Fundamental Fact #1: Wherein, a fundamental inquiry into the causes underlying the substandard care at The Arizona State Hospital offers insight that can hopefully contribute to redress and resolution.
TOPIC: Poor Care (across the board).
ISSUE: How/why is it that the behavior of so many of the nurses and psychiatric physicians at The Arizona State Hospital falls so very very far below the standards that we the people expect out of medical professionals?
ANSWER: Part of the reason lies in the fact that the clinicians at The Arizona State Hospital have no concerns whatsoever in terms of customer satisfaction in its most basic sense.
In the public milieu, where we (the patient-client) have the option of considering the quality of care, professionals of any sort must take into account the quality of their services in order to ensure success. This is a basic as it gets, and a fact that anyone is familiar with. But in places like ASH, the patient-clients have virtually no opportunity to reject the presence of abusive or otherwise substandard behavior and related medical practices. I contend, via my very real experiences throughout the entirety of my 13 full months of hospitalization at ASH, that this has everything to do with why the conditions there are so graphically below par, and it somewhat applies across the board with respect for ASH staff at all levels of employ. All of them, in effect, are in a position to conduct themselves in blatant defiance of commonly established codes of fundamental decency with no worry at all about how their behavior will impact the flow of business that supports their income, and so on. It is that clear.
I further contend that any number of the most abusive employees at ASH choose to work at ASH for this very reason. I attest to witnessing and being personally subjected to staff misbehavior that would absolutely shock the conscience of the public, and in going through that process, I would literally look at these individuals and ask myself:
"HOW IN THE HELL DOES THIS PERSON GET AWAY WITH THIS? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? WHERE IN TARNATION DO THEY COME FROM?"
Likewise, all the way up the chain of authority there at ASH proper and on into the offices of Arizona Department of Health Services/Behavioral Health Services, administrators and managers can turn a blind eye to reports or other evidence to the effect that these substandard conditions exist at ASH with little to worry at all about oversight and accountability. It is, as such, a trickle down effect of undeniably sickening proportion, and the ultimate costs relating to this fact land squarely on the heads of Arizona's most seriously mentally ill and disabled citizens. This is unacceptable. The administrators and senior clinicians at The Arizona State Hospital are engaging in highly illegal and grossly inhumane abuse of their patients, and they are getting away with it lock-stack-and barrel.
IN CLOSING: That's it. Fundamental Fact(s) #1, merely designed to raise our basic understanding of how and why the patients at The Arizona State Hospital are being subjected to graphically substandard medical-mental care and practice.
THE STAFF AT ASH ARE NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO THEIR CUSTOMERS.
This is a process, nothing more, nothing less, and in time the needs of ASH's patients will be respected and their related rights will be honored. All things in their time, and this is one way to move the process along.
paoloreed@gmail.com
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
In The Presence Of The Sacred: Of My Father and My Family, and Related Notes: Wherein I suggest that the misconduct of medical and administrative staff at the Arizona State Hospital insults the very life blood/heritage of its many patients, including my own.
And as to the fact that Arizona Department of Health Services' highest ranking employee, Will "Yea Team!" Humble is willfully condoning these issues in defiance of the public trust:
(Memorial, United States Naval Academy)
(obit., Navy Times, August 11-16, 1970)
On my father's side, I am not quite half Chickasaw, and my father was born on the reservation in Oklahoma in 1924 to Andrew Calhoun, and Jewell Maulsey Baker. Immediately following high school, he played AAA baseball (minor league pro) for two years in the New York Yankees' farm program. Due to an issue with his throwing arm, he left professional ball and entered the United States Naval Academy, where he starred on the baseball team and once appeared in a photograph with Willy Mays following an historic game against Army. My father is the last in a line of men in my family to have served at the command level in the American military, a direct line history that extends to the American Revolution, literally. My father served in the Navy for 31 years, attaining the rank of Full Commander in a very rich and active career that included extensive administrative duty in relation to the Amphibious Force Seventh Fleet/Expeditionary Strike Force early in the Viet Nam conflict, command of several amphibious fleets, and extensive aviator service, as follows:
1953-64: Naval aviator, USS Ashtabula and USS Faribault.
1954: Participated in Passage to Freedom, the largest operation of its kind in history. Operation evacuated 310,000 people from communist-controlled North Vietnam to South Vietnam and carried 58,000 tons of cargo and humanitarian aid.
1953-64: Naval aviator, USS Ashtabula and USS Faribault.
1964-67: Command, VP-43 and VP-49.
1965-68: Participated in amphibious landings, assaults and expeditionary incursions off the eastern coast of the Republic of Vietnam.
My father was also assigned to the command staff of the USS Tallahatchie County, a Landing Ship-Tank specifically designated to function as a mobile air base transport vessel, as follows:
-On 3 February, 1962 the TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY was redesignated AVB-2, with CMDR Courtland Babcock and LT CMDR Jack Pickens in command. She now had a complement of 265 and quarters for 180 men of an aircraft squadron. Her mission was to beach wherever the call of duty arose, unload her 14 mobile support vans, construct a mobile airfield, and be fully operational within 24 hours. The vans also contained spare parts and equipment for weather forecasting, aircraft repairs, electronic repairs, and communications.
-On 15 May, 1962 TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY got underway for the Mediterranean and arrived at Naples, Italy, her new home port on 8 June 1962.
-During the next 17 months, she conducted advanced aviation base maneuvers at Souda Bay, Crete, and Cagliari, Sardinia. From 1 November to 15 December 1963, she made a 4800 mile cruise of the eastern Mediterranean in support of the naval Oceanographic Office
-TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY operated out of Naples until 15 January, 1970 when she was decommissioned and struck from the Navy list. She was sold for scrap to Contieri Navali Santa Maria, Genoa, in July 1970.
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THIS IS A PARTIAL REWRITE OF ONE OF MY FIRST ARTICLES
NOVEMBER 11, 2013: Only in the last 15-20 years has the fact that combat experience, and/or any other like traumatic experiences specific to war, can and does cause very serious damage to any warriors state of mind and well being. In the past, terms such as "shell shocked or "war torn" were applied to the men and women who's overall sense of identity and esteem were damaged via the impacts of serious service in the context. Thankfully, we do today see increasing acknowledgement specific to this issue, but as with many other other elements of American society's shortfalls, there is still much work to be done, if we as a nation are to grant our veterans our full obligations, and so on.
