I hope that what I am writing is helping someone somewhere. I know that elderly folks die, that is a fact. I also know that death certificates state a cause of death, sometimes this would be obvious to anyone. Even Larry Joe gets it right some of the time. However a lot of the time they are wrong.
Just say that if you owned a facility, and something happened that could have caused the death of one of your residents. Wouldn't it be convenient to be a major contributor to the hospital where the body was sent. Nobody would question the cause of death, and would certainly not do or say anything that would keep you from sending in that check.
I asked Larry Joe to order an autopsy, he told me he would look into it. I never heard back from him. At the time I didn't know how cozy he was with Pardee Hospital, nor did I know that he was one of the owners of Hendersonville Health and Rehab. There are a lot of things that I know now that would have caused me to get my Mother out of there.
 Lots of strange things happen there at night, and they mysteriously don't end up in the nurses notes. Sometimes they appear in the files up to a month after the resident dies. Gail Maloney the Western Regional Director of NCDHHS ( the people who oversee these facilities) didn't see a problem with that. Even her boss Beverly Speirhoff thought this was ok. Maybe they were invited to the golf tournament at Kenmure?
When we met with Ms Maloney, we went over lots of things that anyone could see were "red flags" but she really didn't seem to find them out of the ordinary. That scares me, and causes concern for the residents still in that facility. I gave her a list of questions that I needed answers for in able to put this to rest. Neither Gail Maloney nor Hendersonville Health and Rehab have answered any of these questions. I asked Gail Maloney, what they did with the ativan that was supposedly prescribed to Mom, her reply was "they probably just put them back" There was no record that she was ever given any, and according to their own regulations ( which Ms. Maloney does not seem to familiar with) these types of medication must be destroyed with witnesses. Kind of makes you wonder who's watching out for our seniors.

My Mother died on the day she was supposed to come home.