreation Department.
No matter how you divide it up, $84,000 is all tax dollars being spent.
Were there any other critical needs within the system that need to be addressed?
Now, I totally agree that Loudoun County Public Schools would have a dire need of such a spokesperson with a budget of approximately $1.6 billion dollars. The numbers justify the need for such a position in Loudoun based on the following:
LCPS as of February 2020 had 94 schools, 83,936 students, 5,784 teachers and 6,121 staff. LCPS has two educational centers not included in that school total: Academies of Loudoun and The North Star School.
To make it current, LCPS has 95 schools now with the opening of another high school, Aldie’s Lightridge High School, which opened in the fall of 2021.
WPS has a total of six schools, including four elementary schools, one combo intermediate/middle school, one high school, plus the Emil & Grace Shihadeh Innovation Center.
WPS Superintendent Jason Van Heukelum said in an interview with The Winchester Star that the division has long wanted to hire a spokesperson and budgeted for it in 2020, but the pandemic postponed filling the position.
“I’ve never been a superintendent who tries to hide in my office and that will continue. I can and do speak for not only myself but the school division,” he told The Star. “But the volume of need for communicating is just something we need to do a better job at.”
To close: Do the numbers justify the need? Would the $84,000 annual expense be better suited for more critical needs within the city system?
Furthermore, do we need a new superintendent who can effectively communicate to the public and oversee 6 schools?
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Quote of the day of COVID and the vaccines!
“The vaccine was not brought in for COVID. COVID was brought in for the vaccine. Once you realize that, everything else makes sense.”
~ Dr. Reiner Fuellmich
Is PLANDEMIC 2 coming soon???
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Are Valley Health Systems staff shortages self-inflicted? Why won't the Winchester Star and NVDaily "print" this?
For the record, I submitted this editorial to the Winchester Star during the week of November 14th and submitted on Sunday, November 20th and again Tuesday, November 22nd. I submitted to NVDaily on Sunday November 20th as well. Why is the following editorial not going to print???
The Winchester Star did a story back on October 6, 2022 headlined, "Valley Health feeling economic pinch from pandemic, inflation".
It was stated that Valley Health has about 800 job vacancies, whether full- or part-time, and most of them are in Winchester and the counties of Clarke, Frederick, Page, Shenandoah and Warren.
“Right now we’re making up for that shortfall by either asking people to work overtime, finding temporary agency [professionals] or combining units and services so that we can try to do more with less,” Valley Health Systems President/CEO Mark Nantz said.
"As of February 2020, Valley Health was averaging about $800,000 per month in premium pay", Nantz said. "Now it’s averaging $3 million a month."
Who made the decision that employees had to take the vaccines in order to keep their job or was it really about getting $126 million through the assistance programs such as the federal CARES Act, the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency?
Were Valley Health Systems and local doctors allowed to really practice medicine and treating patients utilizing all available information and protocols (such as FLCCC Alliance) or were they hamstrung to only follow NIH and FDA guidelines?
The FDA stated the only way an emergency order of any vaccine could get approval was that there could not be any known remedy/treatment on the market for COVID.
Does this explain why Ivermectin developed from a natural base plant, called the ‘Wonder drug’ due to its versatility, safety and impact from Japan that was discovered in 1978 and further developed for human treatment around 1987 and Hydroxychloroquine developed back in 1955 were quickly suppressed?
"Ivermectin proved to be even more of a ‘Wonder drug’ in human health, improving the nutrition, general health and wellbeing of billions of people worldwide ever since it was first used to treat Onchocerciasis in humans in 1988." In 1987, Merck indicated a price of $3 per tablet, meaning that a treatment dose would cost $6, well beyond an affordable amount for those most in need.
In 2015, Ivermectin was awarded the Nobel Prize for treatments of infectious diseases, a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world's most devastating tropical diseases.
Readers are encouraged to read the medical white papers on Ivermectin:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34466270/
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin/
Now one must ask, what drug would you feel more comfortable with, a vaccine that got an emergency order approved by the FDA and granted immunity to Big Pharma or drugs that have been on the market for human use since 1955 and 1988?
Furthermore, have you seen the video featuring Winchester’s mayor David Smith telling folks to get vaccinated?
https://fb.watch/gXzz2NQ1_5/
Does he have a medical degree that qualifies him to be in a position to be giving out medical advice to the local community? Maybe one would feel better about getting medical advice for the vaccine from the following world wide known doctors:
Dr. Robert Malone
Dr. Peter McCullough
Dr. Joseph Mercola
Something to ponder, Big Pharma was granted legal immunity but what about the employers, businesses and institutions that enforced the mandate? How would they be granted legal immunity?
To close, is it not all about dollars and cents and what makes the most sense? Within the last five years, what happened to common sense?
** End of Editorial submission **
More FYI on the next couple of pages.
Just released Nov. 21st, World Premiere …”Died Suddenly”, was shared with me Nov. 22nd in response to this editorial …
https://rumble.com/v1wac7i-world-premier-died-suddenly.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2
Some facts about VHS:
Are you aware of Winchester Medical Center’s profits since Y2K? I emailed Mark Nantz back in February requesting profits/loss figures for 2013, 2014 and 2017. I just emailed his secretary this past week requesting the information and stating I believe they did not meet the deadline of 30 days to respond with the information.
2000 $11,917,127
2001 $ 4,262,944
2002 $25,868,766
2003 $35,113,921
2004 $46,711,931
2005 $54,346,679
2006 $57,422,789
2007 $66,617,961
2008 $ 9,500,911
2009 $53,757,390
2010 $53,104,420
2011 $62,029,246
2012 $50,522,325
2013
2014
2015 $71,439,119
2016 $58,416,060
2017
2018 $78,884,579
2019 $29,826,256
2020 $18,414,953
Valley Health System was not very discreet about becoming the monopoly of health care within our regional community in buying up all smaller regional hospitals and building approx $35 million dollar brand new buildings. This does not include the brand new $100 million Warren Memorial hospital that opened up in June of 2021. Side note, Valley Health purchased about 150 acres off Leach Run Parkway in 2008 for $2.6 million. Of that land, the hospital may cover about 25 acres. The land is currently zoned agriculture and open-space preservation and would have to be rezoned before construction.
Why was Valley Health against the birth of the Winchester Eye Surgery Clinic? I am perplexed with the following statement from the March 2006 Quad State Business Journal:
"Last year, the Winchester Eye Surgery Clinic applied to the Virginia Department of Health for a certificate of public need (COPN). Despite receiving a letter of opposition from Winchester Medical Center, which has its own Surgi-Center, at which cataract removals are performed, the state agency granted the COPN on December 22, 2006."
'We opposed it because it was a duplication of the services we provide,' said Larry Van Hoose, vice president for Valley Health. 'Duplication tends to drive health care costs up.'"
I always thought that competition drives prices lower and a monopoly drives the prices up. Now I ask you all, does Valley Health Systems have duplication of their services or not within the regional community? So are their rising costs self-inflicted too?
Other side notes:
I am hearing that VHS is hiring temp nurses (most likely traveling nurses) that are not required to be vaxxed but are paying them basically double the pay. VHS’s increase of premium pay went from approx $800,000 a month to $3 million, so that would be self-inflicted too, would it not?
“Deception and the Law” A look into the DOJ and FTC crimes. Someone involved in this group was a resident in Clarke County, VA for a period of time.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Valley Health sues Anthem for $11.4 million in overdue payments (October 13, 2022)
Valley Health sues Anthem for $11.4 million in overdue payments
By JOSETTE KEELOR
The Winchester Star
Oct 13, 2022
WINCHESTER — Valley Health System is suing Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, now known as Elevance Health, for $11.4 million in past due payments, according to a news release.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Winchester Circuit Court. It includes two counts: breach of contract and violation of the Virginia Ethics and Fairness in Carrier Business Practices Act.
Mark Nantz, president and CEO of Winchester-based Valley Health, said the decision was “a last resort” and follows two years of attempts to resolve reimbursements that Valley Health says it is owed by Anthem, which is the largest health insurance carrier in Virginia.
“We’ve incurred the cost, we’ve performed the service, and we’ve not been paid,” he said on Thursday. “We had appealed to them. Some of these accounts are 2-plus years old.”
