Cory "crazycorycorner.weebly.com" Nelson RE: A Visit to the former supervisor of The Arizona State Hospital, who is now Deputy Director of the entire AZ Department of Health/ Behavioral Health Services. Nelson's promotion after less than 24 months in the AZ heath care system, was granted by Will Humble, to a man with what may well be the most deplorable performance record in the state's overall public resources system. Humble, of course, in the highest ranking public health care official in the state of Arizona. Therein, the depth of these matters, as they stand today. 

It's crazy. And no pun intended. I honestly have no idea who is behind this website, and really do not visit it too often. But as the following postings to the site itself illustrate, there are serious concerns about ASH that even staff are willing to report, in spite of knowing that their job security is put at risk due the willingness of ASH administrators to violate the rights of such staff, who are only doing the right thing when they do, in fact, report such issues. I encourage anybody and everybody to visit the "crazycorycorner" website in their right. My comments about the following staff reports (A-C) are below. 

A)

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08/31/2012 11:07pm

My concern is for the patients who are being reintergrated into society from the ACPTC part of ASH. There are those who are being punished because of someone elses actions by Mr Nelson. He has crossed a fine line by bounds with this punitive action. This is a treatment center not punishment for these men. You do not make someone go out in full shackles for 3 que exposure outings and not have that considered punitive. The worst part is ASH gets away with this illegal activity claiming "treatment purposes" Once that "treatment purpose" is used the state hired attorney's don't do a damn thing. There has to be something done to stop Mr. Nelson's use of extreme punishments for these men.

B)

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02/09/2013 1:09am

ASH - I have witnessed Abuses on Patients and Employees. This is perpetrated mainly By OLDER Employees - who have worked at ASH 5-20 years. These OLDER employees are only at ASH for a (1) Paycheck (2) They all making sure that they will receive Retirement Benefits after 10-20 years of service - this includes a portion >50% of their base Salary for the rest of their LIfe. In order to receive this Free Money -- These OLDER employees have to Discharge, ignore, and outright prevent PATIENT and EMPLOYEE COMPLAINTS against themselves by stating the Patient is Psychotic or the Employee is obviously NOT WORKING. and then get the Patient or Employee moved to another Less Desirable Unit - like Cottonwood. These Employees have Formed Personal Relationships with aggressive patients like MW - and then Direct Him using -- Codewords, Nonverbal Cues, and incentives like extra privileges or women (nurses bumping up on him) -- to attack certain Employees, Nurses, Techs, and YES OTHER PATIENTS. MW is Rewarded by these Nurses and Techs with extra privileges, food/snacks, and possibly even by over looking Drugs like Spice, Bath Salts, Crushed Medications, etc. the Older Employees LET come into the units. Lastle PATIENT COMPLAINTS are not taken seriously UNLESS its against a NEW Employee - The OLDER EMPLOYEES are trying to Rid of. These older employees have a little Gang and they all meet after work at certain places, homes, and bars. The policies of ASH and obviously the LAWS of the State of Arizona regarding patients and employment do not apply to them because they can just gang up on you and lie about it. They Confidentiality and HIPPA to act like they protecting your rights when they are really using confidentiality to cover up what they are doing. The Investigators at ASH are also on Salary and Will not blow the whistle in fear of getting fired. They won't eve investigate a legitimate Complaint -- They are only there to cover the complaint up and act like they looked into it. EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION -& NEPOTISM - They are hiring their cousins, relatives, and friends and setting them up with large Salaries -- job performance standards do not apply for these people. Many of these OLDER Employees are in their 50's and 60's and would not even pass a Physical Examination to do the Job. Most of these OLD EMPLOYEES are WHITE, Caucasians -- they are literally Rednecks -- Small Town FOlk - and then there are those who are light skinned ""Mexican and White"", and, then they hired a couple Blacks and Mexicans to make it all LOOK GOOD! The blacks and Mexicans are Expendable and have a very High Turnover Rate. The Older White Rednecks with their small town racist mentality always survive the CUT -- The only way they can survive cut is apply ASH policies in a racially biased manner AND Ignore and prevent any Complaints against them from PATIENTS. No compliants made against these people are taken seriously.

C)

RN Staff 08/31/2013 5:57pm

LMAO. No literally. I'm on the floor. I haven't even read or even thought to look at complaints because honestly if I was a former patient I would leave. And never look back. Ever.

