Consider this be just one more direct warning to Joel "the mortician" Rudd. It's only a matter of time, old man, and I don't care how far you go in order to try and get away with your deeply malfeasant misconduct. I will find you, I promise you this, and do whatever I deem necessary in order to ensure that you are equally held accountable for your role in allowing ASH to operate in graphic defiance of common civility and well established law and policy. Where there was a time when I might have simply asked you to simply do the right thing, that time is far gone.
The following news article was published late last week by the good staff at ABC Channel 15, which serves as one of Arizona's most highly viewed news resource, airing as such to millions of people on a daily basis. The staff of this blog, "The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse", have collaborated with executive investigator David Biscobing since early 2013, when he directly contacted us with a formal request to draw from the data published by this blog since March, 2012, a request which we immediately agreed to with no strings attached. "Run with it as you will" was my response at the time, and as illustrated over the last 3 years, Mr. Biscobing did just that, publishing no less then one dozen scathing news reports that effectively cemented the credibility of my testimony, as published to date herein. For this, I- the chief author of all material published in this blog (which to date contains 455 articles in our own right)- owe David my most sincere heartfelt thanks.
Family files $6M wrongful death claim against Arizona state mental hospital
The claim, which is a precursor to a lawsuit, seeks $6 million for the wrongful death of 55-year-old Barbara West.
“ASH has been mismanaged with reckless disregard for the safety of the patients, and those issues direcly led to Ms. West’s tragic death,” according to a copy of the claim obtained by ABC15.
West was supposed to be under constant one-to-one supervision and suicide watch, records show.
But on May 11, West was able to climb up on a platform and hurl herself onto the ground, breaking her neck. The injury paralyzed her, and she died days later.
Her sister shared an emotional interview with ABC15 after her death.
The Arizona State Hospital has had issues with a shortage of staffing and turnover for years. Current and past employees said it's often impossible to monitor all of the patients.
West death happened as ABC15 was airing a series of reports about uninvestigated sex abuse and other misconduct at the state hospital. As a result of the reports, six top executives were removed and replaced.
A federal inspection was also launched after ABC15’s reports.
Inspectors with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services concluded that the hospital failed to properly monitor West and keep her safe.
West was the third Arizona State Hospital patient to die in a two-year-period.
Arizona Department of Health Services Director Dr. Cara Christ, whose department oversees the Arizona State Hospital, sent ABC15 the following statement:
While we are advised to let the legal process proceed without our comment, I am proud of the work being done at the state hospital under new leadership. Our new hospital administration is taking steps to address quality assurance and performance improvement. Our team of doctors, nurses, social workers, psychology and rehabilitation staff along with security and administration serve a critical need in our community as they work to treat and rehabilitate patients in our care.
While we are advised to let the legal process proceed without our comment, I am proud of the work being done at the state hospital under new leadership. Our new hospital administration is taking steps to address quality assurance and performance improvement. Our team of doctors, nurses, social workers, psychology and rehabilitation staff along with security and administration serve a critical need in our community as they work to treat and rehabilitate patients in our care.
Contact Dave Biscobing at dbiscobing@abc.com
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ATTENTION MARK BRNOVICH, ARIZONA ATTORNEY GENERAL. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FACT THAT TO DATE, YOUR AUTHORITY AS ARIZONA'S NEWEST ELECTED ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS NOT FALLEN INTO QUESTION BY THE INCREASINGLY WIDE SPREAD EVIDENCE ABOUT CORRUPTION IN THE HIGHEST ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES OF THE ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL AND ONWARD UP INTO ADHS. BE ADVISED, GOOD SIR, THAT YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO DO THE RIGHT THING WHILE IT STILL COUNTS. AS IN, REVIEW THE RECORD OF ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL JOEL RUDD, AND EXERCISE YOUR OBLIGATION AS PER THE PUBLIC TRUST BY SEEING THAT THIS MAN IS NO LONGER GRANTED THE PRIVILEGE TO SERVE IN YOUR OFFICE. AS I AM CERTAIN THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF THE DIRECTION THIS MATTER IS GOING EVEN AS I WRITE, CHARACTERIZED BY SOME AS THE BIGGEST PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH SCANDAL IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, IT WON'T TAKE ROCKET SCIENCE FOR YOU TO REALIZE HOW DEEPLY INVOLVED RUDD HAS BEEN IN IT ALL. HE HAS, AS A MATTER OF FACT AND FOR WELL OVER ONE FULL DEDADE, BEEN AT THE TABLE OF ALL/ANY FORMAL PROCEDURAL STANCES ASH'S ADMINISTRATORS HAVE TAKEN; ADVISING THESE KNOWN CRIMINALS AS TO HOW TO GET AWAY WITH ALLOWING THE PATIENTS AT ASH TO BE GROSSLY NEGLECTED, HARMED, AND IN SOME CASES, BROUGHT TO DEATH. SO AGAIN, MR. BRNOVICH, I PLEAD WITH YOU TO STEP UP WHILE YOU CAN AND BRING JOEL RUDD TO FULL ACCOUNTABILITY AS PER THE LETTER OF LAW. ANYTHING LESS WILL ONLY ADD UP TO ONE MORE ELEMENT OF HOW AND WHY THIS SCANDAL HAS COME ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE. WE THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA HAVE EXPRESSED OUR FAITH IN YOU. PLEASE RECOGNIZE THIS IS FOR WHAT IT IS AND DO THE RIGHT THING. NOW.
