Trummell Valdera, the vice president of human resources for Miami-based Jackson Health System, is under internal investigation for alleged improprieties in her job, including allegations she hired her friend and former administrative assistant as a high paid consultant. Both the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission and Jackson Health System are reported to be investgating these allegations.
Jackson Health records show that it had paid Deborah DiNicolantonio $412,596 in the past five years for supporting “leadership initiatives, organizational goals, and organizational transformation by providing consultation through planning, writing, editing, and project management in developing and managing internal communications strategies, processes, and implementation tactics.”
A former Jackson employee who worked with Valdera said that DiNicolantonio “worked from time to time part-time on projects. She was up in the Northeast. She’d travel down and stay as a temporary relief employee. She worked once in a blue moon on a project. It just wasn’t right.”
The former employee also told the Miami Herald that Jackson’s HR department was a “hostile work environment” and that Valdera did “a lot of screaming and yelling” and that people “would be rewarded for nothing that has to do with results or performance.”
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Under Valdera, Jackson has become a working environment of intimidation, fear and hostility. She set out to destroy the very fabric that kept this institution fuctioning through the most difficult times in the past several decades.
Under the former CEO, Marvin O’Quinn, Jackson was dismantled piece by peice.
Layoffs have been swept through Jackson in waves for the past 6 years. Yet,with all this concern about budgets and debt, Marvin O’Quinn, former CEO of Jackson was able to hire 19 additional Vice Presidents, remodel various parts of hospital, and dole out millions and million of dollars to consulting firms, while continuing freezes on working positions throughout Jackson.
Everyone knew what was going on. You would have to be blind not to see what was going on at Jackson over the past 6 years. Everyone knew what was going on, but no one wanted to say anything because of the fear of losing their jobs.
When SEUI asked for an investigation last week, Jackson’s officials, in just another smoke screen, made it seem like the Union was just out to cast blame. Please, it is so obvious.
Why dont you check out what happened to some of the former employees in risk management and why they chose to leave Jackson. You would be very enlightened. Why do you think that Alvarez wanted to try to get Jackson taken out from under the PHT umbrella and placed back under the county? Why do you think the former Miami Mayor wanted to applied for O’Quinn’s job after he left.
Apparently, no one want to get involved in exposing ther truth. The one poor women who had enough honor and conscience to say something, has been put through the mill. No one want to do the right thing. Everyone is too intimidated. Evryone is too afraid of what they can lose.
Trummell Valdera is officially gone from Jackson HR and no longer the SVP Chief Human Resources Officer. Maria Huot-Barrientos has taken over once and for all. Looks like Dr. Roldan finally stepped up to the plate and eliminated that evil tyrant from the human resources organization. Any potential future employer beware “TRUMMELL VALDERA SPHR” is an abusive tyrant that created a hostile work environment at Jackson Health System for many years. She ran Human Resources and the people in that department to the ground. Hooray as it is a new day at Jackson HR.
Yes, this is so true. Trummell Valdera is a bully who showed no shame in demeaning others at all levels at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. I remember her first few weeks on the job here. She started out by attacking on of our food service workers in the cafeteria. Trummell was screaming and yelling at her. That was only the beginning. She has made inappropriate comments about other employees and their race, age, disability, etc. Finally employees in the human resources department at Jackson can breath.
Hip hip horray! Trummell aka “true hell” is finally gone. We have sufferred so much pain and anguish under her regime I cannot believe that it is over. Who’s running Jackson North now baby? Yeah, it’s me, big Bill. You never thought I could or would but I am. There you go. Anyhow, on behalf of my esteemed colleagues we are finally free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last!