Trained Professionals. Trust in the system. All will be well.
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Joshua GillReligion Reporter
6:47 PM 11/01/2017
Jail authorities banned a nurse from her position after she allegedly tried to cast demons out of a seizing meth addict who died the day afterward.
Oklahoma County Jail barred Linda Herlong Jackson, 67, from working at the jail after she tried to cast demons out of Amanda Lynette Freeman, a 32-year-old woman arrested on drug charges, who was having a seizure, according to KOCO 5 News.
Detention officials called Jackson to assist when Freeman began seizing. Jackson asked accompanying prison officials if she could cast demons out of Freeman upon seeing that Freeman was screaming and thrashing around, a jail guard alleged.
A witness said Jackson then said “I revoke you demons,” according to the Kansas City Star.
Jackson denied that she specifically requested or tried to perform an exorcism, she said an interview with The Oklahoman.
“Oh, brother,” Jackson said. “No. … I didn’t do an exorcism.”
“The patient didn’t die, by the way, on my shift. I would appreciate if you wouldn’t try to sensationalize something that’s already been settled ― or so I thought,” she added.
Jackson’s denial of allegations that she performed an exorcism do not necessarily contradict witness reports of her attempting to cast demons out of Freeman. An exorcism is a specific, formulaic ritual employed to drive out spirits, like the Catholic Rite of Exorcism, and what Jackson allegedly performed falls in line with what some Christians refer to as “deliverance ministry.”
A sheriff’s lieutenant halted Jackson’s attempts to drive out demons from Freeman upon his arrival to the scene. Freeman died the following day due to an acute coronary event caused by methamphetamine. Oklahoma County Sheriff P.D. Taylor banned Jackson from working at the jail Oct. 20. Taylor could not fire her as she was employed under Armor Correctional Health Services instead of the jail.
Taylor no longer works for Armor Correctional Health Services as of Oct. 27.
Taylor clarified that he did not ban Jackson for any perceived fault in the inmate’s death, but because he believed she breached the boundaries of her duties as a medical practitioner.
“It’s our position that because of this incident she cannot work in this facility,” Taylor told The Oklahoman. “Her job is to provide medical care. Doing what she was doing was not providing medical care.”
The sheriff’s investigator met with the district attorney to discuss the details of the incident. Jackson does not currently face any criminal charges.
Thank You Mr Gill and the DC.
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Monday, December 5, 2016
4 Resign From VA Facility After Oklahoma Veteran Dies With Maggots In Wounds
weaselzippers
Just despicable.
Thank You Foxnews and Nick.
Just despicable.
TALIHINA, Okla. – Four staff members have resigned from a southeastern Oklahoma veterans facility rather than face the possibility of getting fired, after a resident was found to have maggots in a wound.
Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs executive director Myles Deering said the maggots were discovered while the patient was alive at the facility in Talihina, about 130 miles southeast of Tulsa. Deering said the maggots were not the cause of his death.
Deering said the veteran came to the center with an infection and died of sepsis, the Tulsa World reported.
The agency said a physician’s assistant and three nurses, including the director of nursing, resigned after an investigation was conducted. Spokesman Shane Faulkner said all four chose to resign before the termination process began.
Keep reading…
Thank You Foxnews and Nick.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
New York Laws Enable Criminal, Incompetent Nurses
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says his office is prepared to change who oversees nurse licensing
New York's inattention and slow response to incidents of patient harm make the state a haven for criminal and incompetent nurses, according to a report published byProPublica.
Despite a nationwide movement to improve nurse oversight and crack down on licensee misconduct, these reforms have largely passed New York by, according to the report.
The Office of Professions, which oversees nurse licensing in the state, does not require applicant nurses to undergo background checks or submit fingerprints, allowing those with criminal records to fly under the radar, ProPublica reported. The office, a division of the Department of Education, only reluctantly wades into criminal justice matters. When the board does act, the publication reported, it is often years after patients have been neglected, sexually assaulted and even killed.
On Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told WNYC that his office questions whether the Department of Education is "the right agency" to put in charge of nurse licensing, saying, "Should the state education department have the responsibility of licensing nurses, or is that too far afield for them and should the department of health do it?"
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Thank You Mr Ferguson and FH.
"Why, there outta be a law."
Governor Foghorn Bullsworth
No Governor, we have plenty of laws. What there ought to be is enforcement rather than the endemic protection of such malfeasors by peers and peer groups.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Report: Medicare Overpays Skilled Nursing Facilities More Than $1 Billion
fiercehealthpayerantifraud
CMS at it's finest.
A $Billion in tax dollars. The Govt. freeloaders who handed it out plan to 'Try Harder'.
Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General suggests changes in payment rules
Because of flawed payment incentives, Medicare paid skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) $1.1 billion more than it needed to in fiscal years 2012 and 2013, according to a new government agency report.
In the report, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that Medicare payments for therapy "greatly exceeded" SNFs' actual costs for therapy for the past decade.
This difference between Medicare payments and SNFs' costs for therapy, combined with the current payment method, "creates an incentive for SNFs to bill for higher levels of therapy than necessary," the report states. Furthermore, these increases in billing were not related to any significant changes in Medicare beneficiaries' characteristics.
