By Patric Hedlund, TME

Over a year ago, the brand new CEO for Clinica Sierra Vista, Brian Harris, was introduced to the Mountain Communities in a packed Health Care Town Hall at the Frazier Park Library.

Sitting beside Harris, first responders from the Kern County Fire Department and Hall Ambulance Service represented the continuum of care available to local residents. South West Health Care District board member Militsa Brennan (who coordinates the prevention-oriented Community Health Fair) was also a panelist, with Brent Burket, MD, (Clinica’s family medicine physician); nurse practitioner Sharon Powell; psychologist Sarah Edwards, PhD; and the director of the Family Resource Center also came. They answered a continuous volley of questions from the  public.

The Clinica CEO made a long list of promises during that fast-paced event. Now his rhetoric is being tested. A proud member of VFW Post 9791 walked into The Mountain Enterprise office August 27, 2019. He was carrying a copy of this newspaper from…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: High school students honored veteran Ian Lauchlan in 2017 for his service, but in 2019 he is a quiet voice for truth about local health care promises.

Clinica Sierra Vista CEO Brian Harris in his LinkedIn photo.

Harris in his scrubs at the Health Care Town Hall. Beside him is Sharon Powell of the former PMC Health Center and psychologist Sarah Edwards, PhD.

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