Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation, Flat Rock NC. SanStone Health and Rehabilitation, Dr. Larry Joe Russell, Dr. Harold Picus, Susan Habel RN., Lara Mooney LPN, Maud " Cookie" Romeo, Christopher Sprenger, Mike Deloach, Paul Shogren.
I have spent the last few days writing about what has taken place over the last two years. Mom died November 3' 2011, following a craniotomy that was done by Dr. Harold Picus, on September 7,2011 at Mission Hospital in Asheville NC. Dr. Harold Picus , left North Carolina and is now practicing in the Miami area.
Mom was sent to Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation on October 20, 2011, for physical and occupational therapy. Her doctor at Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation was a Dr. Larry Joe Russell. Dr. Russell is the medical director at the Laurels in Hendersonville NC. He is also the doctor at all the nursing homes in Hendersonville NC. He also has an ownership interest in Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation. If you find yourself at one of these nursing homes, and your doctor sent you there for rehab, you end up with Dr. Russell. Dr. Russell also owns Family Medical Center at 510 Balsam Rd. in Hendersonville NC. He has a staff of physicians and nurse practitioners, that actually see his patients. He has very little if any professional ethics, and is motivated strictly by money. If he is your doctor, double check your bills, and your medications.
The ownership at Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation, also includes the owners of Blue Ridge Pharmacy. Blue Ridge Pharmacy provides the pharmacy consultant for Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation. Blue Ridge Pharmacy also supplies all the pharmaceutical drugs at Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation. Hardly seems legal to me, but I've yet to find any law enforcement agency or regulatory agency that has a problem with it .I even went so far as to call the NC Attorney General's office, (Roy Cooper). They didn't have any problem with it, and come election time, I said I wouldn't vote for Mr. Cooper. Turns out there was no one running against him.
All of this may not seem important to the average person, and two years ago would not have mattered to me. When you loose someone you love for the sake of the almighty dollar, life changes.
This is very important, especially if you are dealing with Dr. Russell or SanStone. However, with the research my brother and I have done, it is standard procedure pretty much everywhere with the exception of California. On the West Coast , the people who are supposed to be protecting the public from these kind of abuse are actually doing their jobs.
The NCDHHS is the governing authority here and they are a joke. There is plenty of evidence that there standard operating procedure, is to turn their heads. They never seem to find any substantiated complaints, and the standard response to their yearly inspections is " deficiencies corrected ". One home in Swannanoa NC had 101 pages of deficiencies found at their last inspection. According to the NCDHHS, all of those deficiencies were corrected. My brother and I visited a friends father at that facility, and saw some of the same things happening, that had supposedly been corrected.
I have begun every post with a list of names, I will list below who is who and what is there role in this story.
Dr. Harold Picus - Mom's surgeon, preformed craniotomy on Sept 7, 2011. Now practicing in Miami Fl.
Dr. Larry Joe Russell - Supposed to have been Mom's doctor at Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation. Never seen in her room, signed the death certificate, part owner of HHR. Signs a lot of death certificates.
Susan Habel RN - Director of nursing at Hendersonville Health and rehabilitation during Mom's stay . Left HHR after we started asking questions.
Lara Mooney LPN - Nurse on duty when Mom fell. Disciplined a few years ago by NC Board of Nursing, for practicing without a valid license. Lied on nursing note about the fall. Note entered into records one month after Moms death .
Mike Deloach - Part owner, and employee of all SanStone properties.
Christopher Sprenger - Part owner, and employee of all of SanStone properties. Member of the Sprenger family of Lorraine Ohio, owners of nursing homes all over.
Paul Shogren - Current administrator at HHR, also found to have ownership interest in other homes. Past administrator of The Laurels in Hendersonville.
Maude "Cookie" Romeo - Administrator at HHR during Mom's stay. Not a very nice person, promoted to corporate position at SanStone. No longer at HHR.
There are more key players yet to be mentioned. More to come.
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