Hospice Killed My Father.

Justice over a year ago

I can't believe I'm reading all these horrible posts about Hospice now. I wish I found out about this earlier. My father died at the age of 73, he had cancer before but he did surgery to remove them and also undergone treatments. This was 8 years ago. Until last year, hey found my dad's cancer unfortunately came back but it wasn't a dangerous stage yet. He wasn't in pain or anything. But he did kept falling at home which caused him to go to the ER and admitted into the hospitals. This year, February 2014, he fell again and was required to stay in the hospital. They found he had some kind of pneumonia and was sent to another hospital for treatment for about 2-3 weeks. He came back and was fine. He couldn't walk though because he fell. In April, he fell again, this time in the bathroom. Apparently, the lower spine bones got squished together which caused pain. We brought him to the ER, and they said he doesn't need surgery but he will be in pain for a while. He stayed in the hospital for 2 nights and came back home. When he came back home, hospice called and told us about their program and how they help patients with a long term illness and their pain. At that time, my mother said sure lets try bring them over. That was the worst mistake made. My dad still had pain at that time because of his BACK, NOT BECAUSE OF CANCER. He wasn't in pain due to cancer and he wasn't dying or suffering. Those nurses came and brought pain killers and other drugs. MORPHINE is what they told us to give my dad. I've seen the dramatic changes on my dad once he started taking the morphine. I've never seen the doctor EVER. the nurses just do diagnosis over the phone. On the night before my dad passes away. The nurse ordered for us to continue giving morphine to my dad every 20 mins. My dad passed away few mins after the nurse from hospice came. I didn't know ANYTHING about hospice before. It's been 2 months since my father passed away. We only found out about this now and are very devastated. English is not our first language so we were pretty much lied to and taken advantage of. PLEASE DONT TAKE YOUR FATHER OR MOTHER OR ELDER FAMILY MEMBERS TO HOSPICE. THEY WILL KILL THEM WITH MORPHINE. I wish I knew about this earlier so I could save my dad. I hope hospice gets caught soon and someone to sue them. I know it is in the law. ---------- "The Controlled Substances Act is set forth at Title 21 of the United States Code: 21 USC, subchapter1, starting at part A, Section 801. The DEA states that it is responsible for (among many other responsibilities): " Enforcement of the provisions of the Controlled Substances Act as they pertain to the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of legally produced controlled substances. " The DEA also has the authority for: "Coordination and cooperation with federal, state and local law enforcement officials on mutual drug enforcement efforts ...." "

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medic-dan109453 over a year ago

Hi Justice,

Unfortunately it's all too common for what you describe to happen. Nursing homes are just as bad. MOST of our senior citizens are over medicated.

Actually, in the US, MOST Americans are overmedicated.

Morphine, every 20 minutes? How often you administer it and the dosage vary depending upon the means of administration.

A typical dose would be to administer morphine IM about every 3-4 hours.

Press for an autopsy to determine how your father died. Many locations WILL NOT do an autopsy if under "hospice" care.

Good luck. I'm sorry for your loss.

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Guest over a year ago

So sorry about your Dad. I feel the same way about what happened to my Dad. He had leukemia and had a couple weeks worth of chemo, which wore him out so bad, he wanted to stay in bed and fell a couple of times. They put him in the hospital and then said he had to go to rehab hospital so he could stand on his own and how fall. He was pretty much in a daze or sleeping the whole time he was there (not overdrugged) then had trouble breathing and developed pneumonia. They sent him to hospital on Sunday and by Tuesday, they said he wasn't responding to antibiotic and they wanted to put him in hospice. They did the same, stopped feeding him, dosed him with morphine. He passed away early Thursday morning (October 30). It's not like he was well, but I wonder what would have happened if I had kept him out of hospice.

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Guest over a year ago

Same thing happened to my father (the hospice had my sister administer the overdose, so technically she was the one who murdered my father under hospice supervision), and he died 24 hours after eating a good meal and being alert. They also disposed of the extra morphine IN THE TOILET which they said was Illinois state law! Seriously, and we wonder why our water supply is full of drugs?! My husband's son was killed by dehydration (he was young so he lived for NINE DAYS with no fluids), and after hospice killed him, they sent my husband a SURVEY (how did we do?). Seriously? I responded by writing a letter saying "how dare you send this to a grieving father? as for the answer to your questions, you did a wonderful job of killing him, but I cannot answer whether I am "satisfied with his care" because how could anybody be satisfied with murder? LOL never heard back from them.

