As to Will Humble.
"The Director's Blog"
(directorsblog.health.azdhs.gov)
This article relates to two prior articles of the same title (see August 02 and August 06).
I THINK IT IS ABOUT TIME FOR THE DIRECTOR OF THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES TO CEASE WITH HIS BLATANT CONDONING OF THE OUT OF CONTROL STATE OF AFFAIRS AT THE ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL. I DID AT ONE TIME BELIEVE THAT MR. HUMBLE MIGHT REPRESENT A REASONABLY HONEST AND CIVICALLY UPSTANDING MAN, AND GOD KNOWS THAT ARIZONA'S BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COMMUNITY NEEDS SUCH A PERSON TO TAKE A STAND IN DEFENSE OF THE PATIENTS AT ASH. BUT AS MY DEDICATION TO SEEKING SIMPLE REDRESS IN THE FACE OF MY DEEPLY HARMFUL EXPERIENCES AT ASH CONTINUES, I AM INCREASINGLY COMING TO BELIEVE THAT THE SHORTSIGHTEDNESS AND FUNDAMENTAL MISMANAGEMENT AT ASH IS INDEED ENDEMIC THROUGHOUT THE VIRTUAL WHOLE OF THE STATE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
BELOW IS A VERY RECENT UPDATE FROM THE PULPIT (sic) CONCERNING MR. HUMBLE'S WILLINGNESS TO ALLOW FOR THE OBVIOUSLY QUESTIONABLE ADMINISTRATORS AT ASH CARRY ON WITH THEIR INEPT AND ARGUABLY ILLEGAL CONDUCT ON AN EVEN WIDER SCALE THAN THEY ARE NORMALLY INVOLVED WITH. AND FOLLOWING THE DIRECTOR'S STATEMENTS (BELOW) IS YET ANOTHER EXPRESSION OF MY DUTIFUL CONCERNS AS A CONSUMER AND FORMER PATIENT AT ASH, WITH A REQUEST FOR MR. HUMBLE TO QUIT AVOIDING HIS RESPONSIBILITIES AND GIVE US, THE CITIZENS OF ARIZONA AND BEYOND, A REASONABLE IDEA OF HIS STANCE ON THE SUBSTANDARD MENTAL-MEDICAL CARE AND CONDITIONS AT ASH.
#ONE below is ADHS Director Will Humble's most recent blog entry with specific reference to the current administration of The Arizona State Hospital.
#TWO below are my feelings about the recent interim reassignments of two ASH administrators within ADHS and at ASH.
#TWO below are my feelings about the recent interim reassignments of two ASH administrators within ADHS and at ASH.
#THREE below is my direct request for comment from Mr. Humble about this matter, which I submitted via the ADHS open forum website (www.directorsblog.health.azdhs.gov) because I have deep ongoing concern for the fact that these individuals may in fact be failing to meet their fundamental obligations at ASH in relation to the citizens of Arizona as a whole (much less to be held accountable for what I can only characterize as criminal conduct in this same context).
#FOUR below are the newest status updates about two prior requests for comment that I have made in the same context, wherein I make clear that the problems at ASH need to be put somewhere near to- if not utterly at- the front of his concerns at this time, because patient abuse at ASH is ongoing, inhumane, and criminal, and the ones assigned the duty of tending to the care needs of ASH' patients are getting way with it lock-stock-and barrel.
But I will allow you, my readers, to come up with your own estimate(s) of the situation as it stands today. Feel free to share your own concerns with Mr. Humble, I really believe he would benefit from a healthy dose of public inquiry into these matters. Something is horrifically amiss in the offices of the Arizona Department of Health Services, and he is the guy to talk to, after all.
But I will allow you, my readers, to come up with your own estimate(s) of the situation as it stands today. Feel free to share your own concerns with Mr. Humble, I really believe he would benefit from a healthy dose of public inquiry into these matters. Something is horrifically amiss in the offices of the Arizona Department of Health Services, and he is the guy to talk to, after all.
By: WIll Humble, Director
Arizona Department of Health Services
Health and Wellness for all Arizonans
Acting Deputy for Behavioral Health
August 5th, 2012 by Will HumbleNo comments »
Thanks for your patience as we developed our continuity plan for leadership in our Division of Behavioral Health. I know you’re all anxious to hear the transition plan for after Dr. Nelson leaves on August 24. Fortunately, we are very lucky to have so many strong leaders here at the agency, including a really great team of DBHS Branch Chiefs and Bureau Chiefs. Many of you will be key in helping to make this time period a success, and we’ll be looking to you to keep our great momentum going!
