Complaint Review: Saskatoon Health Region - Saskatoon Saskatchewan

As ward gradually opened, some nurses became friendlier, but my husband very ill, and never for this ward. Others vey surly and clearly did not want him there. He is very sad and afraid and felt he was going to die alone during the thirty odd day quarantine. I have not received word how he got there, who put him there and why he has essentially been denied stroke rehabilitation in Sherbrooke as written by his doctor. I have received word from Regina that we should have been calculated as three on health card - Saskatoon knew that three on health card, and Tracy Laycock and Jewel along with Head nurse aware. Regina does not think divorce should proceed. His lung is very bad and he is very painful in the private area but his nurse thinks he should move himself and he cannot. I found him sitting up alone a few times, but the last few times he is sleeping constantly, so I await the bill to see the drugs assigned to him - he thinks he is being drugged. He had not been told of his mother's inheritance from April through November and now he is appearing drugged again. The Income Tax had sent a form through requested by the Accountant to the Heart Specialist who in turn wrote a letter and passed it to his Family Dr. H F Ma, who in turn advises he cannot handle it - Dr. Yelland must do it under contract. Revenue Canada advised they wanted it done so that not so many would turn up at once. WE simply complied with their request but no doctor did in this instance -I don't know about others. My husband is now deteriorating again and the handling of his case defies explanation even in the Public Health System. I am not hopeful of his recovery unless he is transferred to Sherbrooke immediately and that does not seem possible. The nurses are resentful because they never wanted him there. We are resentful we never wanted to be there. Who takes the blame for this, my husband was too sick after the doctor fed him aatavan - and then the massive stroke and heart attack, and the ppacemaker, given medicine for weeks that made his heart run faster than it should and knock him out.

Was briefly allowed to see husband on two days. He is very weak and confined to his room that does not have a shower. He smells badly - his whole body, especially under arms and private areas. He has a cream to put under arms for fungus. I was going to go in and wash his underarms and body today but was told isolation on again. I was told because of Norwalk he cannot use the bath, but I don't understand - older people exude a great deal of bacteria and are told to shower or bath twice a day if possible to avoid illness. Illness is here and the bacteria is all over him and he cannot bathe in a shower or bath for days and days. I understand that a common bath could not be used, and I think should not be used in these homes, which facilitates the spread of anyones else's bacteria, but each room should have a bath or shower to keep the patient clean and comfortable through their stay in nursing homes and to contain the buildup of the virus and stop the spread. The cost of not having a bath facility is astronomical. From four to five people announced, the complete building is now shut down, and my husband had something that would not let him eat for many weeks prior to the Ocrober 18 shutdown. As well as not having anyone to talk too, he feels dirty and unclean, as he always showered morning and evening. The government pays in public health dollars $50,000+ for each bed plus the patient pays $1700 + monthly, there needs to be a building law the requires a full service bathroom for each patient because of just this type of scenerio expected to play out in the future - if you cannot wash, how can you contain it, sponge bathing has repeatedly been reported as not being effective. He is too frail to sponge bathe himself. The government advises it pays $26.51 for a family physician visit and $90.00 for an emergency room doctor. A lawyer here now gets $500 - $800 per hour for a consultation on paper work, how much more valuable is a human being and more complex when ill. A family doctor has to see 19+ patients to make the salary a lawyer does, and emergency doctor 5.5 patients to make the same salary. Surely someone can see that it is better to pay the family doctor $500 - 800 for his consultation so that it is in depth and as accurate as he can be when life is on the line and the emergency doctor, much more appropriately, so he can take time to make the right decision. The consequences of not doing so are manifested in this case, and multiplied tens of thousands of times over in our country, and are the reason pulic health costs are so out of whack, not because of the doctors' salaries, because of the lack of doctors salaries, so they attract the best and brightest into the fields, and get the necessary diagnosis first off. When considering public versus private - you have to ask yourself "would you work for $26.51 when you can get whatever you are worth in a less stressful arena?" Of course you would not, and neither will the people who would serve us well as doctors, and prevent these heart rendering events, that lead to astronomical expenses for taxpayer, patient, etc. Patient - you have to ask "would you have paid $500 -----? to any amount to have had a capable doctor be there for your loved one when he needed him, rather than go through the suffering of my husband - "of course you would" that my friend is private, and remember that when you vote. No matter how free it is, if it does not work, it is not free - it cost us dearly.