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Guest over a year ago

My father had NO hospice DIagnosis The Sunrise Assisted Living of OLD Tappan a NURSE illegally placed him on hospice YOU need 2 MD' His guardian ad litem That I asked to be hired TO protect him from the assisted living colleen varnum and his son Jack Sheehy that were " denying medical care hearign aides updated eye glasses ... and NO visitors IN assisted living " YET In 2 weeks the lawyer aligned suspicously with the SON: they removed his broken hearing aids his eye glasses all recorded and documented THEY cancelled MY dads need for GI bleeding only due to acid reflux " to go to a Gastro enterologist ordered by a MD DR SAEED in the hospital : so that my father BLED actively in sunrise of old tappan NJ for 10 days The lawyer ELTON bozanian ignored MY dads calls recorded for HELP ME I am bleeding help me : and I was finally able to get him to the hospital THE JUDGE was involved in NJ JJD " who also allowed his lawyer to abuse MY dad they then without any diagnosis and writted UP by an RN colleague of my dads eldest son: ON HOSPICE by a nurse warren Glick : VALLEY HOSPICE OF NJ left him with no abiliyt to see or hear ON lockdown for COVID but his calls ot me on a DIsabilyt phone i purchased for HI*M Each MONTH the judge deluca nd his ilawyer took on emore right from my dad hospice was illegally billing for hospice they began denying food AGAIN all recorded and documented by my former lawyer : sunrise with slander tried to sue me for harassment wiht perjury presented such case was DISMISSED wihotu prejudice YET colleen varnum continued to lie Thank God for witness and recordings : but it becmae horriied my alert oreinted fahte rthe JUDGE THEN after 5 monthsd decided to incapacitate HIM NO MD LEGAL IN ANY HOSPITLA OR OUTSIDE OF SUNRISE DEMMED HIM ANYTING BUT ALRT ORIENTED and " If you want to question his capacity " YOu better get him hearing aides and eye glasses " NO the judge and elton bozanian and ira kaplan and his son and sunrise lawyer wright and varnum refused THEY then all of a sudeen ON ONE DAY with NO diagnosis and being abused I recorded every day MY dad" HE IS DYING NO MD there OF WHAT " WE DO NOT KNOW " BUT HE IS NOT TO GET ANY FOOD OR WATER ROUND CLOCK MORPHINE ALONG WITH ATIVAN UNDER TONGUE " I called pplice and Dept of heatlh to sotp this i reporteded in court to the judge deluca and the lawyer doing this to my DAD who just prior to zoom court call was in my arms begging for help as i was aathere AND FOUND My fahter udner colleen varnum and her aide zelma edwards and hospice " HE was lying in his bed in approx 4 gallons of his own diarrhea what did you do " we gaVe him laxatives yesterday and today " YOU starved him for 7 days and then gave HIM Laxatives and morphine so he cannot even speak or stand UP"??? that is recorded the JUDGE stated " well we all go via this " NO judge no lawyers we do NOT go via this he has NO hospice diagnosis I am an RN BSN even on hopice WE DO NOT starve and euthanized humans He is catholic THE lawyer stole his money then cremated HIM HE had NO authorigyt over MY fathet HIS guardianshp was OVER I asksed ford A MEDIAL for my dad? denied the funeral parlor Becker funeral parlor who also illegally cremated my mother suspicoulsy locked in her room in sunrise NO visitors allowed under the son and varnum ; cremated her NO abilyt ot view her remains NOW my fahter ND HIS priest reported how his wishes for a catholic viewong and mass priorr to cematoini ALSO I called the DOH dept of health wqhich was MY rioght thehy opened a case as " starrving my dad over dosing him and no eye glasses hearing aides such reported twice" the Lawyer wrote a letter DUE TO BRENDA calling the DEPT OF heath She upset the LEGAL counsel fo Valley hospice IN Paramus NJ the legal counsel and and the supervisor an RN joanna hanna : so NOW JOHN Sheehy my dad WILL HAVE NO VISITS as he clearly stasted " I DO NOT know why your father is dying .. dont care and also was stated to Father PAUL NO VISITS for JOHN : he needs ot die alone ; : SO HE DIEs alone NO ONE by his side with a sign over his heaD He was now unconscious due to medicatoins morphine and sedatives every 3.4 hours aide confirmed ; DO NOT FEED HIM ONLY HOSPICE MEDS SUNRISE also attaempted to haVe ME SIGN as this lawyer KNEw sign a " Euthanasia contract " IF YOU feed him or ask about his med YOU wil be asked ot leavE on JLY 9 i gaVe that to polkcie they wenet in for a safety check : THEY deny this ; well here is the contract the officer was kind that is when they started wiht laxative supposoitories all on record ' FROM jluy 5-19 that is what was DONE by a judge 3 lawyers hsi son colleen varnum adn hospice valley hospice who raged as recorded at me on phone just prior to july that july 3 and 4 and for a year MY DAD and I are chatting on phone laughing LOVE YOU BRENDA MISS YOU ; see you soon YES dad I will bring you food they were denying him food the sunrise lied and even attemtped to put him in a psych hospittal : it was so evil WE threatned to sue MY DAD was with his aides and i was outside of window he fell i heard it ; the lawyer wright robert and colleen varnum lied stated " as my dad is heard " I am ok ' and the aides pickiing him UP " they were oof site ' they wrote more lies " HE was in the hallway ( blind deaf using a walder cannot see as they refsued my pleas to JUST give me the scripto for his eye glasses nad his broken hearing aids i will pay and replace NO ) that my dad was in hallway beating up residents ; THE ENTIRE facilyt was ON LOCK DOWN NO ONE COULD LEAVE THEIR APT .. IT was ll financial /HIS SON stole hIS MONEY the lawyer bozanian even noted that BUT HE DID NOT have to teturn the MONEY while lis shock as anyone would be and in retalaiton of being allowed to report to DOH andf ombudsman HE was murdered alone dieds alone OVER DOSES stasrved with cires OF HELP ME HELP ME the JUDGE DELUCA bergen county did nohthign My lawyer waled away
and NOW The judge and lwyers want me silent and the son wants to SUE ME for emotional pain and suffering for reporting this et al THE JUDGEallowed in probate 3 lawyers hos his do this and take his money I have helped so many seniors in my practice i could NOT save MY dad it was a Malpracticing murder we see " murder by hospice we see fraudlulent guardiahsips and administrator ; "" done to milllions of seniors AND NO ONE can DO ANYTHING why is this NOT On the news WE are all aspiritng to be SENIORS

