California Armenian Home and Friendly staff......



Friendly Staff who frequently complains about 16 hour shifts.
Poor thing and her sleepless nights, maybe it is all that studying at Heald College to be a Pharmacy Tech.
Is this someone that should be working around prescriptions let alone elderly people?

California Armenian Home and dwindling support

Poor Guy looks like he is ready for the home, except he will have a private nurse at his own residence, because he really thinks he is too good to admit himself in the California Armenian Home.  Notice not one Armenian Attorney is there?  Where is the staff that he professes to protect?  Any opera singers from his Fresno Grand Opera?  No, Nothing exciting here.  The woman is Eileen Ohanian, she was a French Teacher at Wawona Jr. High, now retired with a lot of time on her hands.
This is the last fundraiser given by the Ani Guild and there was barely 100 people there.  It costs more to put on these fake show of support than they actually bring in.  There is no younger people in the Ani Guild and no interest because it is not an Armenian operated nursing care facility.   This was in 2011, since then many people and groups have pulled their support of the California Armenian Home.   They should have thought about this before they destroyed the California Armenian Home.  It cannot survive on it's reputation anymore.

California Armenian Home- Privacy Practices not practiced

California Armenian Home has a facility that abuses patient information, patient's care or condition is frequently discussed among staff.  As well as some staff have unprofessionally, eavesdropped on conversations, blurted out diagnosis, not left patient's room when requested by family, stalked family member with camera, leaving station unattended goes to other nursing stations to gossip and carry on with social network sites and texting each other.  This unprofessionalism would never happen at the Ararat Home in Southern California.
http://www.ararathome.org

Here is part of their PRIVACY policy and they DO have the patient bill of rights posted in their nursing homes.   California Armenian Home pay attention to 1. k and o     2. E c and f   F. on how to file Complaints and how RETAILATION WILL NOT HAPPEN. 

ARARAT NURSING FACILITY

NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
FOR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.  PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY

A.        INTRODUCTION

During the course of providing services and care to you, Ararat Nursing Facility gathers, creates, and retains certain personal information about you that identifies who you are and relates to your past, present, or future physical or mental condition, the provision of health care to you, and payment for your health care services.  This personal information is characterized as your “protected health information.”  This Notice of Privacy Practices describes how Ararat Nursing Facility   maintains the confidentiality of your protected health information, and informs you about the possible uses and disclosures of such information.  It also informs you about your rights with respect to your protected health information.

B.        ARARAT NURSING FACILITY’S RESPONSIBILITIES

Ararat Nursing Facility is required by federal and state law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information.  Ararat Nursing Facility is also required by law to provide you with this Notice of Privacy Practices that describes Ararat Nursing Facility’s legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your protected health information.  Ararat Nursing Facility will abide by the terms of this Notice of Privacy Practices.  Ararat Nursing Facility reserves the right to change this or any future Notice of Privacy Practices and to make the new notice provisions effective for all protected health information that it maintains, including protected health information already in its possession.  If Ararat Nursing Facility changes its Notice of Privacy Practices, it will personally deliver or mail a revised notice to you at your current address.

C.        USE AND DISCLOSURE WITH YOUR AUTHORIZATION

Ararat Nursing Facility will require a written authorization from you before it uses or discloses your protected health information, unless a particular use or disclosure is expressly permitted or required by law without your authorization.  Ararat Nursing Facility has prepared an authorization form for you to use that authorizes Ararat Nursing Facility to use or disclose your protected health information for the purposes set forth in the form.  You are not required to sign the form as a condition to obtaining treatment or having your care paid for.  If you sign an authorization, you may revoke it at any time by written notice.  Ararat Nursing Facility then will not use or disclose your protected health information, except where it has already relied on your authorization.

