hospice killed my father

My kids and I packed some clothes into some bags, a few toys, our toiletries and a guitar and decamped to moms place. Sea's family may have limited options. He came back and was fine. Families rarely consider whether they're getting their money's worth because they're not paying for hospice services directly: Medicare gets the bills. For many families, making hospice work at home means hiring extra help. After metastasizing the cancer reached her brain she was on intense chemotherapy for a year. Your numbers look great, the doctor says, beaming at my father who is hunched in his wheelchair. The nurse ordered for us to continue giving morphine to my dad every 20 mins. "I think everybody wishes we could provide the sitter-service part of it," says Riggle. Enough time has passed since then that the mental fog she experienced while managing his medication and bodily fluids mostly by herself has cleared, she says. I could avoid feeling and miss it. A new Hospice team came in and my dad was DEAD in a few days after the last nurse left our home. I spent the next few minutes with my mom, holding her hand and talking to her. Some of these excessive dosages resulted in significant injury or death. She made many attempts over the years to woo me over to Gods way. WebOn May 14th 2010 when my father was admitted to Hospice he was still receiving active chemotherapy, and he had a radiation appointment set up as the same day as the admission to Hospice. They include suppositories, and so I had to do that," she says. Discussion about hospice killed my mom [Page 3] at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Day Four, her final day, started at 9.00am with me being denied access to her room. The misconception is that hospice leaves as In the end, mom went quietly, in the middle of the night, in her home, with her dogs, a VNA nurse and me. At its extreme, sepsis can also lead to dangerously low blood pressure. The two were by Jean's side and had been there for several days straight when she died in October. I did receive a card with their signatures about two weeks after his funeral. The supposed preacher lectured about how 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. Its not pretty, Ms. Griffin agreed. PLEASE DONT TAKE YOUR FATHER OR MOTHER OR ELDER FAMILY MEMBERS TO HOSPICE. His primary nurse, who doubled as case worker, was kind and empathetic. Caregiving For A Loved One? Like a growing share of hospice patients, McCasland has dementia. "But I think people aren't prepared for all the effort that it takes to give someone a good death at home.". They did the same, stopped feeding him, dosed him with morphine. "It does take a toll" on families, says Katherine Ornstein, an associate professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, who studies what typically happens in the last years of patients' lives. We brought him to the ER, and they said he doesn't need surgery but he will be in pain for a while. And thats my job.. When my father was dying from complications of dementia and diabetes, hospice caregivers sat with him, provided pain relief, and helped him be comfortable. Her urine bag was dark and when I pointed this out to the nurse, she said "She's not dehydrated." I could not be consoled I was angry. But then, should there be more transparency early on? Our first call went out to a local hospice care provider. "That's our situation.". They ask me to leave and that I can only come certain times. I did find moments of joy. Justice WebThe local hospice was celebrating more than 1,800 deaths, at their hands, that had occurred during the past twelve months. 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. Many locations WILL NOT do an autopsy if under "hospice" care. He wasn't in pain due to cancer and he wasn't dying or suffering. But in time I came to respect and accept her choice. Her pain was relatively under control-morphine works-but she was getting very forgetful and was sleeping all the time. Receiving no reaction, he directs his attention at me. Guest I will forever regret being talked into putting my father there. She became weak and lost her ability to see or walk. And it didn't work.". She had lost weight, but she was strong in herself and determined. Even when hospice took over, he still found he needed the extra help from Karrie Velez (center). My pleas were ignored. 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. hide caption. The nurse did not come at 8 a.m. Or 9 a.m. But he clearly embraces hospice's cult of death and probably commands a low salary which fits in nicely with Hospice Inspiris's cost cutting philosophy. But I wonder whether that hospital oversight might have eased my fathers pain earlier on that last day. John McCasland (right) of Goodlettsville, Tenn., hired a private caregiver to help with his wife, Jean (left), who suffered from dementia for eight years. A weekly digest of our opinion column, with insight from industry experts. The non-hospice caregiver remarked there was never any food for my mom to eat. That means they unknowingly gave up treatments that could cure, or at least manage, their conditions and instead received only palliative care. 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 may have end stage COPD BUT I AM NOT CRAZY BUT THE SYSTEMS SURE ARE! Two days before she died, he learned that she had been enrolled in hospice more than a year earlier, a decision that an individual with dementia shouldnt make without assistance. The Inspector Generals office made recommendations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs Medicare, in seven key areas. "But it's not something that is covered by hospices.". Since her diagnosis, I had a handful of friends reach out and suggest we use VNA Hospice & Palliative Care of Southern California. But at the very end, confronted by a sudden deterioration in my fathers condition, hospice did not fulfill its promise to my family not for lack of good intentions but for lack of staff and foresight. One more thing, maybe two! "Our focus is on what patients want, and 85 to 90 percent want to be at home," Shega says. She sat down in her wheelchair, ate a home-cooked Christmas dinner and smiled, laughed and enjoyed herself. 