Her death wasnt MOST of our senior citizens are over medicated. I was in SHOCK. That means they unknowingly gave up treatments that could cure, or at least manage, their conditions and instead received only palliative care. A team of four nurses went inside and closed the door - I don't know what they were doing, but it was explained as 'freshening her up'. He wasn't in pain due to cancer and he wasn't dying or suffering. To add to this case study pool, my mother (70) was killed by a UK hospice last week through the method of dehydration and starvation, made possible by use of an intravenous morphine syringe driver and continuous injection of sedatives through an arm port. The increasing burden on loved ones especially spouses is reaching a breaking point for many people, her research shows. Mom and I had hoped her hospice care team would help to make her last days as pain-free as they could be. At 7 p.m. on the night before my fathers last day of life, his abdominal pain spiked. Hospice care workers are with people at their most intimate, vulnerable moments of their lives. I wish I found out about this earlier. I didnt like it. Hospice care is primarily for patients with terminal illnesses, but hospices do accept patients who are otherwise ill. My father was in home hospice last year and was recently re-admitted. denied the funeral parlor Becker funeral parlor who also illegally cremated my mother suspicoulsy locked in her room in sunrise NO visitors allowed under the son and varnum ; cremated her NO abilyt ot view her remains NOW my fahter ND HIS priest reported how his wishes for a catholic viewong and mass priorr to cematoini ALSO I called the DOH dept of health wqhich was MY rioght thehy opened a case as " starrving my dad over dosing him and no eye glasses hearing aides such reported twice" the Lawyer wrote a letter DUE TO BRENDA calling the DEPT OF heath She upset the LEGAL counsel fo Valley hospice IN Paramus NJ the legal counsel and and the supervisor an RN joanna hanna : so NOW JOHN Sheehy my dad WILL HAVE NO VISITS as he clearly stasted " I DO NOT know why your father is dying .. dont care and also was stated to Father PAUL NO VISITS for JOHN : he needs ot die alone ; : SO HE DIEs alone NO ONE by his side with a sign over his heaD He was now unconscious due to medicatoins morphine and sedatives every 3.4 hours aide confirmed ; DO NOT FEED HIM ONLY HOSPICE MEDS SUNRISE also attaempted to haVe ME SIGN as this lawyer KNEw sign a " Euthanasia contract " IF YOU feed him or ask about his med YOU wil be asked ot leavE on JLY 9 i gaVe that to polkcie they wenet in for a safety check : THEY deny this ; well here is the contract the officer was kind that is when they started wiht laxative supposoitories all on record ' FROM jluy 5-19 that is what was DONE by a judge 3 lawyers hsi son colleen varnum adn hospice valley hospice who raged as recorded at me on phone just prior to july that july 3 and 4 and for a year MY DAD and I are chatting on phone laughing LOVE YOU BRENDA MISS YOU ; see you soon YES dad I will bring you food they were denying him food the sunrise lied and even attemtped to put him in a psych hospittal : it was so evil WE threatned to sue MY DAD was with his aides and i was outside of window he fell i heard it ; the lawyer wright robert and colleen varnum lied stated " as my dad is heard " I am ok ' and the aides pickiing him UP " they were oof site ' they wrote more lies " HE was in the hallway ( blind deaf using a walder cannot see as they refsued my pleas to JUST give me the scripto for his eye glasses nad his broken hearing aids i will pay and replace NO ) that my dad was in hallway beating up residents ; THE ENTIRE facilyt was ON LOCK DOWN NO ONE COULD LEAVE THEIR APT .. I didnt know it was one of the final conversations wed have. Sepsis is potentially fatal because it can lead to tissue damage and organ failure. John keeps his monthly statements from Medicare organized in a three-ring binder, but he had never noticed that his agency charges nearly $200 a day, whether there is a health provider in the home on that day or not. Bold faced lies! It was magic. His primary nurse, who doubled as case worker, was kind and empathetic. Moms primary VNA nurse, Cathy Griffin, turned out to be an angel, Ms. Griffin, 60, had a lot in common with my mother. The cancer in her brain was gone, though according to oncologist, she still had cancer in her liver? "I'm not anti-hospice at all," says Joy Johnston, a writer from Atlanta. " Enforcement of the provisions of the Controlled Substances Act as they pertain to the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of legally produced controlled substances. " Some of these excessive dosages resulted in significant injury or death. My moms life was hers. A I will admit