Valley Health, which operates six hospitals including Winchester Medical Center, has “worked in good faith to quietly resolve significant reimbursement issues with Anthem,” the release states, but “egregious delays in payment for healthcare services delivered to its members” has forced its hand.
“Anthem has left us no choice but to take legal action,” Nantz states in the release.
“We will not accept Anthem’s continued avoidance of the payments owed to our health system, which limits our resources to deliver the care our patients and their members pay for, expect, and deserve,” he adds.
Valley Health has tried for many years to work with Anthem on solving “its claims processing and payment deficiencies,” the suit reads, and has devoted “hundreds of hours of employee time” to meetings, calls, researching and “answering an endless stream of repetitive and unnecessary questions and data requests — but all to no avail.”
The suit goes on to say that this isn’t an isolated incident.
“In March 2022,” the suit states, “the Georgia Insurance Commissioner’s Office levied a multi-million dollar fine against Anthem’s Georgia affiliate for, among other failings, improper claims settlement practices and violations of the Georgia Prompt Pay Act requirements for paying healthcare providers.”
The Maine Insurance Department is also investigating and doing a market conduct examination of the payment practices of Anthem’s Maine affiliate.
Referencing media reports, the suit says Anthem owes more than $300 million in unpaid claims to VCU Health of Richmond and its Maine affiliate owes $70 million to a hospital system in Portland, Maine.
The suit was submitted by Kevin M. Rose, Michael W. Sharp and Mary Margaret Hawkins of BotkinRose PLC in Harrisonburg.
Valley Health recently announced concerns about its economic prospects following 2½ years of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to drastic staffing shortages, amid the country’s highest inflation rate since 1982.
The release also references “ongoing losses incurred from treating Medicare, Medicaid, and self-pay patients” while calling out Anthem for having recently announced record profits.
An information sheet provided by Valley Health on Thursday further explains why the health system has taken legal action, saying, “While the insurer continues to raise premiums and enjoys record profitability, every earned dollar Anthem/Elevance withholds from Valley Health jeopardizes access to sustainable, high-quality healthcare services available across the Shenandoah Valley.”
Anthem/Elevance made $6.1 billion in profits in 2021 alone, which Valley Health says is up 30% from 2020.
“Meanwhile, health systems are experiencing record losses,” Valley Health indicates.
According to Valley Health, its reimbursements from Anthem are overdue by $2.6 million in fiscal year 2019, $2.9 million in 2020 and $9.5 million in 2021. As of September 2022, $11.4 million is owed.
Meanwhile, it states, Anthem’s climbing profits amounted to $4.8 billion in 2019, $4.6 billion in 2020 and $6.1 billion in 2021. As of June 2022, it reached $3.5 billion in profits.
Furthermore, it states that Anthem/Elevance owns 43% of Virginia’s health insurance market, allowing it to “strong-arm health systems into accepting flagrant contract violations like this.”
Valley Health is far from alone in having to deal with failing to be reimbursed for services, Nantz said on Thursday. He explained that while Valley Health is making its judgments independently of what is happening elsewhere, he knows that other health systems around Virginia are experiencing the same types of problems.
Information provided by Valley Health also lists Indiana and Wisconsin as states with health systems or state regulators that have fined the insurance provider.
Conversely, Nantz said, Valley Health doesn’t have these issues with any other insurance provider.
“Every other payer we work with, we have nothing like this,” he said.
Valley Health renewed its three-year agreement with Anthem in January 2021 following lengthy contract negotiations. This enabled Valley Health to avoid terminating its relationship with Anthem, “which would have been highly disruptive to Anthem’s members,” the lawsuit states.
In a statement issued late Thursday, Anthem/Elevance called Valley Health’s claims overstated.
“We are aware of the lawsuit that was filed and are reviewing it,” the statement says. “We want to be clear that this action in no way impacts access to care, and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield members may continue to receive care at Valley Health. ...
“As to some of the specific claims being made, we believe they have been inflated based on inaccurate and incomplete data,” the statement continues. “It is a standard industry practice to review claims for medical services to ensure they are coded and billed appropriately. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Virginia strives to process claims as quickly as possible and in accordance with our agreements, while also verifying billing accuracy, which requires the cooperation of our provider partners.”
