Something to start you off...if you need anything else, email me.
http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2005/03/23/schiavo-attorney-felos-on-board-of-hospice/
http://codeblueblog.blogs.com/codeblueblog/2005/04/followingup_a_r.html
Hospice of the Florida Suncoast 1997:
http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/1997/0217/90126249.TIF
1998:
http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/1998/0213/91173191.TIF
1999:
http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/1999/0316/410045DE.TIF
Side Note:
The Hapless Misadventures of the Pinellas County Court System keeps getting stinkier and stinkier and scarier and scarier. Michael Schiavo’s attorney George Felos took his case and then filed the petition to introduce HB 2131 in 1999. Then the law in Tallahassee gets changed. Then the Schiavo case gets heard. In that order.
In April 1999 - House Bill 2131 was introduced in the Florida legislature by the Florida Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care Committee to amend Section 765 (Civil Rights) of the Florida Statutes. The amendments to Section 765.101 were the legal definition of “life prolonging procedures” to add: “INCLUDING ARTIFICIALLY PROVIDED SUSTENENCE AND HYDRATION, WHICH SUSTAINS, RESTORES, OR SUPPLANTS A SPONTANEOUS VITAL FUNCTION”. It becomes law on October 1, 1999.
Who lobbied for changing the law to make food and water be defined as “artificial” life support in 1999?
HB 2131 GENERAL BILL by Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care (HFC); Argenziano; (CO-SPONSORS) Heyman; Sobel; Reddick; Fiorentino; Bilirakis; Littlefield; Kosmas; Bitner; Jacobs; Levine; Bloom.
David Allen contacted the Clerk of The Florida House and was informed that “Bilirakis” was Representative “Gus Michael Bilirakis” (terms 1998 - 2000 and 2001 - 2003).
Note that the hospice where Terri Schiavo has been held is operated by Suncoast Hospice. Rep. Gus Michael Bilirakis lists himself on the Suncoast Hospice Board of Directors - along with George Felos who filed the suit in the summer of 1998 to withdraw food and water form Terri Schiavo. Who else has also been on that Board?
2000 Uniform Business Report:
http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/2000/0511/10940BD7.TIF
2001:
http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/2001/0502/186011A9.tif
2002 (Curious a change has not been recorded, Felos not on the list...things had gotten hot the year up to now);
http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/2002/0221/76101294.tif
Side Note: George Felos, Michael Schiavo’s attorney, was a nine year member of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast which operates Woodside Hospice where Terri Schiavo is housed. He was also a former chairman of that board. Felos resigned in 2002. Terri was moved to the Woodside facility in April of 2001 from a nursing home even though she didn’t qualify as a terminally ill patient and technically should not have been transferred. And to complicate matters further, medical records from Terri’s hospital admission in 1991 indicate there was trauma to her head and no evidence of any heart problems or other diseases. (For the medically inclined the bone scan is here. Dr. William Campbell Walker’s deposition regarding the bone scan is here… He was the doctor who did the scan. Find additional independent medical analysis here and here.):
2003:
http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/2003/0109/40003514.tif
2004:
http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/2004/0116/40141584.tif
2005:
http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/2005/0125/50360045.tif
Additionally, Jude Greer worked side by side as county commissioner with Barbara Sheen Todd (county commissioner) for eight years. Barbara Sheen Todd is on the board of the hospice. Also, Judge Greer's fellow judge, Judge John Lenderman is the brother of Martha Lenderman (also on the hospice board).
Hospice Board Members:
CEO: Mary Labyak
Side Note: Mary Laybak, CEO of Woodside Hospice has direct ties to Euthanasia Society of America and Hemlock for Hospice, an organization that seeks to accelerate the dying process. Federal funds may not be used for these purposes.
The Hospice is a federally funded program designed for terminally ill and those whose death is eminent. Terri has been in Woodside Hospice illegally for three years under Medicaid payments, for free, courtesy of, yep, George Felos. Felos combined and conspired with Michael Schiavo to arrange for Terri’s “free” stay at Hospice Woodside as part of an “exit protocol” designed to advance Felos’ self-perceived messianic mission of “helping” incapacitated people to die by categorizing them as “terminal,” warehousing them, and depriving them of therapy and rehabilitation services.
US Dept of Health and Human Services is currently trying to collect $14.8 million from Florida Suncoast Hospice, owed to them since 1997. The squeaki-clean(not) Hospice is accused of patient brokering and several lawsuits filed by Attorney Jonathan Alpert are pending.
