Unfortunately it's all too common for what you describe to happen. She was surprised he hadnt been set up with a pump for a more effective painkiller. THEY WILL KILL THEM WITH MORPHINE. -Mick Rhodes My father was killed by hospice also Im afraid to tell you how and why because when I tried to stop it and then complained and told them I wanted justice, me and my younger brother were arrested.And that was two days after our Dad passed away of unnatural causes. When my father was dying from complications of dementia and diabetes, hospice caregivers sat with him, provided pain relief, and helped him be comfortable. 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. 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. They did the same, stopped feeding him, dosed him with morphine. CMS should provide more information to the public, especially Medicare beneficiaries, about hospice performance so consumers can effectively compare hospice providers. My sister begins to administer morphine. "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. Last year she was put into hospice and I still am not sure why. On Day Two (Sunday), a couple of notable things happened: the hospice seemed to be operating a 'good cop/bad cop' routine as the doctor was replaced by an absolutely lovely older lady nurse who chatted to each family member individually and in wonderfully caring terms explained that 'Mum can no longer take solids or fluids as she is very ill'. The hospice nurse showed up only afterward, to officially document the death. Also, the fact that he remains alive could simply be a "miracle?" 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. They also gave my mother peace of mind that her beloved husband was receiving kind attention in his final weeks. WebMy father was killed by hospice also Im afraid to tell you how and why because when I tried to stop it and then complained and told them I wanted justice, me and my younger Itd pretty much always been just mom and me.I couldnt imagine my life without her kindness, caring and humor. I tried to talk her out of coming over. 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. My mother needed basic care, but not hospice and especially not for a year and then some! Johnson said in an interview with our staff. But I dont find that theres a limitation for my capacity to love people. My father even drove himself and my mother from Hamden to Branford and walked into Hospice. The next day gave dad a morphine an hour until he died. 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. The day before he was admitted he was in the hospital and was Actually, in the US, MOST Americans are overmedicated. Since the mid-1990s, Medicare has allowed the hospice benefit to cover more types of diagnoses, and therefore more people. This year, February 2014, he fell again and was required to stay in the hospital. 25 minutes later, I was allowed access. Moms primary VNA nurse, Cathy Griffin, turned out to be an angel, Ms. Griffin, 60, had a lot in common with my mother. A caretaker came three mornings a week to wash him and make breakfast. If you want to get notified by every reply to your post, please register. He died of prostate cancer in their bedroom in 1993. I was making plenty of crazy noise, but no assistance came from the medical team. What I found was hundreds of stories and websites like yours that are bringing awareness to the public. It was like having an infant, but instead of running on the adrenaline from the joy of new life, the sadness of watching life slip away had the opposite effect. Her death wasnt unexpected, but it was rapid. When a doctor said my father had about six months to live, I invited a hospice representative to my parents kitchen table. "Our long-term-care system in this country is really using families unpaid family members," she says. The non-hospice caregiver remarked there was never any food for my mom to eat. To my surprise, no doctor was available, and it took the receptionist an hour to reach a nurse by phone. I am happy to say we did ask for an investigation. Ste. One more thing, maybe two! There are many things I've left out from this report, points about lack of basic care (like how the hospice staff never washed or brushed her hair, never cleaned her teeth, never changed her catheter bag, never washed her face, never allowed her ripple bed to be turned on to alleviate her bed sores etc). "We've done all we can, sorry." You dont sit there with your hands folded and pass away. I wish I found out about this earlier. It was rough to hear my mom say she was done with this life. And I think the beauty in telling a person, even if its without words, that they are enough, and they are okay as they are, that doesnt happen very often. After what seemed like years of unreliable health-both physical and mental-she seemed to get a boost from knowing death was coming. When she finally said she was tired after about an hour and slipped off to sleep, I bawled. I tried to get her to take trips with me to places she loved, but she didnt want to travel. As we watched episodes of The Great British Baking Show, Id think about all the things I couldnt promise him. They will blame the disease and not the overmedicating, starvation and dehydration protocol. Prescriptions show up at the house for pain and anxiety. 