D.        HOW ARARAT NURSING FACILITY MAY USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION WITHOUT YOUR AUTHORIZATION

1.         Permissive Disclosures

Ararat Nursing Facility may, in its discretion, use or disclose your protected health without your written authorization in the following circumstances:

a.         Your Care and Treatment

Ararat Nursing Facility may use or disclose your protected health information to provide you with or assist in your treatment, care and services.  For example, Ararat Nursing Facility may disclose your health information to health care providers who are involved in your care to assist them in your diagnosis and treatment, as necessary.  Ararat Nursing Facility may also disclose your protected health information to individuals who will be involved in your care if you leave the facility. 

b.         Billing and Payment

i.          Medicare, Medi-Cal and Other Public or Private Health Insurers – Ararat Nursing Facility may use or disclose your protected health information to public or private health insurers (including medical insurance carriers, HMOs, Medicare, and Medi-Cal) in order to bill and receive payment for your treatment and services that you receive at the facility.  The information on or accompanying a bill may include information that identifies you, as well as your diagnosis, procedures, and supplies used. 

ii.         Health Care Providers – Ararat Nursing Facility may also disclose your protected health information to health care providers in order to allow them to determine if they are owed any reimbursement for care that they have furnished to you and, if so, how much is owed.

c.         Health Care Operations

Ararat Nursing Facility may use your protected health information for health care operations at the facility.  These uses and disclosures are necessary to manage the facility and to monitor our quality of services and care.  For example, we may use your protected health information to review our services and to evaluate the performance of our staff in caring for you.

d.         Licensing and Accreditation

Ararat Nursing Facility may disclose your protected health information to any government or private agency, such as to the California Department of Health Services and the California Department of Social Services, responsible for licensing or accrediting the facility so that the agency can carry out its oversight activities.  These oversight activities include audits; civil, administrative, or criminal investigations; inspections; licensure or disciplinary actions; civil, administrative, or criminal proceedings or actions; or other activities necessary for appropriate oversight.

e.         Ararat Nursing Facility’s Census Directory

Ararat Nursing Facility maintains a Census Directory of residents to allow staff to provide certain basic information to members of the clergy who serve at the facility or to other persons who ask for residents by name.  Unless you notify Ararat Nursing Facility that you object, it will include certain limited information about you, such as your name, your location, medical record number, and name of physician (only name and location will be given to clergy or others who ask about you) in the facility Census Directory.

f.          Individuals Involved in Your Care or Payment for Your Care

Unless you specifically object, Ararat Nursing Facility may disclose to a family member, other relative, a close personal friend, or to any other person identified by you, all protected health information directly relevant to such person’s involvement with your care or directly relevant to payment related to your care. Ararat Nursing Facility may also disclose your protected health information to these same individuals to assist in notifying them of your location, general condition, or death. 

g.         Disaster Relief

Ararat Nursing Facility may disclose your protected health information to a public or private entity authorized to assist in disaster relief efforts.

h.         Business Associates

Ararat Nursing Facility may contract with certain individuals or entities to provide services on its behalf.  Examples include data processing, quality assurance, legal, or accounting services.  Ararat Nursing Facility may disclose your protected health information to a business associate, as necessary, to allow the business associate to perform its functions on Ararat Nursing Facility’s behalf.  Ararat Nursing Facility will have a contract with its business associates that obligate the business associates to maintain the confidentiality of your protected health information. 

i.          Fundraising

Ararat Nursing Facility may use certain protected health information to contact you in an effort to raise money for the facility and its operations.  Ararat Nursing Facility may disclose the protected health information to business associates or to related foundations that it uses to raise funds for its own benefit.  Ararat Nursing Facility will disclose only your name, address, and phone number and the dates you receive health care services.  You may notify Ararat Nursing Facility in writing if you object to such disclosures.

j.          Research

Ararat Nursing Facility may disclose your protected health information for research purposes, provided that an outside Institutional Review Board overseeing the research approves the disclosure of the information without a written authorization. 

k.         PIQI Review

Ararat Nursing Facility may disclose your protected health information to PIQI (Performance Improvement Quality Improvement) committee        to aid in the process of improvement.

l.          Medical Examiner or Funeral Directors

Ararat Nursing Facility may disclose protected health information to a medical examiner or funeral director to allow them to carry out their duties.

m.        Appointment Reminders

Ararat Nursing Facility may use or disclose your protected health information to remind you about appointments. 