Entered St. Paul's for heart/lung problem, wrongly treated and discharged twice more ill than when he went in, - no diagnosis todate for what he went in for - but we now know by taking him out for assessment - afraid to disclose in the event they treat him with more unnecessary medications. Entered Royal University after discharge from St. Pauls with Massive stroke and Heartattack, early June, shunted to Parkridge and let deteriorate to northing about two weeks later. They played gavmes - one group telling me not to come in so he would get used to them, another group - saying come in we rely on family to entertain them during the day, and another even different. He has been in isolation? quarantine?????? for ?????? since October 20 and I have not seen him, were told maybe today, now told maybe Monday - still no indication what is truly wrong. Did speak with him on phone yesterday and today. First thing wanted to know why I had not come to see him - that he was very sick. I told him they would not let me or I would have come. Understand he speaks not clearly but you get the idea 'where were you and you ask the question to see if you are getting him and he will respond "yes".

Are you saying you have not been with him at all during his hospital stay? Huh?

Nov. 1st, I learned he was doing well in isolation not quarantine. Nov 2 he was sitting outside his room and doing well and maybe we could see on Friday. Nov 3 was allowed to speak with him on telephone for a moment, he wondered why I had not visited him during illness. Received communication from husband's real estate lawyer that the Public Trustee lawyer angry at this report. Why he did not contact this site with his rebuttal or myself - I am not sure. I am angry too, six month of angry at having my husband imprisoned and not able to go to the type of facility that would have facilitated his recovery, rather than watch him deteriorate to a shadow of the person he was - without one person communicating why they were doing this to him. Other people were getting well, but he was not and from the very day after the stroke - he wanted to come home. Many, Many witnesses. Received letter from real estate lawyer today advising they had received correspondence from Saskatoon Health Region, and of course they are not acting for us in this matter as the site implies. I have left a message on their telephone to that effect, and beyond that there is not much I can do but carry on assembling evidence and documenting. I do find it odd that they have not responded on the site but perhaps to the [email protected] and off line. I have a great deal more evidence to present which I will hold until the appropriate time and they know I have, they have dodged two previous lawsuits I wished to have aired by settling, and under the terms of the agreement I was bound with then, I was prevented from proceeding to court The evidence is still pertinent, and as I am at the end of life, this site is the very place to put it on file, so that it will be in history for all the other victims, that need the support of it. What they have done to my husband is unconscionable, and everyone needs to learn of the evidence I have. It is an inheritance I will leave to the 1,500,000 other aged people documented on another website, trying to get help for these antics. Intimidation, coercion, harrassment, threats, bullying and death will not move me. The information will come out any way. At any time in the last six months as my husband failed daily, they could have prevented this report, but they encouraged it by their continued silence and his continued deterioration by medicating, and not being moved to an appropriate setting for help that he sorely needed. My husband shall not have suffered in vain.

Still no further information on my husbnad except Donald Clark is fine. He is eating. Quarantine still on, check back tomorrow. In meantime, two different doctors phoned, long distance, saw media report by health officer and advised quarantine not necessary for West Nile - that something is wrong. This is now nearly two weeks. Today was told same lone except he is now back in his room - didn't know he was out of his room. That quarantine still one. I mentioned to nurse the doctors calls and their information.

