Posted on 12/30/2022 8:55:47 PM PST by Morgana
HURRICANE, Utah (ABC4) — The parent of a teen who died at Diamond Ranch Academy, a “therapeutic” treatment facility for troubled teens in Washington County, filed a lawsuit against the facility on Friday, Dec. 30, claiming staff members have neglected to get her help when she asked for it.
The Utah Department of Health and Human Services has also placed the facility on probation pending an investigation.
The court document states that staff members told Goodridge that she was faking it and needed to “suck it up.” They reportedly told her to drink water and take aspirin even when she was experiencing excruciating pain. On Dec. 21, Taylor Goodridge, 17, reportedly fell sick and collapsed at the academy. Staff was performing CPR on the girl when first responders arrived at the scene, but she died shortly after. The teen’s identity has been confirmed to ABC4 by family members.
A lawsuit only tells one side of a story. ABC4 reached out to Diamond Ranch for a statement:
“We are cooperating fully and transparently with the State of Utah as they investigate this tragedy. The safety of the students is our number one priority and we are continually striving to provide the best care possible to our students and families. It is the policy of Diamond Ranch Academy to not publicly comment on pending litigation.” Dr. Ephraim Hanks, Psy.D., LMFT, LCSW
According to the suit, Goodridge entered the academy in “very good health” but started experiencing extreme abdominal pain in November 2022. The staff at the facility allegedly ignored her repeated cries for help. At one point, Goodridge allegedly collapsed in her vomit.
Officials at Diamond Ranch told Goodridge’s parents that she had suffered a heart attack. However, it is believed that she died of sepsis, the lawsuit states.
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They need shut down. this is murder.
What did she die from, a burst appendix? A friend went to an ER twice with this girl’s symptoms and was told the same things. Next time it was peritonitus infection from burst appendix.. Had a lot of trouble surviving even in emergency care.
Something to do with Sepsis. Sounds like she was in complete agony.
Yes. Abdominal pain in young person. Need to pay attention to it. There are some key giblets in there that can go wrong.
Possibly the same thing your friend had. Untreated burst appendix leads to peritonitis, followed by septicemia and death.
That poor kid
thanks. I wondered how she got sepsis. There is always a FR Doctor on call here on the site to explain stuff.
That school had a medical staff, lousy in my opinion. I’m wondering how they missed things a blind man could see.
In the case of my friend hospital ER docs missed the same thing. I asked her if they had her undress and poked her belly. she said no, the docs were young and she was old so if she were even a good looking 40 something they would have been interesting have her strip and feel her belly and ‘other places’,
Unless you do a lab stomach pain does not indicate appendicitis
I’d prefer to wait until all the facts are in and the cause of death is determined before making judgement.
A friend went to an ER twice with this girl’s symptoms and was told the same things.”
Had a like experience. Back in ‘82 a girlfriend went to the doc with severe pain. He told her she’d be fine. A day later I said to hell with it and drove her to Miamonedes in Brooklyn. Her appendix was so far gone that they wheeled her in the OR right then and there. They had wanted to transfer her to Coney Island but the head surgeon nixed that. Ya gotta think for yourself in this life. If I had decided the docs know best she’d be dead at 23, instead of the wife mother, grandmother and businesswomen she is today.
To many, ‘stomach pain’ equals ‘abdominal pain’.
My rule of thumb is that if someone has abdominal pain and an in situ appendix, appendicitis goes to or near the top of the list.
As far as wondering if the patient is faking it or embellishing symptoms goes, an abdominal CT is a good idea, even in young women.
The thing that bothered me was the advice to take aspirin. Hard on the gut. Can make things worse
Frederick Remington did himself in with a big dose of a harsh laxative his abdominal pain which was an infected appendix. The results were as dramatic Jack London’s morphine tonic for kidney stones.
LOL! Is this a New Year’s thingy? :-)
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