My father was a AAA baseball player before entering Annapolis, where he also starred on the Navy ball team, including playing against Wille Mays, aka "No. 44", when the latter player was starring at West Point, playing for Army. In my family records, there is a photo of my father and Mr. Mays shaking hands on a pitcher's mound, I am not sure of the year, but it would have been in the early 1940s. As a fully enrolled member of the Chickasaw nation, my father became one of the highest authorized (ranked) American Indians in the entire military complex (at the time), eventually acquiring the rank of full commander. Later in his life, in relation to serving as a high level- at times administrative- ranked Naval officer, during some of our nation's most colorful (for lack of a better word) military history, my father did fall victim to the effects of stress, conscientious disagreement with the practices of US military strategy, and deeply personal identity crisis that arose with direct respect for his heritage. His career crumbled when he was 51 years old, as a direct and undeniable consequence of his own struggles with major depression, substance abuse, and other like traits that are today known to be common to any long term serving military staff.
April 18, 2012:
This is the United States, and all that that implies. In this era, the new millennium, and with specific reflection on the history of our American culture and all that has been required thus far to get where we are today, there is no way in hell that someone like myself is going to sit back and allow for the administrators and senior clinicians at The Arizona State Hospital to treat my fellow citizens like dirt. Ain't gonna' happen, and never was once I learned of this shit, and never will so long as those people are not held fully accountable to the full extent of the law as it stands today.
"KEEP IT UP, THEN, AND WE'LL ALL LOOK BACK
SOME DAY AND TALK ABOUT HOW WELL THAT
WORKED OUT FOR YOU."
(Memorial, United States Naval Academy)
On my father's side, I am not quite half Chickasaw, and my father was born on the reservation in Oklahoma in 1924 to Andrew Calhoun, and Jewell Maulsey Baker. Immediately following high school, he played AAA baseball (minor league pro) for two years in the New York Yankees' farm program. Due to an issue with his throwing arm, he left professional ball and entered the United States Naval Academy, where he starred on the baseball team and once appeared in a photograph with Willy Mays following an historic game against Army. My father is the last in a line of men in my family to have served at the command level in the American military, a direct line history that extends to the American Revolution, literally. My father served in the Navy for 31 years, attaining the rank of Full Commander in a very rich and active career that included extensive administrative duty in relation to the Amphibious Force Seventh Fleet/Expeditionary Strike Force early in the Viet Nam conflict, command of several amphibious fleets, and extensive aviator service, as follows:
1953-64: Naval aviator, USS Ashtabula and USS Faribault.
1954: Participated in Passage to Freedom, the largest operation of its kind in history. Operation evacuated 310,000 people from communist-controlled North Vietnam to South Vietnam and carried 58,000 tons of cargo and humanitarian aid.
1953-64: Naval aviator, USS Ashtabula and USS Faribault.
1964-67: Command, VP-43 and VP-49.
1965-68: Participated in amphibious landings, assaults and expeditionary incursions off the eastern coast of the Republic of Vietnam.
1966-69: Naval Air Training Command, Naval Air Test Center.
1966-69: Naval Air Training Command, Naval Air Test Center. -On 3 February, 1962 the TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY was redesignated AVB-2, with CMDR Courtland Babcock and LT CMDR Jack Pickens in command. She now had a complement of 265 and quarters for 180 men of an aircraft squadron. Her mission was to beach wherever the call of duty arose, unload her 14 mobile support vans, construct a mobile airfield, and be fully operational within 24 hours. The vans also contained spare parts and equipment for weather forecasting, aircraft repairs, electronic repairs, and communications.
-On 15 May, 1962 TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY got underway for the Mediterranean and arrived at Naples, Italy, her new home port on 8 June 1962.
-During the next 17 months, she conducted advanced aviation base maneuvers at Souda Bay, Crete, and Cagliari, Sardinia. From 1 November to 15 December 1963, she made a 4800 mile cruise of the eastern Mediterranean in support of the naval Oceanographic Office
-During September 1964, she participated in an advanced aviation base exercise in conjunction with NATO operation FALLEX. IN February 1965, the TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY was called upon to salvage a jet aircraft that had splashed into the waters off the coast of Libya. She then returned to Naples to prepare for her longest advance aviation base operation to that time. Patrol Squadron 24 operated from TALLAHATCHIE's advance base in Souda Bay from July through September while the runways at the Naval Air Facility, Sigonella, were being repaired.
-During the summer of 1967 the TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY underwent and overhaul at the Socieata Escercizio Bocini Napoletani and then returned to operation in support of the Sixth Fleet. On 9 February, 1968 the TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY responded to an SOS form the Portuguese freighter DIAS which was sinking off the coast of Spain; and rescued her captain and crew of seven..-TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY operated out of Naples until 15 January, 1970 when she was decommissioned and struck from the Navy list. She was sold for scrap to Contieri Navali Santa Maria, Genoa, in July 1970.
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My father, Jackson Reed Pickens, Sr., died in a single car accident in 1970 not far outside of Brush, CO, while driving to New Mexico from the Chickasaw reservation in Oklahoma, where he had been spending time with his mother's family. He was on his way from there to visit and spend time with his children following full retirement from a long and illustrious Naval career. I never knew my father well, my parents separated before I was 5 years old and I have no clear memories of him whatsoever, which is sad, because I know that he loved his children.
In closing: Enough is enough. And it is with these ideas and feelings in mind that I say again that the rat bastards at The Arizona State Hospital picked the wrong people to pull their graphically illegal bullshit on, because we the people are citizens of the United States. That's myself, and the entire patient community at ASH. It is not in me or any person of similar conscientiousness and moral fiber to abandon my former patient-peers, and the ones most directly responsible for the dismally substandard conditions at ASH have been at it long enough.
paoloreed@gmail.com
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
OF WILL HUMBLE:. It's Official (yet again): ADHS director Will Humble is deliberately deceiving the public. (originally published in March, 2013)
Wherein for the 12th time in less than 6 months, the director of Arizona Department of Health Services actively censures the public's direct comments to his official ADHS blog, with the very real need of Humble to step up and do the right thing, as per his obligations.
