Do you think the CEO of a large nursing home chain, Sun Healthcare Group Inc, obviously powerful, would allow a wrongful death case to go to a jury trial in his hometown where he's profited enough to buy three Oceanfront homes, and when he knew we could prove his willful misconduct by violating a state injunction, including slumlord conditions? Why did my fomer late attorney so obviously commit malpractice by not discussing my mother's death with any medical professional before he dropped wrongful death from the lawsuit? Then why did I win that malpractice case against him? Why didn't the Dept of Justice's Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse punish Sun for violating their 2001 Calif State Injunction not to understaff or have known broken equipment?
CORRUPTION!
Sworn statements from family members and physicians confirm a persistent lack of basic care amounting to elder abuse. Patients died from Sun's lack of staffing and broken equipment, two in October, 2003 alone. Medical supplies weren't replenished and family members bought them for their loved ones when the facility ran out. Families were retaliated against for filing formal complaints with the Dept of Health and Dept of Justice, Sun's management even attempted to set visiting hours for which the Dept of Justice told the Dept of Health to fine them if they barred families from seeing their loved ones any time they wish, which is federal law. Per Joseph Fendrick, Dept of Justice.
A Californa state injunction dated 2001 existed against Sun Healthcare yet it is a matter of record that while these complants were filed in writting with the Dept of Justice, they instead pursued the hispanic employees of an Escondido Sun facility for failing to administer eye drops to a patient, later dropping all charges. The Dept of Justice NEVER prosecuted Sun for the 5 deaths they caused from 2002-2004: Stella Carter; Richard Laga, Betty Harness, Evelyn Calvert and the man in Rm 2B October, 2003. There were undoubtedly more, as I worked full time and knew about these patients in the off hours. The DOJ settled with Sun for $2.5 Million in Sept of 2005 for violating it's injunction in the state without considering any of the Sunbridge Newport deaths, why?
Even the Director of Nursing, ElizabethVan Dyke, said "Well, we killed that one", when Betty Harness was brought back from Hoag Hospital with a word from the good doctors there that there was nothing else to do for the poor woman, Sun had killed her from lack of staffing to track bowel movements. It was even in her lungs. Van Dyke ordered milk of magnesia for all patients who couldn't talk. Yet the Medical Director, Dr Stoney said, "Not my patients".
Richard Laga didn't get the wound care nurse he begged for before the July 4th weekend in 2003 from Administrator Susan Zanca, yet the Dept of Health never punished her and she is still working as an Administrator.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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