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My responses to these reports:

A) "My concern is for the patients…who are being reintergrated into society from the ACPTC part of ASH…" 

Yes. There is definitely a presence of punitive attitude underlying the manner in which many ASH clinicians carry on their practices. Herein the fact that Cory Nelson's formal professional experience flows from history in the South Dakota corrections system, and my contention that he needs to be held accountable as per all/any applicable law and policy, and the simple fat that ASH psychiatrist Pervaiz Akhter. expressed incomprehension of the fact that my status as an ASH patient had nothing to do with criminal misconduct ("Are you really not a felon…?) And I could not agree more with this writer's statement about Joel Rudd, who has been the acting ASH attorney for many, many years. He has engaged in condoning and outright supporting the wrongdoing at ASH as a representative of the Arizona Office of the Attorney General, which is arguably the most powerful law firm in the state. And as I have stated many times already, these people engage in violating all aspects any ASH patients rights on the basis of these patients being seriously mentally ill and disabled. Patent discrimination in all sense.

B) ASH - I have witnessed Abuses on Patients and Employees…..

Thank you, thank you, and thank you again, for taking the risk of being treated like a villain, simply because of feeling the need to speak out about the horrifically substandard health care practices at ASH. I mean that. I also apologize for not having come upon (YOUR) this person's posting long before now. Herein, I find the testimony of this ASH staff person's as most clearly powerful and obviously legitimate evidence to the effect that at ASH, some proportion of staff  are engaged in deeply inhumane, criminally unjust, and outright sickening misbehavior (and I contend that these Rat Bastards are the majority at ASH, most specifically in terms of seniority). Each and every detail offered in this posting is 100% valid, and I can attest to that. Hands down. From the overtly selfish misbehavior of ASH's "war horse" nursing staff, the majority of whom were (and are still) willing to participate in highly questionable mistreatment of ASH patients, up to 25-35 years ago ("These OLDER employees have to Discharge, ignore, and outright prevent PATIENT and EMPLOYEE COMPLAINTS against themselves by stating the Patient is Psychotic or the Employee is obviously NOT WORKING. and then get the Patient or Employee moved to another Less Desirable Unit - like Cottonwood…").; and the clandestine/cloak-and-dagger inner sanctum of those ASH staff who do whatever they can to preserve the depraved status quo that only the worst staff at ASH benefit from (these Employees have Formed Personal Relationships with aggressive patients like MW - and then Direct Him using -- Codewords, Nonverbal Cues, and incentives like extra privileges or women (nurses bumping up on him) -- to attack certain Employees, Nurses, Techs, and YES OTHER PATIENTS. MW is Rewarded by these Nurses and Techs with extra privileges, food/snacks, and possibly even by over looking Drugs like Spice, Bath Salts, Crushed Medications, etc. the Older Employees LET come into the units…These older employees have a little Gang and they all meet after work at certain places, homes, and bars). And as, perhaps most importantly, the reported details specific to the criminal misconduct of the Hospital's administrative staff, including staff "investigators" who are basically at risk of being fired if they are willing to abide by actual ASH rules, state and federal law, and so on (The policies of ASH and obviously the LAWS of the State of Arizona regarding patients and employment do not apply to them because they can just gang up on you and lie about it. The Confidentiality and HIPPA, to act like they protecting your rights when they are really using confidentiality to cover up what they are doing. The Investigators at ASH are also on Salary and Will not blow the whistle in fear of getting fired. They won't eve investigate a legitimate Complaint -- They are only there to cover the complaint up and act like they looked into it.) I can attest to this last point, as per the presence of VICKY FOX, an ASH-State investigator who was indeed fired for giving my concerns due attention, as I attempted to abide by specific  protocol in terms of how to go about reporting the abuses that I witnessed and experienced at ASH. Likewise, I have no idea what happened to former ASH Patient Advocate, Sonya Serda, who did as a matter of fact cooperate with ignoring my reports as the merits of my efforts find ground- she was in time relieved her duties, as well, and I feel safe in presuming that her loss of employment at ASH has everything to do with the grossly unlawful abuses on administrative authority at ASH. It is all really pretty clear, at least to me, with my formal understanding of systematic corruption and related wrongdoing whenever it comes to the needs of any state or nation's most at risk and vulnerable citizens. 

C) I haven't even read or even thought to look at complaints because honestly if I was a former patient I would leave. And never look back. Ever….

I find this statement touching, in the sense that, yes, I and any other person- mentally ill or not-  would do well to have nothing altogether to do with the substandard conditions at ASH. I understand this writer's sentiment, and only wish I had such convenience, as it were, in terms of boing able to "never look back…". But then again, I am content with the sense of duty that has, to date, compelled me to remain on track with exposing the wrongdoing that I know, as per my very real experience, directly detriments the needs and flow of treatment there, at ASH. At the expense of ASH and pateints alike. ASH, where all staff, regardless of their status or sense of morals, are effectively forced to go along with the grossly unlawful conduct of senior clinical staff, with the full support of ASH administrators, and highly authorized department of heath officials, such as Will Humble.

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