Group Home Manager arrested for taking disabled residents' money
my opinion piece to the Winston Salem Journal that ran the related piece:
RE: this article in your paper: http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/aug/15/ex-worker-of-services-group-faces-felony-counts/
Group / Family Care Homes' Complaints are Ignored by NC DHHS
by Marsha V. Hammond, PhD Clinical Psychologist
Earlier this year, I was threatened with arrest by the manager of a family care aka group home in Leicester, NC, outside of Asheville. He called the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department when I refused to leave my therapy session when the Supervisor in Charge began to harass me and the client as we were in therapy.
My crime? I was seeing my client for therapy early on a Sunday evening, at his request and as associated with my availability.
I created a paper complaint to the official agency which is within the Department of Health & Human Services, specifically, the Department of Health Services Regulation (DHSR). Indeed, I created over a dozen complaints pertaining to clients' complaints that they were not receiving their $66 (what is left over after all of their checks are utilized by the family care homes) at all or in a timely manner. Neither did residents receive their stimulus checks in a timely manner (as in months out from the payment date). Neither would the family care management participate in any way with me as I attempted to track clients' medications in order to interface with their physicians.
I had a meeting w/ the family care home management at the Buncombe County Department of Social Services in February, 2009. The two local people in Buncombe associated with DHSR did not say a word in over an hour of this meeting which lead nowhere. The family care home continued to police the clients and the clients continued to be afraid of voicing any concerns.
After over six months and a file over an inch thick, I have thrown in the towel as there was very obviously no one at these agencies who was going to attend in any manner at all to the complaints. Lanier Cansler, Secretary of NC DHHS: stop the farce of grading these agencies. Its all chicanery.
Marsha V. Hammond, PhD: Clinical Psychologist, Asheville, NC
RE: this article in your paper: http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/aug/15/ex-worker-of-services-group-faces-felony-counts/
Group / Family Care Homes' Complaints are Ignored by NC DHHS
by Marsha V. Hammond, PhD Clinical Psychologist
Earlier this year, I was threatened with arrest by the manager of a family care aka group home in Leicester, NC, outside of Asheville. He called the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department when I refused to leave my therapy session when the Supervisor in Charge began to harass me and the client as we were in therapy.
My crime? I was seeing my client for therapy early on a Sunday evening, at his request and as associated with my availability.
I created a paper complaint to the official agency which is within the Department of Health & Human Services, specifically, the Department of Health Services Regulation (DHSR). Indeed, I created over a dozen complaints pertaining to clients' complaints that they were not receiving their $66 (what is left over after all of their checks are utilized by the family care homes) at all or in a timely manner. Neither did residents receive their stimulus checks in a timely manner (as in months out from the payment date). Neither would the family care management participate in any way with me as I attempted to track clients' medications in order to interface with their physicians.
I had a meeting w/ the family care home management at the Buncombe County Department of Social Services in February, 2009. The two local people in Buncombe associated with DHSR did not say a word in over an hour of this meeting which lead nowhere. The family care home continued to police the clients and the clients continued to be afraid of voicing any concerns.
After over six months and a file over an inch thick, I have thrown in the towel as there was very obviously no one at these agencies who was going to attend in any manner at all to the complaints. Lanier Cansler, Secretary of NC DHHS: stop the farce of grading these agencies. Its all chicanery.
Marsha V. Hammond, PhD: Clinical Psychologist, Asheville, NC
posted by Marsha V. Hammond, PhD at 12:36 AM
2 Comments:
very sad- I have had similar experiences trying to advocate for disabled patients rights. Some group homes are more like a prisoner. They have no rights to get/recieve calls/letters or have thier own spending money or recieve visitors without permssion from the group home. I wish it was different. Lord help me if I should ever become disabled and be at their mercy.
very sad- I have had similar experiences trying to advocate for disabled patients rights. Some group homes are more like a prisoner. They have no rights to get/recieve calls/letters or have thier own spending money or recieve visitors without permssion from the group home. I wish it was different. Lord help me if I should ever become disabled and be at their mercy.
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