Carol is the founder of SPCP (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Patients, Inc.) in Bradenton, Florida. She found out [through her mother's Medicare experience as a stroke victim] that people, especially elderly patients, are OFTEN treated worse than animals. This appears to be especially bad in Florida. There are many laws to prevent just what happened to Zoe, but they are just not being enforced. Just look at AHCA and this case. Visit http://www.spcpi.homestead.com or http://www.spcp4u.homestead.com for more information. |
1. See Zoe's swollen cheek. This is parotitis caused from dehydration. Dr. Hoban operated on her on 2/9/99 at his office. [Zoe took an ambulance taxi alone to Dr. Hoban/Nall's office. This is missing from IHS records available to Carol]. Zoe had had no oral hydration or food from 1/10/99 until 1/25/99, while admitted to the hospital: Blake Medical Center. [She was then put on thickened liquids - the diagnostic barium video swallow study is missing - 7-year retention required]! She had a sore throat prior to 1/25/99 in the hospital, yet this was ignored. Zoe had a nasal tube [KEO] inserted on 1/13/99 without ever having had a barium video swallow test until 1/25/99. No doctor or family watched the 1/12/99 speech therapist swallow test. Zoe's family was not informed as to any alternatives, but was frightened by use of the term "aspiration pneumonia". There is no signed consent form for 1/13/99 but there is one for 1/20/99. On 1/20 Zoe pulled out all the tubes and at this time Carol was enlisted to go against her mother's will. Zoe is shown by FMQAI as having left the hospital on 1/22/99 [sic]. A nasal tube is a physical restraint and is not to be used without trying less restrictive measures first, according to Medicare. It has as side-effects: parotitis and possible "aspiration." Having the nasal tube inserted increases the risks of aspiration! Careful eating was never mentioned as an alternative!!! The first video swallow test was made on 1/25/99 (two weeks after admission) at Zoe's daughter's insistence. (They were being harassed for a stomach tube operation [PEG], which Zoe did not want. Zoe and Carol were already harassed on the first morning in the hospital on 1/12/99 before any swallow evaluation having been performed. Zoe was not allowed to have any oral food or drink until after a swallow test. [Zoe arrived at the hospital at 12:48 PM noon on 1/11/99] in alert and hungry condition. No swallow test was given until the next day at noon]. Zoe received zero nourishment from admission until late afternoon on 1/13/99. ____________________________________________ 2. See the bandage on Zoe's eye. Zoe was allowed to fall in the nursing home. On 2/8/99, she fell because after physical therapy, she was wheeled back to room 226 and left in the wheel chair alone. She was tired and attempted to get in bed alone. She fell. No problems were found after checking her out. Zoe had strong bones. Zoe was, however, billed to Medicare as 2-person full assist, yet was left alone in a wheelchair in her room after therapy. A test to rule out DVT was canceled at 6:35 AM on 2/12/99 by Dr. Unaeze. He supervised her dying until 2/13/99 at 3:45 PM, yet did not sign her death certificate or bill Medicare as required. ____________________________________________ 3. You can't see the catheter, but it is there. This was forced on Zoe in the Emergency room of Blake Medical Center within the first half hour on 1/11/99. Zoe was alert and oriented and did not want to be catheterized. Her daughter was ordered away from her so it could be done. A catheter is a physical restraint. It was unnecessary! There is no doctor's order found in the court Medical records, which were certified as the only medical records ! Also, catheterizing is against the Florida state guidelines for stroke care! Zoe had an unnecessary catheter inserted against her wishes and never removed until after death one month later! Carol saw a nurse's aide abuse her mother on 2/5/99 [Tarina refused to give Zoe a requested bedpan, while calmly making up Zoe's bed]. Carol was talked into leaving Zoe at the facility to "wean her of the catheter." Carol was frightened of the urine getting on her mother's now excoriated rear-end and agreed. She was not informed of "home health"! ____________________________________________ 4. The facility, where Zoe was located cost Medicare about $500 per day. The facility is IHS of Bradenton, (Integrated Health Services of Bradenton) at 2302 59th St. W., Bradenton, FL 34209. Zoe was transferred there directly from Blake Medical Center (on paper "Blake Hospital" see http://www.spcpi.homestead.com/SuncoastFLecoRe port-6-02.pdf for illegal use of fictitious corporate names)! Date of transfer from Blake to IHS was 2/2/99 at noon. There was no medical necessity, although it appears to be retroactively created with different sets of medical records! Dr. Arrojo, who was to Carol's knowledge supposed to be the attending physician, wrote in his discharge summary that she was transferred on 2/1/99 (one day earlier - This required report was not written until almost 3 months after Zoe's death- against the laws of Florida and the United States). What is the matter with AHCA? Where are the citations? |