to you that I was beside myself with terror and as I did this I sang to her, yes sang to her, one of her favourite songs, 'Ain't Misbehavin' by Fats Waller! They will blame the disease and not the overmedicating, starvation and dehydration protocol. She says that during the final weeks of her mother's life, she felt more like a tired nurse than a devoted daughter. A case he had just won and was waiting for full benifits.You wont believe the rest of the facts. They told us they were there for us, 24 hours a day. I could not be consoled I was angry. The only on-call nurse was helping another family two hours away. I was angry about my Father a Great man who hated to take asprin for a headach he would take one baby asprin. She was then confined to a nursing home bed. You dont sit there with your hands folded and pass away. It was so obvious by this time they were all in on it. Her last days werent ideal. She made a phone call and told us the crisis nurse would arrive by 8 a.m. Prescriptions show up at the house for pain and anxiety. Maybe all is not lost! Another reason sepsis is so dangerous is that people who think they have beaten the illness often end up back in the hospital even weaker than before. Many of the more than 4,000 Medicare-certified hospice agencies in the United States exist within larger health care or corporate systems, which are often under pressure to keep profit margins up. Fewer Americans these days are dying in a hospital under the close supervision of doctors and nurses. I of course did not want to believe. This Was Not the Good Death We Were Promised, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/hospice-good-death.html, 4,000 Medicare-certified hospice agencies, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. In April, he fell again, this time in the bathroom. They werent perfect, but Ms. Griffin and Dr. Dauwalder and the rest of the team worked tirelessly to try and soothe her suffering. Constipation plagues many dying patients. "It's ironically called the 'comfort care kit' that you get with home hospice. Apparently, the lower spine bones got squished together which caused pain. Conditions Physical Therapists Treat That You May Not Be Aware Of, Clinton The Daughter, Clinton The Mother: A Closer Look At Hillary's Family Relationships, Feeding Tubes for Dementia Patients May Become a Thing of the Past, Fatherhood: The Dad's Role During Pregnancy, Hallucinations And False Ideas In Dementia: Causes And Treatment. Should the hospice reps explain that in most cases, someone will rush to your loved ones side in a crisis, but sometimes the agency just doesnt get the timing and the logistics right? RUN do not walk away when they recommend hospice, your loved one will be gone in days. "That was the lowest point. I had help, though, from my wonderful cousins Chris, Caroline and their son Ben and my incredibly selfless and kind girlfriend Lisa. WebBut there was little left to do. I am so very glad that I did. over a year ago, My father had NO hospice DIagnosis The Sunrise Assisted Living of OLD Tappan a NURSE illegally placed him on hospice YOU need 2 MD' His guardian ad litem That I asked to be hired TO protect him from the assisted living colleen varnum and his son Jack Sheehy that were " denying medical care hearign aides updated eye glasses and NO visitors IN assisted living " YET In 2 weeks the lawyer aligned suspicously with the SON: they removed his broken hearing aids his eye glasses all recorded and documented THEY cancelled MY dads need for GI bleeding only due to acid reflux " to go to a Gastro enterologist ordered by a MD DR SAEED in the hospital : so that my father BLED actively in sunrise of old tappan NJ for 10 days The lawyer ELTON bozanian ignored MY dads calls recorded for HELP ME I am bleeding help me : and I was finally able to get him to the hospital THE JUDGE was involved in NJ JJD " who also allowed his lawyer to abuse MY dad they then without any diagnosis and writted UP by an RN colleague of my dads eldest son: ON HOSPICE by a nurse warren Glick : VALLEY HOSPICE OF NJ left him with no abiliyt to see or hear ON lockdown for COVID but his calls ot me on a DIsabilyt phone i purchased for HI*M Each MONTH the judge deluca nd his ilawyer took on emore right from my dad hospice was illegally billing for hospice they began denying food AGAIN all recorded and documented by my former lawyer : sunrise with slander tried to sue me for harassment wiht perjury presented such case was DISMISSED wihotu prejudice YET colleen varnum continued to lie Thank God for witness and recordings : but it becmae horriied my alert oreinted fahte rthe JUDGE THEN after 5 monthsd decided to incapacitate HIM NO MD LEGAL IN ANY HOSPITLA OR OUTSIDE OF SUNRISE DEMMED HIM ANYTING BUT ALRT ORIENTED and " If you want