The statement says the insurance provider will continue to work with Valley Health to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
Valley Health, too, “will continue to do our part to serve our community and ensure patients have access to the providers and services of our health system,” Nantz states in the release.
“But we must hold Anthem — one of the nation’s largest health insurers and responsible for a large portion of Valley Health’s revenue — accountable for the harmful effects of their payment delays that ultimately impact our ability to sustain quality community healthcare services.”
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Valley Health feeling economic pinch from pandemic, inflation (October 6, 2022)
Valley Health feeling economic pinch from pandemic, inflation
By JOSETTE KEELOR The Winchester Star
Oct 6, 2022
Faced with a vastly smaller staff, rising costs and the potential of cutting ties with insurance companies in the coming years, Valley Health is considering its options for how to weather the economic impact sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Valley Health is not in danger of closing, said Mark Nantz, president and CEO of the not-for-profit healthcare company that serves more than 500,000 people and operates four hospitals in Virginia and two in West Virginia as well as more than 70 medical practices and urgent care centers, outpatient rehabilitation and fitness, medical transport, long-term care and home health.
However, he said they are cautious about the financial implications for them as health systems around the country struggle with many of the same issues.
“At some point, it would be difficult for any health system to keep the doors open,” he said.
For now, no essential services are in jeopardy, he said, but if inflation and job vacancies continue and they can’t get revenues to increase, they will have to look across their 15-county region to decide where they can reduce, consolidate or discontinue services.
Instead of six places for surgery, it might have to be four, he said. Instead of 150 doctor’s offices, it might be 100.
“We’re looking at every service we provide,” Nantz said. “How can we do that at a reasonable margin?”
Nantz credits federal funding over the last 2½ years with keeping the health system afloat.
In a news release earlier this week, he said that if Valley Health hadn’t received $126 million through assistance programs such as the federal CARES Act, the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, then it would have lost $100 million over the last 2½ years.
But all of that funding is gone now, and he’s less sure about how the health system will remain in the black in the coming months and years.
“I would say that the biggest lasting impact is the cost of staffing,” Nantz said.
As with many other areas of business operations, he said the cost of salaries has gone up 20% from pre-pandemic rates.
Furthermore, Valley Health has about 800 job vacancies, whether full- or part-time, and most of them are in Winchester and the counties of Clarke, Frederick, Page, Shenandoah and Warren.
“Right now we’re making up for that shortfall by either asking people to work overtime, finding temporary agency [professionals] or combining units and services so that we can try to do more with less,” Nantz said.
Despite being short-handed, he said Valley Health is still providing necessary procedures and that the trauma centers are functioning at the capacity they must to provide that critical level of care.
“At all times during the pandemic, we’ve maintained a safe level of care and standard of care,” he said.
But asking staff to work more hours at premium rates while bringing in agency professionals to fulfill temporary assignments at higher rates has been costing a lot more than if Valley Health simply had a full staff, he said.
As of February 2020, Valley Health was averaging about $800,000 per month in premium pay, Nantz said. Now it’s averaging $3 million a month.
“It’s across the country. Everyone is feeling the same thing,” Nantz said.
“The labor has gone up significantly, and it doesn’t appear to be going back down.”
Another major problem, he said, is that most insurance providers are reimbursing health-care facilities based on pre-pandemic rates, not today’s rates, which are much higher because of the cost of labor and also the cost of doing business during a time of inflation with higher gas prices and various other products.
Historically, a health system looks to commercial insurance to make up the difference in the shortfall of Medicaid, Nantz said.
Valley Health has been negotiating higher rates with companies like Anthem, Aetna, Cigna and United, and since each insurance company’s contract period expires at a different time, he said this process could take until the end of 2024.
“In between contract periods we don’t really have the right … to cancel,” Nantz said. “As those negotiation rates come up for renewal, we’ve been requesting and receiving increases that are higher than normal.”
Also, regardless of what happens with the insurance companies, he said that Valley Health’s financial assistance program will remain.
Still, they’ll have to see if it’s all enough.
“We’re a long way from going out of network,” he said. But it is a possibility that they’re considering.
