OF WILL HUMBLE AND CORY NELSON. AKA: Look who's in the news- AGAIN! Two bald faced liars who have continually gotten away with deceiving the public, in graphic violation of law and the public trust. 

I have said it time and time again: Neither of these men, who currently foster more authority over Arizona's public mental health community than anyone else in the state, can be trusted to abide by established law and policy. And by engaging in this grossly unlawful misconduct, both of these so called "public servants" do as a matter of fact impart egregiously unjust harm upon the highly at-risk and vulnerable to abuse patients in The Arizona State Hospital, as well in the greater out-patient mental health community throughout the entire state. But don't rely solely on my statements to the effect, check out how one Pima County Superior Court Judge looks at the misconduct of these Rat Bastards. The following news article and associated data was reported in Arizona media at the close of business yesterday (Friday August 01, 2014).

RIP Chris Blackman, Mary Adams, and any other citizen of Arizona who has perished due to the substandard medical conditions at The Arizona State Hospital. For you on this day, our work will continue. 

YOUR WEST VALLEY.COM

Judge orders state to turn over records of mental patient deaths

• Mental Health Records Ruling

Posted: Friday, August 01, 2014, 4:38 p.m.

By Howard Fischer Capital Media Services.

PHOENIX -- For the second time in less than a decade, a judge has ordered state health officials to surrender detailed records of incidents where people who are mentally ill have died while in state care.

In a sometimes harshly-worded ruling, Pima County Superior Court Judge James Marner ruled that state Health Director Will Humble was wrong in refusing to provide full reports to the Pima County Human Rights Committee.

Marner said the Legislature in 2000 created the committee specifically to promote and protect the rights of individuals with behavioral health problems. But in 2012 -- and despite an earlier court ruling to the contrary -- he said Humble concluded the committee was entitled to only much shorter statistical reports.

The judge said that, in making that decision, Humble "closed off the only meaningful avenue of information the committee needed to do its job.''

The judge said he assumes Humble was aware of the existence of the more detailed reports. And he pointed out that, by law, the committee is a part of the health department.

"Despite this ... the director refused to provide the reports and the information contained therein to the committee,'' Marner wrote. "This action was not supported by substantial evidence, is contrary of applicable law and amounted to abuse of the director's discretion.''

Humble said Friday he is reviewing the ruling and has not decided whether to appeal.

The decision likely will have impact beyond Pima County. That is because there are similar oversight organizations that cover both patients within the Arizona State Hospital as well as those who live in the rest of the state.

If litigation does not resolve the problem, Sen. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, said lawmakers may intervene. Barto, who chairs the Senate Health Committee, said these groups need the information to properly perform their oversight function.

Ken Karrels, a psychologist  and member of the Pima committee, said his organization got a ruling in 2007 from Pima County Superior Court Judge Leslie Miller saying it was entitled to reports providing details of deaths.

But three years later, the reports dried up when state officials said they were no longer doing that specific reports that Miller ordered disclosed. Karrels said that left committee members with simply statistical details -- details he said were useless in the group doing its job. For example, he said someone who was discharged from the state hospital might be found dead days later in a boarding home, perhaps a suicide. Karrels said his committee needs specifics to determine not just the medical cause of the death but other details that might show the state failed to provide necessary follow-up visits and care.

Cory Nelson, the health department's chief of behavioral health, said the most recent figures show 241 people in Pima County receiving services died during the fiscal year. He said while most were from natural causes, some deaths were related to care or lack thereof.

Nelson acknowledged the 2010 change to a more detailed report. But he said this was part of the state's efforts to get more information about deaths and not a move to get around the 2007 court order.

More to the point, Nelson said much of the information in the new reports is protected as private by other state or federal laws. He said that made them off-limits to the committee.

But Martner, in his ruling, said there is no basis for that claim.

He said the Arizona law requiring the committee to get information allows Humble to redact any personally  identifiable information prior to disclosure. And committee members who violate any confidentiality are subject to criminal penalties.

"In sum, the statute reflects a legislative intent that human rights committees be given broad access to data compiled by ADHS while establishing strict requirements that committee members must follow to ensure the privacy of the data,'' the judge wrote.

Marner said the reports the committee members want -- and to which they are entitled -- contains information relevant to a particular death. He said it includes information about the work of clinics, nurses, doctors and therapists separate from the death itself and "contain substantive medical decisions about whether, in fact, there were departures from the standard of care.''

"This is client information the (committee) needs to fulfill its statutory mandate to conduct independent oversight of ADHS on the subjects of abuse, neglect and denial of patients' rights,'' the judge wrote.

Barto agreed. She said the whole purpose of this review is to see if how things were handled "and making sure that it's addressed, it doesn't happen again, or somebody's held accountable.''

(END OF ARTICLE. Copyright Howard Fisher)

HERE MY OWN COMMENTS POSTED TO THIS ARITCLE, ON-LINE AUGUST 2. 

