Saturday, June 30, 2018

Don't Mistake 'Palliative Care' for 'Abandonment of Care' Crock of shit at St. Josephs Hospital

Don't Mistake 'Palliative Care' for 'Abandonment of Care'

This Commentary is the complete opposite of how NON-consensual Palliative Care at St. Josephs Hospital in Nashua, NH is practice. Patients get NO treatment for anything. Morphine overdose is all they get!

Deaths in Acute Care Hospitals Drop for Medicare Patients

Deaths in Acute Care Hospitals Drop for Medicare Patients

Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who died were less likely to die in acute care hospitals, a large retrospective study published online June 25 in JAMAreports.

Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who died were less likely to die in acute care hospitals, because these patients were sent home or to Hospice, where Hospice Nurses overmedicated them to make sure they died quicker and also taunted them with their death rants to the point of no return.

The same period saw an increase in, and then a stabilization of, high-cost, high-stress intensive care unit (ICU) use in the last month of life for Medicare fee-for-service decedents. Patients are being moved out of ICU and treatment stopped against the wishes of the patient and family, only being offered a Morphine drip to hasten death.
"Health care transitions during the last 3 days of life, even when patients are to receive hospice services are associated with lower ratings of the quality of care among persons with advanced cancer," Even when cancer isn't proven and the patient is unknowingly, non-consensually put on Hospice care, the patient receives NO services. Every request made by family is denied, including transfer to a REAL Cancer Hospital. These people are being tortured. Starved and denied hydration and oxygen. The only services Hospices provide these day's is an early death, whether the patient wants to live or die. He/she has no choice.
Other burdensome patterns of care also declined, such as more than three hospitalizations for infections or dehydration in the last 90 days of life, which declined from 11.5% (95% CI, 11.4% - 11.6%) in 2009 to 7.1% (95% CI, 7.0% - 7.2%) in 2015. In addition, 4 or more days of mechanical ventilation during terminal hospitalization also dropped slightly, going from 3.1% in 2000 to 2.5% in 2015. If the patient were being treated from day one for the infections they suffer from, they wouldn't have to be rehospitalized. The mechanical ventilation dropped BECAUSE NON-consensual, ILLEGAL Hospice/Palliative Care is pulling the plug, torturing these people to death, denying them the oxygen they need  AND letting them die from UNTREATED SEPSIS!

Teno pointed to a persistent concern that 42.9% of persons with a short hospice stay had received care in an ICU before moving to hospice. The reason for the short Hospice stay is because Hospice is pushing these people to early death. 
You call these IMPROVEMENTS? These are NOT Improvements. This is what todays Healthcare has become. No wonder so many are steering clear of Hospitals and Doctors these days.

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Today is the 14 Month Anniversary of the Medical Murder of My Husband, Bill Knightly by Non-consensual Circle of Life Palliative Medicine



Today makes 14 months my husband is gone from this earth thanks to his Medical Murder by NON-consensual Hospice/ Palliative Care at St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua, NH. Overdosed with Morphine and never treated for an infection he had when he was admitted into the Hospital we once trusted. The Hospital where he contracted SEPSIS and left to die without treatment by the death monger Hospice/Palliative care APRN. A woman whose services we never consented to nor were told she was taking over his case. A woman who tried denying my husband hydration and oxygen, offering him a Morphine drip to hasten his death and giving him only two hours to live. We refused and he lived another week.The only thing we were told is that he had lung cancer. Reports show he did NOT have lung cancer. He died from an infection they didn't tell us he had nor bothered to treat.
The Healthcare in this Country really sucks, especially for people 65 and over. They just write us off as expendable. My husband was NOT expendable. He was my LIFE. A life I no longer have. He was a good man. He got along with everyone. His family was his life, as he was ours. I'm still fighting for Justice and don't understand why the Federal Government is paying Hospitals and Nursing Homes for their ILLEGAL practices. When will they ever put an end to this shit and stop wasting money? When will they stop letting these Hellholes MURDER our Loved ones? I've sent in tons of proof of wrongdoing, but no-one cares. This is how bad the standard of care is for patients these days. I guess there are no longer ANY standards. They just do whatever they please without any repercussions!
14 Months and life isn't any easier. It's harder. It sucks! We were together almost 43 years. We were soulmates and did everything together. Now its me trying to do it all. Some days I don't feel like doing anything. Not the same me for sure. That me is gone and will never be back. I just feel like a shell. No happiness left in me.
All I care about is getting my husband justice. Those scumbags need to be prosecuted and I won't stop until they are. I am fighting for ALL of our loved ones, murdered by ILLEGAL Euthanasia. Hospice/Palliative care MUST be abolished.

Extremely Pissed off Wife of Bill Knightly, Murdered by ILLEGAL, Non-consensual Hospice/Palliative care at St. Josephs Hospital in Nashua, NH

Sepsis Alliance Launches It's About TIME, a National Initiative to Encourage Early Lifesaving Detection of Sepsis, a Medical Emergency that Takes a Life Every 2 Minutes

Sepsis Alliance Launches It's About TIME, a National Initiative to Encourage Early Lifesaving Detection of Sepsis, a Medical Emergency that Takes a Life Every 2 Minutes

SAN DIEGOJune 26, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sepsis Alliance, the nation's leading sepsis patient advocacy non-profit organization, today announced the launch of It's About TIMEa national initiative to create broader awareness of sepsis and the need for urgency in seeking treatment when there are signs and symptoms. For every hour sepsis treatment is delayed, the risk of death increases as much as eight percent.

