Dr. Larry Joe Russell, Annette Corn ,Susan Habel, Lara Mooney, Tammy Mace, Cookie Romeo and the Nov. 3, 2011 third shift staff at Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation. Some of these people or possibly all of them, know what actually caused my Mothers death. I have spoken to all of them at one time or another, and have been told several different things.
From the information in Mom's records and what I know, Lara Mooney LPN is the one who could provide the answer. Nurse Mooney has fabricated documents in the medical records that cover up something. Whether she did so of her own accord or not I cant say. I wouldn't put it past any of the others to coerce her into doing so.
I have been looking for answers for four years as of November 3, this year. I started by going straight to Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation. The answers I got and the attitude they had are what led me to look forward.
Next stop was Pardee Hospital, where Mom was pronounced dead by Dr. Boleman, the ER doctor on shift that morning. My brother and I actually met with Steve Pennoc and Gayle Sams RN at Pardee. We discussed the records that Pardee had on hand and procedures in the ER. I asked who Dr. Larry Joe Russell was and why he would sign the death certificate and not Dr. Boleman. I was informed that Dr. Russell was Mom's doctor at the rehab center. I had been looking in the obituaries in the local paper and found it alarming how many death certificates were signed by Dr. Russell. I asked if Pardee had a high percentage of deaths sent from Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation. The response was as expected, very non committal. The standard "we don't keep track of that sort of thing". I had counted sixteen deaths at Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation within a two month period. That doesn't count the people sent to Pardee to be pronounced by the ER doctors.
The next thing to do was to file a complaint with the NCDHSR. My brother and I both filed separate complaints. The response was that they were unable to substantiate any of our complaints. They put our complaints together and considered them one. Even though there were separate issues on each complaint. This led to a meeting with Gail Maloney, the western regional director of the DHSR. We produced documents that proved what we had alleged in our complaints. Ms. Maloney was defensive and indicated there was no one else we could go to. She suggested that they would do an administrative review, but that was all they could do. Ms. Maloney told us that she didn't have a copy of the inspection results, and that we would have to file a Freedom of Information Act request to get them. It took a year and a half to get that report!
In the meantime I made several attempts to get assistance from other agencies. I spoke to a representative of the Ombudsman's office, NC State Medical Examiners office, The SBI, Henderson County Sheriffs office, The NC Medical Board, The NC Board of Nursing, The NC Pharmacy Board, NCI Advancemed the Medicare Integrity contractor for this region and The FBI.
Of all the contacts I made there were only two that took me serious, The NC State Medical Examiner and the FBI. The medical examiners office was almost ready to order an autopsy until they received the falsified document created by Lara Monney LPN. Nurse Mooney lied about the events surrounding a fall Mom had sustained on October 30, 2011. If she had told the same story as Mom's roommate at the time there would have been an autopsy. The false document was dated Dec. 1 2011, a month after Mom died, and two days before the Medical Examiners office declined to order an autopsy.
The FBI went so far as to have my brother and I come into their office with our evidence. The initial meeting lasted over two hours. The agent was convinced that we had given him enough to initiate an investigation.
Since then I have contacted: two US Congressman, three US Senators, the office of The Inspector General, the CMS, Aldona Wos Secretary of the NCDHHS, Governor Pat McCrory, Kathleen Sebelius the Federal Secretary of DHHS, several people that responded to ads on Craigslist, some who have responded to this blog, and a representative of ABC News. I'm sure that I have left out more than one other , but there are so many.
I have two separate sets of medical records from Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation oddly neither containing the same exact information or number of pages. I have through the FOIA, the results of the initial NCDHSR investigation of both mine and my brothers complaint. Again these records are full of inaccuracies and false statements and documents. Also my brother received the records of the NCI Advancemed investigation from the FOIA( again took over a year to obtain). That was the final straw, it proves on paper that our accusations concerning certain facts are accurate. We even have a collection of State and Federal statutes that have been violated. Yet with all this information, I am still no closer to having all the facts that would allow closure.
These people are stealing millions from Medicare and Medicaid. They are also allowing, even expediting the deaths of their "patients". What more proof do I need to provide them with before they react???