to question his capacity " YOu better get him hearing aides and eye glasses " NO the judge and elton bozanian and ira kaplan and his son and sunrise lawyer wright and varnum refused THEY then all of a sudeen ON ONE DAY with NO diagnosis and being abused I recorded every day MY dad" HE IS DYING NO MD there OF WHAT " WE DO NOT KNOW " BUT HE IS NOT TO GET ANY FOOD OR WATER ROUND CLOCK MORPHINE ALONG WITH ATIVAN UNDER TONGUE " I called pplice and Dept of heatlh to sotp this i reporteded in court to the judge deluca and the lawyer doing this to my DAD who just prior to zoom court call was in my arms begging for help as i was aathere AND FOUND My fahter udner colleen varnum and her aide zelma edwards and hospice " HE was lying in his bed in approx 4 gallons of his own diarrhea what did you do " we gaVe him laxatives yesterday and today " YOU starved him for 7 days and then gave HIM Laxatives and morphine so he cannot even speak or stand UP"??? I thought wed have her for another summer. When my father left Hospice to go to Saint Raphael Ontario, CA 91764. But I wonder whether that hospital oversight might have eased my fathers pain earlier on that last day. And by the time such patients reach their final days, it's often too much trouble for them and the family to move. The DEA also has the authority for: When my father was dying from complications of dementia and diabetes, hospice caregivers sat with him, provided pain relief, and helped him be comfortable. Also, I began taking VNA up on that 24/7 promise they had made. But the grace and professionalism of Ms. Griffin, Dr. Dauwalder and the other VNA nurses and social workers I came into contact with contradicted this perception. What this person [Health Wyze Media] describes is exactly what my family experienced at hospice when my mother died. As researchers in the field look to the future, they are calling for more palliative care, not less even as they also advocate for more support of the spouses, family members and friends who are tasked with caring for the patient. He ran out of 'insurance days' and 'Hospice' was the only BS option left. I was dumbfounded. A friend has been in a memory care unit for several years now paying over $5000/month. Some patients experience days of pain or severe anxiety because their hospices fail to provide pain management and other needed services. The latest Medicare data show that hospice use has grown over the past decade: In 2006, Medicare paid $9.2 billion for fewer than 1 million beneficiaries in hospice care. Only Ensure and juice. Many locations WILL NOT do an autopsy if under "hospice" care. When Velez is not around, John McCasland Jean's husband of nearly 50 years is the person in charge at home. I am still shocked by the whole traumatic experience but mostly that I did not stand up to any of them for what they did. Now, she wants to make sure her children don't do the same for her. "We really have to expand in general our approach to supporting caregivers," Ornstein says, noting that some countries outside the U.S. pay for a wider range and longer duration of home health services. If you want to get notified by every reply to your post, please register. Ways I can watch porn and mastuarbate without getting caught texted my father no reply. Talk to our caring staff 24/7we're always available. They ruined our lives and our Dads services were never given to him so that they could keep us from telling the truth to everyone. In a North Texas case, nurses allegedly gave high doses of drugs such as morphine, regardless of whether patients needed it, to justify receiving the higher hospice payments. In my book this is fraud but it is very difficult to prove!!! My father died in 2002, and even then Id only known him for the last 10 years of his life. "And I think that probably speaks to the expansion of palliative care in general.". I would go from wanting to expose them all to not doing a thing but I started to empower myself and began reading all I could on hospice abuse. It is hard, but people are the most genuine, and all of our prejudices are just irrelevant. But it wasnt up to me. Hospice Killed My Father. They put him in the hospital and then said he had to go to rehab hospital so he could stand on his own and how fall. I arrived Christmas morning to pick her up and she was uncharacteristically disheveled, sitting on her sofa with her blouse unbuttoned-an alarming situation as she was always so well-coiffed and put together breathless just from trying to dress herself. He wanted CARE, not to be discarded. The next day after sleeping on the side outside of our home for 10 years a sheriff blocked our driveway for what latter we concluded was for a unlawful restraining order. It was a primal thing that came from a deep place. It was Aug. 2, 