Posted on 06/25/2024 11:24:09 PM PDT by Morgana
A hospital accused of intentionally killing a teenage girl with Down syndrome has lost its last chance to dismiss, and the case will now move forward, in what her family says is a “first-of-its-kind” jury trial.
Earlier this year, the tragic death of Grace Schara came to light. In 2021, Grace died at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital; she had been given a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order without her or her family’s knowledge or consent; additionally, she was administered a cocktail of drugs — Precedex, Lorazepam, and Morphine — which are known to cause hypoxia, or low levels of oxygen in body tissues.
Grace had been diagnosed with COVID-19, but her family said she had been doing relatively well, despite being in the hospital. Yet they said hospital staff repeatedly tried to force ventilation on Grace without their consent, even as tests came back normal, indicating she didn’t need to be ventilated. Eventually, her parents were banned from being in her room at all. Despite the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requiring the right to an advocate, and though her sister was on-site to serve as that advocate, Grace’s family said the staff made decisions for her supposed treatment without consulting them.
“No doctor or nurse came to me and said anything they were doing,” Grace’s sister, Jessica Vander Heiden, said. “I had to overhear what they were saying. They were just making decisions on their own, without even communicating with Grace’s power-of-attorney, which was my mother.”
On her last day alive, she was given lorazepam and morphine, though she had already been receiving Precedex for four days; Precedex is not supposed to be used for more than one day. “They gave Grace a combination of drugs that none of us could have survived,” Scott Schara, Grace’s father, said.
When Grace’s sister noticed Grace’s hands growing cold, she told the nurses, but was ignored; Grace soon had no pulse, and her eyes were rolling back in her head. Though her sister begged nurses to intervene, they did nothing, and Vander Heiden had to sit by, helpless, as Grace died at the young age of 19.
In Schara v. Ascension Health et al., a lawsuit alleges that five doctors illegally defied informed consent laws, and that they — along with two nurses — committed battery when Grace was killed.
According to the press release announcing the latest development, because the allegations against the hospital involve battery, this will be “the first time that doctors’ intentions come into play in this manner in a civil case.” Though attorneys for the hospital repeatedly tried to have the claims dismissed, Judge Mark J. McGinnis refused them all. “This case is ready to be tried in November,” he said.
It’s a decision applauded by Grace’s father.
“Our victory today to secure a jury trial for the battery claim in Schara v. Ascension et al. isn’t just our next step toward justice for Grace,” he said in the press release. “It’s a playbook for all Americans who have lost loved ones at the hands of what I, and many others, believe to be a medical establishment dangerously committed to harm—more concerned with incentives and penalties than patient health. Our case simply surviving today should send shockwaves across the nation, because we showed how to pierce the medical malpractice veil with a legal brief. Winning this claim will create a tidal wave—and a game-changing legal precedent.”
They pulled this kind of evil crap in 1930s Germany.
Where is this so called hospital?
“Where is this so called hospital?”
Appleton, Wisconsin. Article could have been more clearly written.
“Catholic” Hospital, indeed. Nice one.
If the hospital is found guilty in court, who actually serves the time in jail?
Short drop, and a sudden stop.
>> without her or her family’s knowledge or consent
What’s the anticipated result? Some get to murder without consequence?
Yes, no kidding. It sounds like first degree murder to me.
I was thinking this was going to be a massive payout. Is this a criminal trial?
Thanks.
It’s a civil lawsuit
“battery”
Medical homicide
More likely the hospital was obligated to care for her, but she was on Medicaid and they weren’t getting paid much.
When I was a kid in the 70s, I wouls see someone with Down’s few tomes a week. Now, it is so rare maybe every few months in not once a year. They killed them all in utero. People full of love and things to teach us...
When I was a kid in the 70’s Downs kids were still being sent away to special school year round. We didn’t understand this as children. It was hard to imagine these kids at a school desk doing work in the middle of July. We had no idea that was not what their school was like. We were just glad we were not Downs and did not have to attend school year round.
There was a summer camp in my county that for two weeks had a session for mentally retarded children. It closed in the late 1980’s. I have to figure there were less and less of them because by that time as there were more and more abortions happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhruVg-SbzQ
I have read that hospitals were receiving Fauci-bounties for every covid patient they intubated, treated with remdesivir, and possibly other incentives …only if they followed a federally mandated protocol
Pure evil. The Mengeles are among us.
Medicine in general has pretty much turned out to be run by the payers. Namely the federal government. Very few, if any, doctors are able to fight against that...very rarely hear of any of them going bankrupt...but there seems to be a lot more medicare and medicaid fraud convictions, so the greedy ones might have found a way.IMHO.
Is there even enough hemp in the world to take care of all these monsters?
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