As ASH's primary legal counsel since the mid 1990s, Joel Rudd of the Arizona Office of the Attorney General has yet to bear the consequences of his given complicity in allowing for the grossly unlawful practices at ASH to occur. In this context, Rudd has been involved in the blatant cover up(s) now known to have been central to ASH's standard operational practices, keeping all/any legitimate information about the corruption at ASH shrouded by his intent to do whatever he has to in order to maintain an atmosphere of what happens at ASH stays at ASH. I have been 100% aware of Rudd's deeply unethical misbehavior since I first encountered him in mid-2011, in direct association to legal filings (grievance reports) in the Arizona Administrative Court that I formally submitted while still hospitalized at ASH. On five separate occasions in hearings convened under the authority of the Administrative Court, I witnessed this man's utterly deceptive misconduct, which he was willing to engage in as a matter of standard practice; he carried on as such with no regard for the implications illustrated by these filings, which I recognized at the time to be yet one more element of how/why the administrators at ASH were so easily able to get away with their criminal misconduct. Be that any one of the persons recently fired and potentially facing VERY SERIOUS criminal charges, from former ASH CEO Cory Nelson, former ASH COO and short time ASH CEO Donna Noriega, and a small host of other like miscreants now identified as the monsters they are. In this sense, I contend that no one individual has more responsibility for the grossly substandard health care practices at ASH then Joel Rudd, given his legal expertise and related breadth of experience as the Hospital's long time legal counsel. Bottom line.
Please see the following article in the blog, which was originally published in June, 2012:
As ASH's primary legal counsel since the mid 1990s, Joel Rudd of the Arizona Office of the Attorney General has yet to bear the consequences of his given complicity in allowing for the grossly unlawful practices at ASH to occur. In this context, Rudd has been involved in the blatant cover up(s) now known to have been central to ASH's standard operational practices, keeping all/any legitimate information about the corruption at ASH shrouded by his intent to do whatever he has to in order to maintain an atmosphere of what happens at ASH stays at ASH. I have been 100% aware of Rudd's deeply unethical misbehavior since I first encountered him in mid-2011, in direct association to legal filings (grievance reports) in the Arizona Administrative Court that I formally submitted while still hospitalized at ASH. On five separate occasions in hearings convened under the authority of the Administrative Court, I witnessed this man's utterly deceptive misconduct, which he was willing to engage in as a matter of standard practice; he carried on as such with no regard for the implications illustrated by these filings, which I recognized at the time to be yet one more element of how/why the administrators at ASH were so easily able to get away with their criminal misconduct. Be that any one of the persons recently fired and potentially facing VERY SERIOUS criminal charges, from former ASH CEO Cory Nelson, former ASH COO and short time ASH CEO Donna Noriega, and a small host of other like miscreants now identified as the monsters they are. In this sense, I contend that no one individual has more responsibility for the grossly substandard health care practices at ASH then Joel Rudd, given his legal expertise and related breadth of experience as the Hospital's long time legal counsel. Bottom line.
Please see the following article in the blog, which was originally published in June, 2012:
"Of Joel Rudd. Who for no less then 10 years has been undeniably complicit in allowing for the gross infestation of substandard conditions and medical practices at The Arizona State Hospital to occur. And he is still getting away with it."
In closing, I will just say it again as I so often did while an ASH patient, and this to you, Joel Rudd, you Rat Bastard you:
paoloreed@gmail.com
You're not going to get away with it.
paoloreed@gmail.com
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