We’ve already posted the Deputy Director position and have had interviews underway for the Assistant Director position. I think we’ll move smoothly with filling both of these positions permanently in the near future. In the interim, I’ve asked Cory Nelson, AZ State Hospital CEO to serve as the Acting Deputy Director- and he’s agreed to help out. Cory will spend the next three weeks working closely with Dr. Nelson and the rest of the team and should have no problem getting up to speed- as he’s a quick study. This plan will offer a great opportunity to further strengthen our important link between the Hospital and the community-based behavioral health system. It’ll also bring in additional people-power to DBHS during this incredibly busy time. Cory has a great team at the Hospital as well and they’re up to the task of picking up some of Cory’s day-to-day work there. Donna Noriega will be leading the team at the hospital as Acting CEO and will be working closely with the rest of the leadership team to make sure the great things happening there keep moving forward.
Some may ask why Bob Sorce, our fearless Assistant Director, has not been asked to serve as Acting Deputy Director. While Bob is very capable and no doubt would do a good job in that role, his current assignment in managing the Maricopa County RBHA RFP project is at a critical stage with the expected release of the RFP next month. Given the importance of this project, I am not willing to disrupt the positive momentum that has been building over the last several months by reassigning him to a different position. Bob, along with the rest of the RFP Core Team must continue to spearhead this important work as well as prepare for the monumental changes to health care that are expected on January 1, 2014 when federal healthcare reform is set to kick in. Bob will also serve as back-up to Cory and assist whenever needed. As I have previously said, we’ll continue with our mission as a team and I feel good about the team we have in place.
It’s nice to know that we have a strong team in place throughout the Agency- which gives me comfort that we’ll make it through this transition effectively.
Will Humble, Director, Arizona Department of Health Services.
Some may ask why Bob Sorce, our fearless Assistant Director, has not been asked to serve as Acting Deputy Director. While Bob is very capable and no doubt would do a good job in that role, his current assignment in managing the Maricopa County RBHA RFP project is at a critical stage with the expected release of the RFP next month. Given the importance of this project, I am not willing to disrupt the positive momentum that has been building over the last several months by reassigning him to a different position. Bob, along with the rest of the RFP Core Team must continue to spearhead this important work as well as prepare for the monumental changes to health care that are expected on January 1, 2014 when federal healthcare reform is set to kick in. Bob will also serve as back-up to Cory and assist whenever needed. As I have previously said, we’ll continue with our mission as a team and I feel good about the team we have in place.
It’s nice to know that we have a strong team in place throughout the Agency- which gives me comfort that we’ll make it through this transition effectively.
Will Humble, Director, Arizona Department of Health Services.
#TWO
Danger, Will Humble, danger!!! The last time that Donna "you are so busted" Noriega was granted the responsibility of "leading the team" at The Arizona State Hospital, a young woman named April Mott wound up being brutally murdered in the greater Phoenix community following the escape of ASH patient Jesus Rincon Murietta in late May, 2012, an escape that was criminally covered up by ASH administrative and clinical officials when it occurred, including patent denials by hospital officials (including but not limited to Ms. Noriega) that anything even remotely resembling an escape had occurred when local news reporter J.J. Hensley directly inquired about the matter after I reported Jesus' escape to him. (see "Victims Family Questions Why man Was Free", AZ Republic newspaper Sept. 29, 2012.)The absence of a dutifully qualified-hired ASH supervisor came about circa the months of April through August, 2011, following the retirement of former ASH Supervisor John Cooper. During those four or so long months of ill qualified "leadership" at ASH (described by some as "the 2011 vacuum crisis at ASH"), I personally experienced a host of other very unlawful actions imparted directly upon me by ASH' administrative and clinical representatives, issues that are still under review in the state legal system. And in early 2012, Ms. Noriega was formally censured by her licensing board for blatantly lying about the employment qualifications of a peer/associate in the ADHS system, a charge and conviction for which I believe she is still under the restrictions of. So yeah sure, why not stick her right up there at top of the helm at ASH. Who cares about those damn mentally ill patients, anyway, eh', Mr. Humble?
So far as reassigning Cory"crazycorycorner.weebly.com Nelson
to an interim position of his very own, I can also certainly agree wholeheartedly with Will Humble's characterization of the man as being "a quick study." Mr. Nelson (or "meathead," as one of my staff peers at ASH used to refer to him) certainly jumped right in about 5 weeks after starting his new position at ASH (in August, 2011) and immediately displayed his willingness to alter the truth (LIE)when he categorically denied the merits of the Jesus Rincon Murietta escape coverup as it directly related to April Mott's horrifyingly gruesome murder. It was only then, after Ms. Mott died, that ASH' official stance on the matter came to include admitting that Jesus Murietta was, indeed, a former ASH patient, and even in this context, solely as the direct result of J.J. Hensley's much more intensive investigation of the overall story; and Cory Nelson was the one who represented those statements at that time (see "Victims Family Questions Why Man Was Free", AZ Republic, Sept. 29, 2012).