Sheriff Everett Rice, friend of Judge Greer (gave to his campaign and provided job at prison for Michael Schiavo)
Martha Lenderman, sister of Judge John Lenderman
Side Note: Judge Greer’s fellow judge, Judge John Lenderman is the brother of Martha Lenderman, also on the, you got it, the same hospice board.
Our fine judge accepted as the basis of his rulings, the questionable testimony of Michael Schiavo that Terri would wish to be killed, yet Michael never stated this until after he had received the 1.2 million dollar settlement during which time he portrayed himself as a loving husband that just wanted to bring his wife home and take care of her.
The judge also accepted as the basis of his rulings, the “opinion” of a third doctor who is the brother of a close associate of George Felos, Michael Schiavo’s right-to-kill attorney, and very significantly, former Chairman of, you got it again, the same hospice board, Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, which operates Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida.
Reverend Clarence Welch (Vice Chair)
Barbara Sheen Todd, County Commissioner Pinellas Co. Board of Commissioners
Charles W. (Chad) Whetstone (Treasurer) V.P. Harper, VanSkoik & Co.
Jay Wolfson, Prof at Univ. South Florida? proposed guardian ad litem
Dr. Jay Wolfson is director of the Florida Health Information Center at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
He is also a lawyer.
The University of South Florida is intimately connected to Hospice and Hospice of the Florida Suncoast (the corporate owner of the hospice where Terri was being dehydrated and starved, and where she is once again interned).
The USF website gives information on continuing professional education to be held November 6th by the University of South Florida's Center for Hospice, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Studies.
The University of South Florida, Dr. Jay Wolfson's employer, has a partnership with, among other hospice organizations, the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast.
***March 25, 2005 -- Michael Schiavo lawyer gave to judge's campaign George Felos made
contribution to Greer day after key ruling by court in Terri's case
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43493
http://www.miami.edu/ethics/schiavo/Filed_03-24-2000_Greer order re visitation.pdf
http://www.terrisfight.org/documents/CIyerAffidavit090203.htm
http://www.rense.com/general63/scan.htm
http://titleofliberty.typepad.com/ttol/images/Schiavo_web.gif
Terri Schiavo: Testimony & Affidavits About Terri - Documents
A Hospice of the FL Suncoast nurse Says Family Should Thank the Hospice for Caring (i.e., "Killing") Terri!
A Willingness to Kill the Disabled
Breaching Confidentiality of Private Medical Records
Class Action Lawsuit Filed (the first lawsuit)
Filed on behalf of those who Donated to the Hospice
Or for those whose Confidential Information Has Been Breached
First Amended Complaint (filed 8/19/03
Class Action Lawsuit Filed (the second lawsuit)
Filed on behalf of Patients and Families
For those whose Medical Records Have Been Breached
Covering Up Employee Complaints about Management - Part One
How Suncoast Suppresses complaints about management ("bully boss" tactics)
Covering Up Employee Complaints about Management - Part Two:
Sexual Harassment by Management! ... (the third lawsuit)
How Bell, Kistler, Labyak and the Hospice Covered Up Complaints About Sexual Harassment by Ron Pereira For two YEARS!
Death Hospice Won't Tolerate Volunteers who Respect Disability Rights!
Donations: Is the Hospice Using Donations for Services to the Patients
or for Something Else? (Mary Labyak's salary plus link to the hospice 990s)
Extremists Who Damage the Hospice
Felons Wanted for Work in Hospice Finance Dept. !!
Fibs about Confidentiality: Who's Lying at the Hospice?
Are the leaders of this hospice capable of NOT contradicting each other, or themselves?
Greetings from Mary Labyak to her Colleagues.
Labyak denies any wrongdoing ... again, and states she is a great Pioneer.
best viewed at display setting 800 x 600
Having Second Thoughts About Working at HFSC?
Part One, Part Two
Staff: Learn why you should be concerned ...
Hospice Countersues Against Whistleblower
June 6, 2003
Hospice with History of Fraud Hired Convicted Felon To Work In Finance Dept!
(direct after release from prison)
Identity Theft Information and Links.
What can happen to your family when your social security number is shared, what to do ...
Improper billings to Medicare in the amount of $14.8 million
originally posted at: www.hhs.gov/of/reports/account/acct02/sect5/appende.html and
OIG determines Millions of Dollars Improperly Billed
from: http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region4/49502111.pdf
Is Mary Labyak in Touch with Reality?.
Wall decorations reveal much about character ...
Julie Wells Files Whistleblower Suit Against Hospice (the fourth lawsuit).
Julie complains about wrongful discharge, breach of confidentiality and other laws governing hospice ...