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. I noticed changes in her. And thats my job.. She was overmedicated and dehydrated to death as quickly as possible. And you know, it can be really ugly and very difficult. WebMy father spent 10 days dying. I called Edo Banach, the president of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, to get the trade groups response. They also disposed of the extra morphine IN THE TOILET which they said was Illinois state law! Sue Riggle is the administrator for the McCaslands' hospice agency and says she understands how much help patients with dementia need. I was angry, to be honest. 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. At that time, my mother said sure lets try bring them over. WebHospice is available to patients and their families 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He completely stopped speaking even though he was physically able to. I am disgusted by the way they are getting away with this medical euthanasia and murder. My grandfather had metastasized prostate cancer so he was terminal. We were crying and convinced she was about to pass away. She agreed that this constituted a crisis and should trigger the promised round-the-clock care. But Cathy was there to talk about faith with mom in the final months of her life, and I think it was really good for her. Our investigation in her case yielded results: The owner of that hospice company received a 6-1/2-year federal prison sentence for running an elaborate, $20 million hospice scheme that signed up patients who were not dying. But in practice, that in-person help is often limited to a couple of baths a week. She collapsed into a foetal position, never awoke from this, and died exactly where she was 11 hours later. 2. To this day, she refers to those hospice workers as angels. denied the funeral parlor Becker funeral parlor who also illegally cremated my mother suspicoulsy locked in her room in sunrise NO visitors allowed under the son and varnum ; cremated her NO abilyt ot view her remains NOW my fahter ND HIS priest reported how his wishes for a catholic viewong and mass priorr to cematoini ALSO I called the DOH dept of health wqhich was MY rioght thehy opened a case as " starrving my dad over dosing him and no eye glasses hearing aides such reported twice" the Lawyer wrote a letter DUE TO BRENDA calling the DEPT OF heath She upset the LEGAL counsel fo Valley hospice IN Paramus NJ the legal counsel and and the supervisor an RN joanna hanna : so NOW JOHN Sheehy my dad WILL HAVE NO VISITS as he clearly stasted " I DO NOT know why your father is dying .. dont care and also was stated to Father PAUL NO VISITS for JOHN : he needs ot die alone ; : SO HE DIEs alone NO ONE by his side with a sign over his heaD He was now unconscious due to medicatoins morphine and sedatives every 3.4 hours aide confirmed ; DO NOT FEED HIM ONLY HOSPICE MEDS SUNRISE also attaempted to haVe ME SIGN as this lawyer KNEw sign a " Euthanasia contract " IF YOU feed him or ask about his med YOU wil be asked ot leavE on JLY 9 i gaVe that to polkcie they wenet in for a safety check : THEY deny this ; well here is the contract the officer was kind that is when they started wiht laxative supposoitories all on record ' FROM jluy 5-19 that is what was DONE by a judge 3 lawyers hsi son colleen varnum adn hospice valley hospice who raged as recorded at me on phone just prior to july that july 3 and 4 and for a year MY DAD and I are chatting on phone laughing LOVE YOU BRENDA MISS YOU ; see you soon YES dad I will bring you food they were denying him food the sunrise lied and even attemtped to put him in a psych hospittal : it was so evil WE threatned to sue MY DAD was with his aides and i was outside of window he fell i heard it ; the lawyer wright robert and colleen varnum lied stated " as my dad is heard " I am ok ' and the aides pickiing him UP " they were oof site ' they wrote more lies " HE was in the hallway ( blind deaf using a walder cannot see as they refsued my pleas to JUST give me the scripto for his eye glasses nad his broken hearing aids i will pay and replace NO ) that my dad was in hallway beating up residents ; THE ENTIRE facilyt was ON LOCK DOWN NO ONE COULD LEAVE THEIR APT .. On Christmas day, after a week spent barely able to make it to the restroom, she insisted on coming over to my house to see the kids open their gifts. With the nurse gone for the day, my best friend Christine called and we started talking. I asked questions about dehydration and drug administration, but the doctors had pat responses to knock me back. 