The Arizona State Hospital's ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2017. Of Ongoing Mistruths in the Official Record and Complicity Between Hospital Adminsistrators and State Employed Officials In Furthering Corruption In Arizona's Public Health Care System.

All to the direct detriment of patients at Arizona State Hospital. 

Dr. Cara Christ
Current Director
Arizona Department
of Health Services.

INTRODUCTION: 100% consistent with the corruption identified circa 2013-2015, we now have emerging documented evidence to the effect that the administrators of Arizona State Hospital (ASH) are engaging in shrouding the truth specific to patient safety (or lack thereof) and associated record keeping in terms of patient on patient violence. Such violence most often occurs in state managed mental hospitals due to staff shortages, wherein individuals known to be violent have opportunity to attack and gravely harm non-violent patients; while the goal of administrators in issuing untruthful information in context has everything to do with avoiding due oversight and accountability. This form of corruption in medical terms amounts to patent negligence and outright operational malpractice.

As with all such matters, the 2017 ASH Annual Fiscal Report is required to provide factual information specific to a wide range of operational conditions and related care practices at ASH. Included as such, this information is required to provide data about patient on patient assaults. But as shown in the following, ASH administrators, in patent complicity with state employed health department officials (including the departments [ADHS] current director, Dr. Cara Christ), are willfully engaged in omitting factual data about otherwise documented patient on patient violence, in violation of law and policy.

It should be noted at the outset that ASH receives overall direction from the Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Aaron Bowen, who reports to the Director of ADHS, Dr. Cara Christ. On this basis, there should be no disconnect between Bowen's knowledge base about the internal affairs at ASH and the awareness of those affairs of Christ. But just as former since-fled ADHS Director Will Humble chose to praise the overtly corrupt ASH administrators circa 2013-2015- namely since-fired ASH CEO Donna Noriega and then Deputy Director of the state's Department of Behavioral Health Services, Cory Nelson, right up until their proverbial deaths as employees of ADHS- we are today witnessing the same degree of complicity, administrative negligence, and utter denial of corruption at ASH in relation to Christ's role at the helm of ADHS.

The ASH CEO, meanwhile, directs the various "leaders" of ASH, who comprise the Executive Management Team (EMT). The Executive Management Team oversees hospital operations, establishes administrative policies and procedures and directs ASH planning activities. Each one of these individuals are responsible for the care needs and treatment of ASH's patient community, and as such, are further required to provide factual, evidence based information specific to the general operation of ASH. 

This very necessarily includes all information reflected in ASH's 2017 Annual fiscal Report.

The members of EMT as follows: 

 Aaron Bowen, Psy.D., Chief Executive Officer 
 Steven Dingle, M.S, M.D., Chief Medical Officer 
 Michael Sheldon, M.P.A, Chief Operating Officer 
 Debra Taylor, M.S.N., R.N., Chief Nursing Officer 
 Lisa Wynn, B.S., Chief Quality Officer 
 Margaret McLaughlin, M.S., Chief Compliance Officer 
 Shanda Payne, L.M.S.W, ACPTC Director 
 Levada Coker, C.P.M., Human Resources Assistant Chief 
 William Bugbee, Chief Security Officer 
 Justin Lepley, C.P.M., M.B.A., Chief Financial Officer 
 Carol Hasper, B.S.B.A., P.M.P., Senior Project Manager/IT Services


And now, from the annual report itself, page 18 (eighteen):

Patient on Patient Assault, 
October, 2017: 0 (zero)

Shame, shame, shame. Lies, lies, lies. 

The plain fact is that, on October 03, 2017, patient A.W. was stabbed six times by patient R.M. This incident is obviously of critical nature. Patient A.W.'s very life was in grave condition following this attack, and only surgery that A.W. underwent later on the same day saved him.

Each and every Hospital employee listed above is fully aware of the truth in this matter, and as such, are overtly complicit in misleading the public in order to avoid due oversight and accountability in relation to just how and why this near tragedy occurred. Patient A.W. is deserving of the same level of safety that ASH staff possess. If it was a staff person who got stabbed, patient R.M. would be subject to criminal charges, and there is no way in hell that the record would be hidden. But due to A.W. being affected by mental illness, and reliant on the shortsighted and discriminative conduct of ASH doctors and administrators, this incident has been covered up. It's that simple, it is that plain.

For the administrators of ASH to lie about this matter is unconscionable to the Nth degree. Knowing as they do that one of the patient-consumers at ASH was nearly killed due to negligence and associated administrative incompetence, and to then lie about it in terms of this fiscal report, which is designed in part to provide the public- including patient families who have a reasonable expectation in terms of the care needs and safety of their kin- with clear awareness of the quality of care at ASH adds up to criminal misconduct.  

This also calls into question the overall data included in this report. Given the mentality "What happens at ASH stays at ASH", which is overwhelmingly evidenced yet again by this specific issue, there is no way for we the public to know just what is really going on there. I can attest via my experiences at ASH in 2011-12 that this precisely how Hospital administrators such as but not limited to Chief Medical Officer Dr. Steven Dingle want it to be. Ideally in their twisted minds so as to get away with abusing or otherwise violating the rights of the patient community as a whole.

Pending, thus, requests under the Public Information Act for all related Hospital records specific to violence, and other like issues that I fell safe in assuming these people are seeking to hide from the public. This has occurred at numerous points in time over the last few years. Notably, ASH and ADHS were sued on the basis of the Hospital's administrators refusal to release such records when Phoenix's ABC news affiliate, KVNX Ch15, sought to investigate this exact same nature of corruption. 

Be interesting to see if things go any differently today. They didn't get away with it then, and they won't at this time. I promise this.  

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Bottom Line. These people are furthering the long standing corruption at ASH, in defiance of the term "Psychiatric Excellence" and the assurance of  Dr. Cara Christ that ADHS and the Arizona State Hospital is committed to the following:

 ADHS' Vision: Health and Wellness for all Arizonans 
 Mission: To promote, protect, and improve the health and wellness of individuals and communities in Arizona. 

The Arizona State Hospital has the following Vision and Mission Statements:  Vision: Quality, Compassion, and Excellence in the Provision of Psychiatric Care. 
 Mission: Provide evidence-based, recovery-oriented, and trauma-informed care to the individuals receiving care at Arizona State Hospital in order to facilitate their successful transition to the least restrictive alternative possible. 

BULLSHIT!

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IN CLOSING: Take a close look at several of the liars who were involved in the known corruption at ASH prior to the last scandal there. These people are, in my mind, sociopathic in their willingness to put persons disabled by mental illness at grave risk of harm. It is in their eyes, in my opinion, the dark sided aspect of their criminal nature. Absolutely Machiavellian, after birth of Beezlebub, bottom feeding bureaucrats with no understanding of what it means to be ethical. 

Will Humble
Former ADHS Director
2009-2015

Cory Nelson
Former since-fired
ASH CEO,
Deputy Director
ADHS Behavioral
Health Services.
2012-2015

Donna Noriega
Former since-fired
ASH CEO.
2013-2015.

And I can not in sincerity believe that persons such as current ASH CEO Dr. Aaron Bowen, the Hospital's Chief of Security William Bugbee, or any other member of ASH's Executive Management Team are of better character then these former employees of ASH and ADHS. This issue is shocking, stomach turning, and most definitely deserving of federal oversight at the soonest possible time.  

Sucks. For the patients, who are deserving of optimum health care and treatment as consumers of ADHS so called services. 

And for the Rat Bastards who are deserving of going down just like each and every other such villain I have identified over the years in this blog publication. Whatever comes your way, you all have it coming.

And don't say we haven't warned you for the last three years. 

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