So sue me already. Go ahead- I dare ya'!
This will be short. But suffice it to say that, given the level of education one has in order to be a licensed medical doctor, a fundamental if not inherent grasp of what it means to be trustworthy is something we all might take for granted. This, without even extending this status into the defined terms of the public trust, which all state employed medical professionals are 100% obligated to adhere to. This reality is clarified in their employment contracts with the state, don't matter what their given title or specific level of education happens to be. But it is only the disproportionate privilege(s) granted to medical doctors and the directly related presumption of entitlement over others- which has been documented in various forms of reporting, as though they are better then the rest of us, that furthers the longstanding potential in state mental hospitals of utterly incompetent if not cruel/abusive psychiatric physicians. Underlying in no uncertain terms just how and why the medical staff at Arizona State Hospital so radically get away with all the that they do.
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| Dr. Cara Christ Director, ADHS, 2015-the present. |
INTRODUCTION
Had a great lunch with a friend today, who brought up the topic of possible legal action in relation to the information provided herein since April, 2012. Names, dates, specific details, etc., about a range of unlawful, unethical, and arguably horrific staff misbehavior in Arizona's sole long term mental health care facility, as that extends, too, into the greater construct of the Arizona Department of Health Services. Which, to some, may appear slanderous.... Or whatever.
Fact is: Right off the bat, both slander and libel, as defined in law, requires one person or entity making untruthful statements about others which cause harm to the person(s) allegedly defamed. If, in fact, the statements/information allegedly harmful are actually true, no such civil action will hold ground in any of America's various courts of law and authority.
No aspect of the allegations raised in the history of this blog publication have arisen out of anything short of factual basis. For example, and as personified circa 2012-2015, and the first two hundred twenty eight articles published herein, the focus in that period was on persons such as since fired Cory Nelson, Donna Noriega, Jeff Goldbloom, (and a tidy host of others). All of whom have since since been validly confirmed as unethical to the core if not criminal in character, and clearly not qualified to work for the state of Arizona.
Fact is: It also need be recognized that all state government employees in USA are employed via the public trust, defined as follows:
"The Public Trust is created for the promotion of public welfare and not for the benefit of one or more individuals."
(www.businessdictionary,com.com)
On this most fundamental theme, no employee of the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) has the right to put their own interests ahead of the public. This does very necessarily include each and ADHS client, and extends to the lawful rights of the general patient community at Arizona State Hospital. It matters not what the title on any state employee is. From ADHS Director Dr. Cara Christ to ASH's Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Aaron Bowen, the public welfare bears more importance then their entrusted positions in the ADHS construct.
Herein, the need to have absolute transparency in relation to the conduct of such state employees. The core reason for this flows from the public's inherent right to know that their interests as consumers of state services are 100% at the forefront of employee conduct and behavior, and not that of persons employed in public service positions,. Ergo, It is, in fact, those state citizens- the public, public welfare- are the primary stakeholders in any such formal relationship.
A Stakeholder is a person, group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization.
(www.businessdictionary.com)
These standards of what defines the public trust underlie the most basic elements of what it takes to qualify for state employment. State employment contracts reflect this, albeit with little guarantee of direct oversight and enforceability. Which is why it takes extensive concerted effort to get the wheels of justice moving in context. I attest to having filed numerous grievances as per state protocol about the grossly outlandish misbehavior of numerous ASH staff while I was hospitalized there, but no element of the state's obligation to address such concerns ever came about, this is a plain fact. The ADHS Office of Grievances and Appeals exhibited no less a degree of administrative ineptitude that I identified specific to the operation of ASH, willfully engaged in violating the procedural laws by which that office is to function. Time line requirements, for only one bright line example, which even the administrative judges who I in time took my concerns to after my discharge from ASH refused to acknowledge, in defiance of my citing such laws and these specific violations in convened hearings.
As such, at all levels of state agency function, including in the aforementioned administrative courts, I observed distinct patterns of complicit wrongdoing. I have already shared such records in this publication. It is just that simple.
Violating the Public Trust: Violations of the Ethical and Moral Obligations of Government Officials. A persistent issue in public personnel is a concern with violations of the public trust by public servants and elected officials. (www.research.gate)
Had a great lunch with a friend today, who brought up the topic of possible legal action in relation to the information provided herein since April, 2012. Names, dates, specific details, etc., about a range of unlawful, unethical, and arguably horrific staff misbehavior in Arizona's sole long term mental health care facility, as that extends, too, into the greater construct of the Arizona Department of Health Services. Which, to some, may appear slanderous.... Or whatever.
Fact is: Right off the bat, both slander and libel, as defined in law, requires one person or entity making untruthful statements about others which cause harm to the person(s) allegedly defamed. If, in fact, the statements/information allegedly harmful are actually true, no such civil action will hold ground in any of America's various courts of law and authority.
No aspect of the allegations raised in the history of this blog publication have arisen out of anything short of factual basis. For example, and as personified circa 2012-2015, and the first two hundred twenty eight articles published herein, the focus in that period was on persons such as since fired Cory Nelson, Donna Noriega, Jeff Goldbloom, (and a tidy host of others). All of whom have since since been validly confirmed as unethical to the core if not criminal in character, and clearly not qualified to work for the state of Arizona.