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?). I could avoid feeling and miss it. I am so very glad that I did. Even when hospice took over, he still found he needed the extra help from Karrie Velez (center). But he was from somewhat rural Virginia and believed in natural medicines. The increasing burden on loved ones especially spouses is reaching a breaking point for many people, her research shows. But it wasnt up to me. WebHospice Killed My Father. My dad still had pain at that time because of his BACK, NOT BECAUSE OF CANCER. Murder is murder by any device. Methadone withdrawl from being on Hospice care. I spent the next few minutes with my mom, holding her hand and talking to her. Perhaps my Mum would have lived a few days, a few weeks or a few months more if she had not been killed in this artificial way, who knows, but it is my belief that, whilst we should use all the means at our disposal to ease suffering, only God (or mother nature if you don't share my faith) has the right to call time on a person's life and that we are entering dangerous territory when a medical professional has the power to make and effect such decisions themselves. A father of two daughters died under hospice care because his regular lung medication was refused him against his stated wishes. Noon passed, then 1 p.m., 2 p.m. No nurse, no pump. "In front of him was his favorite drink, a dry martini," the author writes. Ways I can watch porn and mastuarbate without getting caught texted my father no reply. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, UFOs and more! After metastasizing the cancer reached her brain she was on intense chemotherapy for a year. But I wonder whether that hospital oversight might have eased my fathers pain earlier on that last day. She told us we should double his dose of oxycodone, but that made no difference. I told my friend that I wasnt sure what had just happened, but that I was going to try and talk to mom. Mom wasnt doing well. hide caption. "I told my family, if there is such a thing, I will come back and I will haunt you," she says with a laugh. His primary nurse, who doubled as case worker, was kind and empathetic. It is hard, but people are the most genuine, and all of our prejudices are just irrelevant. Im too overwhelmed and too tired just trying to keep my disabled sons alive. At 7 p.m. on the night before my fathers last day of life, his abdominal pain spiked. With the exception of a bad back, she was not suffering any other pain. She would have been dispatched even more quickly with methadone, but I would not allow them to give her that med. "For me to say that there's that guilt," she says, then adds, "but I know better. Contact our 24-hour day call center at 1-800-969-4862 and a representative will be able to assist you immediately. At the end of life, things can fall apart quickly, and neither medical specialist nor hospice worker can guarantee a Teno called the residence experience of hospice a "godsend." There was definitely a cult like atmosphere in the house I could not explain. 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"??? Press for an autopsy to determine how your father died. Moms health went from bad in November to worse by the time the holidays drew near. I am an attorney and I am not through with this company and will pursue justice and try to prevent this from happening to others. Hospice agencies primarily serve in an advisory role and from a distance, even in the final, intense days when family caregivers, or home nurses they've hired, must continually adjust morphine doses or deal with typical end-of-life symptoms, such as bleeding or breathing trouble. There was no cause for a restraining order what so ever and the bogus charge was dismissed and dropped to a disturbing the peace that we were forced into signing so that we could leave this town in fear for our own safety. In her final hours, her bed covers were removed and a cooling fan was put on her at full blast so that she became very cold. After the first 6 months of hospice she was re-enrolled for another 6 months. Unable to get any fluids into her, I quizzed the medical team hard at the hospice. Because of the huge strain I had with my siblings I came every other week while the non-hospice caregiver was there.This caregiver opened my eye's to many things and in the beginning I dismissed them. I cannot bring my my sweet mom back but I can inform people to beware before they commit to hospice. 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. I didn't know ANYTHING about hospice before. 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? This consisted mainly of nurse visits, directed by possibly the most incompetent doctor i have encountered (the so-called medical director-Justo Cisneros) who seldom saw my mother and took her off her meds. Medicare says hospice benefits can include home health aides and homemaker services. Go figure. I may have end stage COPD BUT I AM NOT CRAZY BUT THE SYSTEMS SURE ARE! We only found out about this now and are very devastated. Coneigh Sea is a social worker from Murfreesboro, Tenn., who cared for her husband as he died on home hospice. She came out and Within a day he was so doped up he could not talk to family, eat, or drink. 