According the to death certificate of Heber Jentzsch we posted, Heber passed away at the Golden Era Homes Hospice at Gold Base in San Jacinto, California.
This leads us to ask if David Miscavige has repurposed Gold Base, or part of the base, as a retirement home and hospice for many elderly Sea Org members who are now infirm or afflicted with chronic illness.
This would potentially allow Scientology to collect fees from government agencies and thereby make aging and terminally ill Sea Org members a profit center until the day they die.
It has long been the custom of the Church if Scientology to “fitness board” out Sea Org members in their 40’s and 50’s when they become ill and pose a financial cost to the Church of Scientology.
Scientology has offloaded such Sea Org members onto their families or to state facilities thereby shifting medical and other costs away from Scientology.
However, the internet has changed things. An old, or sick, Sea Org member who was “offloaded” and kicked to the curb after 20-30 years of service, or more, can now go online and talk about Scientology dumped them onto the street with no pension, no healthcare, nothing. If Miscavige had a convalescent and hospice facility at Gold base, he can keep the old and sick SO off the internet by isolating them at Gold Base Homes.
If Scientology were able to get state funds to run a convalescent and hospice facility — and it already has younger Sea Org to staff such a facility — then Miscavige profits financially and also keeps his old and sick Sea Org invisible at a secured facility Scientology owns. There would be virtually no overhead in this type of operation if state and federal funds were paid to Golden Era Homes and Hospice.
Paying public Scientologists, and many Sea Org, still believe Scientology can handle the ravages of age and illness. To keep them in the bubble, Miscavige can hid the old sick in San Jacinto and keep the healthy true believers believing
Many Boomer-era Sea Org are now in their late 60’s and 70’s and cannot serve even on a reduced schedule. We have seen more than a few Sea Org members at Pac Base using walkers to walk up and down L. Ron Hubbard Way. When they cannot work anymore where do they go?
It may be that as Miscavige continues to shift management and Org delivery services to Clearwater, he will ship the old and sick out to San Jacinto where nowhere in Clearwater will ever see or know about them.
Please comment below on your thoughts.
Categories: Scientology: Institutional Structure
“Golden Era Homes Hospice”
Wow. I actually don’t keep up with Scientology-related stuff too much recently. I have to admit, my main interest was always in Hubbard particularly, and Scientology during his lifetime. Things like this are why I’m glad I still keep a toe in. But it’s depressing. I think we can all instantly suss out what’s going on with this “hospice”, and how legitimate it is. That Scientology can continue to game the system in legal or pseudo-legal means like this is disgusting, and not just on Scientology.
And I’ll say this much: I never met Heber Jentzsch, and indeed know little about him other than the broad, well-known facts. But he didn’t come across to me in the little footage I saw, or the mentions of him in books or articles, or when discussed in video talks or interviews, as a bad person. Not at all. As sad as his passing is, it served to remind me of something I knew, but sometimes still forget: not everybody in Scientology, or any other cult, is a bad person. Actually, most aren’t.
For some reason, learning of the passing of Heber Jentzsch, and the speculations and supposed-leaks I’ve heard mentioned about his last years just made me sad. Genuinely sad. And fatigued. I confess that I’m anti-religious in toto: I don’t believe in supernatural stuff, ghosts, afterlives, gods, leprechauns, magic, you name it. So maybe, to be fair, take what I’m about to say with full consideration of my bias. But I’m TIRED of religions and/or cults using laws, traditions, and governments – especially the US government – to screen their scammy, damaging, sometimes literally killing ways. I’m tired of them, of all of these businesses, these corporations, these scams, having tax exempt status simply by being labeled “religions”. I’m tired of them doing all this stuff without any scrutiny, since officials of all stripes are scared of seeming to touch this “third rail” of our society.
I’m sorry about the rambling nature of this message, and understand if it doesn’t get accepted to be posted. Thank you for your coverage of this, and for obtaining his death certificate as well. I feel like he deserved better, that a LOT of people in similar straits to him in Scientology deserve better. And they can HAVE better. He could have. But these cowardly politicians are just scared to touch anything with a “religion” tag on it.
Remember when the little man had so much power that he got the Highway running past the base shut down because I disturbed his sleep or something like that……oh wait, he never had such power and the Highway still makes noise…
Spot on Jeffrey.
Sea Org has has dentists now and again, so that’s quite a step correctly, and Sea Org ought just be forced to pay minimum wages, and cover medical costs of Sea Orgers, and not mooch of the state government and US govt.
Hubbard in one policy says if the state provides help, take it. So it’s policy to mooch off govts that provide.
If people wish to do the Hubbard pseudopsychotherapy as a hobby, or work out money exchange between fellow quack practitioners, or “field auditor” quacks charging, I don’t recommend any of that.
All the hobbyist quacks of Scientology ought not be in setups that the quacks can get govt money though. NO mooching off the state, agreed.
Quackery business fake religion cults with quack staff, not being setup to pay minimum wages to the quack staffs, oughtn’t be allowed by law.
I do know as of 15 years ago, Catholic nuns in the Pittsburgh area where I used to see nuns regularly for my job, I found out they were paid the sub poverty “allowances” almost identical to Sea Org members. Nuns told me they got whatever pocket money they needed which amounted to 40-80 bucks a week.
So the Catholic church has set the precedents that Scientology staff pay follows.
But in no way is Scientology a society contributing group like the Catholic church.
Q:
If they accepted medicare and other government payments, wouldn’t they be required to accept all elderly people, even those whoho are not in the Sea Org …even non-scientologists, indie-scientogists and (gasp!) ex-scientologists?
Doctor dave may also need to purchase some very expensive malpractise insurance. 🤔
Nasty. What a way to end up after my years of service to the Church of Scientology.
Karl: If an SP like you checked into Golden Era Homes they would put Dr. Minkoff on your case. You would go exterior in no time.
WHAT NEXT ? They going to open “Somali Style Day Care Centers” ???
Chuck: Most churches have retirement homes for their clergy. Most take government money and allow in public. Here are some of the homes near me:
Top Religious & Faith-Based Retirement Options:
Nazareth House of Los Angeles (Catholic): Located in West Los Angeles, this facility, operated by the Sisters of Nazareth, provides a holistic approach to assisted living, addressing the spiritual, physical, and social well-being of its residents.
Raya’s Paradise (Christian): Located in West Hollywood, this community offers small-scale, personalized Christian assisted living with on-site clergy, focusing on daily living care for a small number of residents.
Good Samaritan Rest Home (Christian): Located in North Hollywood, this facility provides specialized care for seniors with memory conditions like Alzheimer’s or dementia.
Teesdale Villa (Jewish/General): Located in North Hollywood, it provides, among other services, assisted living with options for religious support.
Hollenbeck Palms (Interfaith/Christian focus): A well-established, non-profit community in Los Angeles that offers various levels of care.
If the system can be rorted then Little Davey will be all over it like a rash. Just another racket I expect.