n.         Treatment Alternatives or Health-Related Benefits and Services

Ararat Nursing Facility may use or disclose your protected health information to inform you about treatment alternatives or health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you. 

o.         Members of Workforce

It is Ararat Nursing Facility’s policy to allow members of its workforce to share residents’ protected health information with one another to the extent necessary to permit them to perform their legitimate functions on Ararat Nursing Facility’s behalf.  At the same time, Ararat Nursing Facility will work with and train its workforce members to ensure that there are no unnecessary or extraneous communications that will violate the rights of its residents to have the confidentiality of their protected health information maintained.

p.           Veterans

Ararat Nursing Facility may use and disclose to components of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical information about you to determine whether you are eligible for certain benefits.

q.           Workers’ Compensation

Ararat Nursing Facility may use or disclose your protected health information to comply with laws relating to workers’ compensation or similar programs.

2.           Mandatory Disclosures

Ararat Nursing Facility will disclose protected health information to outside persons or entities without your written authorization as required by law in the following circumstances:

a.         Court Order; Order of Administrative Tribunal

Ararat Nursing Facility will disclose protected health information in accordance with an order of a court or of an administrative tribunal of a government agency.

b.         Subpoena

Ararat Nursing Facility will disclose protected health information in accordance with a valid subpoena issued by a party to adjudication before a court, an administrative tribunal, or a private arbitrator.  Reasonable efforts will be made to notify you of the subpoena, or of efforts to obtain an order or agreement protecting your protected health information.

c.         Law Enforcement Agencies

Ararat Nursing Facility will disclose protected health information to law enforcement agencies in accordance with a search warrant, a court order or court-ordered subpoena, or an investigative subpoena or summons.

d.         Coroner

Ararat Nursing Facility will disclose protected health information to a coroner where the coroner requests the information to identify a decedent; to notify next of kin; or to investigate deaths that may involve public health concerns, suspicious circumstances, elder abuse, or organ or tissue donation.

e.         Elder Abuse Reporting

Ararat Nursing Facility will disclose protected health information about a resident who is suspected to be the victim of elder abuse to the extent necessary to complete any oral or written report mandated by law.  Under certain circumstances, Ararat Nursing Facility may disclose further protected health information about the resident to aid the investigating agency in performing its duties.  Ararat Nursing Facility will promptly inform the resident about any disclosure unless Ararat Nursing Facility believes that informing the resident would place the resident in danger of serious harm, or would be informing the resident’s personal representative, whom Ararat Nursing Facility believes to be responsible for the abuse, and believes that informing such person would not be in the resident’s best interest.

f.          National Security and Intelligence Activities, Protected Services for the President and Others

Ararat Nursing Facility will disclose protected health information about a resident to authorized federal officials conducting national security and intelligence activities or as needed to provide protection to the President of the United States, certain other persons or foreign heads of states, or to conduct certain special investigations.

g.         Other Disclosures Required by Law

Ararat Nursing Facility will disclose protected health information about a resident when otherwise required by law.

E.        YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION

You have the following rights with respect to your protected health information.  To exercise these rights, contact Ararat Nursing Facility at the following address: Ararat Nursing Facility 15099 mission Hills Rd.  Mission Hills, CA 91345, Attention:  Compliance Officer.

a.         Right to Request Access

You have the right to inspect and copy your protected health information maintained by Ararat Nursing Facility.  In certain limited circumstances, Ararat Nursing Facility may deny your request as permitted by law.  However, you may be given an opportunity to have such denial reviewed by an independent licensed health care professional.

b.         Right to Request Amendment

You have the right to request an amendment to your protected health information maintained by Ararat Nursing Facility.  If your request for an amendment is denied, you will receive a written denial, including the reasons for such denial, and an opportunity to submit a written statement disagreeing with the denial.

c.         Right to Request Restriction

You have the right to request restrictions on the use and disclosure of your protected health information for treatment, payment or health care operations, or providing notifications regarding your identity and status to persons inquiring about or involved in your care.  Ararat Nursing Facility is not required to grant your request, but if it does, it will comply with your request, except in an emergency situation or until the restriction is terminated by you or Ararat Nursing Facility.