It's simple. If anyone publically suggests the possibility of problems with the director of the Arizona Department of Health Services performance, he willfully stifles that information in
order to maintain his claims that all is well.
March 11, 2013
From those of us here in the public milieu, including but not limited to former ASH patients and their families, current and former ASH staff, and numerous other concerned citizens of Arizona, we demand an honest and forthright response to data that clearly contradicts your various claims in relation to failed policy changes at The Arizona State Hospital. There is irrefutable evidence readily available today illustrating the harmful impacts of this failed policy, and you are aware of this evidence, for it has been publicly featured in the popular press on prime time television and Phoenix area newspapers. Your refusal to engage in open door and civil discourse with the public specific to the identified problems at ASH and in ADHS is a testament to our deepest concerns, namely that you and your employees are engaged in bad faith misconduct which directly puts the seriously mentally ill and disabled patients at ASH at great risk of harm to their emotional, psychological, and physical welfare, as well as putting the greater public at risk in terms of general safety concerns.
Said bad faith misconduct is in graphic violation of the public trust and you know it. Please do not delete this comment. I am a citizen and I have the fundamental right to be included in this process. Allow the concerns of all interested citizens to be included in this process, and do not continue to ignore citizens (like myself), to whom you have a strict duty in terms of the public trust, as we openly seek to be included in this process.
Shame on you, Will Humble! Cease and desist now!
Sincerely, PJ Reed.
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Wherein for the 12th time in less than 6 months, the director of Arizona Department of Health Services actively censures the public's direct comments to his official ADHS blog, with the very real need of Humble to step up and do the right thing, as per his obligations.
(2016: Less then 6 months following my February 2012 discharge from The Arizona State Hospital, where for over 13 months I had been rigorously documenting every aspect of patient abuse that I and my patient-peers were subjected to due to the crass indifference and associated corruption of each and every senior ranking medical/administrative member of the Hospital's staff, I came to realize that then ADHS Director Will Humble was 100% involved in suppressing any information or data specific to these issues; issues that by now- 2016- are of common knowledge to anyone interested into the operation of ASH, as it stands. The following article was published with the intent of exposing Humble's grossly negligent failure to do the right thing (when he could have), which occurred at the expense of ASH's disabled and seriously mentally ill patient community, and in abject violation of the public trust. Fact of the matter is, Humble has yet to be held accountable as per the letter of law policy. For the moment, that is.)
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Will Humble's official "Blog" is a sham!
I am willing to guarantee that Humble and his "team" have censured countless other good faith feedback merely on the basis of it not fitting his ongoing flow of radical misinformation and related Stalinist practices with respect for the principle of free speech and open dialogue. Indeed, Will Humble's way of communicating with the citizens who pay his exorbitant salary is positively Orwellian in nature, and reeks of utter stupidity in this, the age of communication.
CORRUPTION.
AS A MATTER OF STANDARD PRACTICE.
STUPIDITY
AS A MATTER OF, WELL,
STUPIDITY.
AS PER THE DISCUSSION IN THE BELOW ARTICLE, WHICH I PUBLISHED ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2013, WILL HUMBLE IS CONTINUING TO REJECT ALL/ANY PUBLIC COMMENTARY SPECIFIC TO THE ARTICLE'S HE PUBLISHES IN HIS BLOG WHENEVER THAT COMMENTARY DISAGREES WITH THE CONTENT INCLUDED IN THE BLOG ITSELF.
WHICH EFFECTIVELY DISQUALIFIES THE DAMN THING AS A BLOG, IN FACT. THE UNDENIABLE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, THIS BODY OF INFORMATION IS CLEARY NOTHING MORE THAN A HIGHLY DEBASED TOOL OF PROPAGANDA, AND I CONTEND THAT WE THE CITIZENS OF ARIZONA DESERVE BETTER.
THIS IS THE TITLE AND DATE OF MY PREVIOUS ARTICLE PERTAINING TO THIS ISSUE AS IT STANDS TODAY. I WANT TO ENCOURAGE EACH AND EVERY ONE YOU TO VISIT www.azdhs.gov AND POST YOUR OWN COMMENTS ON THIS MAN'S SO CALLED DIRECT ACCESS RESOURCE. IT'S EAST TO FIND, HE HAS THE ICON FOR THE BLOG LOUDLY POSITIONED AT THE TOP OF THE MAIN ADHS SITE.
Will Humble's Blog Is A Sham. February 17, 2013 PJ Reed.
It's simple. If anyone publically suggests the possibility of problems with the director of the Arizona Department of Health Services performance, he willfully stifles that information in
order to maintain his claims that all is well.
March 11, 2013
Director Humble:
From those of us here in the public milieu, including but not limited to former ASH patients and their families, current and former ASH staff, and numerous other concerned citizens of Arizona, we demand an honest and forthright response to data that clearly contradicts your various claims in relation to failed policy changes at The Arizona State Hospital. There is irrefutable evidence readily available today illustrating the harmful impacts of this failed policy, and you are aware of this evidence, for it has been publicly featured in the popular press on prime time television and Phoenix area newspapers. Your refusal to engage in open door and civil discourse with the public specific to the identified problems at ASH and in ADHS is a testament to our deepest concerns, namely that you and your employees are engaged in bad faith misconduct which directly puts the seriously mentally ill and disabled patients at ASH at great risk of harm to their emotional, psychological, and physical welfare, as well as putting the greater public at risk in terms of general safety concerns.
Said bad faith misconduct is in graphic violation of the public trust and you know it. Please do not delete this comment. I am a citizen and I have the fundamental right to be included in this process. Allow the concerns of all interested citizens to be included in this process, and do not continue to ignore citizens (like myself), to whom you have a strict duty in terms of the public trust, as we openly seek to be included in this process.
Shame on you, Will Humble! Cease and desist now!
Sincerely, PJ Reed.
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AS WITH THE OTHER 12 SUBMISSIONS OF FEEDBACK I HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO WILL HUMBLE'S SO CALLED DIRECT LINE TO THE DIRECTOR, MY LATEST GOOD FAITH CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM WAS YET AGAIN REJECTED FOR INCLUSION IN THE PUBLIC RECORD ON WILL HUMBLE'S OFFICIAL BLOG PAGE, AND TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS, AS PER THE TERMS OF PARTICIPATION SPECIFIC TO SUCH FEEDBACK, SHOWN BELOW IN FULL.
