Alert! Donna "You are soooo busted" Noriega has a new job, too! Also known as The Predation Continues.
TO THE ADMINISTRATORS OF FLORENCE CRITTENTON ARIZONA: I find it deeply disturbing that Florence Crittenton of AZ has provided Donna Noriega with a job. This woman has been identified as one of the persons most directly associated with what many are calling the ugliest public mental health facility scandal in the new millennium. Noriega is a former administrator of the Arizona State Hospital, and has been identified by state and federal authorities, as well as major media (such as Phoenix area ABC Ch15), as a grossly unethical and unlawful professional; her misconduct in this context did directly lead to a rampant presence of patient abuse throughout the whole of the ASH facility, and further contributed to several horrific tragedies, including no less then at least 3 avoidable deaths. As a tax paying consumer, and writer, I would ask that the administrators of Florence Crittenton take into consideration the implications of this matter as it stands, and rethink the hiring of Noriega with the care needs and interests of your at-risk clientele in mind. Thank you. PJ Reed. Author, The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse. January 17, 2016.
FIRED!
Former ASH chief executive officer (2013-2015) Donna Noriega. Former ASH CEO (2011-2012) former Deputy Director AZ BHS (2014-2015) Cory Nelson. Former ADHS staff attorney Jeff Bloomberg.
Former ASH chief executive officer (2013-2015) Donna Noriega. Former ASH CEO (2011-2012) former Deputy Director AZ BHS (2014-2015) Cory Nelson. Former ADHS staff attorney Jeff Bloomberg.
FIRED!
Former ASH nurse supervisor Noreen Vanca. Former ASH Chief Quality Officer (and attorney) Jennifer Alewelt. Former ASH Chief Medical Officer Lauren Bonner.
Former ASH nurse supervisor Noreen Vanca. Former ASH Chief Quality Officer (and attorney) Jennifer Alewelt. Former ASH Chief Medical Officer Lauren Bonner.
"I am a person who can be trusted to care for
Arizona's most at-risk young women."
Noriega's most obvious behavioral characteristics do as a matter of plain fact define sociopathic tendencies across the board. It does not take a psychologically trained professional to recognize such features, especially when these factors are made public via any individuals known record of performance. The following is drawn from the noted magazine, Psychology Today, which is written in lay terms in order to serve the public, who have a vested interest in such information, this with respect and wellbeing.
How to spot a sociopath.
By M.E. Thomas. May 7, 2013.
By M.E. Thomas. May 7, 2013.
Psychologists vie to enumerate the facets of sociopathy. Joseph Newman argues that the sociopath has an attention bottleneck that allows him to focus only on one activity or train of thought, to the exclusion of others. . In The Mask of Sanity, published in 1941, Cleckley distilled what he believed to be the 16 key behavioral characteristics that defined psychopathy. Most of these factors are still used today to diagnose sociopaths/psychopaths and others with antisocial disorders. (Psychopathy and sociopathy are terms with an intertwined clinical history, and they are now largely used interchangeably. The DSM excludes both, in favor of anti-social disorder and associated behavior.)
- Superficial charm and good intelligence. I contend that these elements of Noriega's mannerisms define the hows and whys of her attaining employment, in general. She comes off as kind, caring, reasonably smart, and so on; while also engaging is disturbingly untruthful behavior. Much like more then a few of the ASH patients.
- Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking. As with the virtual majority of senior ranking ASH staff, I attest that Noriega exhibited highly devious means of interacting with me in 1:1 conversations. It was strange, as though she- and the rest of them- actually believed I was incapable of recognizing this as it occurred. Scary, very scary.
- Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations. It's true. In the past, I have expressed my interpretation of Noriega's mannerisms, via personal interactions with her both at ASH as well as in the Arizona Administrative Court(s), as characteristic of a person "who will smile and look gently into your eyes while simultaneously stealing your wallet." For that is how it felt when she engaged in manipulating our conversations, as well as the process of the aforementioned court hearings.
- Unreliability. Noriega's record speaks for itself. Hundreds of ASH patients did rely upon Noriega to meet the most basic terms of her responsibility as an ASH administrator, as did ASH staff, patients' families, and the greater public, in general. Which she blatantly failed to provide. For years.
- Untruthfulness and insincerity. As I have stated before, this woman did lie directly to my face in several 1:1 interactions when I was seeking her help while I was still hospitalized at ASH, and experiencing a range of abject staff abuse; and further, she did so many months later while under oath in hearings convened under the authority of the AZ Administrative Court, which I formally requested via protocol.
- Lack of remorse and shame. Herein we can take a good hard look at Noriega's desire to seek employment in a position similar to that which she held at ASH, overseeing the care needs of persons at risk to abuse and negligence, in patent defiance of her history at ASH. As though nothing happened.
- Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience. If any one aspect of Noriega's issues more illustrates this then her failure to learn from the charges imparted on her by the Arizona Board Of Behavioral Health Examiners, I don't know what it is; other, that is, then the plain fact that following that particularly graphic period of her experiences, she continued to engage in equally egregious misbehavior for the next three years, including following her promotion by Will Humble and Cory Nelson into the position of ASH CEO.
- Specific loss of insight. It is an understatement to identify Noriega as lacking insight; unless, that is, one considers her criminal nature, and related "insight" that compelled her to engage is egregiously dishonest behavior as a Hospital administrator, for years. As Professor (Judge) Livermore (UA Law) stated to me and approximately 60 other law students in 2003: "Criminals, most typically, are not very bright." Donna Noriega, Cory Nelson, and WIll Humble to a tee. And on the list goes.
Beyond the major
media coverage of Noriega's role in what I have long characterized as the
ugliest public mental health scandal in the last half century, I
attest to having been flat out lied to by this woman both in personal
1:1 interactions while I was hospitalized as an ASH patient, as well as
when she was testifying under oath in hearings convened under the authority of
the Arizona Administrative Court. As in perjury, which she is
also known to have engaged in with respect for her testimony under the
authority of the state licensing board that oversees her licensure
as a behavioral health examiner. And yet, here she is, as with virtually
every other known wrongdoer involved with the grossly substandard care
practices and general corruption at ASH, carrying on in Arizona's mental
health system as though nothing ever happened.
JUST LIKE CORY NELSON. IT'S THAT BAD.
Indeed, 100% consistent with the disturbing fact that former ASH CEO Cory "This is the type of s--- that gets people in my position fired" Nelson is now functioning as an executive health care consultant, herein we consider the fact that Donna "You are sooo busted" Noriega, the ASH administrator most directly associated with Nelson's abject lack of ethics, has in her own right attained a position that defies the facts specific to her known lack of professional ethos. Working, no less, in relation to at risk adolescents- kids- for a nonprofit organization supposedly dedicated to serving the interests and care needs of their given clientele. Check it out, directly from her LinkedIn account:
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Donna Noriega
Clinical Director
Goodyear, Arizona
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To see the this Rat Bastard's LinkedIn account, please go online and see:
www.linkedin.com/in/donna-noriega-aa934345
------------------------------------------------------As we already know, and as reported in this BLOG in September 2013, Donna "You are sooo busted!" Noriega was found guilty of lying about the qualifications of a friend who sought employment under the authority of Noriega at the Arizona State Hospital, at a time when Noriega was the Hospital's Chief Operating Officer. This is the position that she held when I was hospitalized at ASH, as well, which is when I came to realize via first person experience that she was not a person to be trusted in any capacity. I have in my files no less then seven (7) documented instances wherein this woman patently lied to me, as well as to several judges serving in the AZ Administrative courts, about the processing of good faith grievance reports I had submitted to her office between March and December, 2011, and other like issues. And as stated above, when the time came, I did publish several stories early on in the history of the BLOG that had everything to do with Noriega's role in furthering the substandard care practices and associated conditions at ASH. (see: "RE Donna Noriega: New data is emerging specific to this woman, who is the acting Chief Executive Officer at The Arizona State Hospital, who I can attest to via my own personal experiences as being patently dishonest and outright deceitful." [originally published September 29, 2013] ).
Included in that article was formal legal data about Noriega's grossly unethical misconduct in this matter, drawn from an investigation by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners, and their formal findings:
At a March 09, 2012, meeting of the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners Social Work Credentialing Committee, the Chief Operating Officer at the Arizona State Hospital, Donna Noriega, was found to have engaged in unprofessional conduct in violation of her status as a licensed behavioral health specialist, as follows:
ARS 32-3251 (definitions)
(12) Unprofessional Conduct
(c) Any oral or written misrepresentation of a fact by an applicant orlicensee
(i) to secure or attempt to secure the issuance or renewal of of a license.
www.azbbhe.us/pdfs/BoardOrder/2012-0047.pdf
-------------------------------------------15 months after the above mentioned BLOG article was published, investigative reporter David Biscobing of ABC Ch15 (Phoenix) produced his own prime time television report specific to Noriega's unlawful misconduct. Below is the title of that news report, and a partial aspect of what he discovered in the same context; the full content of this news can be viewed in full at the ABC Ch15 website.
"Records: Top AZ Mental Health officials caught or accused of falsifying records records, information." By Dave Biscobing, May 18, 2015.
'The board found Noriega misrepresented the work and experience of a long-time colleague, who Noriega was helping to get a new social work license.
Under the penalty of perjury, Noriega inflated the number of practice hours for the employee by more than 1,500 hours and said the employee held job titles at the state hospital that she never worked.'