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 Hospice Almost Killed My Father Who is Not Terminal User Name: Remember Me: Password : Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! -Mick Rhodes He believed the doctors had given up on him. My dad could do everything but walk. Or maybe it only seems that way because we are becoming the caregivers for our elderly parents. How To Get The Help You Need. And I'm sure it was the lowest point for my mother as well. But thats the beautiful part, Dr. Dauwalder said. I was skeptical, to say the least. And it doesnt matter what your living situation is. WebHospice care: the story of a mothers passing (Claremont Courier, March 2017) My sweet mom passed away January 8 at the relatively young age of 74. This corrupt, Medicare scamming company (i wonder what their CEO's annual compensation is) withdrew decent medical care and substituted their own miserable excuse for medical care. I called my kids in and they got to talk to her. She even tried to bite me. We feel totally taken in by the system and will always regret not being able to spot the ruse early enough or to have had the chance to read around the subject in time to have done anything about it. I travelled with Mum to the hospice in an ambulance. 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, She was then confined to a nursing home bed. 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 Im just tired, honey, she said to me shortly after making her decision. Now my younger Brother is sick from a mysterious illness also and hospice wants him two. Generally, by the time cancer moves into the bones, especially in an elderly patient, they ARE terminal. Not everyone is ready to have a stranger in their home when their loved one is dying. Throughout this time I was treated as the village idiot and left out of all decision making processes. I cannot bring my my sweet mom back but I can inform people to beware before they commit to hospice. WebMy father in law got a chance to decide many options and his decisions were important. Growth in the use of hospice makes it even more important to take action now. My dad was also KILLED BY HOSPICE/MORPHINE. The physical realities of dying are messy. Even when hospice took over, he still found he needed the extra help from Karrie Velez (center). I was determined that if Mum did not drink that day I would make a determined effort on Day Four to get some fluids into her and would, if left alone for long enough, cut her morphine tube. A The hospice is permanently closed. She says that during the final weeks of her mother's life, she felt more like a tired nurse than a devoted daughter. Its a beautiful place.. 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! I was angry, to be honest. I too was a victim of so called palliative care which could and should have killed me. Shocked by this the caregiver and I would bring food. 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. At the end of life, things can fall apart quickly, and neither medical specialist nor hospice worker can guarantee a painless exit. She recently sat them down, she says, to make sure they handle her death differently. CMS should take steps to tie payments to patient care needs and quality of care, rather than the current approach of paying a flat rate regardless of how many services a hospice provides, which can create incentives to minimize services and seek patients with uncomplicated needs. After the nurse left, my fathers pain broke through the morphine. Ontario, CA 91764. I'm so sorry! In what I now see as moms final gift to us, she had about an hour of lucidity two nights before she died. Sidestepping home hospice typically means paying for a pricey nursing home or passing away with the cost and potential chaos of a hospital which is precisely what hospice care was set up to avoid. Nov 4, 2022, 08:30 AM EDT The author with Dad on his 80th birthday, in the Chicago apartment where he died six years later. This was 8 years ago. Exclusive analysis of biotech, pharma, and the life sciences. The home hospice movement has been great for patients, says Vanderbilt palliative care physician Parul Goyal, and many patients are thrilled with the care they get. Hospice care: the story of a mothers passing, https://vnasocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/vnasc-logo.png, VNA Hospice & Palliative Care of Southern California, https://vnasocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/support-vnasc.jpg, Copyright All Rights Reserved | VNA Hospice & Palliative Care of Southern California 2018, Charitable Care Program Makes a Difference, Claremont Courier Talks with VNAs Dr. Dauwalder. On Day Three (Monday), Mum spent most of the day sleeping, drugged up. The solution may have to come from consumer advocacy and better regulation from Medicare itself. Granted, more than a million Medicare patients go into hospice care every year, so the complaints are in the minority. He was pretty much in a daze or sleeping the whole time he was there (not overdrugged) then had trouble breathing and developed pneumonia. The fact is; after months of him being home from the hospital (still in Hospice), I was told by the first Home Care