The citizens of the modern United States are not to be forced to endure so dastardly a misrepresentation of administrative public service as occurred in this particular sequence of events; both Noriega and Nelson played central roles in all of it as it played out, and neither of them has been held accountable, to my knowledge. I do believe that Ms. Mott's family filed a civil action (sued) ADHS after their daughter was brutally murdered as a direct consequence of these individuals criminal ineptitude, but the terms of the settlement (as per standard protocol) decreed that the formal records of the suit be kept sealed.
This is one of the advantages of working in state facilities such as ASH, and people like Donna Noriega, Cory Nelson, and ADHS Director Will Humble know it: No matter how depraved your misconduct might happen to be as an executive level staff member, you are virtually free of being directly held accountable, because all that really happens in lawsuits of this nature is that the citizens of Arizona ultimately pay the price of the wrongdoing by funding the costs of it all through state taxation. It is as profoundly clusterfuct a state of affairs as one might imagine in this day in age; dirty to the nth degree and classic Arizona as it's long been known as a state, and the officials at ASH and in ADHS get away with it lock-stock-and barrel.
Why, Mr. Humble, why do you disregard the significance of these simple things? What exactly is your motivation and intent? I beg you to exercise your authority as matter of doing the right thing, sir, rather than allow for the harm done to continue. What more do you need to hear?
to an interim position of his very own, I can also certainly agree wholeheartedly with Will Humble's characterization of the man as being "a quick study." Mr. Nelson (or "meathead," as one of my staff peers at ASH used to refer to him) certainly jumped right in about 5 weeks after starting his new position at ASH (in August, 2011) and immediately displayed his willingness to alter the truth (LIE)when he categorically denied the merits of the Jesus Rincon Murietta escape coverup as it directly related to April Mott's horrifyingly gruesome murder. It was only then, after Ms. Mott died, that ASH' official stance on the matter came to include admitting that Jesus Murietta was, indeed, a former ASH patient, and even in this context, solely as the direct result of J.J. Hensley's much more intensive investigation of the overall story; and Cory Nelson was the one who represented those statements at that time (see "Victims Family Questions Why Man Was Free", AZ Republic, Sept. 29, 2012).
The citizens of the modern United States are not to be forced to endure so dastardly a misrepresentation of administrative public service as occurred in this particular sequence of events; both Noriega and Nelson played central roles in all of it as it played out, and neither of them has been held accountable, to my knowledge. I do believe that Ms. Mott's family filed a civil action (sued) ADHS after their daughter was brutally murdered as a direct consequence of these individuals criminal ineptitude, but the terms of the settlement (as per standard protocol) decreed that the formal records of the suit be kept sealed.
This is one of the advantages of working in state facilities such as ASH, and people like Donna Noriega, Cory Nelson, and ADHS Director Will Humble know it: No matter how depraved your misconduct might happen to be as an executive level staff member, you are virtually free of being directly held accountable, because all that really happens in lawsuits of this nature is that the citizens of Arizona ultimately pay the price of the wrongdoing by funding the costs of it all through state taxation. It is as profoundly clusterfuct a state of affairs as one might imagine in this day in age; dirty to the nth degree and classic Arizona as it's long been known as a state, and the officials at ASH and in ADHS get away with it lock-stock-and barrel.
Why, Mr. Humble, why do you disregard the significance of these simple things? What exactly is your motivation and intent? I beg you to exercise your authority as matter of doing the right thing, sir, rather than allow for the harm done to continue. What more do you need to hear?
#THREE PJ Reed AUGUST 07, 2012 Your comment is awaiting moderation.
I AM REQUESTING YOUR RESPONSE TO THE FOLLOWING STAFF REPORT FROM WITHIN THE ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL, ISSUED AUGUST 06, 2012, WHICH READS AS FOLLOWS:
FORMER SECURITY GUARD 08/06/12
Since I left ASH I have heard stories of more assaults. I got out at the right time, and am doing well in my new career. I still keep in touch with many of my old coworkers, and consider many of them to be good friends. Until the good old boys network is broken up there, I’m afraid nothing will ever change.
Since I left ASH I have heard stories of more assaults. I got out at the right time, and am doing well in my new career. I still keep in touch with many of my old coworkers, and consider many of them to be good friends. Until the good old boys network is broken up there, I’m afraid nothing will ever change.