ELDERLY CITIZENS, Does Your Government* really care about you? (Look what he allowed to be done to Zoe in front of her daughter and how he allowed AHCA (Florida's Agency for Health Care Administation} to ignore violations of state and federal law to the detriment of all patients in Florida)! The DCN scandal is nothing compared to the scandal of AHCA's, abuse of the rights of elderly citizens in Florida! |
Have you heard of Florida's WRONGFUL DEATH CLAUSE? |
1. See Zoe's swollen cheek. This is parotitis caused from dehydration. Dr. Hoban operated on her on 2/9/99 at his office. [Zoe took an ambulance taxi alone to Dr. Hoban/Nall's office. This is missing from IHS records available to Carol]. Zoe had had no oral hydration or food from 1/10/99 until 1/25/99, while admitted to the hospital: Blake Medical Center. [She was then put on thickened liquids - the diagnostic barium video swallow study is missing - 7-year retention required]! She had a sore throat prior to 1/25/99 in the hospital, yet this was ignored. Zoe had a nasal tube [KEO] inserted on 1/13/99 without ever having had a barium video swallow test until 1/25/99. No doctor or family watched the 1/12/99 speech therapist swallow test. Zoe's family was not informed as to any alternatives, but was frightened by use of the term "aspiration pneumonia". There is no signed consent form for 1/13/99 but there is one for 1/20/99. On 1/20 Zoe pulled out all the tubes and at this time Carol was enlisted to go against her mother's will. Zoe is shown by FMQAI as having left the hospital on 1/22/99 [sic]. A nasal tube is a physical restraint and is not to be used without trying less restrictive measures first, according to Medicare. It has as side-effects: parotitis and possible "aspiration." Having the nasal tube inserted increases the risks of aspiration! Careful eating was never mentioned as an alternative!!! The first video swallow test was made on 1/25/99 (two weeks after admission) at Zoe's daughter's insistence. (They were being harassed for a stomach tube operation [PEG], which Zoe did not want. Zoe and Carol were already harassed on the first morning in the hospital on 1/12/99 before any swallow evaluation having been performed. Zoe was not allowed to have any oral food or drink until after a swallow test. [Zoe arrived at the hospital at 12:48 PM noon on 1/11/99] in alert and hungry condition. No swallow test was given until the next day at noon]. Zoe received zero nourishment from admission until late afternoon on 1/13/99. ____________________________________________ 2. See the bandage on Zoe's eye. Zoe was allowed to fall in the nursing home. On 2/8/99, she fell because after physical therapy, she was wheeled back to room 226 and left in the wheel chair alone. She was tired and attempted to get in bed alone. She fell. No problems were found after checking her out. Zoe had strong bones. Zoe was, however, billed to Medicare as 2-person full assist, yet was left alone in a wheelchair in her room after therapy. A test to rule out DVT was canceled at 6:35 AM on 2/12/99 by Dr. Unaeze. He supervised her dying until 2/13/99 at 3:45 PM, yet did not sign her death certificate or bill Medicare as required. ____________________________________________ 3. You can't see the catheter, but it is there. This was forced on Zoe in the Emergency room of Blake Medical Center within the first half hour on 1/11/99. Zoe was alert and oriented and did not want to be catheterized. Her daughter was ordered away from her so it could be done. A catheter is a physical restraint. It was unnecessary! There is no doctor's order found in the court Medical records, which were certified as the only medical records ! Also, catheterizing is against the Florida state guidelines for stroke care! Zoe had an unnecessary catheter inserted against her wishes and never removed until after death one month later! Carol saw a nurse's