d.         Right to Request Confidential Communications

You have the right to request that Ararat Nursing Facility communicate protected health information to the recipient by alternative means or at alternative locations.

e.         Right to an Accounting

You have the right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your protected health information created and maintained by Ararat Nursing Facility over the six years prior to the date of your request or for a lesser period.  Ararat Nursing Facility is not required to provide an accounting of the following disclosures:

·          To carry out treatment, payment, and health care operations;

·          To respond to your requests for access to protected health information;

·          To include your information in the Ararat Nursing Facility’s Census Directory;

·          To aid in the identification or care of a resident; or

·          To any recipient prior to April 14, 2003 or for protected health information created more than six years before the date of your request for an accounting.

f.          Right to Receive a Copy of the Notice of Privacy Practices

You have the right to request and receive a copy of Ararat Nursing Facility’s Notice of Privacy Practices for Protected Health Information in written or electronic form.

F.         COMPLAINTS

If you believe that your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with Ararat Nursing Facility at the following address 15099 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 Attention: Compliance Officer. You also have the right to submit a complaint to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 50 United Nations Plaza – Room 322, San Francisco, CA 94102, Attention OCR Regional Manager.  Ararat Nursing Facility will not retaliate against you if you file a compliant.

G.        FURTHER INFORMATION

If you have questions about this Notice of Privacy Practices or would like further information about your privacy rights, contact Ararat Nursing Facility at the following address 15099 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 Attention: Compliance Officer.

California Armenian Home- Audits, Audits and more Audits

While the Californa Armenian Home is struggling through the county, state and federal audits from everything to mold to HIPAA violations and privacy of patients /family members being stalked with cameras by low life staff member.  Playing "victim" will not work, the VICTIMS are the patients not your lying staff.
Continue to not correct the actions and behaviors of your staff - you can expect less and less money from the Armenian community.  Worse than the money, you have lost support.  Most do not want their family members in the California Armenian Home as it is not for Armenians anymore.  It's all bullshit.

Kirk Krikorian's Lincy Foundation snubbed the California Armenian Home and instead donated $5 million to the Children's Hospital of Central California as well as $100,000 to the Armenian Community School. 

The free flowing money from Armenian donations is over.  When this facility decided to put odars in charge, they now have people who don't care about the reputation of the facility but rather only care about protecting their jobs.

California Armenian Home has some GREAT LVNs and CNAs, but the ones that are not professional need to go.  You fired PS who is an Armenian and have no problem getting rid of people for no reason.  You have plenty of just cause reasons to fire LQ, SL, JG and others. 

Since the Croatian Turk (CT) loves money so much, lets see if she can make up the decline in donations with the paltry fund raiser "Old Fashion Armenian Picnic" at $50.00 a head - that is pathetic.  The Board of California Armenian Home is clueless, the only person in control is the enabler of the CT. 
At $50.00 a ticket, September 15th will be the worse attended picnic, they will be lucky to make $5,000 and we all know that Richard Hagobian doesn't play for free. 

$5,000 won't cover 1 patient's fee for 1 month.  What a waste of time and energy.  For what?  To prove you are some sort of Armenian facility when you are not?  

There were plenty of smiles at Children's Hospital Central California Wednesday morning as it received the largest, single gift in its history.

The Lincy Foundation presented a $5 million donation to the hospital.

According to hospital officials, the gift will help provide safe and effective care to patients and their families.

The money will also be used to explore a physicians' fellowship program and increase its research infrastructure.

"This isn't a gift that happens often and it's so exciting and it will provide so much to the children in the Valley," said Gordon L. Alexander, President and CEO of Children's Hospital.

"We are pleased to be able to partner with Children's Hospital as they enhance their position as the leading pediatric healthcare provider in the region and throughout the western United States," said Anthony Mandekic, chairman of the board for The Lincy Foundation.

The Lincy Foundation is an organization founded by businessman and philanthropist Kirk Kerkorian.

http://www.kmph-kfre.com/story/14000980/childrens-hospital-receives-5-million-donation-from-lincy-foundation?clienttype=printable

California Armenian Home and why Armenian vendors are not hired

The reasons Armenian businesses and physicians are shunned from this nursing facility is for 2 reasons 1)  They don't want to deal with the dirty underhanded politics of the California Armenian Home   2)  The California Armenian Home does not want to hire Armenians for work, or contractual work because they tell the rest of the community what is going on.

Lets start with the unit dose medication for the patients.  Even though Model Drug is one of the best in the valley and well respected.  California Armenian Home decides to go with PrimAmerica a non-Armenian pharmaceutical firm.  Whilest the cousin of the board President is a Pharmacist (worked in Sacramento) [that is another story about the board president's family members serving with her on the board to protect her poor decisions]
California Armenian Home uses very little Armenian businesses and services, yet wants donations from businesses that have never made close to the salary that the CT (Croatian Turk) has made.  CT's salary is $150,000 per year and she is rewarded for passing audits -additional $20,000 that is a whopping $170,000 per year.  While this is common practice in larger nursing homes, why would someone be rewarded for doing their job?  This could explain the many cutting of corners to pass audits- we all know that the Croatian Turk loves money.  Maybe she took a suitcase full of cash on her visit to Croatia - or perhaps it is a one-way ticket to avoid the laundery list of audits that will be comming up. 

We are told that CT (who has left the country as we write this- maybe to avoid the additional audits )  believes she is worth more money.  This is more than the Medical Director makes and many other Physicians who ACTUALLY have a degree.  Speaking of Medical Director, the facility pushes non-Armenian physicians one of which is Punjabi who closed his private practice to "consult" with nursing homes.  For showing up a bare minimum of 8 hours a month, it isn't bad dough - although no where near $170,000 that the Croatian Turk makes.  Seriously CT THINKS she is a doctor, and has even signed their tax returns as a CPA.  A jack of all trades and a master at nothing except playing dirty politics that have gotten her no where except NO MONEY from the Armenian Community.

The facility Attorney is also non-Armenian, he is a 75 year old Dago who is money grabbing from the Armenians via the Raisin Advisory Board and Fresno Grand Opera that he is affilated with.  But make no mistake about it, he has been in court against many Armenians : Edna Garabedian, and the Lion's Brothers Packing.  Hopefully Eddie Jr. won't put him at CAH when his time is up (which appears to be soon judging from his confusion of proper paperwork, dates and other issues)

The Attorneys and Judges of Fresno County include over 25% that are Armenian, why do they want nothing to do with California Armenian Home?  Because of the politics, but will do extra outside work for them on a needed basis (we are told by one criminal Armenian Attorney)   The facility saves a bit of money using a semi-retired Dago who is on a retainer.
Here is the web site of the Armenian Bar Association.
 http://www.armenianbar.com/

So money grab away you non-Armenian vendors, we hope you get more and more money from the facility.  In fact, we would like to help you get even more.  Hell, the Armenian groups in the community even have to pay CAH for the use of the AACL  rental for events.  Such as why we choose to have our events elsewhere - support the Armenian Center by having your events there.  Or at the Camp Pashayan on Weber, near Hwy 99 - both are nice facilities. 

California Armenian Home

This facility doesn't hire any Armenians higher up than menial work.  Out of 120 workers (listed on 990 tax returns) there is Armenians in maintence, janitorial and working in the kitchen.  All are immigrants and in need of employment.  Why is this place so worried about hiring educated Armenians?  After all it was Armenians that worked hard, sacrificed their time to build the home for the survivors of Genocide. 
Many of us had grandparents who were orphaned by the Turks (the cousins of the Croatians) We understood they need love and care as they aged because many had no childhood as it was robbed from them by killers who practiced ethnic cleansing. 