Mr. Humble: Sorry to keep knocking on you door; you must think I am hounding you. But, in truth, I am just a consumer who happens to be SMI and who recently discharged from the state of Arizona’s sole long term public mental health care hospital, ASH, and as you know, I have extensive, heartfelt concern of for the safety and general wellbeing of my former patient-peers at ASH, because I know from first hand experience that patient abuse at ASH and administrative failures to address patient abuse at ASH has created nothing short of a crisis. That said, does it not seem to you that Cory Nelson and Donna Noriega (has her term of being censured for violating her professional obligations even concluded yet?) have plenty to do, given the severity of the crisis at ASH? Or do you feel that my voice and the concerns that I have in good faith attempted to bring to the table for meaningful consideration is not worthy of respect and comprehensive response? Please give the citizens of AZ some idea of your stance on my concerns in clear and simple language. We the patients- former and present- of ASH deserve to be recognized as contributing members of the citizen based community that you have been granted the privilege of tending to the care needs of. THANK YOU (?), PJ Reed.
(END OF DOCUMENT)
THE ABOVE IS MY THIRD DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH THE CENTRAL WEBSITE FOR THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES, WHICH PRESENTS ITSELF AS AN OPEN FORUM OF SORTS WHERE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC CAN SUPPOSEDLY ENGAGE IN GOOD FAITH DISCOURSE ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS IN RELATION TO THEIR EXPERIENCES AS CONSUMERS IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA.. HOWEVER, AS THE TWO STATUS UPDATES SHOWN BELOW INDICATE, THE ACTUAL POLICY OF ADHS (AND, IT FOLLOWS, THAT OF WILL HUMBLE) IS TO MISREPRESENT THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ONGOING DAY TO DAY AFFAIRS AT ASH AND THROUGHOUT THE AGENCY ITSELF BY RESTRICTING THE FLOW OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ADHS AND ANY CITIZEN-CONSUMERS, SUCH AS MYSELF, WHO JUST SO HAPPEN TO HAVE CLEAR FEELINGS ABOUT THE FLOW OF SERVICES IN RELATION TO ADHS THAT CONTRADICT MR. HUMBLE'S UBER-UPBEAT COMMENTS IN HIS BLOG . CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION IN THIS CONTEXT IS NOTHING SHORT OF OF ADMINISTRATIVE ABUSE OF AUTHORITY/POWER, AND IS PRECISELY WHAT I HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING SINCE DAY ONE OF MY ATTEMPTS TO ADVOCATE FOR MY RIGHTS AND CARE NEEDS AS A SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL CITIZEN IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA, ABUSE WHICH LITERALLY BEGAN AS SOON AS I ENTERED THE ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL.
#FOUR
Health Disparities (UPDATE O8/07/12)
July 27th, 2012 by Will Humble No comments »
(UPDATE 08/07/12)
March 26th, 2012 No comments
"NO COMMENTS" my ass!!! As shown, the status of comments that I submitted to the ADHS website's open forum in relation to blog entries on the site written by Mr. Humble in recent weeks are as follows: ADHS/Will Humble won't even acknowledge my comments and requests online on the website. It is not as though my language is obscene or profane, or that the issues I seek to hear Mr. Humble's thoughts on are fantastical or otherwise grounded in false pretense, and I also sincerely try to establish my good faith willingness to be accepting of good faith responses. But clearly, the rat bastards are up to their nefarious games, yet again, creating a misrepresentative website designed to lead the public into thinking that ADHS supports transparency as part of its mission as a public institution and citizen funded agency.
Chicken shits, bottom feeders, criminal incarnate of evil and clear Machiavellian offspring, the lot of 'em!
IN CLOSING:
COME ON, ALREADY, MR. HUMBLE! QUIT IGNORING
THE COMMUNITY AND SPEAK UP. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU AFRAID OF, SIR? IS IT THAT YOU, TOO, FEEL THE PRESSURE OF POTENTAILLY BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE WRONGDOING AT ASH? WELL, I WILL TELL YOU WHAT- KEEP UP THIS CLOSED DOOR MENTALITY IN TERMS OF DIRECT INQUIRIES FROM FOLKS LIKE ME, AND YOU WILL INDEED BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE IT COMING. BOTTOM LINE. YOU ARE NO BETTER NOR ANY LESS DESERVING OF YOUR OBLIGATIONS TO THE PUBLIC THAN ANY OTHER OF US, SO JUST KEEP PUTTING THOSE ILLEGALLY TRAFFICKED CIGARETTES INTO PATIENTS MOUTHS, AND CONDONING THE COVER UP OF CLEARLY ILLEGAL ADMINISTRATIVE CONDUCT AT ASH, AND IF YOU CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT, THAN SO BE IT. YOU SHOULD DO FINE IN JAIL.
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