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SO, WHAT DO THINK, OH READER? DO YOU SEE ANY THREATS, OBSCENITY, ABUSIVE LANGUAGE, OR ANY OTHER QUESTIONABLY UNCIVIL MATERIAL INCLUDED IN MY COMMENTS, AS SHARED VERBATIM ABOVE?
MY THOUGHTS ON THE ABOVE: THANK ME MY ASS, YOU YELLOW BELLIED SON OF A BITCH! WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO EMERGE FROM THE INCREASINGLY MASSIVE CLOUD OF STINK THAT YOUR ONGOING DECEIT HAS ALREADY CAUSED, MR. DIRECTOR??? WILL YOU EVER EMERGE, OR ARE YOU INTENDING TO GO DOWN WITH THE SHIP, AS IT WERE?
EITHER WAY, IT WON'T BE SOON ENOUGH, FOR EVEN AS I WRITE, THE ABUSE OF PATIENTS AT ARIZONA'S SOLE LONG TERM PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY IS ONGOING, WITH FULL COMPLICITY FROM YOU AND EVERY OTHER STATE EMPLOYEE WITH THE AUTHORITY TO BRING THIS SITUATION TO A POINT OF MEANINGFUL REDRESS AND RESOLUTION. GET THIS OVER WITH ALREADY...
AND ALLOW THE DUE PROCESS OF GOODBYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE BEGIN.
And as for the "77 Comments" that have been posted/granted accessibility for democratic consideration by the public in the entire history of Will "Yea Team!" Humble's blog, I read through each and every one, and virtually all of them have to do with the medical marijuana issue. Nice and safe, and not entirely under Humble's authority, so he is at no risk of further screwing himself (in terms of the extent to which he is doing this to himself with respect for ASH, for example). Likewise, virtually none of the feedback that has been granted such accessibility include anything even remotely criticizing ADHS or Humble's performance.
This is as undemocratic and scandalous a flow of communication as I have ever encountered, and I have seen some strange shit in my time.
GIVEN THIS STARK FACT, AND THE SIMPLE KNOWLEDGE THAT I HAVE PERSONALLY SUBMITTED TWELVE REASONABLY CIVIL AND LAWFUL COMMENTARY POSTS TO HUMBEL'S BLOG, NONE OF WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC TO CONSIDER WE CAN ONLY WONDER THE ABOUT THE EXTENT OF WHICH HUMBLE AND HIS DROOGS HAVE CENSURED OTHER CITIZEN BASED FEEDBACK IN THIS CONTEXT.
Business as usual at ASH and ADHS.
AGAIN, I REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE EACH AND EVERY ONE YOU TO VISIT www.azdhs.gov AND POST YOUR OWN COMMENTS ON THIS MAN'S SO CALLED DIRECT ACCESS RESOURCE. HIS "BLOG", THAT IS. IT'S EASY TO FIND, HE HAS THE ICON FOR THE THING LOUDLY POSITIONED AT THE TOP OF THE MAIN ADHS SITE.
LET'S TAKE ACTION NOW AND GIVE THIS FALSE WITNESS HIS DUE STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTABILITY- PAYABLE IMMEDIATELY.
IN CLOSING: As I have stated in recent weeks, there are developments pertaining the ongoing exposure(s) of corruption specific to the substandard medical/mental health care practices and condition at The Arizona State Hospital in the works. When the time comes, each and every aspect of the history of my advocacy work in the context of seeking meaningful oversight in relation to this matter will be fully revealed in one complete document, including details as sordid as the facts underlying the dissemination of misinformation exhibited by the state of Arizona's highest paid health care official, Arizona Department of Health Services director Will "Yea Team!!!" Humble, as illustrated here. It is all 100% consistent with my overall experiences as a patient at ASH and client of ADHS to this point in time, and as such, right the hell on point with my emerging theses statement. Note: THESES, as in plural. There is so much dirt underlying this scandal that I anticipating releasing nothing short of a monstrous spider web of interconnected malfeasance.
AND I AM NO LONGER WORKING VIRTUALLY ALONE IN ITS
DEVELOPMENT. WHAT A RELIEF!
(UPDATE JANUARY 24, 2016: This last detail relates to the fact that I had very recently been contacted by Emmy Award winning reporter David Biscobing of Phoenix's local ABC affiliate, Ch15/KNVX, seeking collaboration with respect for the data thus far published in "PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse" (through April 2012, and March 2013). As we all know by now, this communication and my immediate willingness to indeed provide Mr. Biscobing with all/any related information about the substandard care practices and over all conditions at ASH that I had (at that time) in my possession greatly accelerated the momentum initiated during that first year of publishing this BLOG. As such, with the status of persons directly associated with the scandal itself in mind- be they the ones fired in spring 2015, or not- it is still only a matter of time before full accountability shall came about. If I have my way, that is. Rest assured: I and the staff of the BLOG will continue to maintain a close watch on the situation for as long as it takes.)
paoloreed@gmail.com
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Will Humble's Blog Is A Sham.
It's simple. If anyone publically suggests the possibility of problems with the director of the Arizona Department of Health Services performance, he willfully stifles that information in order to maintain his claims that all is well.
This is censureship through and through, designed to deny the public access to factual reports submitted in good faith by persons who directly experience the realities of his performance as staff, clients, you name it.
It is also 100% consistent with the manner in which ADHS mishandles good faith grievance reports submitted by patients at The Arizona State Hospital, regardless of the merits or related severity of the issues at stake, be it outright physical abuse, administrative malfeasance, whatever.
BOTTOMLINE: If it doesn't fit the scheme that Humble and company are dedicated to fabricating in prime time media coverage or so called tools of open discourse such as Humble's blog, it is not going to be made public. Business as usual, in other words.
SEE BELOW:
A) The first paragraphs of a recent article published by Arizona Department of Health Services Director WILL HUMBLE in his official blog.
B) A reader's comments to the article. The "reader" is the executive officer of a company that holds a contract with the Humble's ADHS empire.
C) Another reader's comments to the article. The "reader" is me. I am a taxpaying citizen of Arizona and a former patient at The Arizona State Hospital, with extensive first person experience relating to the matters discussed in the article and a good faith dedication to seeing that the endemic and unlawful problems at ASH are meaningfully addressed in accordance with established law and recognized codes of common decency, my concerns deriving entirely from my awareness that ASH's seriously mentally ill and disabled patients are being denied reasonably decent care and treatment.
INTRODUCTION: AS ALREADY POINTED OUT IN MY OWN WRITING, AS WELL AS IN RECENT MEDIA REPORTS (SEE AZFAMILY.COM PHOENIX CH. 12 [AUG. 14, 2013] "SECURITY CHANGES AT THE ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL"; PHOENIX NEWS CH. 15 [AUG. 11, 12, 26] "INSIDERS TELL ABC 15 INVESITGATORS SECURITY CUTS AT STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL PUT PUBLIC AT RISK"), THERE IS AN ONGOING AND UNDENIABLE FLOW OF DECEITFUL INFORMATION EMITTING FROM THE OFFICE OF ARIZONA'S HIGHEST RANKING PUBLIC HEALTH CARE OFFICIAL, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH DIRECTOR WILL HUMBLE, WHO IS COMPLICIT WITH ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL SUPERVISOR CORY NELSON IN MAINTAINING WHAT I CONTEND TO BE GROSSLY SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS AT ASH THAT EXIST IN CONTRADICTION TO THE COMMON GOOD AND IN DEFIANCE OF ESTABLISHED LAW AND POLICY.
THE FOLLOWING DATA OFFERS A GLARING EXAMPLE OF HOW HUMBLE WILLFULLY CONTROLS THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION MADE AVAILABLE IN HIS OFFICIAL BLOG (A). ANY/ALL COMMENTS POSTED IN RESPONSE TO HUMBLE'S ARTICLES THAT DO NOT JIBE WITH THE HYPE THAT HUMBLE BASES THEM ON ARE OMITTED FROM THE RECORD AND HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC CONSIDERATION (C), WHILE THE ONLY COMMENTS YOU WILL EVER SEE INCLUDED ON THE OFFICIAL ADHS RECORD TAKE THE FORM OF THE FOLLOWING ONE (B), DRAFTED AND SUBMITTED BY ONE OF HUMBLE'S ASSOCIATES (TONY JACE).
HUMBLE ALWAYS STRIKES MY COMMENTS FROM THE OFFICIAL ADHS RECORD, COMMENTS THAT I SUBMIT IN GOOD FAITH, AS I DO WITH ALL SUCH INTERCOURSE AND COMMUNICATION IN THIS CONTEXT. HE DOES THIS IN ORDER TO DENY THE PUBLIC ACCESS TO FACTUAL INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO THESE MATTERS, AND IN DOING SO, IS IN VIOLATION OF HIS OBLIGATIONS TO THE PUBLIC TRUST.
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(A)
Recent changes in security are making the Hospital a better place for patients, staff and the public. In the last four months – we’ve greatly reduced injuries to patients and staff – 23% for patient on patient assaults, 72% for patient on staff assaults; and we’ve reduced injuries by 83% for staff injuries from patient assaults, 26% for patient self injury.
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Feb. 18, 2013
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(C)
March 11, 2013
Director Humble:
From us here in the public milieu, including but not limited to former ASH patients and their families, current and former ASH staff, and numerous other concerned citizens of Arizona, we demand an honest and forthright response to data that clearly contradicts your various claims in relation to failed policy changes at The Arizona State Hospital. There is irrefutable evidence readily available today illustrating the harmful impacts of this failed policy, and you are aware of this evidence, for it has been publicly featured in the popular press on prime time television and Phoenix area newspapers. Your refusal to engage in open door and civil discourse with the public specific to the identified problems at ASH and in ADHS is a testament to our deepest concerns, namely that you and your employees are engaged in bad faith misconduct which directly puts the seriously mentally ill and disabled patients at ASH at great risk of harm to their emotional, psychological, and physical welfare, as well as putting the greater public at risk in terms of general safety concerns.
Said bad faith misconduct is in graphic violation of the public trust and you know it. Please do not delete this comment. I am a citizen and I have the fundamental right to be included in this process. Allow the concerns of all interested citizens to be included in this process, and do not continue to ignore citizens (like myself), to whom you have a strict duty in terms of the public trust, as we openly seek to be included in this process.
Shame on you, Will Humble! Cease and desist now!
Sincerely, PJ Reed.
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IN CLOSING:
Tony Jace is a corporate executive officer who's primary obligation is to the shareholders of the corporation that he oversees, The Crisis Prevention Institute. He is not a citizen of Arizona. As such, there is nothing more than a standard business contract underlying the relationship of this man to/with the Arizona Department of Health Services, and any praise that he might happen to offer reflects nothing other than the benefits of the relationship directly flowing to his shareholders, versus to the citizens of Arizona, and certainly not to the patients at The Arizona State Hospital. In fact, this man has no awareness of the actual conditions in The Arizona State Hospital other than information disseminated by Will Humble, as illustrated above.
IT DOESN'T TAKE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO RECOGNIZE THE DECEITFUL NATURE OF THIS SORT OF INFORMATION EXCHANGE.
I have directly submitted numerous communications to Will Humble, including in relation to other past article postings on his official ADHS blog. I have offered him detailed data and testimony specific to the substandard health care and practices at ASH, with emphasis on the presence at ASH of graphic emotional, psychological, and physical abuse of the highly vulnerable patients there on a number of occasions. I have always submitted these in a civil manner, in accordance with protocol, and my passion is arguably the most pronounced tone of any such communications.
HE NEVER RESPONDS IN KIND.
We the people are deserving of more. Patient abuse is inhumane, highly illegal, and patently unacceptable. End of story.
paoloreed@gmail.com
It's simple. If anyone publically suggests the possibility of problems with the director of the Arizona Department of Health Services performance, he willfully stifles that information in order to maintain his claims that all is well.
This is censureship through and through, designed to deny the public access to factual reports submitted in good faith by persons who directly experience the realities of his performance as staff, clients, you name it.
