As I have said all along: IT IS THAT BAD. All of these rat bastards are in bed together. Bottom line. Kudos to former ADHS/ASH investigator Vicky Fox- who I know for a fact was fired in fall 2012 for attempting to do the right thing in terms of her responsibilities in that position- for stepping forward in the context of the following news byte. I attest to the fact that one of the most serious grievance reports I filed while hospitalized at ASH was being reasonably handled by Vicky Fox at that point in time when she was unjustly fired, which only represents yet again the highly unlawful patterns of retaliation the ASH administrators engage in whenever staff or patients alike exercise the right to meet their most fundamental civic duty. It was in that same time period that I, in fact, was unlawfully removed from my original treatment unit at ASH, Palo Verde East which is known to be one the most peaceful units and the location that my referring physician specifically requested me to be placed on as per my established behavioral characteristics and crucial care needs, removed as such and relocated to one of the most violent units, Desert Sage East.
"Scripps Media Inc. dba KNXV-TV sued the Arizona Department of Health Services, its director Will Humble, and The Arizona State Hospital on August 6 in Maricopa County Court. Specifically, (former ADHS/ASH investigator) Vicky Fox alleged hospital COO Donna Noriega 'was covering up for individuals who she liked as employees in her reports or editing of reports prepared by Ms. Fox, deleting information out of the final investigative report at her choosing to diminish their responsibility in matters where patients had filed complaints against employees she liked- all to keep the hospital out of trouble and protect employees from appropriate discipline...." (from "Records Demanded on Sexual Assaults", (c) Maricopa County Courthouse News Services, August 11, 2014)
But you don't have to take my word for it:
SOCIAL WORK CREDENTIALING COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES Friday, March 9, 2012
C. 2012-0047, Donna Noriega, LCSW-10959
Ms. Rinaudo summarized the results of the investigation.
The professional appeared in person and addressed the committee.
The professional appeared in person and addressed the committee.
Following review and discussion by members, Mr. Mitchell moved, seconded by Ms. Dawson, to find a violation of A.R.S. §32-3251(12)(c)(i), any oral or written misrepresentation of a fact by a licensee to secure or attempt to secure the issuance of a license. The motion passed unanimously.
In the meantime: BE AFRAID, DONNA NORIEGA. YOUR TIME IS NEAR AT HAND.
The following is a rerun of an article originally published in 2012.
RE: Donna Noriega. BUSTED!
News Flash: Donna Noriega- Busted! March 09, 2012: The Current Chief Operating Officer at the Arizona State Hospital Found In Violation of Arizona Revised Statute 32-3251(12(c)(i) By The State Board of Behavioral Health Examiners. Censured, as per the findings of Case #2012-0047, convened under the authority of the Arizona SOCIAL WORK CREDENTIALING COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES Friday, March 9, 2012.
Of equal concern is the fact that when these obviously reoccuring gaps in reasonably qualified and duly hired executive supervision at The Arizona State Hospital arise, Donna Noriega- an individual who was very recently found to willfully engage in unlawful abuse of her authority as per the terms of her licensure as a certified Arizona social worker- is the person who Will Humble and company feel can reasonably tend to the overall affairs of ASH. The last time ASH was being operated without a duly hired supervisor (summer 2011), Noriega and her associates in the administrative offices of ASH (inc. but not limited to Dr. Stephen Dingle, Dr. Stephen Morris, and ASH's formal legal counsel, Joel Rudd of the state attorney general's office) willfully opted to cover up the violent escape of a patient named Jesus Rincon Murietta, in clear violation of the the public trust and related law and policy, which in turn directly contributed to the brutal murder of a young Phoenix woman named April Mott (SEE "Victim's Family Questions Why Man Was Free", by JJ Hensley - Sept. 28, 2011 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic). Nowhere else in the world of public business affairs would we see a person such as this granted a leadership position, but at ASH, it is business as per the usual.
AS FOLLOWS:
SOCIAL WORK CREDENTIALING COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES Friday, March 9, 2012
C. 2012-0047, Donna Noriega, LCSW-10959
Ms. Rinaudo summarized the results of the investigation.
The professional appeared in person and addressed the committee.
The professional appeared in person and addressed the committee.
Following review and discussion by members, Mr. Mitchell moved, seconded by Ms. Dawson, to find a violation of A.R.S. §32-3251(12)(c)(i), any oral or written misrepresentation of a fact by a licensee to secure or attempt to secure the issuance of a license. The motion passed unanimously.
Following further discussion, Mr. Mitchell moved, seconded by Mr. Lankton, to recommend to the Board to accept a consent agreement that stipulates the following:
- An order of censure
- Completion of 6-clock hours of continuing education in clinical supervision to be completed within
one year - Completion of a minimum of 6-clock hours of NASW Staying Out of Trouble or its equivalent to be
completed within one year - Early release is available upon completion of the required education
The motion passed unanimously.
APPLICABLE LAW: ARS 32-3251
(definitions) In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(definitions) In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1."Board" means the board of behavioral health examiners.
5. "Licensee" means a person licensed pursuant to this chapter.
12. "Unprofessional conduct" includes the following, whether occurring in this state or elsewhere:
(a) Conviction of a felony. Conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction or a plea of no contest is conclusive evidence of the conviction.