2000 less than two weeks since his admission to the hospice. Joanne M. Chiedi is the principal deputy inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services. PLEASE DONT TAKE YOUR FATHER OR MOTHER OR ELDER FAMILY MEMBERS TO HOSPICE. In my opinion, the ritual 20-25 minute exclusion from the patient's room each morning for nursing duties may carry a sinister, covert purpose, possibly involving moving the patient, creating stress and trauma, especially towards the end of their expected stay, presumably to encourage and speed their demise. When his case worker was back on duty, she told us apologetically that the nurse on that shift had come down with strep throat. I checked in again with John and Velez (Jean's long-time private caregiver) this winter. But then I think: He deserved to have both. Thank you for that! I dont pretend to take all suffering away, I just dont pretend not to see it, and not to try to help, and to try to be a facilitator of unity in the care plan that doesnt alienate those to suffer alone, Dr. Dauwalder said. Nursing homes are just as bad. Avoid at all costs. She stopped talking by this time but was still engaged in every way. And it doesnt matter what your living situation is. But we are there, even though that. They sent him to hospital on Sunday and by Tuesday, they said he wasn't responding to antibiotic and they wanted to put him in hospice. My dad passed away few mins after the nurse from hospice came. Starvation, dehydration and overdosed on such heavy medications to kill them fast. Guest I may have end stage COPD BUT I AM NOT CRAZY BUT THE SYSTEMS SURE ARE! CMS should provide more information to the public, especially Medicare beneficiaries, about hospice performance so consumers can effectively compare hospice providers. The idea that hospice care could abuse and neglect patients when they are at their most vulnerable, or exploit them for unjust enrichment, is repellent. It is FREE! and NOW The judge and lwyers want me silent and the son wants to SUE ME for emotional pain and suffering for reporting this et al THE JUDGEallowed in probate 3 lawyers hos his do this and take his money I have helped so many seniors in my practice i could NOT save MY dad it was a Malpracticing murder we see " murder by hospice we see fraudlulent guardiahsips and administrator ; "" done to milllions of seniors AND NO ONE can DO ANYTHING why is this NOT On the news WE are all aspiritng to be SENIORS, Guest She was not terminal. His voice is jolly and tipsy. They found he had some kind of pneumonia and was sent to another hospital for treatment for about 2-3 weeks. Another aunt was at the hospital with him when he said, "I guess they [doctors] think they've done all they can for me." WebIn the last days and hours of my moms life, a lot of stuff came up that I wasnt prepared for: deciding between keeping her in the hospital versus taking her home for hospice care, or I couldnt even promise hed find out who won the baking show that season. How do you envision it? "I told my family, if there is such a thing, I will come back and I will haunt you," she says with a laugh. And I seriously doubt it. Thats what hospice workers do: help people die. I thought mom should want to have more time than just a year, and it seemed like such an easy thing to get. CMS now provides such information for nursing homes on its Nursing Home Compare website; a similar offering for hospice on Hospice Compare would help consumers make informed choices. "Imagine if you're the caregiver, and that you're in the house," Teno says. She entered the hospice on the Friday in good spirits, having been told by the MacMillan Cancer Support Nurse (one of the most respected organisations in British nursing) at the general hospital at which she had spent the last five weeks that the hospice, which they had selected, would 'really look after her needs, give her rest and provide relaxation services like massage and physiotherapy' - they did not tell her, nor me, that the hospice's aim would in fact be to kill her as quickly as possible in this case, over just four days. WebEven when hospice took over, he still found he needed the extra help from Karrie Velez (center). I didn't know ANYTHING about hospice before. He was as healthy as Jack Lalain. Perhaps my Mum would have lived a few days, a few weeks or a few months more if she had not been killed in this artificial way, who knows, but it is my belief that, whilst we should use all the means at our disposal to ease suffering, only God (or mother nature if you don't share my faith) has the right to call time on a person's life and that we are entering dangerous territory when a medical professional has the power to make and effect such decisions themselves. I considered making a complaint in the days after