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  ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ELDERLY  JUDY MURPHYFOUNDER OF APE JUDY'S BIOGRAPHY  HISTORY OF APEILA SWAN'S STORY Attorney general, activist tackle elder abuse By Catherine Moy VACAVILLE - "Ila Swan is prepping her trailer of death for a road trip. The billboard trailer used to have a big picture of former Attorney General Dan Lungren on it posted next to a victim of Auschwitz death camps and another similar-looking victim, an elderly man brutalized inside a California nursing home. She's looking to redecorate." FROM THE ON-LINE EDITION OF THE DAILY REPUBLIC Fairfield-Suisun California  APE EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERSNURSING HOME INDUSTRY"Big Business" READ! Six Easy Steps To Obtain Quality Care For Your Loved One In A Nursing HomeBY SANDRA KETTERMAN IT'S ONLY MONEY: The Center for Responsive Politics is about to unveil a comprehensive political-donation database at its Web site, www.opensecrets.org, with figures going back 10 years. Visitors will be able to see, for instance, that pharmaceuticals companies have roughly doubled their giving to both parties since 1992 -- from $4.9 million to $10.2 million so far this year. (The site shows Pfizer Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. virtually in a dead heat at the top of the pack, giving $1.39 million and $1.37 million, respectively.) Meanwhile, donations from oil and gas companies have been up and down over time but are still twice as high this year as pharmaceuticals companies -- $19.7 million so far. UPDATE FROM ILA SWANThe below messages went out to two national news programs. They are both doing shows. Also, tune into Date Line 12/7/99 Program on East Texas. All states are in the same mess with the nursing homes as California, just some states a little worse than others. So much corruption. All this death an suffering of innocent victim because of these political whores and there love of money. Another story coming out with comparison of treatment of prisoners and nursing home victims. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/he00006.pdf http://www.gao.gov/new.items/he00027t.pdf The web sites above has the latest GAO reports on Nursing Homes. The original GAO report of their 9 month in-depth study showing 30% of California Nursing Homes a re killing the patients and/or causing serious harm only 3% are giving care meeting state and federal standards and 67% fail to meet state and federal standards, the report can be found in GAO Archives under the heading GAO/HEHS-98-202 or you can order the copy at: United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548-0001 under report number GAO/HEHS-98-202. I have attached some of the latest horror story pictures for your review. I have permission for you to use them on national TV. I deal with advocates in about 30 different states. I have been in nursing homes in six different states. I have concluded that California is the worst in the country. I believe the politicians in Washington, the bureaucrats at HCFA and the politicians on the take in California are most frighten about what is happening in California, because there has been no follow up from HCFA, GAO, Grassley, California AG or our wonderfully corrupt California Governor and as I mentioned to you before California has done absolutely nothing since the GAO Report was released. I have insiders at DHS and a former Director of DHS who are willing to talk about Governor Davis and California Attorney General Lockyer having no intentions of aggressively going after these nursing homes. Yesterday I was told California AG stated, "We'll do a few cases to appear we are turning the corner but I do not want to aggressively pursue these nursing home cases. Could it be the money to Lockyer who has accepted over $50,000 in Contributions from CAHF????? I am sending you the coverage of KPIX Channel 5. Look at Lockyer and listen to his BS Corporate lawyering indeed. How stupid is this guy, he can't even lie good. Also Governor Gray Davis called the California head of DHS Brenda Klutz to his office to tell her she is doing a wonderful job. It was Brenda Klutz that was quoted in Time Magazine stating that maggots are good for bedsores. The link to the story is below. I called the office of the attorney general then Dan Lungren, wrote them telling them if the maggots were being used as a treatment for the bedsore, all treatments requires a doctors order. I request a copy of that order since I had turned in the complaint of the maggots. Also last year, same facility, another case of maggots in a bed sore. No deficiencies or citations were issued by Department of Health Services Licensing and Certification director Brenda Klutz. I will have to e-mail you two additional messages to send more pictures. If I try to do in one, the file will be to big. Ila Swan  `http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/971027/nation.fatal_neglect.html,6U FATAL NEGLECT` IN POSSIBLY THOUSANDS OF CASES, NURSING-HOME RESIDENTS ARE DYING FROM A LACK OF FOOD AND WATER AND THE MOST BASIC LEVEL OF HYGIENE BY MARK THOMPSON Also you may want to check out these web sites: http://community.webtv.net/MJLbytheC/ELDERABUSEhttp://www.anglefire.com/fl2/SenioirSupportNetwork http://www.maxpages.com/savinggrace/homeCBS NEWSTracking Abuse In Nursing Homes Many Homes Cited For Serious Violations One Woman Accused Caretaker Of Abuse UPDATEFROM ILA SWAN APE NURSING HOME ADVOCATE QUOTE FROM The Ten Worst Corporations of 1999 By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Guardian Postacute: Maggots everywhere "After learning that of Guardian Postacute Services Inc., a San Francisco Bay area nursing home chain, had permitted dirty feeding tubes to be installed into patients who then became infested with maggots, had permitted patients to lie for extended periods in their urine and feces, and had failed to take strong action against an employee who sexually abused patients, Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Randy Hey has filed criminal charges against Guardian." On November 5, 1999, a movie 'The Insider" staring Al Pacino will air. It is a movie about the Tobacco Industry and the billions of tax dollars spent by our government, our insurance companies and citizen tax payers to treat the negative health out come, caused by