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.

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