It is also 100% consistent with the manner in which ADHS mishandles good faith grievance reports submitted by patients at The Arizona State Hospital, regardless of the merits or related severity of the issues at stake, be it outright physical abuse, administrative malfeasance, whatever.
BOTTOMLINE: If it doesn't fit the scheme that Humble and company are dedicated to fabricating in prime time media coverage or so called tools of open discourse such as Humble's blog, it is not going to be made public. Business as usual, in other words.
SEE BELOW:
A) The first paragraphs of a recent article published by Arizona Department of Health Services Director WILL HUMBLE in his official blog.
B) A reader's comments to the article. The "reader" is the executive officer of a company that holds a contract with the Humble's ADHS empire.
C) Another reader's comments to the article. The "reader" is me. I am a taxpaying citizen of Arizona and a former patient at The Arizona State Hospital, with extensive first person experience relating to the matters discussed in the article and a good faith dedication to seeing that the endemic and unlawful problems at ASH are meaningfully addressed in accordance with established law and recognized codes of common decency, my concerns deriving entirely from my awareness that ASH's seriously mentally ill and disabled patients are being denied reasonably decent care and treatment.
INTRODUCTION: AS ALREADY POINTED OUT IN MY OWN WRITING, AS WELL AS IN RECENT MEDIA REPORTS (SEE AZFAMILY.COM PHOENIX CH. 12 [AUG. 14, 2013] "SECURITY CHANGES AT THE ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL"; PHOENIX NEWS CH. 15 [AUG. 11, 12, 26] "INSIDERS TELL ABC 15 INVESITGATORS SECURITY CUTS AT STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL PUT PUBLIC AT RISK"), THERE IS AN ONGOING AND UNDENIABLE FLOW OF DECEITFUL INFORMATION EMITTING FROM THE OFFICE OF ARIZONA'S HIGHEST RANKING PUBLIC HEALTH CARE OFFICIAL, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH DIRECTOR WILL HUMBLE, WHO IS COMPLICIT WITH ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL SUPERVISOR CORY NELSON IN MAINTAINING WHAT I CONTEND TO BE GROSSLY SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS AT ASH THAT EXIST IN CONTRADICTION TO THE COMMON GOOD AND IN DEFIANCE OF ESTABLISHED LAW AND POLICY.
THE FOLLOWING DATA OFFERS A GLARING EXAMPLE OF HOW HUMBLE WILLFULLY CONTROLS THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION MADE AVAILABLE IN HIS OFFICIAL BLOG (A). ANY/ALL COMMENTS POSTED IN RESPONSE TO HUMBLE'S ARTICLES THAT DO NOT JIBE WITH THE HYPE THAT HUMBLE BASES THEM ON ARE OMITTED FROM THE RECORD AND HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC CONSIDERATION (C), WHILE THE ONLY COMMENTS YOU WILL EVER SEE INCLUDED ON THE OFFICIAL ADHS RECORD TAKE THE FORM OF THE FOLLOWING ONE (B), DRAFTED AND SUBMITTED BY ONE OF HUMBLE'S ASSOCIATES (TONY JACE).
HUMBLE ALWAYS STRIKES MY COMMENTS FROM THE OFFICIAL ADHS RECORD, COMMENTS THAT I SUBMIT IN GOOD FAITH, AS I DO WITH ALL SUCH INTERCOURSE AND COMMUNICATION IN THIS CONTEXT. HE DOES THIS IN ORDER TO DENY THE PUBLIC ACCESS TO FACTUAL INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO THESE MATTERS, AND IN DOING SO, IS IN VIOLATION OF HIS OBLIGATIONS TO THE PUBLIC TRUST.
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(A)
New State Hospital Treatment Approach Leads to Improved Outcomes
February 12th, 2013 by Will HumbleLeave a reply »
One priority at ADHS is helping patients on their path to Recovery at the State Hospital. Our Hospital team cares for people who have mental health issues, whether for civil reasons or committed through the criminal courts. We also oversee the Arizona Community Protection and Treatment Center.
Recent changes in security are making the Hospital a better place for patients, staff and the public. In the last four months – we’ve greatly reduced injuries to patients and staff – 23% for patient on patient assaults, 72% for patient on staff assaults; and we’ve reduced injuries by 83% for staff injuries from patient assaults, 26% for patient self injury. (B)
Feb. 18, 2013
Director Humble,
from us here at CPI we are thrilled to see the results you’re achieving– it’s a testament to your commitment to care, dedicated staff, and drive to serve Arizonians as safely as possible.
Congratulations and keep up the great work!
Tony Jace, CEO
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(C)
March 11, 2013
Director Humble:
From us here in the public milieu, including but not limited to former ASH patients and their families, current and former ASH staff, and numerous other concerned citizens of Arizona, we demand an honest and forthright response to data that clearly contradicts your various claims in relation to failed policy changes at The Arizona State Hospital. There is irrefutable evidence readily available today illustrating the harmful impacts of this failed policy, and you are aware of this evidence, for it has been publicly featured in the popular press on prime time television and Phoenix area newspapers. Your refusal to engage in open door and civil discourse with the public specific to the identified problems at ASH and in ADHS is a testament to our deepest concerns, namely that you and your employees are engaged in bad faith misconduct which directly puts the seriously mentally ill and disabled patients at ASH at great risk of harm to their emotional, psychological, and physical welfare, as well as putting the greater public at risk in terms of general safety concerns.
Said bad faith misconduct is in graphic violation of the public trust and you know it. Please do not delete this comment. I am a citizen and I have the fundamental right to be included in this process. Allow the concerns of all interested citizens to be included in this process, and do not continue to ignore citizens (like myself), to whom you have a strict duty in terms of the public trust, as we openly seek to be included in this process.
Shame on you, Will Humble! Cease and desist now!
Sincerely, PJ Reed.
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IN CLOSING:
Tony Jace is a corporate executive officer who's primary obligation is to the shareholders of the corporation that he oversees, The Crisis Prevention Institute. He is not a citizen of Arizona. As such, there is nothing more than a standard business contract underlying the relationship of this man to/with the Arizona Department of Health Services, and any praise that he might happen to offer reflects nothing other than the benefits of the relationship directly flowing to his shareholders, versus to the citizens of Arizona, and certainly not to the patients at The Arizona State Hospital. In fact, this man has no awareness of the actual conditions in The Arizona State Hospital other than information disseminated by Will Humble, as illustrated above.
