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| Dr. Cara Christ. Current Director Arizona Department of Health Services. |
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| Tom Betlach. Longtime Director Arizona Healthcare Cost and Containment System. |
Again. History repeating itself. Due to nothing more or less then highly entrusted and yet stone deaf bureaucrats and absence therein of character. Regardless of relative education (MDs, MBAs, JDs, and on that list goes) and clear awareness of Arizona State Hospital's three decade history of substandard health care practices and relevant corruption, which again and again has led to direct federal oversight and accountability, this is how it goes.
Again. Just as it went down circa 2012-2015. Increased attention to the corruption in Arizona State Hospital's administrative offices, on the basis of heightened exposure specific to abuses and violations of the rights of the facility's at-risk patient community. Leading to yet more federal oversight and consequent accountability, all of which could have been avoided if only the Rat Bastards directly associated with the operation of ASH had the conscience to heed valid information and data about the issues at stake.
Again. Forcing us- and anyone else of reasonable intelligence- to wonder how many of the current bad actors in this context will again engage in utterly despicable deceit as a means to preserve ongoing abuses of ASH patients? Duplicity not limited to destruction of public records, perjury, issuances of obvious propaganda, complicity between all involved parties, and the willingness to further discrimination and directly related antipathy towards the welfare of persons affected by mental illness.
Who are these people? Where in the hell do they come from!?
2011-13: Patient PJ Reed is admitted, late morning January 11, 2011, to Arizona's sole long term public mental health care facility (ASH), upon which- literally- an unopened bottle of Ambien is immediately stolen from his property. Following which, only hours later, Reed witnesses psychological abuse of imparted by a charge nurse named Peggy (the one with the white hair who never- ever- got out of her chair at the nurse's station) upon patient Josh V., inducing an emotional break that leaves Josh sobbing of the floor.
PJ Reed to the nurse Peggy: "If this is how you do things around here, you aren't going to like me at all."
These, and other very similar incidents arising during Reed's initial 72 hours as an ASH patient, compel him to bring his concerns to his assigned primary ASH psychiatrist, Dr. Laxman Patel, precisely as per hospital protocol and directions included in ASH patient manuals.
To which, Patel replies: "This is the state hospital. What do you expect?"
Thus, in part due to Reed's belief that there's no just cause for ASH to operate in a manner inconsistent with established health care practices- just as any other American hospital is required to- suspicion arises that he has entered a setting eerily akin to the third world. Equally thus, on the basis of Reed's basic awarenesses as a contemporary human being that state mental hospitals are well known for substandard care practices and conditions, comes an all-but latent sense of duty to others, and the decision that none of should be ignored or otherwise left unaddressed.
Patel: "Pay attention to your own treatment, and not of that of other patients... What do you think, that you can change the system?"
And therein, ultimately out of concern about his own welfare and that of his ASH patient-peers, Reed's effort to seek that these issues be addressed includes utilizing the Hospital's formal grievance protocol, which is supposedly, as per the state of Arizona's code of administrative law, designed to serve the welfare, care needs, and rights of any ASH patient-client-consumer. This effort, always of good faith and well intentioned, is in no way based on seeking conflict, on the simple basis of Reed's sincere expectation that the entrusted state employees working at ASH and beyond in the ADHS construct will meet their given responsibilities in context.
Leading Reed- next- to realize quite dramatically that even officials in the state's department of public health services, most specifically in the ADHS Office of Grievances and Appeals, have no willingness or conscientious ability to serve the interests of ASH's patient community, in graphic defiance of established law and policy. Ergo, the identity of issues requiring due resolution, the related awareness that no related authority is willing to do anything about it, and the burdensome decision to at least try and do something about it himself. Because somebody had to. Bottomline.
Therein, over a period of thirteen hellish months, Reed documents a vast range of details specific to abuse of ASH patients, related staff ineptitude, and abject misconduct of individuals in the facility's office of administration. He does so despite the attempt of ASH administrators and certain of the Hospital's lower ranking staff to cow him into submission, some of it outright retaliation, putting Reed's very life and limb of grave harm. And he does with the support of some ASH staff- "Good Staff"- who share the opinion that the ASH patient community is deserving of reasonably optimum care and treatment, staff who are also subject at times to administrative retribution for having a fundamental sense of conscience and compassion for others.
April, 2012: Three weeks after his February 21, 2012, discharge from ASH, the founding in April of the blog site, "PJ Reed the Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse." This post-ASH area of effort arises due to the plain fact that no aspect of the author's good faith advocacy as an ASH patient received reasonable response or approach to valid remedy. Via this realm of experience- thirteen full months as an ASH patient- a number of highly entrusted state employees, including but not limited to Hospital staff/administrators and officials in the state's Office of Grievances and Appeals, are identified in the blog's earliest articles as being complicit in condoning patient abuse(s) and related staff wrongdoing, wrongdoing that extended far beyond the realm of ASH's interior. Herein, PJ Reed's decision to expose these issues via public discourse and the realm of openly shared blogging on the internet, still and as always on behalf of the ASH patient community.
