This is what Mom's head looked like seven weeks prior to her fall at Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation. Not only is there staples on the outside, but the skull itself is stitched inside. It takes up to one year for the skull to heal.
If I were a nurse or doctor, I would examine a patient with this type of wound if she fell, no matter what the circumstance. In the NCDHSR investigation notes, Todd Davis states that the nurse on duty( Lara Mooney ) an LPN, evaluated Mom after the fall, and decided she needed no further care. According to Mr. Davis, Dr Russell agreed with Lara Mooney LPN, and felt that in his "professional" opinion the nurse was correct in her decision.
Then on the next page, Mr Davis states that Dr. Larry Joe Russell saw her after the fall as he would any patient if he was on the property. I'm not sure what actually happened after the fall. I am sure that Dr. Larry J. Russell did not see her after the fall.
Did Mr. Davis forget that he wrote the first statement ? Did Dr. Russell forget which patient he was talking about , and answer two different times? Do that many patients at Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation fall on any given day that neither Dr. Russell or Todd davis could get the facts straight? Did Todd Davis actually approach Dr. Larry J. Russell two different times concerning the fall and get two different answers. The whole thing doesn't make sense.
This is just one of the discrepencies in the NCDHSR investigation. I have contacted Mr. Davis, now the Western regional director of the NCDHSR to get his story, and was denied. I then contacted Beverley Speroff, the NCDHSR section chief, and again was denied. The next step was Dr. Aldona Wos, the Secretary of The NCDHHS in Raleigh and was also denied.
If there is a flaw in the investigation process, shouldn't they want to know. How many other investigations are flawed as a result of Mr. Davis' incompetence? Are there people dying in nursing homes and the NCDHSR covering for the influential home owners?
As I have said in the past, I believe that the documents in my possession are extremely incriminating to the NCDHSR and therefore the NCDHHS. I have evidence that the nurses "late entry" by Lara Mooney, concerning the fall Mom sustained was created to prevent the NC State Medical Examiner from ordering an autopsy. The "late entry" was dated the day after the State Medical Examiners office was supposed to request Mom's records from Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation. They were faxed from Hendersonville Health an Rehabilitation to someone on the next day and the day after that I was notified by the Medical examiner that they were not going to order an autopsy. The "late entry" states that Lara Mooney LPN witnessed Mom sliding out of bed, and that she specifically did not hit her head. The roommate's statement is that she woke up to Mom lying in the floor face down calling for help. She also states that she pulled the call light and no one came, then she had to call out to two CNA's passing the room to get help.
If the NC State Medical Examiner had received the roommate's statement they would have had a reason to order an autopsy. Was Lara Mooney's statement created to prevent an autopsy that could have proved the cause of Mom's death? All I know is that it sure looks that way to me, and the documents support that theory. Why would the roommate fabricate a story in such detail?
Why would the NCDHSR be so opposed to looking at what I have found in their own documents. Is it because they are used to covering up for the mistakes made by the nursing homes. Is it because they are in the pockets of the wealthy nursing home owners and shareholders who also happen to be politicians in many cases. Could that explain the reason not one official I have spoken with is willing to even consider the evidence I have collected? Believe me I have spoken to anyone who would give me the courtesy of listening, and some that had to be coerced.
Who do you go to when you know something is wrong? The agency that has kept me from getting anywhere is the NCDHHS. If they would review their own findings and admit they made a few mistakes it would open many doors for other actions. If you consider that their " findings " prevented us from taking any other actions, you would realize the importance of my persistence.
When you look at the picture above, would you have had a doctor examine her. Consider that the picture is the actual picture taken after the surgery. How much healing can take place in seven weeks? Everything I found says it takes a full year for the skull to heal. Did Lara Mooney make the proper decision the night of the fall? All they did was take Mom's vitals and put her back in bed. All it takes to determine if there was damage to the brain is to check the pupils, they didn't even do that. Unless Dr. Russell actually saw her after the fall as Mr. Davis stated in one of his stories. However there were no notes anywhere in Mom's medical records that indicate that Dr. Russell ever even saw her. None of the family, that was there all the time ever saw Dr. Russell.
In my next post I will show the copies of the conflicting reports written by Todd Davis, and examples of the sloppy record keeping at Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation.
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