A Chicago Tribune investigation has unearthed thousands of cases across Illinois of nursing home patients being bombarded with psychotropic drugs for no medically defensible reason. Many of these forced druggings have resulted in death.
A 74-year-old man suffered a fatal head injury when he fell after staffers held him down and shot him up with antipsychotics. An 87-year-old man was drugged without his consent because he was "easily annoyed." A woman with Alzheimer's disease and a urinary tract infection was drugged because she complained about not being allowed to use the bathroom.
Unwarranted diagnoses of mental illnesses were added to patients' records to provide an excuse to drug them. In other words, staffers lied about the patients having mental illnesses - just so they could give them psychiatric drugs.
If you have loved ones in a nursing home anywhere in America or elsewhere, keep a sharp eye on them. Make sure you can visit them periodically, and keep an eye out for anything strange.
Don't let Grandma become a statistic.
(Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-nursing-home1-psychotropics-oct27,0,4539632.story)
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Nursing homes caught poisoning patients
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Specifically watch out for Sun Healthcare Group Inc nursing homes -they killed five patients in a Newport Beach California facility they owned: Sunbridge Newport. Their Medical Director, Dr L Scott Stoney testified in 2008 SUN caused my mother, Evelyn Calvert's death in 2004.
ReplyDeleteRead his partial testimony at www.sunhealthcaregroupinc.blogspot.com
Deborah Calvert
Newport Beach, California