“Most health insurance companies have had record years in the last 2½ years,” Nantz said.
That’s at least in part because many patients have been avoiding going to the doctor, some even putting off necessary care. Insurance companies are still making money, Nantz explained, but they’re not having to pay out as many reimbursements as they would have done before the pandemic.
In the meantime, he said, hospitals are dealing with runaway inflation.
If the insurance companies refuse to give a rate of increase equal to Valley Health’s costs, he said, “Then we can’t afford to do business with that company.”
Whatever happens, though, Valley Health will “continue being the safety net for 15 counties," he said.
“Valley Health is strong; we’ve been here for a long time,” he said. “It’s important that the community know that we didn’t come through this without a mark.”
But, he’s proud of how they’ve responded throughout the pandemic.
“We’re gonna be here,” he said. “It’s not over for us yet.”
By JOSETTE KEELOR The Winchester Star
Oct 6, 2022
Faced with a vastly smaller staff, rising costs and the potential of cutting ties with insurance companies in the coming years, Valley Health is considering its options for how to weather the economic impact sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Valley Health is not in danger of closing, said Mark Nantz, president and CEO of the not-for-profit healthcare company that serves more than 500,000 people and operates four hospitals in Virginia and two in West Virginia as well as more than 70 medical practices and urgent care centers, outpatient rehabilitation and fitness, medical transport, long-term care and home health.
However, he said they are cautious about the financial implications for them as health systems around the country struggle with many of the same issues.
“At some point, it would be difficult for any health system to keep the doors open,” he said.
For now, no essential services are in jeopardy, he said, but if inflation and job vacancies continue and they can’t get revenues to increase, they will have to look across their 15-county region to decide where they can reduce, consolidate or discontinue services.
Instead of six places for surgery, it might have to be four, he said. Instead of 150 doctor’s offices, it might be 100.
“We’re looking at every service we provide,” Nantz said. “How can we do that at a reasonable margin?”
Nantz credits federal funding over the last 2½ years with keeping the health system afloat.
In a news release earlier this week, he said that if Valley Health hadn’t received $126 million through assistance programs such as the federal CARES Act, the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, then it would have lost $100 million over the last 2½ years.
But all of that funding is gone now, and he’s less sure about how the health system will remain in the black in the coming months and years.
“I would say that the biggest lasting impact is the cost of staffing,” Nantz said.
As with many other areas of business operations, he said the cost of salaries has gone up 20% from pre-pandemic rates.
Furthermore, Valley Health has about 800 job vacancies, whether full- or part-time, and most of them are in Winchester and the counties of Clarke, Frederick, Page, Shenandoah and Warren.
“Right now we’re making up for that shortfall by either asking people to work overtime, finding temporary agency [professionals] or combining units and services so that we can try to do more with less,” Nantz said.
Despite being short-handed, he said Valley Health is still providing necessary procedures and that the trauma centers are functioning at the capacity they must to provide that critical level of care.
“At all times during the pandemic, we’ve maintained a safe level of care and standard of care,” he said.
But asking staff to work more hours at premium rates while bringing in agency professionals to fulfill temporary assignments at higher rates has been costing a lot more than if Valley Health simply had a full staff, he said.
As of February 2020, Valley Health was averaging about $800,000 per month in premium pay, Nantz said. Now it’s averaging $3 million a month.
“It’s across the country. Everyone is feeling the same thing,” Nantz said.
“The labor has gone up significantly, and it doesn’t appear to be going back down.”
Another major problem, he said, is that most insurance providers are reimbursing health-care facilities based on pre-pandemic rates, not today’s rates, which are much higher because of the cost of labor and also the cost of doing business during a time of inflation with higher gas prices and various other products.
Historically, a health system looks to commercial insurance to make up the difference in the shortfall of Medicaid, Nantz said.
Valley Health has been negotiating higher rates with companies like Anthem, Aetna, Cigna and United, and since each insurance company’s contract period expires at a different time, he said this process could take until the end of 2024.
“In between contract periods we don’t really have the right … to cancel,” Nantz said. “As those negotiation rates come up for renewal, we’ve been requesting and receiving increases that are higher than normal.”