Troubling New Report on Hospital Infections Comes While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Considers Discontinuing Publicly Reporting Rates

Troubling New Report on Hospital Infections Comes While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Considers Discontinuing Publicly Reporting Rates

Each day, one out of 25 hospital patients in the U.S. contracts a healthcare-associated infection (HAI), resulting in billions of wasted dollars and an alarming 90,000 deaths annually. Unfortunately, a new report published by The Leapfrog Groupand analyzed by Castlight Healthshows that the percent of hospitals achieving zero infections has declined dramatically since 2015, indicating many patients are still at risk.

Squamous cell Carcinoma

Squamous cell Carcinoma

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), the second most common form of skin cancer, is an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells arising from the squamous cells in the epidermis, the skin’s outermost layer. It is sometimes called cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) to differentiate it from very different kinds of SCCs elsewhere in the body. Cutaneous is the scientific word for “related to or affecting the skin.”

A new approach can take patient safety to the next level

A new approach can take patient safety to the next level

For many hospitals and health care systems, improving safety means being alert to things that go wrong, finding out why they happened, and fixing them. While this is a helpful approach, adding a new one aimed at anticipating errors can take patient safety to an entirely new level.

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Vascular Mortality Declining in Adults With Diabetes in the United States

Vascular Mortality Declining in Adults With Diabetes in the United States

Vascular disease mortality rates are declining in the United States, which is leading to a diversification of types of diabetes-related mortality, according to results published in theLancet.
Several nonvascular, noncancer causes of death, including renal disease, influenza, pneumonia, sepsis, and chronic liver disease, were significantly higher among adults with diabetes compared with adults without diabetes.

Sunday, June 17, 2018

UPMC physician: Providers need a 'bolder' approach to win the battle against Sepsis

UPMC physician: Providers need a 'bolder' approach to win the battle against sepsis

Despite the high number of sepsis deaths in hospitals each year, current approaches to battling it aren't working — and providers need to develop more innovative ways to tackle the deadly infection, Derek Angus, MD, professor and chair of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, writes in a STAT op-ed.

"If we can strive to fight a new scourge like opioids, we should be able to do the same for a much older killer," Dr. Angus argues.

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Medicare Takes Aim At Boomerang Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Patients

Medicare Takes Aim At Boomerang Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Patients
In recent years, the government has begun to tackle the problem. In 2013, Medicare began fining hospitals for high readmission rates in an attempt to curtail premature discharges and to encourage hospitals to refer patients to nursing homes with good track records.

Today’s ‘palliative care’ disrespects the natural law

Today’s ‘palliative care’ disrespects the natural law

The natural law tells us that, in the context of health care, 1) food and water are basic treatment and care, and should not be withdrawn lightly; 2) morphine must not be used aggressively to hasten death when a patient is not near the time of death; and 3) pain management must be properly titrated to avoid overdose.

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Halifax Health integrates EHR, cloud decision support to combat sepsis

Halifax Health integrates EHR, cloud decision support to combat sepsis | Healthcare IT News:

Sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals: 62 percent of people hospitalized with sepsis are re-hospitalized within 30 days, and as many as 80 percent of sepsis deaths could be prevented with rapid diagnosis and treatment, according to the Sepsis Alliance.

Friday, June 8, 2018

An HHS Official’s 'Real-World Evidence': Infection Detection, Sepsis Measures Needed | Bloomberg Law

An HHS Official’s 'Real-World Evidence': Infection Detection, Sepsis Measures Needed | Bloomberg Law:

An HHS official says his seemingly minor gardening mishap shows why the government should learn who out there has technology to identify infections early and fight off sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to infection.

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

UMass Lowell center to join fight against U.S. health challenges - Lowell Sun Online

UMass Lowell center to join fight against U.S. health challenges - Lowell Sun Online:

LOWELL -- A Lowell-based business incubator for medical device startups joined a network of national institutions enlisted to combat health security threats and to solve problems facing daily medical care.


According to Tuesday's release, one healthcare problem to be addressed is the need for earlier detection of infection, and creating technology that can alert people when they have been infected with a bacteria or virus even before they begin to feel sick.
Another need is solving sepsis, the body's life-threatening response to infection or traumatic injury.
Sepsis leads to 250,000 deaths in the U.S. annually and costs approximately $24 billion annually to treat, according to Tuesday's release.


Sunday, June 3, 2018

Sepsis- the signs and symptoms you need to know

Sepsis- the signs and symptoms you need to know - Cambridge News:

According to the Wold Health Organisation, sepsis is the deadliest condition in the world.The condition can kill perfectly healthy people in hours, with Alfie Coxon's case serving as a stark reminder of how serious the condition can be. Doctors across the globe are urged to take preventative measure and treat suspected cases of sepsis within an hour to prevent unnecessary deaths, reports The Liverpool Echo. Sepsis - a life-threatening complication of other infections - should be dealt with as an emergency just like a heart attack, according to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines.