Of Dr. Steven Dingle. Who, as the acting Chief Medical Officer at The Arizona State Hospital in 2011, was centrally involved in the now well known cover up of a violent escape of an equally violent patient named Jesus Rincon Murrietta.

(see JJ Hensley's four page feature article about the Murietta case, entitled "Victims family wonders why man was free." Arizona Republic newspaper, Sept. 29, 2011.) 

SIDE NOTE: I attest to having been the first to report this story, as an informant/whistleblower, shortly after Murietta had escaped ASH, by contacting The AZ Republic's news desk while I was still hospitalized there at ASH, and informing them: A) that a very violent patient named Jesus Murietta had violently escaped ASH 3 days prior, putting the greater public at risk of grave harm; B) that Murietta was also known to be suicidal and as such known to pose great risk of harming himself, and that he had escaped the Hospital at around 10 p.m. with nothing but the clothes on his back, no identification, no money etc. into central Phoenix, a very dangerous place in its own right; and D) that it had become obvious to me that Hospital officials were in a process of covering the escape itself, and that in my opinion, this was to avoid oversight for having failed to protect the public.

INTRODUCTION

This article will be brief. But it is critically relevant to the presence of any still employed members of the ASH medical team-psychiatrists, most namely- who were working at ASH in May, 2011. In this context, no one ASH psychiatrist more significantly played a role in the above mentioned cover up of Murietta's escape then the Hospital's Chief Medical Officer, who must participate in any/all process of "discharge" of any ASH patient, at any given time, in any given circumstances. And in May, 2010, that CMO was Dr. Steven Dingle.

(Murietta later went on to brutally murder an innocent young Phoenix woman named April Mott, a most definitely avoidable tragedy that would not have occurred if not for the cover up itself).

The data to be shown below was originally published in the following article on April 10, 2013:

Cory Nelson's Ongoing Lies: Herein, a good hard look at the state of Arizona's statutory provision(s) underlying voluntary versus involuntary status in the context of hospitalized mental patients, with specific respect for ASH' CEO's untruthfulness in relation to the letter of law specific to the topic. 

DISCUSSION

            ARS 36-531. Evaluation; possible dispositions; release

A. A person being evaluated on an inpatient basis in an evaluation agency shall be released if, in the opinion of the MEDICAL DIRECTOR in charge of the agency (DINGLE), further evaluation is not appropriate unless the person makes application for further care and treatment on a voluntary basis. 

B. If it is determined upon an evaluation of the patient's condition that he is, as a result of a mental disorder, a danger to self or to others, is persistently or acutely disabled or is gravely disabled, the MEDICAL DIRECTOR in charge of the agency (DINGLE)  which provided the evaluation shall, unless the person makes application for further care and treatment on a voluntary basis, prepare, sign and file a petition for court-ordered treatment unless the county attorney performs the functions of preparing, signing or filing the petition as provided in subsection C of this section.

C.The agency may contact the county attorney to obtain his assistance in preparing the petition for court-ordered treatment, and the agency may request the advice and judgment of the county attorney in reaching a decision as to whether court-ordered treatment is justified.

(Again, to see the full article from which this data was originally published, please the applicable citation above)

I was compelled to publish this revised article today because it recently came to my attention that Dr. Steven Dingle is once again serving as the Chief Medical Officer at ASH. The fact is, due to the grossly unlawful plutocracy of The Arizona Department of Health Services, former ADHS Director Will Humble literally awarded Dingle shorty after the evidence about the Murietta case was published in a four page feature story published Phoenix's major newspaper, The Arizona Republic (see "Victim's family questions why man was free", by JJ Hensley, Sept. 29, 2011) . "Awarded" as it were by being granted a major advancement, wherein Humble appointed Dingle to the Chief Medical Officer of the entire Arizona Department of Behavioral Health Services. Standard practice at ADHS, a classic in-house perk granted to any staff at ASH willing to preserve the status quo there, wherein patient abuse would be condoned merely in order to keep things at ASH just the way they have been, in a condition of grossly substandard medical-mental health care practices. 

As dictated by the above provision of ARS 36-531. Evaluation; possible dispositions; release; the MEDICAL DIRECTOR in charge of the agency (DINGLE)  which provided the evaluation shall, unless the person makes application for further care and treatment on a voluntary basis, prepare, sign and file a petition for court-ordered treatment. But as we all know today, Dingle blatantly defied his obligations in this context at that point in time when ASH administrators decided to misrepresent the factual details about the Murietta escape from ASH in May, 2011, a gross misrepresentation which again led to the tragic death of April Mott. It's that simple. If not for Dingle's actions in this matter, April Mott would not be dead. 

If it isn't obvious by now, I will just say it again. Dr. Steven Dingle has long been 100% engaged in allowing for the substandard conditions at ASH and he STILL getting away with. As is Joel Rudd, Laxman Patel, Pervaiz Akhter, Rosa Rojas-Ramos, and on the list goes.

IN CLOSING. 

I have asked the new director of AZ's Department of Health Services, Dr. Cara Christ, to take a good hard look at Dingle's record at ASH, and take any/all appropriate action in order to ensure that this particular miscreant is held accountable as per the requisites of his medical licensure as well as the letter of law. I also passed on to Dr. Christ other unrelated information about some of the crap Dingle has been up to since returning the ASH earlier this year; information which came to me last week from one of my long time informants, who continues to work on behalf of the ASH patient community within the walls and fence lines of ASH despite the risk he knows he is at should his information sharing be discovered, given how far these Rat Bastards are willing to go in order to avoid being exposed. Far beyond the hazard imposed upon me by the retaliative actions of Dingle and Cory "meathead" Nelson (Nelson, as we know, has since been fired and is likely facing very serious criminal charges, placing the nature of his character right alongside that of sexual predator Roger Allen Forney), looms the death of April Mott, proving beyond doubt the FACT that these people are willing to put the greater public at risk. Do whatever they have to, in other words, in order to get away with being the monsters they are, in fact. 

I said it years ago: "I couldn't make this shit up if I had to."   

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