Hospice Doctor that my dads diagnosis (Parkinson) isn't one that would be considered a hospice case. His voice is jolly and tipsy. Patients have to be in bad shape for Medicare to pay the higher inpatient rate that hospice residences charge. She came out and "I have said from the beginning that was my intention, that she would be at home through the duration, as long as I was able," John says. Prescriptions show up at the house for pain and anxiety. According to their investigations, the hospice system, which began idealistically in the 1970s, is stretched thin and falling short of its original mission. Coneigh Sea is a social worker from Murfreesboro, Tenn., who cared for her husband as he died on home hospice. " Enforcement of the provisions of the Controlled Substances Act as they pertain to the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of legally produced controlled substances. " This last 6 months big changes were happening and I began asking questions. I again started noticing weigh loss. 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. 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. I took him home around the 8th day, where he received hospice care for over 2 1/2 years before his death. Wed been on the phone quite a while when she asked if she could speak to mom. Social worker Coneigh Sea has a portrait of her husband that sits in the entryway of her home in Murfreesboro, Tenn. I was in tears. ---------- She told us we should double his dose of oxycodone, but that made no difference. I noticed changes in her. At one point she was screaming and thrashing, accusing me of trying to kill her. What I found was hundreds of stories and websites like yours that are bringing awareness to the public. The rate that hospice charges Medicare drops a bit after the patient's first two months on the benefit. I am reading all the same stories that exactly match our own. Ive never cried like that before. She ended up writing an essay about her frustrations with the way hospice care often works in the U.S. Johnston, like many family caregivers, was surprised that her mother's hospice provider left most of the physical work to her. I could never buy in. We were not told this was conditional on staffing levels. He had no terminal illness just very bad bed sores caused by the same hospital. He died of prostate cancer in their bedroom in 1993. At the kitchen table of her home outside Nashville, hospice patient Jean McCasland is refusing, on the day I visit, to eat a spoonful of peach yogurt. Jean died in October after 13 months on home hospice. It's an evil act to not care for someone who wants and needs it and still wants every ounce of life they have left. This is your turn, for what follows are some of the messages that we have received from our readership about Hospice. I thought mom should want to have more time than just a year, and it seemed like such an easy thing to get. the nurses just do diagnosis over the phone. "It's ironically called the 'comfort care kit' that you get with home hospice. Seriously, and we wonder why our water supply is full of drugs?! According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll, seven in 10 Americans say they would prefer to die at home. In mid-October she was complaining of back pain. So ask the hard questions. Some forums can only be seen by registered members. He was saying he couldn't breathe, so my mother called the hospice nurse. I couldnt imagine watching my three young kids grow, graduate, fall in love and start families of their own without my mothers help and guidance. Sepsis is potentially fatal because it can lead to tissue damage and organ failure. 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. I know it is in the law. A typical dose would be to administer morphine IM about every 3-4 hours. 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. My father died at the age of 73, he had cancer before but he did surgery to remove them and also undergone treatments. WebIn December 2010 the hospice nurses took him off of all of the pain medicine he had been on for several months and reissued him a different and stronger pain medication which sent him into a rage of hallucinations and after 3 attempts to kill himself by going through glass doors, and 4 frantic calls to Hospice, an ambulance arrived and took him 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. But he did kept falling at home which caused him to go to the ER and admitted into the hospitals. Quite often its not what you would hope or envision.. There was definitely a cult like atmosphere in the house I could not explain. 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. A Good Life And A Good Death: What Is Palliative Care? I was in SHOCK. For some who have gone through home hospice with a loved one, the difficult experience has led them to choose otherwise for themselves. I feel completely destroyed by what has happened and I am determined to bring this subject to wider attention in the UK. "The Controlled Substances Act is set forth at Title 21 of the United States Code: 21 USC, subchapter1, starting at part A, Section 801. It was so obvious by this time they were all in on it. "I think what we really need to do is be broadening the support that individuals and families can have as they're caring for individuals throughout the course of serious illness," Ornstein says. Her death wasnt unexpected, but it was rapid. 