IT DOESN'T TAKE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO RECOGNIZE THE DECEITFUL NATURE OF THIS SORT OF INFORMATION EXCHANGE.
I have directly submitted numerous communications to Will Humble, including in relation to other past article postings on his official ADHS blog. I have offered him detailed data and testimony specific to the substandard health care and practices at ASH, with emphasis on the presence at ASH of graphic emotional, psychological, and physical abuse of the highly vulnerable patients there on a number of occasions. I have always submitted these in a civil manner, in accordance with protocol, and my passion is arguably the most pronounced tone of any such communications.
HE NEVER RESPONDS IN KIND.
We the people are deserving of more. Patient abuse is inhumane, highly illegal, and patently unacceptable. End of story.
paoloreed@gmail.com
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
New Developments On The Western Front
Allow me to be the first to say it:
THESE PEOPLE HAVE LITTLE TO NO IDEA OF WHAT IS ABOUT TO HIT THEM.
And what's really sweet is that I know by now that people like Cory "crazycorycorner" Nelson and Will "Yea Team!"
Humble are very likely going to refuse (as they always do) to offer anything along the lines of good faith response to the increase of news reports and other like developments specific to the highly questionable conditions at The Arizona State Hospital and directly related shortfalls in the Arizona Department of Health/Behavioral Health Services system. Knowing this will effectively save myself and everybody else on my side of this ongoing conflict one hell of a lot of valuable time and energy; and it will also expedite the process in general, for at this point in time, all attempts from my end to give these people any more free leash in the hope of them DOING THE RIGHT THING are over. There is no point in it, regardless of how much easier that may sound, for their undeniable dereliction of duty to the public has gone on far, far too long, and to ignore that fact can only occur at the direct expense of the welfare and health of ASH's patients. And this has gone on for far too long. Period.
It's basically that clear to me today, for there was a point in time when I had the opportunity to look Cory Nelson in the eyes and simply request in no uncertain terms that he DO THE RIGHT THING; this was probably 6 weeks after he started as ASH's newest supervisor in late summer 2011, and I did at the time have every hope that he was up to the task of doing just that, THE RIGHT THING, and nothing more complex than just that. But he wouldn't then, and he sure hasn't since. This is very, very sad, in my thinking, because if eighteen months ago he'd had the basic intelligence to grant me equitable treatment in terms of my voice and related experience at ASH, any number of people would be far better off today. Today I am reluctantly forced to presume that Cory Nelson and all the rest of these people are indeed so lacking in fundamental intelligence, this hypothesis not relying whatsoever on character or ethics, that there is no hope in expecting anything else out of them. This is the state of affairs today, just as it was when I departed from ASH in late February, 2012.
Sad, sad, sad… Business at ASH as per the usual.
That said, the process at this point it is only "sweet" in the sense that my evolving experience in this matter is now becoming very, very valuable in terms of understanding how these RAT BASTARDS prefer to conduct their affairs, and in this sense, I am somewhat enjoying watching them hang themselves, one knot at a time. Their inability to respond to well founded reports of problems in their system of operation is Pavlovian in nature, illustrative in my opinion of far more than simple ineptitude- I find it to be depravity personified. My experience is also very useful to the newest participants in this process, people who I am not at liberty to identify quite yet, and we are all appreciative of (aka concerned about) the proven fact that the issues at stake today extend far into the deepest recesses of Arizona's overall structure of public administration and government. Therein, the "sweetness" of a self hanging; never a pretty thing to witness, but that's just how things have to go sometimes.
In truth, this process is not about me anymore (was it ever?), and nothing about it is positive to experience, for it derives most strongly from the heartfelt worry that I have about my former patient-peers there at ASH, most of whom I know have yet to stabilize to the point of safe discharge, and some of whom will likely never reach that point. This is certainly true as long as the general conditions at ASH remain so dismally substandard in undeniable collusion with ASH's senior clinical staff and the related support of corrupted administration officials who continue to allow these clinicians to function in blatant defiance of established health care ethics. Every night before I go to sleep, I make a point of looking at one specific personal journal entry that I drafted in my last few days at ASH. I derived my article and prose piece "Of Friends In Hell" from that entry, and I review it each night because it sharpens my bearings in relation to the presence of these greatly at risk people in my life. They the patients are there, and I am not (anymore); through this reality we together will make this happen.
I refuse to abandon them.
IN CLOSING: I will be leaving the deep south and returning to the southwestern United States in a matter of weeks. There is a very real need for me to return. A reasonable proportion of this need has to do with the ongoing work specific to bringing the substandard conditions at Arizona's sole long term public mental health care facility to an end once and for all; and in this context, there are indeed New Developments On The Western Front which have beckoned my presence on a full time basis. But more importantly, on a personal level, it is high time for me to return to my home. My wellness and related future aspirations greatly hinge upon the presence in my life of close and trusted friends, some of whom I have been close to for decades, stretching back into my very childhood. I am very fortunate and deeply grateful to have such friends in my life, this given the fact that I no longer have any immediate family, but also in terms of the simple virtue underlying deep and longstanding friendships in the realm of human experience, and I need to take advantage of this fact in my life. These are the people who know me and remember me for who I am, something that I lost touch with for a time in my own right. Consequent to the drag down affect of mental illness, (which is something I now recognize as one key theme to Edgar Allan Poe's psychological tale "A Descent Into The Maelstrom" [1919] ), I have been under the radar for a number of years -MIA as it is sometimes called, Missing In Arizona- and more than one of my oldest friends have made clear that they were very curious as to what I have doing with myself (to put it lightly). Surprisingly, I have yet to hear anyone express actual surprise to my updates. This is particularly true in the context of my work today in relation to advocating for the life interests and fundamental human rights of Arizona's most seriously mentally ill and disabled citizens. I am blessed, as such, to have friends who have done very well for themselves in terms of integrity based life pursuits and related dedications to principle in a range of contexts, including family, profession, and fundamental social worth. These are the foundations upon which my longest friendships were established, and I have been missed.