June-August 2012: Four separate hearings are convened in AZ Administrative Court, each derived of grievances and appeals filed by PJ Reed while hospitalized at ASH; none of these cases receive reasonably equitable relief from the puppets granted authority of such hearings. As such, Reed is forced to conclude that this venue is nothing other then a puppet court, with no capability to actually defend the rights and needs of the ASH patient community, regardless of the severity of issues and evidence included in the case filings. Reed thus decides to publish the transcripts of these cases in the blog.
Again. Just as it went down circa 2012-2015. Increased attention to the corruption in Arizona State Hospital's administrative offices, on the basis of heightened exposure specific to abuses and violations of the rights of the facility's at-risk patient community. Leading to yet more federal oversight and consequent accountability, all of which could have been avoided if only the Rat Bastards directly associated with the operation of ASH had the conscience to heed valid information and data about the issues at stake.
Again. Forcing us- and anyone else of reasonable intelligence- to wonder how many of the current bad actors in this context will again engage in utterly despicable deceit as a means to preserve ongoing abuses of ASH patients? Duplicity not limited to destruction of public records, perjury, issuances of obvious propaganda, complicity between all involved parties, and the willingness to further discrimination and directly related antipathy towards the welfare of persons affected by mental illness.
Who are these people? Where in the hell do they come from!?
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Below: A summarized overview of history specific to the 2011-2014 exposure(s) of scandal and criminality at ASH, and the 2015 eruption wherein no less then seven individuals directly associated with the operation of ASH are summarily fired, including persons who have always been central to articles published herein. 2011-13: Patient PJ Reed is admitted, late morning January 11, 2011, to Arizona's sole long term public mental health care facility (ASH), upon which- literally- an unopened bottle of Ambien is immediately stolen from his property. Following which, only hours later, Reed witnesses psychological abuse of imparted by a charge nurse named Peggy (the one with the white hair who never- ever- got out of her chair at the nurse's station) upon patient Josh V., inducing an emotional break that leaves Josh sobbing of the floor.
PJ Reed to the nurse Peggy: "If this is how you do things around here, you aren't going to like me at all."
These, and other very similar incidents arising during Reed's initial 72 hours as an ASH patient, compel him to bring his concerns to his assigned primary ASH psychiatrist, Dr. Laxman Patel, precisely as per hospital protocol and directions included in ASH patient manuals.
To which, Patel replies: "This is the state hospital. What do you expect?"
Thus, in part due to Reed's belief that there's no just cause for ASH to operate in a manner inconsistent with established health care practices- just as any other American hospital is required to- suspicion arises that he has entered a setting eerily akin to the third world. Equally thus, on the basis of Reed's basic awarenesses as a contemporary human being that state mental hospitals are well known for substandard care practices and conditions, comes an all-but latent sense of duty to others, and the decision that none of should be ignored or otherwise left unaddressed.
Patel: "Pay attention to your own treatment, and not of that of other patients... What do you think, that you can change the system?"
And therein, ultimately out of concern about his own welfare and that of his ASH patient-peers, Reed's effort to seek that these issues be addressed includes utilizing the Hospital's formal grievance protocol, which is supposedly, as per the state of Arizona's code of administrative law, designed to serve the welfare, care needs, and rights of any ASH patient-client-consumer. This effort, always of good faith and well intentioned, is in no way based on seeking conflict, on the simple basis of Reed's sincere expectation that the entrusted state employees working at ASH and beyond in the ADHS construct will meet their given responsibilities in context.
Leading Reed- next- to realize quite dramatically that even officials in the state's department of public health services, most specifically in the ADHS Office of Grievances and Appeals, have no willingness or conscientious ability to serve the interests of ASH's patient community, in graphic defiance of established law and policy. Ergo, the identity of issues requiring due resolution, the related awareness that no related authority is willing to do anything about it, and the burdensome decision to at least try and do something about it himself. Because somebody had to. Bottomline.
Therein, over a period of thirteen hellish months, Reed documents a vast range of details specific to abuse of ASH patients, related staff ineptitude, and abject misconduct of individuals in the facility's office of administration. He does so despite the attempt of ASH administrators and certain of the Hospital's lower ranking staff to cow him into submission, some of it outright retaliation, putting Reed's very life and limb of grave harm. And he does with the support of some ASH staff- "Good Staff"- who share the opinion that the ASH patient community is deserving of reasonably optimum care and treatment, staff who are also subject at times to administrative retribution for having a fundamental sense of conscience and compassion for others.
April, 2012: Three weeks after his February 21, 2012, discharge from ASH, the founding in April of the blog site, "PJ Reed the Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse." This post-ASH area of effort arises due to the plain fact that no aspect of the author's good faith advocacy as an ASH patient received reasonable response or approach to valid remedy. Via this realm of experience- thirteen full months as an ASH patient- a number of highly entrusted state employees, including but not limited to Hospital staff/administrators and officials in the state's Office of Grievances and Appeals, are identified in the blog's earliest articles as being complicit in condoning patient abuse(s) and related staff wrongdoing, wrongdoing that extended far beyond the realm of ASH's interior. Herein, PJ Reed's decision to expose these issues via public discourse and the realm of openly shared blogging on the internet, still and as always on behalf of the ASH patient community.
