Here's another example of the Nanny State violating the civil and property rights of private enterprise.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Inspectors showed up at a hospice agency here in March 2012, and then issued what amounted to a 161-page catalogue of end-of-life neglect.
A woman dying of liver cancer, battling nausea and breathing difficulties, waited weeks for someone to drain fluid from her swelling abdomen and died still waiting, according to records. Another cancer patient had a feeding tube that oozed pus where it pierced his skin and did not actually reach his stomach. He had received no fluids from it for five days, emergency room doctors said. At the same time, a patient complaining about chest pain waited two days for a recorded visit and eventually was taken to a emergency room and diagnosed with pleurisy.
In all, the state health inspectors found treatment problems in the records for nine of 14 patients from early 2012.
Is that hospice safe? Infrequent inspections mean it may be impossible to know. - The Washington Post
The warrantless invasion and search of these fine facilities violates the Bill of Rights! Corporations are people too!
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Inspectors showed up at a hospice agency here in March 2012, and then issued what amounted to a 161-page catalogue of end-of-life neglect.
A woman dying of liver cancer, battling nausea and breathing difficulties, waited weeks for someone to drain fluid from her swelling abdomen and died still waiting, according to records. Another cancer patient had a feeding tube that oozed pus where it pierced his skin and did not actually reach his stomach. He had received no fluids from it for five days, emergency room doctors said. At the same time, a patient complaining about chest pain waited two days for a recorded visit and eventually was taken to a emergency room and diagnosed with pleurisy.
In all, the state health inspectors found treatment problems in the records for nine of 14 patients from early 2012.
Is that hospice safe? Infrequent inspections mean it may be impossible to know. - The Washington Post
The warrantless invasion and search of these fine facilities violates the Bill of Rights! Corporations are people too!