'I guess I've just accepted what's available'. I felt unable to stop this as we were all victims of a well-rehearsed and elaborate confidence trick that these hospices operate much to my eternal regret and shame. over 7 months ago, Guest I am disgusted by the way they are getting away with this medical euthanasia and murder. When my father was dying from complications of dementia and diabetes, hospice caregivers sat with him, provided pain relief, and helped him be comfortable. Reach out to a hospice, social worker, or clergy member to help you She had beaten breast cancer in 2008, but it recurred in August of last year, this time with the additional diagnosis of bone cancer. Medicare data reveals that, on average, a nurse or aide is only in the patient's home 30 minutes, or so, per day. He does not have a terminal illness but is dying slowly from the stroke he suffered 11 years ago. 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. WebHospice Killed My Father. My husband's son was killed by dehydration (he was young so he lived for NINE DAYS with no fluids), and after hospice killed him, they sent my husband a SURVEY (how did we do?). But mom wasnt up for it. Its a crushing burden, it would seem to me. So he has had to drain their retirement accounts to hire Velez, a private caregiver, out-of-pocket. Now, she wants to make sure her children don't do the same for her. Almost immediately the syringe driver was introduced, coupled with the sedatives (which they said was need as she was 'agitated'). Ways I can watch porn and mastuarbate without getting caught texted my father no reply. WebMy sister fired hospice, next day was overdosing dad with morphine, took him to the bank had him sign a POA to her. Mom wasnt doing well. And by the time such patients reach their final days, it's often too much trouble for them and the family to move. In the bones is NOT where you want that cancer to have progressed. Jonestown in slow motion is how one writer described Christian Science a reference to the apocalyptic cult where more than 900 people died in a mass Hospice and the Death Cults of Modern Medicine, Hospice Revisited: This Time With An Undercover Recording Device, 'The Cancer Report' Documentary from Health Wyze Media, Audio: Modern Euthanasia and Colloidal Silver (Episode 38), Tragic Letters From the Families of Hospice Victims, If U.S. Healthcare Had a Truly Free Market. Hospice allows a patient deemed to have fewer than six months to live to change the focus of their medical care from the goal of curing disease to a new goal of using treatments and medicines to maintain comfort and quality of life. Hospices receive a huge amount of fund raising here and are staffed on the non-medical side by volunteers. Thats what hospice workers do: help people die. I of course did not want to believe. 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. The new company was quickly on board. On the first full day in the hospice, Day One (Saturday), things seemed to be okay, but I was only able to stay for the morning as I had to go off on a 300-mile round trip, returning to the hospice the following lunchtime. How do you envision it? She doesn't regret the experience but says it is not one she wishes for her own grown children. Until last year, hey found my dad's cancer by Justice over a year ago I had help, though, from my wonderful cousins Chris, Caroline and their son Ben and my incredibly selfless and kind girlfriend Lisa. For example, one intimate task in particular changed Joy Johnston's view of what hospice really means trying to get her mom's bowels moving. morphine given too randomly in elderly patients! WebTo 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 I am happy to say we did ask for an investigation. My sweet mom passed away January 8 at the relatively young age of 74. I couldnt promise that the book hed been working on would ever be published. I was never in favor of hospice for her, I said that was "giving up". But then I think: He deserved to have both. Although CMS did not agree with a number of them, we believe they are essential for weeding out poorly performing and unscrupulous hospice providers: Patients and their family members can help guard against fraud by carefully reviewing the summary notices they receive from Medicare detailing the services for which Medicare has been billed on their behalf and report those that were not authorized or received. Editor's Note: We reported about the horrors and the cult of death worship within the organization that is known as Hospice in previous reports. My father died an hour later. that is recorded the JUDGE stated " well we all go via this " NO judge no lawyers we do NOT go via this he has NO hospice diagnosis I am an RN BSN even on hopice WE DO NOT starve and euthanized humans He is catholic THE lawyer stole his money then cremated HIM HE had NO authorigyt over MY fathet HIS guardianshp was OVER I asksed ford A MEDIAL for my dad? The second they left, the injections started again and she was out for the count. I pushed past them to get into the room, so eager was I to see how she was and to carry out my plan of giving her fluids. Hospice Is Allowing My Father-In-Law To Die With Dignity Hospice. Sue Riggle is the administrator for the McCaslands' hospice agency and says she understands how much help patients with dementia need. I was making plenty of crazy noise, but no assistance came from the medical team. Avoid at all costs. 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. Id always planned on moving into moms house when the time came. On Dec. 31, 2011, my sister and I took him to the hospital because he had an urinary tract infection. The day before he was admitted he was in the hospital and was No-one could understand what was happening, but she went into crisis, was animated and gasping for air, trying to raise her arms. How these killers sleep at night is beyond me. Congress should give CMS the authority to hold poor performing hospices accountable and take swift action when warranted.