June-August 2012: Four separate hearings are convened in AZ Administrative Court, each derived of grievances and appeals filed by PJ Reed while hospitalized at ASH; none of these cases receive reasonably equitable relief from the puppets granted authority of such hearings. As such, Reed is forced to conclude that this venue is nothing other then a puppet court, with no capability to actually defend the rights and needs of the ASH patient community, regardless of the severity of issues and evidence included in the case filings. Reed thus decides to publish the transcripts of these cases in the blog.
2013: Contact and collaboration begins between ABC Ch15's (KNVX) David Biscobing as he initiates his own investigation of ASH. By this time, over 275 articles had been published in PJ Reed the Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse. Biscobing contacts Reed via the blog, asks for this collaboration, and states the desire to draw upon data contained herein. Reed agrees wholeheartedly.
2013-2014: ABC Ch15 airs a number of prime time reports derived of Biscobing's investigation. Being a legitimate media outlet (with far more resources than this blog at the time), Biscobing's superiors use the legal system in order to ensure that Hospital administrators do not get away with suppressing public interest information and data about the presence of substandard health care practices at ASH, including patient abuse and staff misconduct.
Former ASH CEO Cory Nelson: "This is the sort of shit that gets people like me fired!"
Early 2014: ADHS Director Will Humble promotes Cory Nelson to the position of Deputy Director in Arizona's department of behavioral health services.
Mid-2014: The second of two crucially needed federal inspections occurs, by which the Hospital falls into risk of losing its operational license. Proof emerges of Will Humble's complicity in condoning ASH corruption, and inability to abide by law and policy.
January 2015: With no notice, Humble unexpectedly resigns his long tenured employment with ADHS.
Spring 2015: No less then seven state employed individuals bearing direct association of the operation of ASH circa 2011-2015 are summarily fired/scapegoated by newly appointed public health care czar Dr. Cara Christ. Most of these wrongdoers had been identified on the internet by the most critically published articles since this blog's 2012 founding, including Hospital administrators and their direct superiors in the department of health.
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DATELINE 2018: All of it clandestine misconduct, including but not limited to willful and unlawful concealment of incidents at ASH that are to be reported to the public (in the public interest), overt intimidation directed towards lawfully present advocacy resources (as nothing less then a hoped for means by which to further conceal the occurrence of such incidents), and directly willful complicity between Hospital executives and state health department officials in protecting Hospital staff who are most responsible for this situation (which we believe is 100% oriented towards condoning substandard health care practices at ASH). All of this-all of them due immediate oversight and accountability.
On behalf of nobody other then the Hospital patient-client-consumers, patient's families, and the public interest as a whole.
And as with the original intentions of the staff of PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse, we today are still attempting address these issues in a good faith and well intentioned manner, as always on behalf of the ASH patient community, all of whom are client-consumer's of the services to be provided under the authority of Dr. Cara Christ, Director of Arizona Department of Health Services, and a range of other entrusted state employees who have direct association with the operation of ASH, dateline 2018.
On behalf of nobody other then the Hospital patient-client-consumers, patient's families, and the public interest as a whole.
And as with the original intentions of the staff of PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse, we today are still attempting address these issues in a good faith and well intentioned manner, as always on behalf of the ASH patient community, all of whom are client-consumer's of the services to be provided under the authority of Dr. Cara Christ, Director of Arizona Department of Health Services, and a range of other entrusted state employees who have direct association with the operation of ASH, dateline 2018.
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I warned them back then, beginning in summer, 2011,
when I was still hospitalized there.
Did they listen? Did they even care?
when I was still hospitalized there.
Did they listen? Did they even care?
Patient generated resistance.
2011-2012.
And again, and again, and again, I gave them ample opportunity to do the right thing. Via this blog, circa 2012-2015.
Did they listen? Did they even care?
Did they listen? Did they even care?
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| The Author April, 2012 At the time of founding PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse. |
Did they listen? Did they even care?
No, they did not.
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Six of the ones summarily fired.
Spring 2015.
Donna Noriega (ASH CEO), Cory Nelson (one time ASH CEO/ADHS official), Jeff Goldbloom (ADHS attorney),Noreen Vance (nursing staff),
Jennifer Alewelt (ASH CQO), Lauren Bonner (nursing staff).
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| Dr. Pervaiz Akhter. Senior ranking psychiatrist, known emotional and psychological abuser of patients, incompetent physician. Circa 2003-2015. One of those who fled. |
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| The Author August, 1988. |
ASH 2015-2018.
Substandard Mental Healthcare.
And they are still getting away with it.
For the moment.
Are they listening? Do they even care?
Are they listening? Do they even care?
paoloreed@gmail.com
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