(b) Use of fraud or deceit in connection with rendering services as a licensee or in establishing qualifications pursuant to this chapter. (NORIEGA, IN THIS CASE)
(c) Any oral or written misrepresentation of a fact by an applicant or licensee. (NORIEGA, IN THIS CASE)
----------------------------------------------------
I have already directly communicated with The Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners specific to my knowledge that not only is Donna Noriega willfully engaging in grossly deceitful abuses of her granted authority at The Arizona State Hospital, but as/more importantly, that each and every assigned social worker who I happened to interact with during my 13 long months as ASH engaged is clearly unlawful conduct as a matter of standard of practice. Said misconduct in my experience includes:
1)Willfully lying to me- on more than one occasion- about my status in relation to outpatient services prior to my Feb. 2012 discharge, misconduct which did in fact greatly complicate my discharge planning and directly threatened my well being in terms my optimum post-ASH life planning (Megan Mischner); 2) Deliberately denying me access to my general ASH medical records in complicity with hospital administrators, in gross violation of my rights under the Hospital Information Portability and Protection Act; misconduct which I contend directly contributes to the disturbingly unlawful cloak and dagger means by which senior ASH clinicians and administrators get away their unlawful conduct, across the board (Robert Washington); 3) And deliberately denying me the right to bring a personally appointed representative into very crucial Inpatient Treatment and Discharge Planning meetings, an action that cuts to the core of any hospital patient's most fundamental rights in terms of self-determination, equal protection, and essential well being in every sense (Veneranda Heffern). |
Social worker staff at The Arizona State Hospital have inordinate control over some of the most critical aspects of any/all patients' personal affairs, this in terms of any patient's array of social welfare needs during their given period of hospitalization at ASH, as well as in relation to any patient's actual discharge planning. I attest to having been subjected to these forms of administrative misconduct (above) purely on the basis of me being a seriously mentally ill and disabled person, including blatant lying and misrepresentation of facts central to my status and needs as an Arizona citizen. It may not be obvious to anyone not dependent upon such individuals how deeply detrimental misconduct of this nature is, but the fact is, as per the limited legal autonomy of persons affected by serious mental illness, the ASH social workers are arguably the most crucial non-medical feature of any ASH patient's overall life interests. Likewise, in terms of planned outpatient care (prior to any scheduled discharge from ASH), seriously mentally ill persons rely 100% on their assigned social workers to coordinate all aspects of said discharge planning. Somehow (it is somewhat beyond me to understand), the questionable administration of the ASH operation has led to the establishment of a staff of licensed social workers who are just as willing and capable to engage in unlawful misconduct as are the senior clinicians. It is as though they all emerged from the same netherworld of deceit and wrongdoing, and I further attest that the presence of such corruption caused me very undue harm at the time that it was occurring, and that I witnessed a number of my former patent-peers going through these same forms of abuse in a nearly daily basis.
The bottom line, as per the above data, is that Donna Noriega is a patent liar. That fact is the meat of her known character, as per the findings of the SOCIAL WORK CREDENTIALING COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES, on Friday, March 9, 2012, Case #2012-0047, Donna Noriega, (LCSW-10959), as well per my own very real interactions with her. Ergo, given the fact that this known liar is also technically the highest ranking social worker at ASH (with more accrued experience at ASH than any other social worker there), and herein, with her now proven willingness to break the law while functioning in context of her licensure in mind, I find it deeply unsettling to accept the fact that she's been granted full trust and related authority in a setting as graphically volatile as ASH, with all potential forms of known discrimination at ASH towards the seriously mentally patients at there forefront of my concerns, to date. It is- simply stated- wrong, wrong, wrong, and clearly needs to be addressed. Now.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------IN CLOSING: September 25, 2013. Indeed, in my learned opinion as an Arizona taxpayer/consumer/citizen, the simple fact that a person known to have engaged in clearly unlawful abuse of her granted authority as a certified state practitioner (in any context) would be allowed to continue functioning in her original position in a facility such as The Arizona State Hospital is 100% unacceptable. But adding to that, the fact that this person has been granted interim status as ASH's highest ranking executive officer, takes this issue to a much deeper degree of concern. Where does it end, this atrociously unreasonable mishandling of the ASH operation in general? Who has to die next? Will it be another patient (such as Chris Blackwell)? A member of the greater public (such as April Mott), who if not for this grossly corrupted system of mismanagement would never have any relationship at all to ASH? I contend that the threats are vast and somewhat predictable; and that in general, anybody undergoing treatment at ASH is inevitably going to suffer some form of undeniable harm that these sorts of arrangements are known to cause.
THE ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL: SUBSTANDARD MEDICAL-MENTAL HEALTH CARE- AND THEY ARE STILL GETTING AWAY WITH IT LOCK-STOCK-AND BARREL.
paoloreed@gmail
No comments:
Post a Comment
I would really love input of any kind from anybody with any interest whatsoever in the issues that I am sharing in this blog. I mean it, anybody, for I will be the first one to admit that I may be inaccurately depicting certain aspects of the conditions
at ASH, and anonymous comments are fine. In any case, I am more than willing to value anybody's feelings about my writing, and I assure you that I will not intentionally exploit or otherwise abuse your right to express yourself as you deem fit. This topic is far, far too important for anything less. Thank you, whoever you are. Peace and Frogs.