The report's findings echo those of a recent Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicare data, which found that SNFs' billing for "ultra-high" levels of rehabilitative therapy--which calls for 720 hours per week of rehab--increased dramatically from 2002 to 2013. Providing such excess care not only can be costly, but can even harm fragile patients, the report noted.
To address the problems it uncovered, the OIG report recommends that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Decide whether and how much Medicare payment rates for therapy should be reduced; change the method by which it pays for therapy; adjust Medicare payments to remove any increases that are unrelated to beneficiary characteristics; and strengthen oversight of SNF billing.
CMS agreed with each of the report's recommendations, noting that it is "working to identify potential alternatives to the existing methodology used to pay for services under the SNF [prospective payments system]."
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Thank You Ms Small and FHPAF.
Can't resist it. Commentor Concerned Taxpayer says:
Government operations at its best... wasting money. And, instead of recouping it from the SNF's that were overpaid, they "plan" on correcting it going forward. I want a government grant that I don't need to pay back, say.... $500 million. You can then determine that I should not have received it and figure out a way to take it from everyone else in future years.Concerned Taxpayer
CMS at it's finest.
A $Billion in tax dollars. The Govt. freeloaders who handed it out plan to 'Try Harder'.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Too Funny! Feel The Bern: Socialist Bernie Sanders Scores Nurses Endorsement
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Hillary has been lukewarm to unions, and they to her. Meanwhile Bernie has been reaching out.
Via CNN:
National Nurses United — a 185,000-person union and the largest group of nurses in the country — endorsed Bernie Sanders at their national conference Monday.The endorsement is significant because it is Sanders’ first sizable union endorsement in his quest for the Democratic nomination and comes after Sanders and other Democratic candidates pitched themselves to the AFL-CIO, a group that includes the nurses union, last month.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Anesthesiologist Must Pay $500K For Insulting Man Under Sedation
The guy's sedated. He plays back his recording, and Voila!
Sounds like legal precedent for insulting/defrauding consumers into a Psych Diagnosis and chemical/high voltage battering.
Insults can recoup financial damages from an unconscious colonoscopy patient.
Now what about the lifetime insult/stink from a 'mental health' quack who has never cured Anything, and is illegally protected from having to wear their own insult/stink by 5th and 14th Amendment violating, State legislated, HC worker Diversion programs?
fiercehealthcare
Jury award includes costs due to defamation, medical malpractice and punitive damages
A jury awarded $500,000 to a Virginia man whose accidental recording of his colonoscopy revealed his surgical team mocked him while he was under anesthesia, according to the Washington Post. Not only did the man's doctors insult him and express a desire to physically assault him, they also deliberately misdiagnosed him and instructed an assistant to lie to him. The judgment included $100,000 for defamation, $200,000 for medical malpractice and $200,000 in punitive damages. Although defamation cases typically involve published or publicly spoken statements, experts said the case was a rare instance in which the defamatory remarks occurred in private. "The jury apparently was just so offended at this unprofessional behavior that they're going to give the plaintiff a win," Reston, Virginia, lawyer Lee Berlik told the Post. "That's what happens in the real world." Article
Thank You Mr Budryk and FierceHealthcare.
"The jury apparently was just so offended at this unprofessional behavior, . . "
Juries need to get up to speed on just what passes for 'professional conduct' throughout the entire HC Industry.
And if they ever do, there goes Psych.
They'll award civil damages at the drop of a Diagnosis.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Nurses, Keepers of Healthcare's Dirty Little Secrets?
fiercehealthcare;
Staffers spill about preferential treatment for VIPs, bets on patients
In order to uncover what the healthcare industry wants to keep hidden, simply ask the tight-knit, hard-working professionals who experience the highs and lows of hands-on patient care every day--nurses.
That's the theory of author Alexandra Robbins, who in a recent Politico piece detailed some of the healthcare industry's glaring truths gleaned from interviews with countless nurses for her new book about the profession.
For example, nurses told Robbins about the five-star treatment certain celebrities and VIPs receive in hospitals around the country, often unbeknownst to rank-and-file patients who receive treatment at the same hospitals. Rich or influential patients often receive larger rooms, big-screen TVs, lush furnishings, better food and even separate floors, a practice one nurse told Robbins she and her colleagues "are disgusted by."
The practice is more than distasteful, though, as some nurses also indicated that resources allocated to VIP treatment can detract from the quality of other patients' care. In one case, a nurse said it was common at her hospital to move critical patients away from the nursing station to make way for VIP patients who actually required less observation.
Nurses are also well-acquainted with the healthcare industry's well-known "July Effect," which describes the uptick in medical errors associated with a new crop of medical residents every summer. And when newly minted doctors fumble, it is nurses who often have to correct errors and pick up the slack, according to the article.
Nurses themselves are not immune from questionable practices, however, as many told Robbins that hospital staffers commonly make bets about patients' conditions, injuries or even surgical outcomes. For example, nurses often can be found making small wagers to guess a patient's blood-alcohol level.
Along similar lines, many nurses describe widespread bullying and hazing among their peers, often carried out in accordance with time-honored hierarchies. The practice likely adversely affects patient care, and some experts suggest it may drive nurses away from the profession.
To learn more:
- read the article
- read the article
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Thank You Ms Small and FierceHealthcare.
Unfortunately, this article misses the punchline.
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