"Kicking Back:
Patients and Families File Second Lawsuit Against Hospice
Alleging that the hospice breached confidentiality of their records
(St. Petersburg Times article dated 5/02/03)
Read the entire second class action lawsuit for yourself! (5/2/03)
Knowing the Death Dealers
Labyak Attacks Because She Has No Defense
(updated 5/11/03) a continuing hospice coverup!
Labyak and Hitler
Letters to the Editor from Hospice Employees
Who Wish To have Terri Killed
Let'$ Count the Million$ of Way$ to Lose with Tere$a Craig:
(understanding the background to the biggest HIPAA violation in the USA)
Part One - Teresa Craig's Impact
Part Two - The Software Bugs Exposed!
(plus salaries of employees at the for-PROFIT)
Part Three - Confidentiality
Part Four - Confidentiality (continued)
what the hospice and others have lost with Teresa Craig
Making It Easy for Management to Fire You?
(Don't get legal advice: make it easy to be fired!)
Mary and Teresa Removed These Files from the FTP site: (See #1, #2, #3) and taken down the FTP site. Ask them what information was contained in these files! (They say there was "no breach of patients' and your information" Who are they protecting?)
Meditations for Mary (and Teresa and ....) Article One, Article Two, and Article Three (HCA, nation's largest hospital chain, ends development of records management software).
(link posted 5/25/03) Yes, there is so much for Mary and the gang to think about!
Meet Terri Schindler Schiavo NEW !
(note: this is a large file and may take a while to load using dialup).
Also see video of Terri at the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foudation.
Meditations for Employees of the Hospice:
Courage of their convictions: Uncovering fraud in health care system
Your boss may be spying on you. Get used to it
Employers can see just about everything you do on a computer (even files you delete), if they choose to set up the programs needed to accomplish that. Some employers are concerned about employee violations of the law; others are concerned that employees may be reporting employer violations of the law: which applies? You figure it out!
Monitoring Mary (and the hospice)
(The hospice is monitoring this site and the empoyees; we are monitoring Mary and the hospice! )
Motion (amended) to Dismiss the Hospice's Silly Counterclaim
Note to Former and Current Employees Paid to Shut Their Mouths
What White Collar Crime and Embezzlement Are
(More about Susan Wynn and the hospice)
And that will not be the end of it. Other actions are forthcoming through the courts. These other actions have not been reported anywhere and will detail violations of law at the hospice which will shock even the hospice's own staff. The board of directors needs to act to protect the hospice from those in administration who have led this hospice astray and betrayed the hospice mission. The board of directors needs to act soon to prevent further damage by those who only wish to cover up their wrongdoing, intimidating any who voice opposition to their wrongheaded and illegal activities.
"Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Hospice of the Florida $uncoast"
"First Amended Complaint (Class Action Lawsuit) Filed Against Hospice of the Florida $uncoast"
This amended complaint names two of the class of plaintiffs suing the hospice: Roylee Miller and Judy Reeves, and all others who have been harmed or damaged by the actions of the defendants.
The original case number in the Pinellas County Circuit Court is: 03-1620-CI-20
The following Exhibits are attachments to the lawsuit filed against Hospice of the Florida $uncoast in the Pinellas County Circuit Court. They are now part of the public record and may be shared freely with others. These documents are internal hospice financial statements and minutes from board meetings of the nonprofit foundation that gives funds to the hospice, from the board meetings of the nonprofit hospice itself, minutes from the for-profit subsidiary and various financial statements.
Final determination of the actual implications of these documents and the lawsuit's allegations will be and must be determined in a court of law. However, they are extremely relevant, and you are invited to come to your own conclusions for your own opinion on this matter.
Technical note for viewing: The following exhibits to the lawsuit filed were faxed to us by one of the parties to the lawsuit. Because the documents are in image form (showing the document), and they were faxed to us, they appear to cover a very large area of the screen. To make viewing the documents easier, if you have difficulty, increase the screen area shown on your monitor to more than 800 X 600 pixels. In Windows, to do this, you right-click any blank area of your desktop, click "settings," (or from Control Panel, click "Display") and then increase the screen area to the highest or largest amount of screen area. We were unable to "shrink" the documents down for easier viewing at screen area sizes that were smaller because the images of the documents became unclear when re-sized. In order to maintain clarity of the documents being shown, they are preserved in the size that they were sent to us.
Exh 2 Report 04-2000 to Public Responsibility Committee
Exh 2 Report 04-2000 to Public Responsibility Committee p2
Note: The For-Profit subsidiary of Hospice of the Florida $uncoast is a hospice data management software company. "Hospice Systems, Inc." is the for-profit software company that does business as "Suncoast Solutions." This for-profit subsidiary has financial statements shown below.
