Different Meadow, Same Sheep Shit.
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| Dr. Steven Dingle. Current Chief Medical Officer and known sexual predator, Arizona State Hospital. "Survey faults care for older patients at Montana State Hospital; state says issues fixed." TJ McDermott. Montana Standard. February 12, 2019. |
"One patient described staff’s treatment as 'degrading' and resulted in her 'crying' and 'feeling hopeless' after she was reportedly was not provided with a catheter and physical therapy that had been ordered, and after her incontinence was discussed out loud, in front of other patients and staff...."
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| Cory Nelson Former-since fired CEO, Arizona State Hospital. |
Jay Pottenger.Current CEO,
Montana State
Hospital.
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| Dr. Pervaiz Akhter Former-since fled ASH psychiatrist. |
At Arizona State Hospital circa 2010-12, I can and do attest to the presence of one (but far from only one) staff technician, Elaine Traylor, who was allowed to abuse her patient-clientele, in spite of her known lack of civility, compassion, and professional character. A roving monster who, on a day-in, day-out basis, would verbally berate the vulnerable patients on the Palo Verde unit. This and any other like misbehavior is shocking to any one of reasonable conscience, and amounts to nothing less then psychological abuse. I also attest to the fact that Traylor physically assaulted me in spring, 2011, an incident patently condoned at that time by Hospital psychiatrists and administrators. Such as, but far from limited to the likes of Pervaiz Akhter, Dr. Steven Dingle, Roger David Forney, et-freaking-cetera.
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| Roger David Forney Former-since incarcerated ASH security guard known sexual predator of children. |
In Montana, meanwhile, it is no surprise whatsoever, the state's willingness to categorically declare that the issue(s) at stake have all but immediately been addressed and resolved in full. Herein, not only individuals disabled by serious mental illness, but by age, as well. Doubly vulnerable, as such, attracting predatory abusers of vulnerable Americans, who effectively feed upon disproportionate power dynamics.
As personified at this time in Arizona by the Director of Arizona's health department (ADHS), Dr. Cara Christ, similarly employed officials in Montana's health department are engaging in outright untruthfulness simply in order to maintain status quo. As in:
These patterns of denial occur in patent defiance of clear evidence to the effect that the patient-consumers reliant on such state managed health care systems. We saw this for a period of not less then five years, circa 2010-2015, when former ADHS Director, Will Humble, went around the mountain and back in order to defer the significance of abject shortfalls in the overall operation of ASH. He did this in utter defiance of a boat load of evidence to the effect that the ASH patient community was not being provided with reasonably optimum care, denial that extended to the occurrence of several preventable deaths circa 2011-2015.
It is disturbing to know that these such entrusted health care officials, be it in Montana, Arizona, and on that list goes, have no understanding of the vulnerability of some proportion of of their given client-consumers. And that this basic circumstance further leads to the presence in state mental hospitals of abusive if not brutally aggressive direct care staff.
Likewise, at the top of the given food chain in these systems of public health care, we find high ranking officials who exploit their positions as means to further the issues most at stake.
- And ultimately, Dr. Cara Christ, who very aggressively defended Dingle's known history as a sexual abuser of women. I contend that in doing this, Christ willfully contributed to furthering sexual abuse of women, in radical defiance of the "Me Too" and other such elements of contemporary social activity.
As an irrefutable consequence of these patterns of denial, which span the whole food chain pf power and status quo as it stands, a known sexual predator- Steven Dingle- is still today being paid by the citizens of Arizona to oversee the entire medical staff in the Arizona's sole long term mental health care facility. No matter which state hospital in America we are looking at, it is that bad.
And these people know it. Shame, shame, shame.
In Closing: A big thanks to our friends at Montana Disability Rights for standing up in defense of the patients at this particular state's sole long terms public mental health care facility. And as always, we're always willing to help.
As personified at this time in Arizona by the Director of Arizona's health department (ADHS), Dr. Cara Christ, similarly employed officials in Montana's health department are engaging in outright untruthfulness simply in order to maintain status quo. As in:
"Deny, deny, deny."
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| Dr. Cara Christ Current Director AZ Department of Health Services. |
These patterns of denial occur in patent defiance of clear evidence to the effect that the patient-consumers reliant on such state managed health care systems. We saw this for a period of not less then five years, circa 2010-2015, when former ADHS Director, Will Humble, went around the mountain and back in order to defer the significance of abject shortfalls in the overall operation of ASH. He did this in utter defiance of a boat load of evidence to the effect that the ASH patient community was not being provided with reasonably optimum care, denial that extended to the occurrence of several preventable deaths circa 2011-2015.
It is disturbing to know that these such entrusted health care officials, be it in Montana, Arizona, and on that list goes, have no understanding of the vulnerability of some proportion of of their given client-consumers. And that this basic circumstance further leads to the presence in state mental hospitals of abusive if not brutally aggressive direct care staff.
Likewise, at the top of the given food chain in these systems of public health care, we find high ranking officials who exploit their positions as means to further the issues most at stake.
Abuse(s) of power personified, 2017-18.
-Current ADHS staff attorney Greg Honig, who subsequently attempted to strike Bowen's behavior in this incident from the public record. In doing this, Honig exhibited an abject lack of legal expertise, both in terms of the involved patient's constitutional rights as well as in terms of the public's right to be informed of these issues; therein identifying himself as 100% involved in allowing the substandard care practices and conditions at ASH to continue.
-Current ASH CEO Dr. Aaron Bowen, who in fall, 2017, did willfully abridge the constitutionally protected rights of an ASH patient who expressed legitimate concern about the fact that ASH's chief medical officer, Dr. Steven Dingle, is a known sexual abuser of women working directly under his authority. As such, Bowen exhibited himself as yet one more American male with no understanding of the traumatic significance of sexual abuse across the board, not at all unlike ASH psychiatrist, Dr. Laxman Patel, who in 2011 characterized my sharing with him my own history as a sexually abused child, by stating, on record: "He was allowed to fondle his older sister at the age of six...."
-Current ADHS staff attorney Greg Honig, who subsequently attempted to strike Bowen's behavior in this incident from the public record. In doing this, Honig exhibited an abject lack of legal expertise, both in terms of the involved patient's constitutional rights as well as in terms of the public's right to be informed of these issues; therein identifying himself as 100% involved in allowing the substandard care practices and conditions at ASH to continue.
-Recently resigned head of Arizona's Medicaid program, Tom Betlach, who strongly sided with Honig's misconduct as means to see that this the information about Dingle not be made public. In relying on his status as high ranking state health care official, he also willfully sought to terminate the existence of the ASH Human Rights Committee, simply due to this resource's benefit to the ASH patient community. And yes, recently resigned, yet another coward fleeing the site of ASH's current scandal.
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| Tom Betlach Former-since fled Director, Arizona Medicaid. |
- And ultimately, Dr. Cara Christ, who very aggressively defended Dingle's known history as a sexual abuser of women. I contend that in doing this, Christ willfully contributed to furthering sexual abuse of women, in radical defiance of the "Me Too" and other such elements of contemporary social activity.
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| Dr. Cara Christ Current Director AZ Department of Health Services. |
And these people know it. Shame, shame, shame.
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In Closing: A big thanks to our friends at Montana Disability Rights for standing up in defense of the patients at this particular state's sole long terms public mental health care facility. And as always, we're always willing to help.
Wherever we are. All the time.
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