Posted on 04/07/2005 2:59:57 AM PDT by schmelvin
GREAT!
http://www.georgia.gov/00/channel_title/0,2094,4802_5005,00.html
These may help, I plan to contact them tomorrow morning.
Ken Mullinax is an Anniston area resident. Can't hurt to keep in direct touch with the family; I'm gonna call an old friend in Anniston, to get copies of the Anniston Star newspaper accounts, if available (I moved to TN from Anniston) ... sounds like Aunt Mae needs to be in B'ham Cardiology Center, asap.
Not a topic for this thread - but is your home in Tennesee near Alabama? I am plannning to move to Huntsville to be near my kids and grandkids next month.
I'm in the process of moving from E.TN to Dalton, GA and Cohutta thereafter (near Chattanooga).
I gotta go to bed now, it is 6am and I haven't slept tonight.
here is my summary:
The message-
Mae Magouirk…not comatose …not vegetative …not terminal
Why is Hospice LaGrange, Ga. withholding nourishment?
(LaGrange, Georgia) Mae Magouirk is being withheld nourishment and fluids and the provisions of her Living Will are not being honored at the Hospice-LaGrange, (1510 Vernon Street, LaGrange “Troup County” Georgia, 706-845-3905) a subsidiary of the LaGrange Hospital in LaGrange Georgia. Her family is desperately seeking to save her life before she dies of malnourishment and dehydration.
Mae Magouirk IS NOT comatose and she IS NOT vegetative. She is not terminal!
Mrs. Magouirk is a widow having survived her husband and son. Her Grand daughter had financial power of attorney but not healthcare power of attorney. Mrs. Magouirk was not in any way mentally diminished before she went into the hospital for a heart condition. Her heart condition was very serious and instead of helping her grandmother, her grand daughter admitted her into a hospice (wihout legal authority to do so)and told the Hospice to stop feeding her and hydrting her, that it was time for Grandma to see Jesus because she has glocoma and now with the heart condition, who would want to live like that.
The Grand daughter appeared before a Probate judge who is NOT an Attorney, in Georgia , unbeknownst to Mrs. Magouirk's sister and brother who are legally her next of kin. The Judge granted Guardianship of Mrs. Magouirk's to her grand daughter. Mrs. Magouirk's has been starved and dehydrated since March 28th.
Mrs. Magouirk has a living will that states that she is to be provided nourishment and hydration as long as she is not in a coma or persistent Vegatative state. Mrs. Magouirk was not in a coma or PVS when her grand daughter placed he in the Hospice. This is Forced Euthanasia against an elderly person who has a Living Will that states that she wants food and Hydration. Is this America? is this waht we do to our elderly parents and disabled citizens???
Everyone Please get this Message Out.
just sent an e-mail to Nat Hentoff
Bless your heart.
I took care of a neighbor lady for eight years - Had to fight hospitols and dr.s who had the "she's old, don't bother" attitude.
At 100 (!) she was in desparate need of a gall bladder op. they didn't want to do it - just let her go. "She wouldn't survive, etc."
I had to threaten them with murder and mayhem - and to write about it in my column! - before they finally did it. She was much weaker by that time, as she had been unable to keep anything down for a week - but she sailed thru it with flying colors.
And they didn't ignore her in the future - she lived to be 103 ;o)
Bon nuit.
nighty nite...thanks for your hard work!
Good job, gal - I'm posting this to blog and I'll submit it to the Terri Blogs.
Praise God!!!
First time Grama died was on an operating table in 1986. They revived her but told me she wouldn't live through the day. She had several surgeries after that and made it quite nicely until 2003. Doctors. Bah. They just underestimate a lot of us women. :-)
I'm gonna believe that for Mae too.
rock on my sister...
I called Purdue
THEY NEED SERIOUS BOMBARDMENT!!!
THEY WERE SOOOOOO INDIFFERENT!
"we can't do anything..."
SPIT!
Saxby Chamblis is a GREAT guy though!!
1-800-234-4208
Just a sec. that is a good point and another poster addressed that, on another thread, let me go check.
Sleep well. We'll keep the fires burning on this side of the world.
I just contacted David Boies. I think I'll go ahead and contact Zell Miller too. If anyone with a personal connection is able to do so as well, please go ahead.
Round up of Volunteers-
Now you knwo my spelling sucks so you'll jsut have to make a litle game of what those letters you are reading mean :)
eeevil conservative- she is the coordinator.
When you make your contacts Freepmail eeevil for her contact information. eeevil will contact the family (not the grand daughter)
Ohioan frrm Florida - Father Provone
Jj MacWow - Franscian priets I think form minnesota
Combat_Boots - Jessy Jackson
nicmarlo - the attorney of record
lil'bit [THE VERY FIRST PERSON TO VOLUNTEER, after schmelvin, eeevil conservative, and BykrBayb who did the intial investigation for all of us]- Elderly Abuse Complaint
netizen- Organizations for persons with disabilities
russesjunjee- I hate speeling your screen name so hard for me!- Politicians
Main-iac7 - Georgia News Organizations
djreece- David Boise (and I ahven't a clue who he is) plus djreece comes up with his/her own good ideas as well
Wneighbor- the thankless task of keeping up a Ping List Merci!
Sun - National Media
Wampus SC - He didn't answer but hopefully he will do Talk Radio, I think he will
PhilDragoo - Probably spelled that wrong, he didn't answer either but hopefully will provide us with inspirational graphics
pegiata & pollwog - Our Prayer Warriors, haven't heard back form them but I hope they will give us inspiration.
Now time for bed. I have a lot fo work to do ont he Olvie fam so i may not be back here for a while. But you don't need me, you all are doing the work any how.
Please visit other trheads at FR and encourage people to visit this thread and participate.
eeevil conservative I hope you callt he family ad let them know what we are doing. Also it would be good to have a standing time for a once a day phone call. We will be looking for updates on Mrs. Mae Magouirk. With information coming dirctly formt he family through you, it will give us encouragement, even mroe encouragement to all work harder.
God Bless you all, Good-Night.
http://www.hospicepatients.org/terri-schiavo-10-12-02-press-rel.html
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Hospice that enrolls Non-Terminal Patients Commits Fraud
The United States Office of Inspector General has issued its warning to the public about questionable hospice agency practices and stated that some hospices have been found to engage in, "practices which ... have inappropriately maximized their Medicare reimbursements at beneficiary expense. These practices include: Making incorrect determinations of a person’s life expectancy for purposes of meeting hospice eligibility criteria." A hospice that bills Medicare, Medicaid or a private insurer for a non-terminal patient is violating the contracts which allow hospices to provide services for the terminally ill.
Hospices are not licensed to care for the chronically ill. In order for a patient to be admitted to hospice, the physician must "certify" that the patient is likely to die within six months due to a terminal illness. Terri Schiavo has no terminal illness; the only cause of death in her case would be her intentional murder by those intent on ending her life.
Original Hospice Mission Violated
The original hospice mission is to care for, support and manage the symptoms of the terminally ill until a death occurs in its own natural timing. Every hospice nurse and physician knows that hospice is supposed to neither hasten death nor seek to cure the terminal illness. Hastening the death of a patient goes against everything hospice stands for.
Although Terri Schiavo's case will be decided in a Pinellas County courthouse, any hospice that accepts a chronically ill patient has violated not only the spirit of hospice and the mission of hospice, but the **federal regulations** governing hospice.
Read the entire article. There's much more:
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