   "I have been researching and reporting the grossly substandard medical/mental health care conditions and practices and associated ineptitude of the administrators at The Arizona State Hospital for close to three years. I spent a full 13 months in that facility, which is Arizona's sole long term public mental hospital, and literally from DAY ONE was subjected to patently unlawful forms of physical, psychological, and emotional abuse that's imparted on the ASH patient community by certain members of staff AT ALL LEVELS OF EMPLOY. As a matter of utter survival, I was forced to engage in diligent documentation and related self-advocacy simply in order to exercise my most simple rights to reasonable treatment, for which I was subjected to criminally shocking forms of retaliation that senior medical and administrative staff were 100%  responsible for. This is how it ALWAYS GOES AT ASH, standard practices that I know would shock the conscience of any reasonably intelligent person. I can attest from very real experience that this issue most definitively extends to the role that ASH's primary care physicians (psychiatrists) and senior nursing staff, as well as the facility's executive administrators- and even the role that  officials in the ADHS' Office of Grievances and Appeals- have played in flaunting patent disregard for established law and policy.  Via my work and accrued data about ASH, I contend that Will Humble, and especially Cory Nelson (and a bevy of other like state employees, including at least one lawyer with the Attorney General's office), are due immediate oversight and accountability as per the letter of law, a process that I have and will remain dedicated to achieving via my blog (PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse), and the pending publication of a manuscript, wherein still to be reported data will ideally alert federal authorities and associated legal entities and serve to resolve this matter once and for all.  

DISCUSSION (in brief)

Well beyond the core elements of Judge Mander's findings is the associated fact that the unlawful conduct of Will Humble has been occurring with the full complicity of at least three licensed attorneys, two of whom work for ADHS/BHS/ASH, the third for Arizona Office of the Attorney General. I want to point them out for the fundamental reason that each one of these people were/are in as good if not the best position to recognize violations of law and policy in the context of the operation of ASH, and the broader function of ADHS/BHS in the outpatient community.

1) First and foremost I will draw your attention yet again to Assistant Arizona Attorney General Joel Rudd, who has singlehandedly represented the Arizona State Hospital for well over 15-20 years. He is not a pleasant man, I will say that much, and in fact, I know for a fact that at least some members the current ASH Human Rights Committee refer to this particular Rat Bastard as "angel of darkness". In my own case, based purely upon his actual appearance, I have found it sufficient to refer to him "the mortician", but that's just me. Fact: Joel "angel of darkness- the mortician" Rudd has condoned- defended in fact- the horrifically unjust misbehavior of ASH staff for many, many years, literally condoning as such the grossly substandard medical-mental care and practices at ASH with no regard whatsoever for his required obligations as an attorney. Further, as a member of the most powerful legal office in the state of Arizona, which is in fact only one more agency required by law to serve the public as per the public trust, it is clear that this bum has no concern for the public good. He should be disbarred and criminally charged as per the letter of law, and I intend to see that come about. 

2) Now onto one of chief legal representatives in the executive offices of ADHS's downtown Phoenix office complex. Lynn Golder is ADHS' "Administrative Counsel & Hospital Information Portability and Protection Officer", a title and described legal role that clearly has direct relation to the fact that ADHS Director Will Humble and his various underlings, including but far from limited to former short time ASH CEO Cory "crazycorycorner.weebly.com" Nelson  and current ASH CEO Donna "You are soooo busted!!!" Noriega, have been engaging in flaunting the law as a matter of standard practice, with no apparent lawful guidance from persons such as this woman, and host of other staff in ADHS formal legal office.

3) And finally but far from the least, ASH's relatively new Chief Operating Officer, attorney Jennifer Alewelt, who I know for a fact has recently been engaging in obstructing the ASH Human Rights Committee from doing their job. She has- it is on the record- threatened to take members of this highly crucial body of independent oversight to court (as in, to sue or otherwise accuse them of doing nothing more than then their assigned duties); and in doing so, this so called legal professional exhibited grossly unlawful abuses of her given power at ASH. HRC is represented by good faith members of the public who have no other interest than to serve the care needs of ASH patients, and the related conditions at ASH that similarly apply to ASH staff. I am more than willing to contend that Alewelt's conduct in this matter is outright cruel and unconscionable. Furthermore, I recognize her behavior as 100% consistent with the methods of retaliation that I can attest ASH administrator's rely upon in order to cow any patient and/or staff alike who may happen to have just cause in the context of reporting staff misconduct at ASH, or other like issues that only serve to further the horrifically substandard conditions and practices. I have really held back on going after this particular ASH staff member, because I somewhat knew her from a former life- as they say- and she did in fact help me on one specific occasion. However, knowing what I do about this woman today, I can only say "Shame, shame, shame on you!" And that from here on out, she is fair game. Nickname to come.

IN CLOSING: Big thanks to Pima County (AZ) Superior Court Judge James Marner. This is just one more step in the process that initiated well over three years ago, and there is still much to be done. Rat Bastards Beware. 

RIP Chris Blackman, Mary Adams, and any other citizen of Arizona who has perished due to the substandard medical conditions at The Arizona State Hospital. For you on this day, our work will continue. 

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