my dads death, but frankly we were just too sad. I have no proof of this bit, but everything else I witnessed with my own eyes and can guarantee is the truth. We didnt know whether it Some are signed up for hospice without their knowledge, including some individuals who are not terminally ill. This is your turn, for what follows are some of the messages that we have received from our readership about Hospice. We were crying and convinced she was about to pass away. With the exception of a bad back, she was not suffering any other pain. My kids and I packed some clothes into some bags, a few toys, our toiletries and a guitar and decamped to moms place. I am also happy to say that we took numerous photos and more importantly videos without my siblings knowing. She became weak and lost her ability to see or walk. Like a growing share of hospice patients, McCasland has dementia. To this day, she refers to those hospice workers as angels. That was lucky, because when the nurse arrived at midnight, she brought no painkillers. I'm so sorry! Why are lay people trusted with the morphine/drug kits? "It is comfortable for them. Morphine, every 20 minutes? Her oncologist was optimistic that with hormone therapy-mom dismissed outright the possibility of chemotherapy after having seen her sister and mother both devastated by the treatments she could live another three or four years, with little side effects. My visits to her were daily and I was able to feed her one meal and a large cup of water. WebHe died on 20 April 2004. over a year ago. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, UFOs and more! But mom wasnt up for it. The nurse did not come at 8 a.m. Or 9 a.m. We strongly urge CMS and Congress to implement our longstanding recommendations to protect patients and their families from hospice providers that are exploiting this vital service. There are many things I've left out from this report, points about lack of basic care (like how the hospice staff never washed or brushed her hair, never cleaned her teeth, never changed her catheter bag, never washed her face, never allowed her ripple bed to be turned on to alleviate her bed sores etc). Let's go! The supposed preacher lectured about how Hospice Is Allowing My Father-In-Law To Die With Dignity Hospice. Since the mid-1990s, Medicare has allowed the hospice benefit to cover more types of diagnoses, and therefore more people. Unfortunately it's all too common for what you describe to happen. "I guess I've just accepted what's available and not really thought beyond what could be," John says. I couldn't believe that a medical team could leave a patient like that for a relative to find. Hospice just killed my father this week and I am still struggling with the grief and guilt of being coerced into putting him there. Her supervisor stopped by, showed us the proper way to deliver morphine (wed been doing it wrong) and told us a pain pump and a crisis nurse should arrive by noon. Im just tired, honey, she said to me shortly after making her decision. But what hospice provided wasn't enough help. The final thing that I've left out from this report are some of the actions of my own family members, both in order to protect their confidentiality, but also because some of us seemed to actively help the hospice achieve this quick despatch. A tragic end. I told her she hadnt spoken in days, and that at this point she rarely opened her eyes at all. But we must take steps to prevent both the very human toll and the economic toll that hospice fraud takes. Medical aid in dying, an end-of-life care option that only is available to terminally ill adults in California, nine other states and Washington, Usually, hospice care is offered in the home, or sometimes in a nursing home. I took him home around the 8th day, where he received hospice care for over 2 1/2 years before his death. My siblings decided to take care of our mom. The nurse ordered for us to continue giving morphine to my dad every 20 mins. I told my friend that I wasnt sure what had just happened, but that I was going to try and talk to mom. They did. She got home and I got her in her bed and she slept hard, for the entire night, something she hadnt done in weeks. Our youngest sister was also lost due to hospice and I dont know if hospice had her authorization neither. She said she didnt want anything other than to be comfortable and let nature take its course. The Hospice nurse said that it would cause fluid to build up faster in her lungs and the body would not have to work so hard and death would come quicker. Im the first person to say we cant take away all suffering, and the inevitability of death and the inevitability of suffering is real, and there are magnitudes to that.
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