We have been unable to locate a record in the financial statements of the for-profit showing a loan as a liability to be repaid with interest to the nonprofit hospice. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist; it just means we haven't been able to find it. If any record of such is discovered, we will post it, but nobody has shown us such a document. What is interesting to note is that amounts similar to what is said to be a "loan" in the minutes of the nonprofit hospice show up in the financials of the for-profit subsidiary as stock in the for-profit. We have not yet been able to determine who owns this stock (perhaps the hospice?), and we expect that that data will come out later in the court proceedings.
If you know where the "loan" is recorded as a liability of the for-profit subsidiary and where it shows the "loan" is to be repaid with interest to the nonprofit hospice, please participate in our "Where's The Loan?" Contest!
Exh 3 Pie chart cash-outlay to $uncoast Solutions (the for-profit subsidiary) shows total hospice outlay to for-profit subsidiary of $7.6 million and shows $1.9 million of that $7.6 million paid in June, 2001 (shown as stock elsewhere).
Exh 3 Advance to $uncoast 09-01 Shows over $7 million transferred to for-profit
Exh 3 Hospice Systems, Inc. ("HSI") Balance Sheet 09-01 through 03-02 Statement shows common stock of about $1.9 million.
Exh 3 HSI 03-02 Revenue and Expenses
Exh 3 Taxes Due on Payables 03-02
Exh 3 HSI Balance Sheet 09 and 12-02 shows common stock of about $1.9 million.
Exh 3 Revenue and Expense Statement 09-02 ... Net income: Minus
Exh 4 Hospice Foundation's Minutes 05-01 Loan to nonprofit Hospice from foundation for hospice services (taking money to for-profit never mentioned in foundation board meeting minutes, also for-profit HSI reported to foundation to have positive cashflow but documents following show otherwise.
Exh 5 HSI 05-01 Minutes Shows HSI Not Positive Yet
Exh 5 HSI 05-01 Minutes p2 Shows HSI Income NEXT year
Exh 5 HSI 05-01 Minutes p3 Shows HSI Taking amount that was supposed to be "loan" for Hospice; repayment is mentioned in the minutes. However, we have not been able to find the "loan" to the for-profit showing as a liability on HSI's financials and listed as a "loan" with interest payments to be paid by HSI d/b/a $uncoast Solutions. As the legal "discovery" process unfolds, we suspect that further documentation will be revealed providing greater insight into the financial transactions.
Exh 5 HSI 05-01 Minutes p4
Exh 5 HSI 05-01 Minutes p5
Exh 5 HSI 09-01 Minutes
Exh 5 HSI 09-01 Minutes p2
Exh 5 HSI 09-01 Minutes p3
Exh 6 HSI Financial Statement Review Shows LOSS 03-02
Exh 7 "For the ten (10) months ending July 31, 2002, Hospice Systems, Inc. was budgeted to suffer a loss of "only" $64,000. It suffered an actual loss, however, of $611,000." - from the lawsuit."
Exh 8 HSI Revenue-Expenses 07-02 Statement Shows LOSS
Exh 9 PowerPoint Slide Shows LOSS and that HSI is Dependent upon Hospice for funds
Exhibit 10
"Labyak stated, ... Payback to Hospice will begin in the next fiscal year." See Exhibit No. 12, President's Report of June 12, 2002. In fact, "payback to Hospice" has not yet begun as the software company continues to experience issues and problems in its software, finances, development and expenses." - from the lawsuit.
Exh 13 $uncoast Reveals BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY as usual practice up to time of memo. [November, 2001]. "Suncoast Solutions has also released confidential patient information without authorization." - from the lawsuit. Although the memo states that the confidential information will be removed immediately IN 2001, this hospice "money-making" venture never did that; we at Hospice Patients Alliance know they did not since Hospice Patients Alliance has confirmed the confidential information is still there as of March, 2003 TWO YEARS LATER!! ... and was freely available to the public and all hospices who purchased the software from the hospice for-profit venture!
Exh 14 House donated to Hospice Actually sold to Hospice Staff; shows concern by attorney
Anyone having further information about the Hospice of the Florida $uncoast and its practices is advised to contact the attorney of record:
Amy Catledge, Esq
BELTZ, RUTH, NEWMAN & KOHL, PA
South Trust Bank Building
150 - 2nd Avenue North, 15th Floor
St. Petersberg, FL 33701
(727) 327-3222 - Tel.
Website you should check out: http://www.regent.edu/admin/ctl/uselesseaters/intro.html