Allow me to be the first to say it:
THESE PEOPLE HAVE LITTLE TO NO IDEA OF WHAT IS ABOUT TO HIT THEM.
BUT I DO.
And what's really sweet is that I know by now that people like Cory "crazycorycorner" Nelson and Will "Yea Team!"
Humble are very likely going to refuse (as they always do) to offer anything along the lines of good faith response to the increase of news reports and other like developments specific to the highly questionable conditions at The Arizona State Hospital and directly related shortfalls in the Arizona Department of Health/Behavioral Health Services system. Knowing this will effectively save myself and everybody else on my side of this ongoing conflict one hell of a lot of valuable time and energy; and it will also expedite the process in general, for at this point in time, all attempts from my end to give these people any more free leash in the hope of them DOING THE RIGHT THING are over. There is no point in it, regardless of how much easier that may sound, for their undeniable dereliction of duty to the public has gone on far, far too long, and to ignore that fact can only occur at the direct expense of the welfare and health of ASH's patients. And this has gone on for far too long. Period.
It's basically that clear to me today, for there was a point in time when I had the opportunity to look Cory Nelson in the eyes and simply request in no uncertain terms that he DO THE RIGHT THING; this was probably 6 weeks after he started as ASH's newest supervisor in late summer 2011, and I did at the time have every hope that he was up to the task of doing just that, THE RIGHT THING, and nothing more complex than just that. But he wouldn't then, and he sure hasn't since. This is very, very sad, in my thinking, because if eighteen months ago he'd had the basic intelligence to grant me equitable treatment in terms of my voice and related experience at ASH, any number of people would be far better off today. Today I am reluctantly forced to presume that Cory Nelson and all the rest of these people are indeed so lacking in fundamental intelligence, this hypothesis not relying whatsoever on character or ethics, that there is no hope in expecting anything else out of them. This is the state of affairs today, just as it was when I departed from ASH in late February, 2012.
Sad, sad, sad… Business at ASH as per the usual.
That said, the process at this point it is only "sweet" in the sense that my evolving experience in this matter is now becoming very, very valuable in terms of understanding how these RAT BASTARDS prefer to conduct their affairs, and in this sense, I am somewhat enjoying watching them hang themselves, one knot at a time. Their inability to respond to well founded reports of problems in their system of operation is Pavlovian in nature, illustrative in my opinion of far more than simple ineptitude- I find it to be depravity personified. My experience is also very useful to the newest participants in this process, people who I am not at liberty to identify quite yet, and we are all appreciative of (aka concerned about) the proven fact that the issues at stake today extend far into the deepest recesses of Arizona's overall structure of public administration and government. Therein, the "sweetness" of a self hanging; never a pretty thing to witness, but that's just how things have to go sometimes.
In truth, this process is not about me anymore (was it ever?), and nothing about it is positive to experience, for it derives most strongly from the heartfelt worry that I have about my former patient-peers there at ASH, most of whom I know have yet to stabilize to the point of safe discharge, and some of whom will likely never reach that point. This is certainly true as long as the general conditions at ASH remain so dismally substandard in undeniable collusion with ASH's senior clinical staff and the related support of corrupted administration officials who continue to allow these clinicians to function in blatant defiance of established health care ethics. Every night before I go to sleep, I make a point of looking at one specific personal journal entry that I drafted in my last few days at ASH. I derived my article and prose piece "Of Friends In Hell" from that entry, and I review it each night because it sharpens my bearings in relation to the presence of these greatly at risk people in my life. They the patients are there, and I am not (anymore); through this reality we together will make this happen.
I refuse to abandon them.
IN CLOSING: I will be leaving the deep south and returning to the southwestern United States in a matter of weeks. There is a very real need for me to return. A reasonable proportion of this need has to do with the ongoing work specific to bringing the substandard conditions at Arizona's sole long term public mental health care facility to an end once and for all; and in this context, there are indeed New Developments On The Western Front which have beckoned my presence on a full time basis. But more importantly, on a personal level, it is high time for me to return to my home. My wellness and related future aspirations greatly hinge upon the presence in my life of close and trusted friends, some of whom I have been close to for decades, stretching back into my very childhood. I am very fortunate and deeply grateful to have such friends in my life, this given the fact that I no longer have any immediate family, but also in terms of the simple virtue underlying deep and longstanding friendships in the realm of human experience, and I need to take advantage of this fact in my life. These are the people who know me and remember me for who I am, something that I lost touch with for a time in my own right. Consequent to the drag down affect of mental illness, (which is something I now recognize as one key theme to Edgar Allan Poe's psychological tale "A Descent Into The Maelstrom" [1919] ), I have been under the radar for a number of years -MIA as it is sometimes called, Missing In Arizona- and more than one of my oldest friends have made clear that they were very curious as to what I have doing with myself (to put it lightly). Surprisingly, I have yet to hear anyone express actual surprise to my updates. This is particularly true in the context of my work today in relation to advocating for the life interests and fundamental human rights of Arizona's most seriously mentally ill and disabled citizens. I am blessed, as such, to have friends who have done very well for themselves in terms of integrity based life pursuits and related dedications to principle in a range of contexts, including family, profession, and fundamental social worth. These are the foundations upon which my longest friendships were established, and I have been missed.
Ok, people: There is a national crisis at this time that shares direct relation to the needs and related rights of America's seriously mentally ill citizens. There are a number of factors at play in terms of how this issue is being reckoned with, and at times, it rather complex. But I attest to the fact that in places like Arizona- and despite extensive funding sources and related laws and policy specific to the public health care system in general- the finger can be directly pointed at the graphic failings of the various mental health care professionals and related state officials who we, the public, have granted our trust in when in comes to caring for and treating this exclusive population. These people collect exorbitant salaries and use the authority entrusted to them in order to willfully abuse and neglect their roles, and they do it as matter of standard practice. Please do your part today to see that these matters are addressed, with specific respect for the tragedy befalling the citizens being treated at The Arizona State Hospital, because Patient Abuse is Tragic in all senses of the term. The administrators and senior clinicians at ASH and throughout the Arizona Department of Health Services/Behavioral Health Services are still maintaining these atrociously substandard mental-medical conditions and practices, and they are getting away with it lock-stock-and barrel.
paoloreed@gmail.com
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