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| L-R: Donna Noriega, Cory Nelson, Jeff Goldbloom ADHS employed CEO, CEO, Attorney at law. All fired, spring, 2015. |
Fact is: It also need be recognized that all state government employees in USA are employed via the public trust, defined as follows:
"The Public Trust is created for the promotion of public welfare and not for the benefit of one or more individuals."
(www.businessdictionary,com.com)
On this most fundamental theme, no employee of the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) has the right to put their own interests ahead of the public. This does very necessarily include each and ADHS client, and extends to the lawful rights of the general patient community at Arizona State Hospital. It matters not what the title on any state employee is. From ADHS Director Dr. Cara Christ to ASH's Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Aaron Bowen, the public welfare bears more importance then their entrusted positions in the ADHS construct.
Herein, the need to have absolute transparency in relation to the conduct of such state employees. The core reason for this flows from the public's inherent right to know that their interests as consumers of state services are 100% at the forefront of employee conduct and behavior, and not that of persons employed in public service positions,. Ergo, It is, in fact, those state citizens- the public, public welfare- are the primary stakeholders in any such formal relationship.
A Stakeholder is a person, group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization.
(www.businessdictionary.com)
These standards of what defines the public trust underlie the most basic elements of what it takes to qualify for state employment. State employment contracts reflect this, albeit with little guarantee of direct oversight and enforceability. Which is why it takes extensive concerted effort to get the wheels of justice moving in context. I attest to having filed numerous grievances as per state protocol about the grossly outlandish misbehavior of numerous ASH staff while I was hospitalized there, but no element of the state's obligation to address such concerns ever came about, this is a plain fact. The ADHS Office of Grievances and Appeals exhibited no less a degree of administrative ineptitude that I identified specific to the operation of ASH, willfully engaged in violating the procedural laws by which that office is to function. Time line requirements, for only one bright line example, which even the administrative judges who I in time took my concerns to after my discharge from ASH refused to acknowledge, in defiance of my citing such laws and these specific violations in convened hearings.
As such, at all levels of state agency function, including in the aforementioned administrative courts, I observed distinct patterns of complicit wrongdoing. I have already shared such records in this publication. It is just that simple.
Violating the Public Trust: Violations of the Ethical and Moral Obligations of Government Officials. A persistent issue in public personnel is a concern with violations of the public trust by public servants and elected officials. (www.research.gate)
The public, as in the general citizenry of any American state, have an irrefutable right to know that their interests are being served when it is the state who are to provide services; the public's right to know that their interests,- and not that of persons employed in public service positions- are 100% at the forefront of employee conduct and behavior. This takes on significant importance when it comes to health care, and even more significantly, when it comes to the care needs of at-risk persons receiving services from the state.
Therein, flowing directly from the theme of the public trust, no state employee on the proverbial clock has formal protections in terms of privacy. This, the fundament to the very concept of "the public trust." Which is to say that, when working and being paid via the public trust by the citizens (the public) of any given state, their employees specific, personal identity cannot be denied to the public.
In any/all state managed health care facilities within the United States, including mental hospitals, direct care staff are to wear name tags, including both the employees first and last name. No employee of ASH, thus, has been challenged in this publication when not actually at work. The staff of this publication has no interest in the personal lives of such persons. Period. From administrators to medical providers to technicians, all referenced names in our material relate to periods of time when each and every one of the wrongdoers identified were working.
On the clock.
Therein, flowing directly from the theme of the public trust, no state employee on the proverbial clock has formal protections in terms of privacy. This, the fundament to the very concept of "the public trust." Which is to say that, when working and being paid via the public trust by the citizens (the public) of any given state, their employees specific, personal identity cannot be denied to the public.
In any/all state managed health care facilities within the United States, including mental hospitals, direct care staff are to wear name tags, including both the employees first and last name. No employee of ASH, thus, has been challenged in this publication when not actually at work. The staff of this publication has no interest in the personal lives of such persons. Period. From administrators to medical providers to technicians, all referenced names in our material relate to periods of time when each and every one of the wrongdoers identified were working.
On the clock.
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DISCUSSION:
The relative shake up in the construct of Arizona Department of Health Services ("ADHS") in spring, 2015, (see Cory Nelson, Donna Noriega, Jeff Goldbloom , 3rd par. Introduction above), directly confirmed the factual nature of the blog's central objective; that focus being to ensure that persons willing to flaunt their given obligations as state employed mental health professionals do not get away with the harms on caused by their misconduct on persons affected and disabled by serious mental illness. Persons such as Nelson and his bottom feeding chums at ASH were the among the original targets of my expository writing about this issue. This is all there is to it. All of it.