Also, regardless of what happens with the insurance companies, he said that Valley Health’s financial assistance program will remain.
Still, they’ll have to see if it’s all enough.
“We’re a long way from going out of network,” he said. But it is a possibility that they’re considering.
“Most health insurance companies have had record years in the last 2½ years,” Nantz said.
That’s at least in part because many patients have been avoiding going to the doctor, some even putting off necessary care. Insurance companies are still making money, Nantz explained, but they’re not having to pay out as many reimbursements as they would have done before the pandemic.
In the meantime, he said, hospitals are dealing with runaway inflation.
If the insurance companies refuse to give a rate of increase equal to Valley Health’s costs, he said, “Then we can’t afford to do business with that company.”
Whatever happens, though, Valley Health will “continue being the safety net for 15 counties," he said.
“Valley Health is strong; we’ve been here for a long time,” he said. “It’s important that the community know that we didn’t come through this without a mark.”
But, he’s proud of how they’ve responded throughout the pandemic.
“We’re gonna be here,” he said. “It’s not over for us yet.”
Monday, August 1, 2022
Valley Health investing $50M to upgrade electronic medical record system (August 1, 2022)
Valley Health investing $50M to upgrade electronic medical record system
By MATT WELCH The Winchester Star
Aug 1, 2022
WINCHESTER — “This is one small step for technology and one giant leap for health and wellness in our community,” Valley Health President and CEO Mark Nantz said on Monday about Project Elevate — a 16-month process that Valley Health is undergoing to implement its own more robust version of the electronic medical record system, Epic, which it has used since 2014.
“This is a pretty major endeavor for us,” Nantz said during the announcement in the Winchester Medical Center Conference Center. “It’s a big lift. Most of you who were here back in 2012 and 2014, it was a lot of work then and it’ll be a lot of work now. But it’ll be our own.”
Project Elevate is slated for completion by November 2023.
Over the past eight years, Valley Health hospitals, outpatient clinics and affiliated providers have used Epic to document medical care, order tests and procedures, and communicate with patients and medical professionals. The service has been made available through a partnership with Inova Health System.
The partnership helped Valley Health streamline the initial implementation process while curbing expenses, Valley Health officials said. Project Elevate, however, will allow Valley Health to transition to its own upgraded electronic medical record system, which will be managed exclusively by Valley Health. Valley Health will continue to partner with Inova during the transition as well as the Huntzinger Management Group.
In April, Valley Health’s Board of Trustees approved $50 million to fund Project Elevate. About $17 million will be spent on outside labor and expertise.
Project Elevate aims to give Valley Health more flexibility and independence, improve responsiveness and add three new modules currently not on Epic such as laboratory, cardiology and home health.
“This is a future where we’re shooting for technology being better used to take care of our patients, to communicate with one another, to communicate with our clinicians,” Nantz said.
Valley Health has 8,640 active Epic users and 99,562 MyChart users, which is Epic’s patient portal. Additionally, 1,006 physicians and advanced practice clinicians with Valley Health use Epic.
Nancy Ripari, Huntzinger Management Group’s interim chief information officer, explained that five new applications will be implemented as part of Project Elevate: Cupid will be for invasive and non-invasive cardiology; Beaker will replace ALab; Dorothy will replace McKesson Home Health; OnBase will replace OneContent for patient documents, and Optimization will be for targeted improvements to key functions.
Beaker and Cupid are expected to launch in July 2023, followed by Optimization in September and Dorothy in October. Everything associated with Project Elevate is slated to go live on Nov. 4, 2023.
Monday, January 17, 2022
Winchester Medical Center's solar energy system nears completion (January 17, 2022)
Winchester Medical Center's solar energy system nears completion
By Josette Keelor The Winchester Star
Jan 17, 2022
A nearly two-year-long solar panel project on Winchester Medical Center’s campus is expected to be finished next month.
Once finished, it will be one of the largest solar power systems at any Virginia hospital, said Mark Baker, vice president of facilities management and safety for WMC’s parent company, Valley Health.
The solar project should save an estimated $3.25 million in electric utility bills over the next 30 years, The Winchester Star reported in January 2020.