smoking. For years our elected representatives in Washington knew about the enormous medical cost to the tax payers for this very addictive, injurious habit. For years these elected politicians who were put into office to protect we the people, took millions in campaign contribution from this industry and turned their heads to the great rip off of the American Tax Payers. This movie, we could change the word tobacco to nursing homes and it would be the same. The nursing home industry, the payoffs to our politicians and the cost to us tax payers is a parallel to the tobacco industry. Please, if you want to help stop these rip offs and the selling out of our politicians to those with the most money, join one person, one vote by simply clicking on the URL and follow the directions. Thanks for your attention, Sincerely, Ila Swan http://oneperson-onevote.com is now up and running. This is a initiative to force a constitutional amendment on campaign finance reform. The amendment will: 1. Limit contributions to $200 2. Allow contributions only from within the candidate's voting district. 3. Allow contributions only from people, not PACs, political parties, labor unions or corporations. This phase of the initiative is Internet driven. For this to work, YOU must take two steps: 1. Register you support at http://oneperson-onevote.com. 2. Then it is critical that you email everyone that you can and ask that they take these same two steps. Together, let's change this corrupt political system! Thanks, Kevin McLean NEWS FROM APE The General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, has found that several states may face Y2K Medicaid disruptions. These states may face disruptions in their Medicaid programs at the beginning of 2000 because they do not have adequate Medicaid systems or emergency backup plans, according to a GAO report released Oct. 6. They singled out Delaware, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Vermont as being at "at significant risk." We don't know whether other states may be having trouble as well. Medicaid advocates in those states (and others not singled out) may want to find out what is being done to resolve problems and whether contingency plans are adequate to protect beneficiaries if Medicaid computer systems fail. For more information, see GAO's website, www.gao.gov. A general description of problems is on line, report GAO/T-AIMD-00-9. Correspondence dated Oct 5 (GAO/AIMD-00-22R) can be ordered from GAO by calling 202-412-6000. We hope this is helpful. As background, here is an article from our asap! Update from last July that might be helpful. States May Experience Y2K Medicaid Problems Y2K could cause problems both for Medicaid beneficiaries who must prove their eligibility for coverage and for healthcare institutions that rely on Medicaid payments. A June 15, 1999 report from the Office of Management and Budget shows that only three states have completed Medicaid Y2K preparations. States must prepare two Medicaid computer systems: one that processes claims from providers and another that determines and tracks consumers' Medicaideligibility. Many states, according to the June report, do not expect to have their Medicaid systems compliant until September or later. The Center for Y2K and Society says that consumer advocates have an important role to play in asking states about their contingency plans for processing Medicaid eligibility and claims if computer systems fail. For more information on potential Medicaid and Medicare Y2K problems and how you can be involved, visit the Center for Y2K and Society website at www.y2kcenter.org. The latest quarterly report on the year 2000 from the Office of Management and Budget charts states' projected dates for bringing health and safety net programs into compliance, and is available at www.cio.gov/9thQuarterlyReport.pdf CHECK OUT THESE ARTICLES BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Albuquerque Journal, December 14, 1999, 437 words, Sun Considers Insuring Self To Cut Costs 2. The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA), December 1, 1999, 746 words, State investigates 2 nursing homes ; mlee@abqjournal.com. |
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NEWS: for immediate release Contact: Violette King, President Nursing Home Monitors 618-466-3410 vkmonitor@earthlink.net Nursing Home Owners and Advocates Working Together To Keep Nursing Home Residents Safe The nation's foremost advocacy group, NCCNHR, and the nation's largest lobby group for nursing home owners, AHCA, have taken a stand in supporting the nursing home residents' right to camera surveillance Contemporary Long Term Care, the foremost nursing home industry publication, in its Nov 1999 issue quotes Sarah Burger, executive director for the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, (NCCNHR): "Camera surveillance is an option for people who feel something is wrong they can't put their finger on" The American Health Care Association agrees to this right according to a joint statement issued to providers and published in the Illinois Health Care Publication of November 12, l999: "If residents and families feel more secure with a camera in a patient's room, they should ask the facility for help in installing one" Given the very vulnerable state of the residents, the astronomical staff turnover rate in nursing homes, and the shortstaffing, it is not possible for the nursing home owners to keep all the residents safe, no matter how good their intentions. Although nothing can replace adequate supervision , this option will help create an atmosphere of trust between the industry and the consumer. Abuse is perpetrated by a very small segment of nursing home workers. The vast majority of nursing home staff is very hard working and very dedicated in - spite of the insufficient pay. Persons with bizarre behaviors will stay away from facilities with this option, and the public may no longer prefer to die than to end up in a nursing home as 30% of those currently polled do. Abuse is often perpetrated by one resident against another. We would like to see AHCA come out with an even stronger voice on this issue. Customer satisfaction is the goal of every business. They are in a position to help eliminate the fears of the nursing home consumers and they should do so. |
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