Dr. Cara Christ, Yet Again: You don't say!

I have said it well before now: "Do not let the smiles fool you, these type people are poisonous peas in a stomach turning pod.

Societally Sanctioned Sociopathy. 

Personified Yet Again.

In early 2015, only weeks after being appointed, the current director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, Dr. Cara Christ, contacted this publication as means to dissuade our dedicated mission in ensuring that the Arizona State Hospital, (ASH, the operation of which ADHS is 100% responsible for), is consistently operated as per its given licensure as the state's sole long term public mental health care facility. Said licensing is overseen by the federal government.

In that early 2015 contact, Christ stated: "Things at ASH are far better then they were...." This statement was made in response to the fact that- via long overdue federal inspections and oversight in the years immediately previous to her appointment- ASH was found to be grossly mismanaged and in violation of various laws and policy. We subsequently replied in good faith, expressing that we would be willing to trust her in this critical position.   

Plain fact: Cara Chirst as since failed in any number of unknown- as well as known- ways, failing as such to meet her very real responsibilities and obligations, which are established in accordance with the public trust, and by which she is employed. Several preventable patient-consumer deaths at ASH, for example, have occurred since 2015, and regardless of this very disturbing fact, no one person in the current ADHS/ASH construct have exhibited any ability to do any better then one's who were responsible for the operation of ASH circa 2010=2015.

The following is yet another such example of this crap.  

Arizona failed to investigate some nursing home complaints, report finds.

Stephanie Innes, Arizona Republic.
Published September 26, 2019.

From the article:

State health officials failed to adequately investigate complaints of abuse

and neglect in Arizona nursing homes, a new Arizona Auditor General’s

report says.

In the letter, Arizona Department of Health Services director Dr. Cara
Christ writes that the report makes “sweeping statements about public
health and safety risks” while failing to provide context about the findings.

The Auditor General’s Office, in a written response, said Christ’s statements

misrepresent the findings and ”attempt to deflect that attention from the

Department’s failure to investigate, or timely investigate or resolve” some

complaints about long-term state managed care facilities.    

  

Dr. Cara Christ
Director, AZ Dept. of Health
Services (ADHS)
2015-present.

From the pasted smiles to the full range of identified failures to adhere to the terms of their employment contracts, they are like peas in a pod, these two.

Clear evidence, yet again, to the effect that we are now forced to witness grossly undue misconduct from the current ADHS director (Dr. Cara Christ, photo above), just as we had to under the directorship of her immediate predecessor (Will Humble, photo below).

Point being that these two state employees, who share(d) the level of ultimate authority over the Arizona's enture public health care system, also share an identical lack of medical ethos that can, will, and does impose direct harm onto the welfare of vulnerable state citizen-consumers deserving of optimum health care services to be provided by the state, all of whom are individuals relying upon these highly entrusted and rather well paid public employees to adhere to established medical practices and standards.

Indeed, during the tenure of former since fled ADHS director Will Yea, team!" Humble, we saw his repeated refusals circa to  respond to extensive reports of abuse and neglect in the state's sole long term public mental hospital, Arizona State Hospital (ASH). The man's abject lack of character, while working on taxpayer funding, employed as such, through the public trust, did lead to preventive deaths of several ASH patients, as well as persons with no affiliation to ADHS or ASH beyond the impacts of his ineptitude.

Will Humble
Former-since fled Director,
Arizona Department
of Health Services.

Not a surprise, not at all. But also nothing that we as a society can ignore. Whether it comes the state's responsibility to care for vulnerable populations across the board, be it at-risk children, the elderly, or those affected and disabled by serious mental illness, these patterns of administrative negligence and bureaucratic ineptitude are utterly, very disturbingly consistent with the negligence and abuse that these such populations have regularly been forced to deal with for time immemorial. 

Shame, shame, shame. But not a shame that individuals affected sociopathic tendencies are capable of feeling. Smiling their way into hot water, holding out right to the very end, patently denying all elements of evidence in context, as means to maintain status quo, and in hope avoiding due oversight and accountability.

Rather then simply doing the right thing, this is precisely what sociopathy is. 

And just as it only five+ years ago,

don't say we didn't warn you.

Thanks to investigative news reporter Stephanie Innes for getting this most recent information out of the bowels of the state department of health, and bringing into the public's awareness.

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