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. Jean died in October after 13 months on home hospice. He has told me this over and over.we never heard about hospice or knew it were humanly possible or legal until our Father a Vetran a veteran that was during the va for a medical malpractice case that went back to his tuberculosis desease he acquired in the air force. A new Hospice team came in and my dad was DEAD in a few days after the last nurse left our home. Seriously? The cancer in her brain was gone, though according to oncologist, she still had cancer in her liver? Her pain was relatively under control-morphine works-but she was getting very forgetful and was sleeping all the time. "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. They werent perfect, but Ms. Griffin and Dr. Dauwalder and the rest of the team worked tirelessly to try and soothe her suffering. When Velez is not around, John McCasland Jean's husband of nearly 50 years is the person in charge at home. "Because this is what they say they do.". My brother remarks by saying Gatorade has lots of nutrients and vitamins. WebMy father was killed in a tragic accident that occurred while I was visiting him in a nursing home. Another aunt was at the hospital with him when he said, "I guess they [doctors] think they've done all they can for me." People need to know, need to be aware and need to be warned. They made attempts to console me and made insensitive remarks one that nearly put me over the edge. Joe Shega, chief medical officer at for-profit Vitas, the largest hospice company in the U.S., insists it's the patients' wishes, not a corporate desire to make more money, that drives his firm's business model. Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine, You've been selected! Again, in shock. Coneigh Sea is a social worker from Murfreesboro, Tenn., who cared for her husband as he died on home hospice. From the beginning I had wanted to report this abuse but never did. What is astounding is it seems to be a standard protocol that they are using to kill off the old people quicker. I will forever regret being talked into putting my father there. My aunt and I and others in my family have been convinced that hospice is no place to send anyone you love. In my book this is fraud but it is very difficult to prove!!! I don't really know. They told us they were there for us, 24 hours a day. over a year ago, medic-dan109453 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. 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. PLEASE DONT TAKE YOUR FATHER OR MOTHER OR ELDER FAMILY MEMBERS TO HOSPICE. My father died at the age of 73, he had cancer before but he did surgery to remove them and also undergone treatments. I quickly restored the oxygen supply to its normal level, held her head forward and called for her to respond. Until last year, hey found my dad's cancer by Justice over a year ago I have no proof of this bit, but everything else I witnessed with my own eyes and can guarantee is the truth. They gave him more morphine and he passed away. Her company is a small for-profit business called Adoration; she says the agency can't provide more services than the Medicare benefit pays for. I was dumbfounded. The two were by Jean's side and had been there for several days straight when she died in October. 8 months ago, Guest Some are signed up for hospice without their knowledge, including some individuals who are not terminally ill. Ten years later, it paid $16.7 billion for more than 1.4 million beneficiaries. As I said, it is a masterfully delivered confidence trick which, in other circumstances, might be deserving of admiration for its detailed planning. This was 8 years ago. But it was a burden. Some forums can only be seen by registered members. For the last six months my mom only ate when the non-hospice caregiver and I were there and was not given food while my siblings were there. Finally, at 4 p.m., the nurse arrived a kind, energetic woman from Poland. Few led to any recourse. This too was rough for me to hear. I of course did not want to believe. To sign off, I confirm that at no time did we request that my Mum be taken from us via this wicked and distressing form of euthanasia. 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 In what I now see as moms final gift to us, she had about an hour of lucidity two nights before she died. As researchers in the field look to the future, they are calling for more palliative care, not less even as they also advocate for more support of the spouses, family members and friends who are tasked with caring for the patient. 0n the way back to her house that day I told her how glad I was to see her so happy. She was then confined to a nursing home bed. Hospice stays connected to the family. We uncovered multiple abuses in our investigations: Hospice recruiters inappropriately promised Medicare beneficiaries free housecleaning and other services that are not provided through hospice without telling them they would be signed up for the hospice benefit. Thats because after hearing for years about the unnecessary medicalization of most hospital deaths, I had called an in-home hospice agency to usher him off this mortal coil, as my literary father still liked to say at 83. We were arrested in our front yard for a false charge that was latter dropped because I threatened to sue hospice. How often you administer it and the dosage vary depending upon the means of administration. Worse still, I saw that her oxygen, on which she relied, had been turned off at the dial on the wall.