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Staff at the Northeast Atlanta Health and Rehabilitation Center laughed as a decorated World War II veteran took his last gasps of air after frantically calling for help six different times, according to a shocking new investigation from 11Alive.com.
The investigation included the release of a never before seen hidden camera video that not only completely contradicted statements given by the nursing home staff but also proved, without a shadow of doubt, that the nursing home essentially let the decorated veteran die as if it were a joke.
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The video is so disgusting that attorneys for the nursing home repeatedly tried to stop its release, going through a series of court battles with the local news station in which they hoped that the media would be ordered to censor the footage.
Thankfully, the judge in the case ruled in favor of actual journalism and the nursing home, after seeing no other possible outcome, eventually dropped their appeal to the Georgia State Supreme Court.
In the 11Alive investigation, the news outlet details the fact that a nurse who was on duty at the time directly lied about what actually happened before being confronted with the hidden camera video.
In the video deposition, former nursing supervisor Wanda Nuckles tells the family’s attorney, Mike Prieto, how she rushed to Dempsey’s room when a nurse alerted her he had stopped breathing.
Prieto: “From the time you came in, you took over doing chest compressions…correct?”
Nuckles : “Yes.”
Prieto: “Until the time paramedics arrive, you were giving CPR continuously?”
Nuckles : “Yes.”
The video, however, shows no one doing CPR when Nuckles entered the room. She also did not immediately start doing CPR.
“Sir, that was an honest mistake,” said Nuckles in the deposition. “I was just basing everything on what I normally do.”
[…]
When nurses had difficulty getting Dempsey’s oxygen machine operational during, you can hear Nuckles and others laughing.
Prieto: “Ma’am, was there something funny that was happening?”
Nuckles : “I can’t even remember all that as you can see.”
“The video shows the veteran calling for help six times before he goes unconscious while gasping for air. State records show nursing home staff found Dempsey unresponsive at 5:28 am. It took almost an hour for the staff to call 911 at 6:25a.m,” the 11Alive report read.
Amazingly, the Georgia Board of Nursing told 11Alive that the nurse seen in the above video, as well as another nurse on duty at the time, were only forced to surrender their licenses in September of this year, almost three years after the disgusting incident!
“Nursing board president Janice Izlar says she cannot confirm when the state knew about the video, but the board’s action came shortly after 11Alive sent her and other board staff a link to view the video,” 11Alive continued.
The deceased veteran, 89-year-old James Dempsey was a decorated World War II veteran who was from Woodstock, Georgia. Dempsey’s family received a settlement from the nursing home in 2014 so were unable to comment on the investigation.
We should’ve picked our own cotton.
Smoke Jensen, you don’t know how much I agree with you. Wish slavery had never been brought to America. Look where we are now. Should have shipped them all back.
It is so much worse than that, Smoke. There are truly a few decent folks just trying to earn an honest wage to help get themselves a bit more employment experience so they can jump to perhaps a kitchen position that could lead to a local restaurant opening or so on as the minimum wage worker in his 30s who is getting by on HUD housing and part-time work at nursing homes and assisted living centers, where you might be helping bathe a patient one day and mowing the yard the next. (Exaggerating… but you get my point?)
But, it is not all stereotyping. The elderly care industry is a thriving market that exploits the elderly by hiring substandard employees to perform the monitoring and care. When we had my Poppa G with us, we visited him daily, multiple times daily. We were almost always there or were expected at any minute. So, he got very good care. But others in our peripheral vision? Not such quality care.
” When we had my Poppa G with us, we visited him daily, multiple times daily. We were almost always there or were expected at any minute. So, he got very good care. But others in our peripheral vision? Not such quality care.”
That sounds like great advice.
Nurse Ratched (Nuckles), unfortunately, isn’t any different than our elected politicians in DC., or leaders of our educational system (relate to recent Baltimore events just as an example), and other areas.
It appears rather evident that once power is attained (School Superintendent for example), cheating, lying, fraud, or whatever, can be a real potential crisis-in-waiting.
Maggie,
Point taken. But one has to admit that one demographic has provided hundreds of hours of video evidence showing this same disregard for life. I’ll be the first to admit that I can find several stories of horrific treatment of nursing home residences by non-POC employees, but it is rare.
With the current racial climate where white hatred has never been so high it cannot be discounted that this man was left to die just because of his melanin content.
I used to run cable television that included south Dallas. The other side of the railroad tracks so to speak. I can tell you first hand that the way this demographic lives made me shudder to think that any one of them could be in the health care industry. They were disgusting pigs. Filthy. Unsanitary. They could afford drugs, ho’s, cars, weave, and 10’nails but not 2 gallons of paint.
This video speaks volumes to me personally.
I’m not defending the ghetto trash they hire. I just hate it that the few who really want a different life get caught in the labelling. They are few and far between. That is why we spent so much time with my Poppa rather than doing the daily visit thing. He never liked being cared for intimately (washed) by the black CNAs. He preferred it to having his son help him and he would NEVER have asked me, his daughter.
Never ever never trust a nigger with anything important. Never.
Maggie,
“I just hate it that the few who really want a different life get caught in the labelling.”
You and I are on the same page. But those types rarely end up taking care of our loved ones.
When my dad entered the hospital, I found out when his wife called. He refused to tell me he was sick. He was a man that never complained. Even though he knew this was his last trip and that he wouldn’t be coming back, he never lost his cool and faced it head on. When it came time to clean , bathe, or shave him. I did it. I know he was appalled by it. But It was my duty. I refused to let people he didn’t know see him in that way. I spent the last 11 days of his life in a chair by his side.
