Just wanted to make corrections. I'm an anesthesiologist at Orange Coast and you either have some very very old information or you've confused us with another group. Your description of our chair is like the opposite. We also aren't affiliated with Orange County Global or any practices in Victorville. Our group only has two contracts...Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center which is part of the MemorialCare health system and a surgery center that is on-site at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center but it is a separate entity than the hospital. Pretty happy here overall.
I'm happy to be corrected.
The group I'm talking about is headed by WT. Their "flagship" hospital is Orange County Global Medical Center, now owned by KPC. In the last 15 years it--and three other hospitals in Orange County--have had as many corporate owners. Tenet, Integrated Health Holdings, and KPC.
(To give you an idea just how terrible those four hospitals are, in one of the very most affluent counties in the world, those four private hospitals together sold for $70M, and the "turnaround" did so poorly that they had to be rescued by KPC which--in case you didn't know--is a poor man's version of Prime Healthcare. (Dr. Prem Reddy owns Prime Healthcare and is in dozens of states and owns 40 or 50 truly terrible, terrible hospitals. Dr. Kali Chaudhuri owns KPC with seven hospitals and is in three counties in a single state. In addition to the four fire-sale Orange County hospitals, he also extended his empire into Hemet, Victorville, and Menifee. Of course, bigger isn't always better...but Victorville, Hemet, and Menifee? I think I'd prefer Otisburg. (
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According to OCA's own website, they also serve hospitals in Glendale and Victor Valley Global Medical Center, 15248 Eleventh St., Victorville, CA 92395.
With great fanfare, NAPA just announced they had entered Orange County, by way of purchasing the group in question. (
North American Partners in Anesthesia expands to West Coast with new acquisition of Orange Coast Anesthesia, Southern California's fastest-growing anesthesia group) I had always called it Orange Coast Anesthesia. It might possibly be a different place than where tecumseh works. Or, maybe WT retired, took his loathsome toady with him, and virtually overnight performed a turnaround that would make Iacocca proud--though the third rate press release/salespitch quotes WT in a word salad of meaningless drivel, so I find that theory far-fetched. Or, maybe WT's therapist worked a miracle, in which case we owe it to humanity to divulge the recipe of the therapist's secret sauce.
I'll send tecumseh a private message and try to clarify the whole mess. If he works for a good group that is being confused with OCA, that's too bad for him and his group. If OCA is the same outfit tecumseh works for, we'll have to chalk it up to different strokes for different folks, and agree that no one job is perfect for everybody, anymore than one anesthesiologist is perfect for every job.