The relative shake up in the construct of Arizona Department of Health Services ("ADHS") in spring, 2015, (see Cory Nelson, Donna Noriega, Jeff Goldbloom , 3rd par. Introduction above), directly confirmed the factual nature of the blog's central objective; that focus being to ensure that persons willing to flaunt their given obligations as state employed mental health professionals do not get away with the harms on caused by their misconduct on persons affected and disabled by serious mental illness. Persons such as Nelson and his bottom feeding chums at ASH were the among the original targets of my expository writing about this issue. This is all there is to it. All of it.
As such, the credibility of PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse was patently established by the events of early 2015, wherein no less then seven individuals with direct association to the operation of Arizona State Hospital circa 2010-15 ("ASH"). I was not at all surprised by the vast body of evidence unearthed circa 2013-15 via both media as well as federal investigation of ASH during that period of time.
It was while I was an ASH patient, 2011-12, that the fire was initially lit. The subsequent founding of this blog, less then six weeks after my discharge from ASH, was just one more step in the process that I began there, as a then current ASH/ADHS patient-consumer unwilling/unable to allow the ASH patient community to be mistreated, unwilling/unable to allow the stomach churning misconduct of ASH staff and administrators to continue unabated.
And then, the subsequent desire of KVNX/ABC Ch15 journalist, David Biscobing, to draw from our data in order to initiate his own investigation of the conditions and care practices at ASH.
What did surprise me, somewhat, was the the willingness of authorities in ADHS to basically do their job, even if only in part. But it took years.
Expect when it comes to the ASH psychiatrists, that is, none of whom were subject to the same oversight or accountability that arose in spring 2015.
This most necessarily applies to doctors Steven Dingle and Laxman Patel. Both of them, ASH's highest ranking staff psychiatrists in terms of seniority, and both of whom were present, and ergo involved, in the repetitive scandals that have arisen at ASH since the 1990s, well before my own experiences as an ASH patient-consumer.
I did have to deal with Patel for the first few months of my time there, who did, as shared in prior articles, state: "What do you expect? This is the state hospital?", when I initially relied upon him to address my reporting (to him) staff misconduct and the irrefutably harmful impacts of this on my patient-peers, as well as myself. Patel's failure to act at that time occurred in violation of his responsibilities as a licensed doctor, the applicable tenet being "Do no harm." Likewise, the ASH Patient Manual directs any patient to rely on their assigned primary psychiatrist, the implication, as such, being that these specifically entrusted physicians are able and willing to ensure that staff misconduct and other like wrongdoing not occur.
I also had the unsavory experience of interacting with Dingle on more then one occasion, in direct relation to his being ASH's Chief Medical Officer. This title in itself clarifies the fact Dingle has more awareness of the conditions and care practices at ASH then any other such medical professional there. As one specific case in point, it was Dingle, acting in tandem with then Chief Executive Officer, Cory Nelson, who drafted and signed the document that demanded I be relocated away from appropriate treatment unit, (Palo Verde unit) which as per my given diagnosis and known behavioral history is ASH's least violent, and forced onto one of ASH's most violent treatment units (Desert Sage).
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| Dr. Steven Dingle. Longtime CMO, Arizona State Hospital, known sexual predator. |
This action was taken only one business day following the submittal of a formal grievance, filed on my behalf by a state employed human rights advocate named John Gallagher. Retaliation personified, on the basis of my unwillingness to turn a blind eye towards not only the harms imparted on other ASH patients by staff misconduct, but even my own personal experiences as an abused patient-consumer there. As exemplified, it only follows, by that actual grievance document, and those that I filed in my own right between January, 2011-February, 2012.
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| Cory Nelson Former-since fired CEO, Arizona State Hospital. |
Important as all hell to note- and you best be listening, Bowen, Christ- that, in graphic defiance of the significance of facts included in those such filings, not one of these grievances was taken seriously by any then employed ASH administrator or medical provider. Rather, the bright line result of my express concerns was the willful intent of Dingle and Nelson to place me in grave risk of harm as a hoped for means by which to silence me. Didn't work, either. Did it, Dingle? Could not make it up if I had to.
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| Cory Nelson Former-since fired CEO, Arizona State Hospital. |
Herein we observe the bureaucratic camaraderie of persons employed in Arizona's sole long term public mental health care facility. Persons more then willing to put public safety and the overall care needs/rights of their clients behind their own selfish and misaligned interests.
All of it, gross misconduct in patent violation of the public trust by which such persons are employed. And it goes on today, as exemplified by the recent history of ASH's current CEO, Dr. Aaron Bowen; who literally jumped up in radical defense of Dingle when a current ASH patient-consumer expressed legitimate concern about this doctor's established history as a sexual predator of women working directly under his authority (and who knows who else, really?).
This overt action of unconstitutional misbehavior, which beyond furthering the presence of miscreants such as Dingle in the ADHS construct, did as a matter of plain fact violate the given patient's first amendment rights, as well. And what's really shocking (or is it, really?) is that, immediately afterwards, Bowen's bullshit was supported by both an ADHS attorney named Greg Honig, as well as Dr. Cara Christ herself.
IN CLOSING: It is that bad. And if only these Rat Bastards did, in fact, seek to civil action against this publication, they would only be more openly exposed as just who the hell they are.
So, yeah, go ahead and sue me. I dare you.
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