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Biden Obama etc creating race wars in US!

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Hate crime.

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This is not a matter of racism. It is a matter of people who are not fit mentally to perform the difficult tasks required by carers in nursing homes. It is the reality of the poor and abusive care in many care homes. It is a difficult job, poorly paid and requires patience and kindness. From my experience over seven years of visiting my parent in a Catholic nursing home, I witnessed the good, the bad and the ugly. I always brought the bad ones to the attention of the director of nursing and demanded the bad ones never be allowed to look after my mother. Some were let go based on my complaints…bruising on my mothers arm, telling my mother she stinks. I would love to tell you the name of the nursing home, but that will remain

Private.

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This person is clearly mental and has no business out on streets. He belongs in jail!

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Thans Paul. Have posted on fb! Death with dignity on my terms only! Never surrender your power.

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He needs a trip to the ole woodshed!

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Does it have anything to do with race? Nursing homes regularly have stuff like this. Places with vulnerable people attract psychopaths. They'll beat them, steal from them, treat them like trash, etc. Not saying every nursing home is like this... But if anyone is surprised by this wait till I tell you about the former governor of New York

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The video recording of this crime is from two years ago, but the pattern is everywhere and ongoing. As Detroit, so goes Buffalo. The headline of the WSJ two days ago: ""Suspect in Buffalo Hate Killings Was Evaluated in '21 for Threat." There were already multiple bench warrants out for Jaden Hayden's arrest for reported assaults at the time he created this video, and Trump tweeted some of the same questions you ask on the evening the video appeared on Twitter. Law enforcement in the U.S. of A. is MIA ...

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Another clear example of a white supremacy hate crime. Someone wake up Brandon so he can go give a speech about it.

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He has been moved to a mental institution and will not be charged. His father says he's schizophrenic and should never have been placed in that nursing home. What a colossal failure all the way around. The poor victim died about two months later. Another Covid death, along with all the suicides, drug overdoses and vaccine adverse effects. It is all criminal.

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May 18, 2022·edited May 18, 2022

Dr Alexander,

Those of us who have worked in health care facilities or agencies for decades know exactly why this type of thing is happening and it's no secret. It's not just blacks on whites or whites on blacks, but pervasive neglect, abuse, and sometimes intentional medical killing or just plain killing through beating, suffocating, or dropping them and causing injuries that are lethal to the frail.

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First of all, the owners of these nursing homes are large corporations in most cases (chains of nursing homes) or even small family owned nursing homes or doctor owned). In more than 90% of the nursing homes (Skilled Nursing Facilities/SNFs), the owners are G R E E D Y! (excuse the capital letters but can't use italics here to emphasize "greedy!"

The disgust those of us feel for those owners is intense, because their greed causes short-staffing that goes on for years and decades and allows the owners to drive the Mercedes/BMW/Porsch and other top of the line cars, live in mansions, and get paid millions of dollars each year while the Nursing Assistants, LPNs, RNs slave away working throughout the shift and being treated very poorly, to say the least.

I've worked in those facilities as have so many around the world. If we really care about the patients, we don't get to take bathroom breaks because of short-staffing. If the greedy owners would put even just one more person on each unit/wing of the facilities, the hell they create for residents and staff would not exist.

But because of short-staffing, the LPNs and RNs go from passing medications to all the patients, to doing the tube feedings, to doing wound treatments and other special interventions (cathing, etc), and then by the time they're done with that, they have to start all over or they'll be late in passing the physician-ordered meds/treatments/feedings/ etc and get written up and reprimanded or fired for not being on time and thereby violating the physician orders!

The aides who provide the direct patient care have several patients to care for and that includes toileting the patients (for those who can stand; getting them to a commode or toilet and watching to make sure they're safe) or changing adult incontinent pads (adult "diapers" but in healthcare staff are not allowed to call them that), and many patients may be incontinent and need changing due to urination and/or defecation several times a shift.

Aides (with nurses helping at times) have to get patients showered who can be wheel-chaired down to the showers or bathed with a bed bath, dressed, teeth brushed, fed, and there is hardly the time to do everything they need to do. The same type of thing occurs in hospitals where staff are under-staffed and the administrators get paid millions. Greed.

All of this leads to the second cause of what you are witnessing:

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A callous attitude on the part of those who work in these facilities, who've tried to do the right thing and find they can't succeed, because the system is set up for profit of the owners, and not the benefit of the patient. Those who care truly get burnt out and leave over time or just do their best but that's not good enough for what the patients really need because of under-staffing.

With those who become callous, a pervasive atmosphere of un-caring arises. Sometimes in hospitals you see the nurses sitting at their nursing desk while the alarms on the IV pump machines are going off, and in either hospital or SNFs, the patient call bells are not answered in a timely manner because the staff no longer care as they once did. They are destroyed by a system that sets them up for failure, after being trained for an ideal environment where they can provide the best care that most people want and need.

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The violent acts you are referring to. This comes back to number one: greed in a large part.

When the people who are caring get burnt out from the stress, the not being able to do what they know is needed, they leave. Then, there's a nursing shortage of LPNs, RNs, and aides. So, what do the facility administrators do?

They hire whoever they can and look the other way if the new employees are quite questionable. they just want warm bodies. This is the direction ALL health care has gone in the past three decades. Ask any nurse and you'll hear about it.

Sometimes these new employees are caring, but many times it's just a job. Going into health care because it's just a job is a recipe for disaster and the neglect, abuse, and direct intentional harm you write about. Those who are working for the sake of a job and not because they are called to serve with great love, are the horrors in health care.

The facilities have State mandated minimum staffing standards which the facilities violate all the time, but do manage to meet when the scheduled (and prior notified) "surprise" facility visits from the State inspectors comes.

The owners and administrators care more for how the facility looks on paper in trying to comply with State standards, than the reality of providing care that meets the standards in terms of what a patient experiences.

The nursing home owners donate heavily to the State legislators, Governors and any others in power. The States do NOT enforce the regulations that exist. The States do NOT shut down facilities that routinely employ criminals like the case you write about. The States go after one or two facilities each year or so in order to give the appearance they are enforcing the standards of care! They do not! The State inspection systems are a fraud. They protect the owners and facilities and do not protect the patients.

Those of us who have provided comprehensive evidence of severe violations by agencies/facilities to the State facility licensing agencies know that the States often do NOT respond to actual, accurate evidence of crimes such as you write about, in most cases. Only when they are cornered with video evidence or other evidence that is publicized and they have o other choice will they act. Otherwise, they cover up the violations and ignore the complaints from families and staff.

This is easily verified by those who have taken the time to actual look up the complaints sent into the States about any SNF or hospital, etc and see that year after year, the same types of complaints are sent in and the States do not stop the violations.

You see, the State will "cite" a deficiency (violation of a standard) and then the facility puts in a boiler plate "Plan of Correction" and promises to "be good" like children do, but never actually do. The State inspectors often do not follow up on these Plans of Correction, or if they do, it's a sham with the State looking at medical charts of patients that are pre-selected by SNF, hospice, hospital, or other, management. The process is a fraud.

Any State inspector who does the real job and cites the facilities for all the violations of the standards that really exist, is fired by the State! The inspectors are a joke. I (and any honest health care worker) could find dozens of violations at the facilities that the State inspectors find nothing or just one or two.

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The facilities are either private-paid or insurance paid (private or government Medicaid/MediCal) and these reimbursements are limited. Facility owners/administrators will provide care for those who are paying well, but provide less care for those whose reimbursements have decreased. When patients are there for more than a couple of years, three or so in many cases, hospice is often called in even if the patient is not terminal.

In hospice that is life-affirming, for actually terminal patients, supportive relief from suffering is provided. In hospice that is tainted, secular bioethics and utilitarian views direct decision-making and medications that are needed are withheld, medications that are not needed are given in order to manipulate the patient's health toward decline and death, often through sedatives and opioids and anti-psychotics that are all unneeded (and these medications if needed can be helpful, but when not needed; they cause decline and death).

The hospice industry has been tainted and perverted from its original life-affirming mission (which I wrote about in 2011: Stealth Euthanasia: Health Care Tyranny in America and which is online for anyone to read or download at:

https://halovoice.org/wp-content/uploads/stealth-euthanasia-1-by-Ron-Panzer.pdf

So, there are several reasons why criminal activity exists in SNFs (or elsewhere) but perhaps the main cause is the abandonment of the life-affirming worldview that promoted reverence for life and God in the hearts and minds of those who serve in health care agencies and facilities.

Without this respect for life, without a "Do No Harm" attitude, neglect, abuse, and direct intentional harm to residents/patients is not only predictable but habitual!

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So where was your moral concern Mr Alexander on all the recent black on white murders ???

You hypocrites are all alike !

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May 19, 2022·edited May 19, 2022

I’m must be a bad person but I want to beat that man to a pulp. Unbelievable to hurt a senior citizen. This is not about race this man is Pure evil! This needs to be shared

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This attack was not perpetrated by a Care Aid Dr. Alexander. I think you already know.

This was a mentally ill man who'd tested positive for Covid. It's what "health authorities" did with Covid positive people during the height of pandemic: admitted them to long term care nursing facilities. (To infect the very elderly, at risk residents?)

Jayden Hayden, age 20 at the time, was this elderly victim's ROOMMATE. (Who, I'm presuming, did not "test positive" for Covid?)

He filmed this, and other assaults he perpetrated on very elderly victims who could not speak or fight back, and posted them to FB.

Unimaginable.

He was deemed fit to stand trial, however the case was dropped.

"Mentally unfit."

The gentleman he attacked is deceased now so... Yeah.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8569907/Nursing-home-patient-75-dies-two-months-brutally-beaten-20-year-old-roommate.html

And yes, mentally unfit to stand trial or not: a sick hate crime.

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How deranged. He doesn’t even seem angry while he’s punching him, it’s so matter of fact. Scary.

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My question is..... who was filming this and why didn't they stop it !!!

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