My friend Alexa Blye is a whistleblower. About skilled nursing facilities in California. But what she describes may be true of other such facilities countrywide. She was recently on our podcast. Her whistleblowing began with her friend Helen.
After billions of federal Medicare dollars paid to Los Angeles Department of Public Health by the California Department of Public Health, for over 12 years of egregiously misleading, subpar and falsified investigation results, Los Angeles County Public Health Department’s contract is up for renewal next year. Enough is Enough! Do NOT Renew It! PROTECT OUR ELDERS FROM ABUSE AND NEGLECT – and falsified report findings that cover it up. Helen’s wish was that no one else would go through what she went through.
My dear friend Helen, at 100.5 years old, was transferred from her home in independent living, where she had resided for 22 years – the last 10 years as a widow, to the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) in her Life Plan [aka Continuing Care Retirement (CCRC)] Community.
So many things went wrong for Helen that almost overnight, she went from being vibrant, poised, confident, and self-controlled to terror-stricken, anxious, and distraught. She was treated terribly by the staff, as if she was nothing more than an annoying object. She felt humiliated.
She made me promise to take notes and write about her treatment so that no one else would go through the horror that she was experiencing. This blog-story includes the fulfillment of that promise.
Read the rest of Helen’s story here.
And here’s the link for the rest of Alexa’s powerful blog:
