Public Can Get Behind Scenes Look At KCSD Oct 23, 2009
-- The Kern County Sheriffs Office, Kern Valley Substation (located 7046 Lake Isabella Dr.) will be holding an open house on Sat ... The Kern Valley Sheriffs Activity League will provide a hot dog BBQ.. (KERO 23, CA)
Plea withdrawn in Utah hired beating case Oct 14, 2009
Pamela Ott was administrator of the Kern Valley Healthcare District, where the elder abuse allegedly occurred at the district's Lake Isabella nursing home. VERNAL, Utah -- A Utah teenager who pleaded no contest to hiring a man to beat her in an effort to induce a miscarriage has been released from jail after a judge ruled that she was seeking an abortion and was not criminally liable. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
PI pleads no contest in California conspiracy case Oct 7, 2009
Pamela Ott was administrator of the Kern Valley Healthcare District, where the elder abuse allegedly occurred at the district's Lake Isabella nursing home. Hawk jury deliberates for first day. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Husband and Wife Die In Motorcycle Crash Sep 20, 2009
Harmon was taken to kern valley hospital where he died a few hours later. His wife was airlifted to kern medical center where she also died as a result of her injuries. (KERO 23, CA)
San Bernardino Co. elder home director arrested Sep 16, 2009
The state alleges that Ott knew the nursing director at the Kern Valley Health Care District's nursing facility in Lake Isabella had ordered high doses of mood-altering drugs for dementia patients to make them more tranquil. The alleged drugging went on from September 2006 to January 2007. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Criminal Charges Filed Against Former Nursing Home Admin. Sep 9, 2009
-- Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that Kern Valley Hospital administrator Pamela Ott was charged on eight felony counts of elder abuse Tuesday, for allowing staff to forcibly administer psychotropic medications to patients for their own convenience, rather than for their patients' therapeutic interests ... "Instead, Ott abdicated her responsibility and allowed the staff of the Kern Valley Hospital to foricibly sedate patients who questioned their care." ... Gwen Hughes, the... (KERO 23, CA)
Ex-CEO of Kern County nursing home charged Sep 9, 2009
Pamela Ott was administrator of the Kern Valley Healthcare District, where the eld 0000372A er abuse allegedly occurred at the district's Lake Isabella nursing home ... The state alleges that Ott knew the nursing director at the Kern Valley Health Care District's nursing facility in Lake Isabella had ordered high doses of mood-altering drugs for dementia patients to make them more tranquil. (Fresno Bee -- State)
One dead, infant hurt after chase ends in crash Aug 27, 2009
Authorities say an inmate convicted of killing four California Highway Patrol officers died over the weekend at Kern Valley State Prison in an apparent suicide ... Authorities say an inmate convicted of killing four California Highway Patrol officers died over the weekend at Kern Valley State Prison in an apparent suicide. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Corcoran inmate stabs guard in arm Aug 22, 2009
He was living in the cell alone and was sent to Corcoran last year from Kern Valley state prison after he threatened staff there, Johnson said. The inmate has a history of fighting fellow inmates and attacking officers, she said. (Fresno Bee)
Man Arrested On Child Pornography Charges May 2, 2009
-- On April 30, detectives from the Kern County Sheriffs Office Sexual Assault and Abuse Investigation Unit, acting in conjunction with detectives from the Fresno County Sheriffs Department Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Kern County Sheriffs Deputies from the Kern Valley Substation served a search warrant at 8037 Lazy Lane in Onyx, California. The search warrant was issued in connection with an ICAC investigation... (KERO 23, CA)
International Commodity Distributor’s Inc. Announces a Voluntary Recall of Peanut Products Because of a Possible Health Risk Mar 11, 2009
International Commodity Distributors Inc. Announces a Voluntary Recall for its Roasted Peanuts, Roasted/Salted Peanuts, Honey Roasted Peanuts, Butter Stock Split Peanuts, Honey Roasted Split Peanuts, and Hot and Spicy Peanuts Because of a Possible Health Risk. Recall -- Firm Press Release. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- Alerts)
3 Kern County nursing home employees arrested Feb 19, 2009
All three worked at the Kern Valley Healthcare District's nursing facility in Lake Isabella. Authorities say Hughes, the former director of nursing, ordered that dementia patients be given high doses of the mood-altering drugs not as part of their therapy, but to make them more tranquil. (Fresno Bee -- State)
3 Arrested For Allegedly Drugging Patients At Nursing Home Feb 19, 2009
Gwen Hughes, the former Director of Nursing at the skilled nursing facility of the Kern Valley Healthcare District in Lake Isabella, Kern County on charges of elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon ... Dr. Hoshang Pormir, a staff physician at Kern Valley Healthcare District, who was serving as the medical director of the skilled nursing facility, on charges of elder abuse ... Kern Valley Healthcare District operates a small community hospital and skilled nursing facility in Lake Isabella. (KERO 23, CA)