“There are three pieces to the project, two of which are already complete,” Baker said recently.
The first two sections — a roof-mounted system on Valley Health’s diagnostic center and another system on the roof of the cancer center — were both completed last year, he said.
The first one has a capacity of 289.4 kilowatts and the second one 125.8 kilowatts, a Valley Health news release from early 2020 says. Combined with the final section (1.3 megawatts), the total grid of 4,635 solar panels will provide 1.7 megawatts of clean energy.
The final section, a ground-mounted system on the northwest side of the campus, should be completed in February, Baker said, depending on any issues outside of Valley Health’s control.
“We’re up against some weather challenges and parts availability because of COVID,” Baker said.
Though the solar panel grid can stand up to the weather, he said that enough snow will prevent the panels from generating solar power until it's cleared away.
Valley Health won’t be storing any solar energy, so they’ll use whatever power they have as they generate it, he said.
Most of the energy will be generated from March to October, Baker said, and the rest of the year, Valley Health will supplement with the energy it buys from Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative, which he said has been fantastic to work with.
“They are our primary source,” he said.
He expects the solar panels to provide about 20 to 25% of electrical power to the campus, Baker said.
“It certainly provides an element of resilience which might not currently exist, meaning we can generate our own power,” he said.
“It gives us some independence if you will.”
The solar panel grid is also expected to result in about $80,000 a year in energy cost savings, The Star reported in early 2020.
Staunton-based company Secure Futures Solar agreed not to charge Valley Health for the installation of the grid, Valley Health Public Relations Manager Carol Weare said in January 2020. Instead, Secure Futures Solar planned to cover all costs to get the system up and running and will start billing Valley Health for services once the system begins operation and starts producing power.
Aside from sustainability and reliability, using solar energy helps Valley Health keep its costs down so it can provide more cost-effective health care, Baker said.
“Ultimately it benefits the environment and the patient.”
By Josette Keelor The Winchester Star
Jan 17, 2022
A nearly two-year-long solar panel project on Winchester Medical Center’s campus is expected to be finished next month.
Once finished, it will be one of the largest solar power systems at any Virginia hospital, said Mark Baker, vice president of facilities management and safety for WMC’s parent company, Valley Health.
The solar project should save an estimated $3.25 million in electric utility bills over the next 30 years, The Winchester Star reported in January 2020.
“There are three pieces to the project, two of which are already complete,” Baker said recently.
The first two sections — a roof-mounted system on Valley Health’s diagnostic center and another system on the roof of the cancer center — were both completed last year, he said.
The first one has a capacity of 289.4 kilowatts and the second one 125.8 kilowatts, a Valley Health news release from early 2020 says. Combined with the final section (1.3 megawatts), the total grid of 4,635 solar panels will provide 1.7 megawatts of clean energy.
The final section, a ground-mounted system on the northwest side of the campus, should be completed in February, Baker said, depending on any issues outside of Valley Health’s control.
“We’re up against some weather challenges and parts availability because of COVID,” Baker said.
Though the solar panel grid can stand up to the weather, he said that enough snow will prevent the panels from generating solar power until it's cleared away.
Valley Health won’t be storing any solar energy, so they’ll use whatever power they have as they generate it, he said.
Most of the energy will be generated from March to October, Baker said, and the rest of the year, Valley Health will supplement with the energy it buys from Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative, which he said has been fantastic to work with.
“They are our primary source,” he said.
He expects the solar panels to provide about 20 to 25% of electrical power to the campus, Baker said.
“It certainly provides an element of resilience which might not currently exist, meaning we can generate our own power,” he said.
“It gives us some independence if you will.”
The solar panel grid is also expected to result in about $80,000 a year in energy cost savings, The Star reported in early 2020.
Staunton-based company Secure Futures Solar agreed not to charge Valley Health for the installation of the grid, Valley Health Public Relations Manager Carol Weare said in January 2020. Instead, Secure Futures Solar planned to cover all costs to get the system up and running and will start billing Valley Health for services once the system begins operation and starts producing power.
Aside from sustainability and reliability, using solar energy helps Valley Health keep its costs down so it can provide more cost-effective health care, Baker said.
“Ultimately it benefits the environment and the patient.”