You are a very lucky person.
Nick was holding his father’s hand. I had left a couple hours before.
What’s the difference between dem nurses and a bullet?
You can fire a bullet and it only kills once. (there is another line to this lame joke but I forget)
If I met up with one of these monstresses on the street it would be everything I could do to not beat the living shit out of them, and I’m not normally a violence prone person.
We pay some seriously shitty and immoral professions lots of $$$ but put minimum wage low IQ people in charge of our loved ones.
And these places are raking in a FORTUNE, it’s just that all the money goes to the top. My Mother used to work for someone on the shore of Lake Erie where the houses are expensive, someone bought the house across the street for $30 MILLION and tore it down to build another. The guy owned a chain of nursing homes.
I don’t follow min wage.. I could’t find a retirement home around here for less than $3,000 per month.
Who is actually responsible for this?
Who put the system in place as it now is and why, and who lets it continue unabated?
Based on my experiences in caring for my mother, and to a much lesser extent, my father, save the last bullet for yourself.
We never left my father’s side for a single minute during his final days. He was home for all but the last two days. My mother however practically lived in hospitals for half her life. This seemed to be her preference. I got her into a small, 6 unit assisted living home for her final eight months with good staff and and an attentive owner so she was luckier than most. I also had a few different people stop by at random yet fairly frequent times to subconsciously put the place on notice that someone might stop by at any time, day or night. To the best of my knowledge she was never abused or neglected despite the fact that my mother couldn’t return the favor to the various staff.
If at all possible I will ventilate my own brain pan before going to one of these places
Nick and I saw the deterioration in his father almost immediately when we had to move him from assisted living apartment in a complex with nursing staff available (private pay…$3800 monthly) into an actual skilled nursing rehab and retirement home or whatever it was. It was the place where old people are parked against walls and sofas in the common room with the television blasting and it is called recreation time on the schedule. That was $5200 monthly, private pay. Now, some of the costs associated that could be tied to Medicare would be billed to Medicare, but the rooms themselves were not available to Medicaid/Medicare applicants, unless truly in a 6 week rehabilitation from a hospital. Unfortunately, my father in law had an anxiety attack one night at the assisted living center and decided he needed nurses assigned on staff.
That move led into the saddest phase of his, and perhaps our, lives.
Maggie, I can relate. When Mom got dementia, it was tough to accept. Fiercely independent woman, and we tried to let her keep her own place for a while, with one of us visiting every day. As her behavior got worse and more of a risk to herself, the only choice that made sense was an assisted living facility. When the staff tested her with questions, they advised the Alzheimer’s wing, but we pushed for her own room on the assisted living floor. A few weeks later she did a couple things that forced our hand. Alz wing is kind of on lock-down, so they can’t wander off. But the place also had a Rehab, nursing wing, and she had a couple of brief stays there, after a couple trips to the hospital, for falls, or accidents. Back in 2009, we were shelling out 7 or 9 k / month for that. But the care was there, 24-7, 365. Break it down that way, and if you can afford that, it’s worth it. Fortunately, we could, and sadly, her stay wasn’t that long. In total, about 18 months, before she passed. A couple of memories:
When a decision like elder care becomes necessary, the hard, simple fact that determines level of care is: Can they stay with us, or should we put them in a facility? If a facility, you have to look at available funds compared to life projection, as difficult as it may be.
i.e., How much do we have to work with, and how long will they still be with us, requiring such care? Very difficult to predict. Then, if they live a long time there, …when the funds start running out, you run out of options, and the level of care may have to be lowered, which sucks.
-It helped us, when Mom consulted an attorney while she still had her wits, and set up a Will, a Power of Attorney, and Patient Advocate. That made some decisions easier. Personally, if anyone has reasonable assets, I’d advise a Living Trust, which is a better way to go. All those other documents are included, but also, you designate a Trustee, to make sure any assets go to your kin, vs. the State. And, you can make changes / additions to the Trust anytime you want.
-We consulted an Elder Law Attorney for this, and advice on how to best use the funds available. He set us us up with strategies to stretch our funds and get financial assistance where we could.
-Good caretakers are angels among us. We made sure to take them something extra special from T2T. But, too, we’d heard how Alzy patients, Mom included, can be difficult to deal with, stubbornly resisting caretaker’s efforts to help them. Difficult job.
-Lastly, I understand your point, about making sure to take action if or when you ever faced that kind of a situation for your own care. Mom was like that. Didn’t ever want to be a burden, but never wanted to go to a ‘home’, either. I’d struggle, with the humiliation and embarrassment of having to be changed, bathed, cleaned up by a stranger, especially if they didn’t give a damn about you and your comfort. Tough situation, any way you look at it.
If we have to go, I’d rather go in my sleep, at a younger age, Lord willing, than after I lose me wits, or the ability to take care of myself.
Take care.
I don’t know if I could have voiced this better myself. Nick and I are in the process of writing down how we want to leave this plane if the unspeakable happens and he or I go stark raving bananas… or a fate worse than that… Alzheimers.
That is another thing about being our here in flyover country. We have the luxury of thinking we have a choice.
By the way… your comment about an Elder Law Attorney sparked a memory. I may have Nick read your comment later. EC? Try to play nice.
Nurse Ratshit (Nuckels) will be back at it in another Nursing Home sometime soon. If not indicted for murder, some do-gooder will see that she gets her nursing certificate back and killing more white folks. Just a sign of the times.