To view the full content of Biscobing's report (in both written and video format- (the video is well worth watching, as therein we also graphically see the crass unwillingness of both Noriega as well as former ADHS director Will "Yea team!" Humble to offer reasonable transparency in terms of their activities during that period of time when they were obviously- we know this NOW- engaging in gross abuses of authority, and associated administrative dereliction of duty in defiance of the public trust). )- please go online as follows:
www.abc15.com--investigation-az-mental-hospital-fails-to-investigate-protect-patients-from-sex-abuse
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Finally, as to the mission statement of the organization that hired Noriega despite her known lack of ethos and related unlawful misconduct, here is information drawn from Florence Crittenton's website:
ABOUT FLORENCE CRITTENTON
Creating new beginnings for young lives was the driving passion of Charles Crittenton, the founder of Florence Crittenton, whose life's mission was to help communities around the nation serve young women in need. That passion and commitment lives on in our mission today: Five every girl whose life we touch safety, hope and opportunity.
Our mission is supported by our vision of being the national leader in changing the future for girls. We do this by: Achieving excellence in all we do, growing to serve all girls in need and being the foremost expert in gender-specific services for girls.
Florence Crittenton of Arizona is a non-profit 501C(3) organization that has served Arizona's girls and their families for well more than a century. Today we offer a comprehensive continuum of care designed to help at-risk girls from 10 to 21 overcome issues of abuse, neglect, teen pregnancy, teen parenting, and behavioral and/or mental health problems.
We also deliver charter education for students in grades 9 - 12 as well as community-based services for youth and families.
Our Girls Leadership Academy of Arizona, community-based services and other programs extend our innovative programming to serve a greater number of girls and young women in our community.
Most important, Florence Crittenton creates safe environments where girls and young women can discover the support of a caring community and the possibility of a bright new future.
With the above information in mind, let's consider the fact that the core elements of Donna Noriega's misconduct while serving as an administrator of Arizona's sole long term public mental health facility have everything to do with abject professional negligence, abuse of authority, and outright dishonesty; and other like ethical (or lack thereof) issues that we all know (today) directly contributed to well publicized tragedies that have captured to attention of the public for the last 2 years, ranging from physical, emotional and psychological abuse of ASH patients, which in some cases did in fact lead to at least three (3) avoidable deaths.
Most specifically, from the above, how in the heck can Noriega- who as we all know was recently fired by the new director of ADHS along with a handful of other clearly malicious wrongdoers directly associated with ASH (Noriega, Nelson, Bloomberg) be trusted when it comes to "a comprehensive continuum of care designed to help at-risk girls from 10 to 21 overcome issues of abuse, neglect..... and behavioral and/or mental health problems..." ?!? As the facts have proven, this woman did willfully perjure herself with respect for the qualifications of a person who sought to function in the same capacity as Noriega herself, which in my opinion clearly illustrates an abject lack of understanding/concern about the significance of her given obligations and responsibilities; and without doubt, this one specific example of the woman's willingness to flaunt the law is far from the only instance wherein she acted in this manner. As the record shows, when it comes to people such as Cory Nelson, Joel Rudd, Dr. Steven Dingle, Donna Noriega -and on the list goes- this sort of misconduct is standard practice. Therein, the reason for why we, the staff of The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse have chosen to directly communicate with the administrative office of Florence Crittenton, as illustrated in the opening paragraph in this article (above).
IN CLOSING: Where does this insanity end? How is it that these sorts of bottom feeding individuals so easily find safe haven in Arizona's overall public health care system? Acquiring crucially needed authority over the care needs and interests of persons known to be vulnerable to abuse, negligence, and associated indifference. I've said it before because it's true:
These people are predatory in their desire to oversee the care needs and interests of at-risk populations, be it children, the seriously mentally ill, or the elderly. No less so then Roger Allen Forney, the convicted child predator hired to work at ASH in 2011 despite his prior criminal history in the same context, all of which was included at the time of his hiring in his Arizona public record. All of them, a danger to the public interest and welfare. Bottom line.
That said, why not get involved in seeing that Arizona improve upon its obligations to the state's most at-risk citizens; and take action in your own right, by contacting the Arizona office of Florence Crittenton, via the below contact information. One can either write by land mail, call by phone, or directly communicate with these people via email, as the we did....
These people are predatory in their desire to oversee the care needs and interests of at-risk populations, be it children, the seriously mentally ill, or the elderly. No less so then Roger Allen Forney, the convicted child predator hired to work at ASH in 2011 despite his prior criminal history in the same context, all of which was included at the time of his hiring in his Arizona public record. All of them, a danger to the public interest and welfare. Bottom line.
That said, why not get involved in seeing that Arizona improve upon its obligations to the state's most at-risk citizens; and take action in your own right, by contacting the Arizona office of Florence Crittenton, via the below contact information. One can either write by land mail, call by phone, or directly communicate with these people via email, as the we did....
Phoenix, AZ. 85013
(602) 274-7318
www.flocrit.org- Florence Crittenton
... and voice your own disappointment (or worse... Personally I find these facts sickening, and yet 100% consistent with what I already know.... Only in Arizona, cont.) over the fact the one of ASH's most criminally minded former administrators is a staff member of this organization. For this is how we get it done.
paoloreed@gmail.com
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