aide abuse her mother on 2/5/99 [Tarina refused to give Zoe a requested bedpan, while calmly making up Zoe's bed]. Carol was talked into leaving Zoe at the facility to "wean her of the catheter." Carol was frightened of the urine getting on her mother's now excoriated rear-end and agreed. She was not informed of "home health"! ____________________________________________ 4. The facility, where Zoe was located cost Medicare about $500 per day. The facility is IHS of Bradenton, (Integrated Health Services of Bradenton) at 2302 59th St. W., Bradenton, FL 34209. Zoe was transferred there directly from Blake Medical Center (on paper "Blake Hospital" see http://www.spcpi.homestead.com/SuncoastFLecoRe port-6-02.pdf for illegal use of fictitious corporate names)! Date of transfer from Blake to IHS was 2/2/99 at noon. There was no medical necessity, although it appears to be retroactively created with different sets of medical records! Dr. Arrojo, who was to Carol's knowledge supposed to be the attending physician, wrote in his discharge summary that she was transferred on 2/1/99 (one day earlier - This required report was not written until almost 3 months after Zoe's death- against the laws of Florida and the United States). What is the matter with AHCA? Where are the citations? |
IHS of Bradenton - room #226 on 2/10 or 2/11/99 - photo taken by a friend - after the outpatient parotitis operation - not found in the IHS records given to Carol or in the death certificate as surgery |
The scene: IHS SKILLED NURSING FACILITY [SNF]: |
THE WRONGFUL DEATH CLAUSE SAYS THAT when you die if YOU HAVE NO SPOUSE OR DEPENDANT, THERE CAN BE NO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE SUIT. Death ends any legal proceeding. Statistics already show that thousands of people a year die needlessly in our nation's hospitals! How many of these deaths may be "deaths of convenience" as Zoe's death appears to be. *** AHCA has a duty to investigate thoroughly to assure that this does not happen. They found not one problem with Zoe's care. It looks like Jeb's Agency for Health Care Administration knowingly used fraudulent records to come up with zero problems in the case of Zoe! Do you think it will happen again?! BUSH did not care about Zoe, which seems to translate, he does not care about you, either ! *** lawyers refer to it as a "free kill" |
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Carol is the founder of SPCP (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Patients, Inc.) in Bradenton, Florida. She found out [through her mother's Medicare experience as a stroke victim] that people, especially elderly patients, are OFTEN treated worse than animals. This appears to be especially bad in Florida. There are many laws to prevent just what happened to Zoe, but they are just not being enforced. Just look at AHCA and this case. Visit http://www.spcpi.homestead.com or http://www.spcp4u.homestead.com for more information. |
Zoe received no emergency care despite acute symptoms of extreme pain and circulatory shutdown for two days. On paper, she is checked out of IHS a day early to hide these actions: no action. Carol was never told of the 2/9//99 salivary gland surgery. Zoe was scheduled to go home on 2/12/99. The chest pain and the extreme pain in the cramped white-bleached leg started on 2/11/99. Carol discovered it herself. (no nurse was to be found). Carol could only take Zoe home against medical advice, yet nothing was done for Zoe: No emergency medical care until death! |
This page was last updated on: February 24, 2004
It is a complete myth to portray the picture above as normal "stroke complications!" This was pure and simple medical abuse [whether negligent or intentional], which would be impossible to happen in a loving private home. This is legalized (institutionalized) Elder Abuse! In this case also Medicare Fraud! * "Your Government" was changed from"Governor Jeb Bush" on Feb. 24, 2004. Gov. Bush was directly responsible for ignoring this case and therefore, responsible for the following unnecessary sequels. However, I wrote to Gore immediately, when it happened and received no answer. One would be foolish to believe that it is a party issue. Both Democrats and Republicans are in the hands of corporations. Healthcare and insurance industries are making a fortune at the expense of affordable quality healthcare. We, the people, can only be saved, when we stop thinking "party" and look for the individual, which will snatch our government from corporate interests. |
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