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Guest over a year ago

I'm so sorry! My dad was also KILLED BY HOSPICE/MORPHINE. He ran out of 'insurance days' and 'Hospice' was the only BS option left. He was aspirating due to a non thickened liquid and they refused to fix it. They gave him more morphine and he passed away. He had no terminal illness just very bad bed sores caused by the same hospital. So sad.

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Guest over a year ago

Hospice killed my dad. They took all of his medicine away when he was fine the day before.

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Guest over a year ago

Hospice just killed my father this week and I am still struggling with the grief and guilt of being coerced into putting him there. What is astounding is it seems to be a standard protocol that they are using to kill off the old people quicker. I am reading all the same stories that exactly match our own. My father, although sick, was much better when he went in. Within a day he was so doped up he could not talk to family, eat, or drink. Starvation, dehydration and overdosed on such heavy medications to kill them fast. Be aware, their plot is to overmedicate them during the day during visiting hours so the food and drink is stopped and the family can't feed or speak to their loved ones to tell them what is going on. I am disgusted by the way they are getting away with this medical euthanasia and murder. I will forever regret being talked into putting my father there. This one was a VA which already has below average care and the nursing home had substandard care with questionable night nurses who were a problem. RUN do not walk away when they recommend hospice, your loved one will be gone in days. They will blame the disease and not the overmedicating, starvation and dehydration protocol. How these killers sleep at night is beyond me. Rest in peace Dad, at least you are no longer being abused at their hands.

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outlaw beast over a year ago

Hi.
I'm sorry to hear about everyone's loss. I had a similar experience with my father. He was diagnosed with a heart condition and possible cancer as he was to weak, according to the doctor, to perform a biopsy. He was 79 at the time and had never before had health issues, or been in the hospital. He had fluid buildup in one lung and went in for a procedure to resolve the issue. I do understand that the inevitable was approaching for my father, but what I found strange was that when he went to check up, the surgeon said that she could not believe my fathers current status because he was in very good shape. As a family, we decided to enroll a nurse from hospice to assist my mother, who was not able to take care of my dad's day-to-day activities. I left for work overseas, and after a week, my sister called me one evening to inform me that things were not going well with my father. When I called him, I could not believe my eyes. He could hardly talk, he was grey with dark rings around his eyes. like a living corpse!!! Please don't understand me wrong....as mentioned, we as a family were expecting the inevitable, but when I started looking at posts for Hospice patience and found that most patients die within a week or two, it made me wonder. Are the nurses properly qualified to administer morphine ??? And why do they administer this....to induce a faster death????..A person with a heart condition and possible lung cancer should not receive morphine.....???

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Guest over a year ago

They did the same thing to my beloved husband. If you hear the word HOSPICE, run as fast as you can. Do not let these monsters do that to you or your family member. Amen.

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Guest over a year ago

This sounds exactly like what they did to my father. Starved & over medicated to the point he could not a word during his last living days. I’m livid and it’s been a year now. Along with all his children suspiciously removed from his life insurance and his new wife of only a few years solely being added on. He was feeling great just 8 days prior when I spoke to via cellphone. Laughing joking, we made plans to visit for the following week. He told me specifically that his new pain meds were working & that he was feeling great. Then I get a call a mere days before his psssing to “come quick your dad only has a few days left to live. I get there and there’s no IV, no food no drink. Just a lot of constant morphine. I felt helpless even though I wanted so badly to just pick him up and carry him out of there to real safety.

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Guest over a year ago

Who can we go to affect change in these hospice murdering facilities? My father, who had Alzheimers, went to hospice just for a 5-day respite care visit so my mother could recharge her caretaking batteries. Dad entered walking, talking, feeding himself, & in no pain, but by day five, he was starved, dehydrated & doped into unconsciousness. He left the facility in a hearse on day seven. How can this stealth euthanasia be stopped? I've written 2 letters to my congresswoman & just get some pat reply from one of her interns. No attorney will help because there's no money in it for them. Somehow this culture of drug overdosing in hospice needs to change, but who can help to stop it? Literally, these places have minimal supervision & become death playhouses for their staff. They've become something wholly different from what they were initially intended, & they are literally getting away with murder. If anyone knows where we can take our concerns, I'm all ears.

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