An Armenian lady who was loved by the community was fired by the Croatian Turk aka CT- that is the Administrator.  A fake phony who has declared on more than one occasion that she is a "Medical Doctor".  So phony she got a facelift and conned the Home Guild into putting in a gym for the employees that she regularly works out in.  Here is one example of her posing as a physician using an address in San Diego.  (We are told this is where the CT worked when she was dismissed from the California Armenian Home)  But like a dirty virus she is back.
http://www.doctors-look.com/usa-ca/general-practice/yuba-radojkovich_1275955.html

Why does CT pose as a Medical Doctor while using addresses in San Diego and Fresno? 

To the Croatian Turk, quit sniffing around the Armenian community for money.  They despise you and your enabler.  You have no clout and are a bigot.  You treat Armenians like shit,  yet have your hand open for more and more money.  Stay away from our churches, you have no business near them.  The next time you are dismissed from your job, don't come back.  Your enabler won't be there forever.

Tough luck, you will have to make due with the $14+ million you soak from MediCare and MediCal. 
Armenians are choosing to go elsewhere for their needs - there are many other nicer places in Fresno than your money pit.

BTW, the community also laughs at the way you dress.  They call you a "two bit hussy"

Stop hiring friends and family, the founding fathers are rolling over in their graves. 

Los Angeles Armenian home is fantastic!!!  They hire a good mix of people and have fantastic talent. 

California Armenian Home- Criminal pasts of Nursing home workers explored

Study Finds Criminal Pasts of Nursing Home Workers

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/us/03nursing.html

By ROBERT PEAR

WASHINGTON — More than 90 percent of nursing homes employ one or more people who have been convicted of at least one crime, federal investigators said Wednesday in a new report. In addition, they said, 5 percent of all nursing home employees have at least one criminal conviction.
The report was issued by Daniel R. Levinson, inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, who obtained the names of more than 35,000 nursing home employees and then checked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to see if they had criminal records.
“Our analysis of F.B.I. criminal history records revealed that 92 percent of nursing facilities employed at least one individual with at least one criminal conviction,” Mr. Levinson said. “Nearly half of nursing facilities employed five or more individuals with at least one conviction. For example, a nursing facility with a total of 164 employees had 34 employees with at least one conviction each.”
Charlene A. Harrington, a professor at the School of Nursing of the University of California, San Francisco, said: “This sounds like a very important study. It cries out for additional regulation. Residents in these homes are so vulnerable.”
The inspector general said that no federal law or regulation specifically required nursing homes to check federal or state criminal history records for prospective employees. Ten states require a check of F.B.I. and state records, Mr. Levinson said, while 33 require a check of state records, and the remainder do not have explicit requirements.
Given the patchwork of requirements, people convicted of crimes in one state have been able to obtain jobs at nursing homes in other states. Moreover, Mr. Levinson said, “Some states allow individual nursing facilities to make decisions regarding the employability of individuals with criminal convictions, while others rely on a state agency.”
Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, who has investigated nursing homes as chairman of the Aging Committee, said: “The current system of background checks is haphazard, inconsistent and full of gaping holes in many states. Predators can easily evade detection during the hiring process, securing jobs that allow them to assault, abuse and steal from defenseless elders.”
The most common types of conviction were for crimes against property, like burglary, and drug-related offenses. But some nursing home employees had been convicted of crimes against persons, like assault.
Federal rules say that nursing homes must not employ people who have been found guilty of abusing, neglecting or mistreating patients. But F.B.I. records do not always indicate if the victim was a nursing home resident.
Most of the convictions occurred before the offenders began working in nursing homes. But for 16 percent of employees with convictions, the most recent offense occurred after they had started work in a nursing home.
Joshua M. Wiener, an expert on long-term care at RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, said nursing homes had historically had difficulty recruiting and retaining employees, especially nurse’s aides, who he said were paid an average starting wage of $10 an hour.
Dr. Harrington said that many nursing homes did background checks in a perfunctory way, and that some did not check people who applied for housekeeping, food service or laundry jobs.
“Even some of the better nursing homes have problems with theft, rampant theft of residents’ clothing and personal possessions, including jewelry,” Dr. Harrington said. “People convicted of crimes are often left alone with nursing home residents because the supervision of care is, in many homes, very inadequate.”

The new health care law offers $160 million to states to improve criminal background checks on prospective employees at nursing homes and other providers of long-term care.