By Nathan Barton
The Casper Star Tribune reports that the Cheyenne Regional hospital has lost its Medicare and Medicaid certification from the FedGov (and the Wyoming Department of Health) because the hospital – in very simple terms – has been found guilty of abusing an adult, but blind, elderly human (they won’t even identify what sex this person is) by discharging the person (who wanted to be discharged) and going beyond what should be the natural role of a hospital and arranging for the person to be accepted by a shelter, after the family refused to help.
It is a topic that Mama Liberty knows a lot more about than I do. She comments: “Talk about a no win situation for the hospital. They likely had zero option not to admit the person to start with. [Cops brought the person to the hospital.] Since there was no family willing to accept responsibility, and the patient was not really competent to care for him/herself, evidently… I’d like to know what the hospital was supposed to do about it. [Debby speculates that the person might have dementia or some similar, basically untreatable condition.] The hospital is ALWAYS under pressure from Medicare to discharge people as soon as possible (and often when they should not be)… always that pressure both coming and going… I expect there was NO viable option at all for the hospital. Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t… whatever you do. What the heck were they supposed to do with this person, especially since it doesn’t sound as if the patient was cooperative? I’ve done discharge planning, and it is a nasty, thankless job because you can’t seem to please anyone much of the time. The terror of having “Medicare” inspectors involved [the Wyoming state employees are nothing more than shills for the FedGov, as is the case in every state] – no matter how hard you work – is the killer. I am sure that the nurse or social worker who did this discharge planning is now looking for another job. Possibly at Burger King… “ Continue reading
Should we be surprised?
By Nathan Barton
Society? What is that? A suicide pact?
In a nation with events like this, it is clear that we are in no way a “civilized” society – except in the minds of the political leaders and other elite who like it this way.
Consider Minneapolis, where a 40-year-old Australian woman was killed by a police officer who “was startled” and shot out the window of his patrol car at the very woman who had called 9-1-1 to report a disturbance and suspected rape, as reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. And on Friday, the Minneapolis police chief was fired by the city’s mayor, apparently for the chief’s statement that the woman didn’t have to die. Of course, the police officer (not yet charged, of course, in the suspected murder) is the first Somali (Muslim) police officer in the city. And was upheld (despite several other charges against him on various non-fatal incidents) as an example of how progressive Minneapolis is. To show how progressive the city is, she was the first female, openly-lesbian, divorced from her lesbian “wife,” police chief in the nation – and now she has another “first” in being fired. And no doubt (assuming he actually goes to trial), this cop will use his early years in the bloody battlefields of Somalia to explain why he offed this unarmed woman in her pajamas.
Mama’s Note: I have to say that this incident was more shocking to me than a great many others that have happened in the last year or so. Not only the completely unjustified killing, but the official response in the current climate of backlash against such police misconduct. The fact that the “cop” is a Muslim is certainly not unrelated, but of course the “news” does not help us understand that any more than anything else. WAS he reacting to her being there in her pajamas? How could we possibly know? Continue reading →