Wherein, the Director of Arizona's entire Department of Health Services continues to willfully defer and/or distort the critical nature of escalating evidence specific to the grossly substandard care practices in Arizona's sole long term public mental hospital, The Arizona State Hospital. At every step of the way, Will Humble has willfully engaged in denying or otherwise refusing to meet of his assorted obligations to the public, therein breaching the public trust as it applies in no uncertain terms to his given responsibilities.
February 13th, 2014 by Will Humble
Last week we had a visit from CMS (Medicare) to check on our plan of correction from a Survey that was conducted last fall at the Civil Units. Although we won’t get a final report for a while… we do know that Team ASH did a great job during the survey- ensuring that the surveyors had everything that they needed to meet their objectives. The required documentation was easy to find, and the surveyors got to see how well our team works together.
Good teamwork and professionalism all the way around. Keep up the good work!
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As already stated, each and every time valid data about these issues has emerged over the last 18 months (and more), all associated ADHS officials- including and especially Will Humble and his immediate underlings in the ADHS/BHS construct- have immediately shifted into grossly deceptive modes of patent denial, unjust mischaracterizations of the well qualified persons behind brining such data to light, and just about any other means of abusing the communication process in this context. Humble as a matter of documented fact has exhibited such abuses of communication in his blog, in interviews with involved investigators, and beyond- as readily apparent in his above Feb. 13, 2014, blog post, specific to the reality(s) underlying how and why the federal government is currently considering taking major action on the basis of such data. His misbehavior is an insult to anyone of reasonable intelligence and conscience. Indeed, it is as though this man believes that the citizens of Arizona are all collectively stupid, unable to grasp the merits of such data, and/or his own undeniable mistruths in the context. This should be no surprise, I suppose, given the extensive history in America that directly relates to such misconduct as it arises whenever highly vulnerable and at-risk persons are the primary stakeholders with respect for public mental health care. But no, no, no, no, I say! For the greater public has made clear time and time again that state and federal law supporting the rights and needs of such at-risk persons are fundamental to our national character, as spelled out in myriad doctrine, as per actions implemented by the US Congress, consistent with the common interest. The fact is, most of the one's running the ASH facility are not able to abide by these dynamics, whether it be the Pakistani and Filipino (etc.) primary care psychiatrists (who I contend would never be able to succeed were they in private practice, or otherwise subject to direct oversight and associated consumer awareness), the "war horse" nurses who have been working at ASH since those days when other deeply disturbing evidence has arisen via federal investigation, or those members of technician staff who share the sociopathic behavioral traits that their various superiors exhibit- all of them, on a day in day out basis, only willing to redirect themselves when forced to by federal authorities. This is precisely what we are witnessing today, as the most recent evidence in this context has emerged- egregiously unlawful refusal to merely do the right thing anytime a possibility arises that the seriously mentally ill and disabled patients at ASH are not receiving reasonably optimum health care. I witnessed these patterns of abject negligence from day one of my thirteen long months as an ASH patient, and no matter how much I exercised good faith reporting of patient abuse at ASH, as I witnessed or personally experienced it, all my efforts were snubbed. This applied in the context of on-site patient advocacy resources, high ranking ASH clinicians and administrators, and ultimately, well into the executive offices of ADHS/BHS. I attest to this with full sincerity. And I do, of course, have all records of this history as it may apply.
paoloreed@gmail.com
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