DAY FOUR: Let The Games Begin. Wherein, the media coverage of negligence and related administrative corruption in the Arizona Department of Health Services continues.

As discussed in my recent article about the failure of the state agency overseen by ADHS director Will Humble, to meaningfully protect the interests and care needs of Arizona's mentally and behaviorally troubled juveniles, the Arizona Republic newspaper has actually been publishing daily coverage of this investigation and the related exposure of this matter. Please take a moment to review the details of this reporting, for in terms of the lapses in protocol and related violations of procedural law and policy specific to the state's obligation to fully protect the rights and care needs of its public health system clients, this matter illustrates  patterns identical to the issues that I have been working to address in relation to the substandard conditions at The Arizona State Hospital, which is also one of Will Humble's responsibilities. 

TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE(S), VISIT AZCENTRAL.COM. THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC NEWSPAPER WILL HAVE A FULL UDPATE EACH DAY OF THIS WEEK. 

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

DAY 4: Ariz. residential

treatment center map. 

Arizona has 11 juvenile residential treatment centers classified as 

Level 1 facilities. This means the facilities provide 24-hour 

supervision and nursing care, as well as a school. This map 

shows their locations, and lists for each the maximum number 

of beds, state funding over three years, and incident reports filed 

from October 2009-October 2012.

The Arizona Republic    

Locations of the 11 Arizona juvenile residential 
treatment centers classified as Level  I facilities. 

I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE ALL OF MY READERS TO READ THESE ARTICLES IN FULL, WHICH CAN BE VIEWED AT AZCENTRAL.COM 

The significance of this situation cannot be overstated at this time. The relationship of the issues arising via these media reports and the issues specific to my reporting about the substandard conditions at The Arizona State Hospital is one and the same. As such, the work of the Arizona Republic's reporters in this case has immediate bearing on the evolution of my work specific to ASH, enough so that I see great potential in terms of this process as it stands today. I have always been very aware of the fact that the presence of graphic patient abuse at ASH, and administrative failings of ASH's executive officers and senior clinicians to do anything about it, has everything to do with related problems in the state agency (ADHS) obligated to oversee the practices at ASH, and I have, in fact, personally experienced grossly substandard responses from various officials in the ADHS Office of Grievances and Appeals ever since I first turned to them not long after my admission to ASH in January, 2011. And thanks to these articles in Republic, I somewhat get the feeling that it is only a matter of time before these rat bastards go down, at all levels of authority at ASH and in the Arizona Department of Health Services/Behavioral Health Services.       

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