Within two hours of my informing the Region of the report,the Medical Health Officer was on the grounds of Parkridge advising that about five people had West Nile, although a note on the door said flu. Officially I have not been advised and had I not seen the broadcast, I would still not know. Given that I, my granddaughter, or any that had come in contact with us, including Judge Jerry Allbright, might be ill, we would not know until some 9 days afterward by the broadcast and not at all if we had not seen it. Heads UP America this is Canadian Health Protocol and the Avian Flu is coming?? The staff were terse and gave a one line sentence in response to "How is Donald Clark?" - Donald Clark is fine." That is it no other indication to what infected him or anything. Saturday Bev was a little more forthcoming saying "saying he was up eating, but not feeling like being up at lot just yet." The next day I received two letters, one fromEvert Van Olst, Legal Counsel for the REgion (the one who at the urging of Tracy Laycock had our neuropsychologist from Detroit banned on threat of legal prosecution and now you will see why) advising he had "been attempting to contact you with respect to an estate matter involving yourhusband who is currently at Parkridge Centre and is apparently incompetent to deal with complex legal or medical matters". First, he had never tried to contact me. I am either at Parkridge where he could have left a note with my husband for me, told anyone of the dozen staff running around, telephoned me, but nothing every showed on my phone, no one rang the buzzer at my home, and this letter came through promptly in mail. and I presume any other would have too. If my husband is now apprently incompetent to deal with complex legal or medical matters, he was not when he arrived at Parkridge and for several weeks after and I have professional testimony to that. After being illegally drugged against my express wishes with medications even prohibited by our public health department on their website, he may now be telling they have made him incompetent. My husband guded me through very complex legal matter right after the stroke and while in Royal University Hospital and through his early weeks at Parkridge, because only he knew them and I would have been at sea, if he had'nt been able to. He could not talk but he knew everything, and by pointing and nodding yes or no and making signs, he brought me right through the crisis without missing a step. If he is now incompetent, the treatment at Parkridge brought this about, because his doctor, Helmer, was optimistic that he would make a good recovery, and would just start speaking but the drugs preclude this. Apparently legal counsel handling the Estate of his Mother Marion C. Clark, Sawatzky and Balzer had contacted him as counsel for Saskatoon Regional Health Authority with respect to my husband's competency. Why they would do this and not my husband's doctor, neuropsychologist Dr. Barbara Fisher or Dr. Darcy Helmer, or my husband's legal counsel, Aaron Tetu, I have not idea. But now I know why they did not want Dr. Fisher to see my husband, becuase she would readily that he was competent. Yelland is the same doctor who in tandem with social services and the police in Saskatchewan proclaimed himself an expert witness and destroyed the lives of 12 people, four of them dying. I can have no greater alarm that knowing this same combination Yelland, and Social Worker Laycock, working together to destroy my husband for insurance and inheritance. He is not an expert here either, nor is the social worker, and it is for this reason that Helmer said these cases should beat Sherbrooke to help retore mind first. They destroy the mind and have no interest in restoring it because they might get well and go home and no money for the nursing home. The incompetent patient's money may be seized by the nuring and he knew about it for a great long time - my mother-in-law died in the early months of the year. My husband and his family had been estranged since he was fifteen and would not follow the Mennonite Baptist faith. His siblings, Marion, Helen Wayne and Gail had shunned essentially and not bothered with unless they needed something and then they could find us without delay - I believe it is possible they have given instructions that if he died the money should be returned to them. Knowing that he was in such dire circumstances, as the lawyer indicates they knew, and that we were having great difficulty getting medical help for him, they did not offer to help their brother to get him to Windor, Toronto, or anywhere - just watched Parkridge let him deteriorate. So I believe there is a great consipiracy here, that is being perpetrated on our aged across the land by the other entries on the internet. I telphoned the Windsor Police today asking them to take the report down and to hold as background should investigations reveal this is so and gave them the siblings names and the Law firm's names. They should watch this firm for similar involvement in other aged long term care patients, because it is not isolated. Mr. VanOlst further states that "we are unaware of any guardian being appointed, we seek your position with respect to the processing of the estate share to your husband. We are concurrently copying this correspondence to the Public Trustee" Well if they didn't know who to contact, how is is that they contacted me regularly to supply monetary support for my husband, which any grade school students knows cannot be done unless I had power of attorney over my husband's accounts. How else would I, and unemployed retired invalid, get funds to pay them. They knew, he knew, the College knew, the lawyers in Regina knew, when they stopped Dr. Fisher from coming and declaring my husband competent, just not yet able to speak but with the proper rehabilitation, would be on his way to recovery. Pertinent at this time, in light of the above, a Mennonite Financial Advisor and Insurance Agent, named Henry P. Block, of Block Financial, whom we knew for twenty five years about and my husband and I unwisely trusted, conned him into signing over his work insurance accumlations, when he retired. He also fraudulently conned us into paying 30% of the premiums, for a 25% that we thought we were getting, but wee not, he had the whole signed to himself in the amount of $200,000. When he and an appraiser defrauded us of some $40,000 - $50,000 on a real estate deal, I started checking and found the fraud here too and cancelled our payment of 30%. This meant Mr. Block was left to pay the $8,000 premium himself. There was apreviousincident of an accident shortly afterward that strongly related to Mr. Block but the police would not investigate and strangely neither did the insurance seem to want an investigation by police, which is their usual way. Now we have Schellenberg discharging my husband from hospital and refusing to treat, and do not know who sent him to Parkridge but I have suspicians, Yelland and Laycock - and the relationship is clear. None of these people are competent to say whether my husband is competent or not, unless they are systematically making him incompetent and their knowledge of the drugs and what they do, could co that. He escaped prison the last time,and was promoted to President of the College, which indicates their collusion in his activities, if he has done this to my husband to facilitate sharing in the $214,000 for him or any of the extended Mennonite family, we can look to hime being promoted to the Head of the Canadian Medical Society. My husband will not have suffered so cruelly and died in vain, because already across this land, advocates are gathering to categorize the millions of complaints about elder abuse and caregiving, to put them on this website and show what a serious problem this is in jurisdictions, and which jurisdictions they are. Insurance and inheritance money in Canada is tax free. It is a natural that the criminal mind will find a way to latch on to everything - it is the government's responsibility to close the door, as the United States did a century ago, and nothing can provoke the Government of Canada to protect our aged, and do the same thing. Again one wonders, is there collusion, are they getting a piece of the action. That is not to say all are involved, but those that are, are powerful as an administrator at Manulife told me. At first she could not release details to me of my husband's policy because now it was Mr. Block's, but when I sent the cheque to the Superintendant of Financial Institutions, whatever happened, her mouth was opened and she could talk. On receiving these letters I contacted the Public Guardian and Trustee's Office immediately yesterday, 28th. He advises me he will speak with my attorney Mr. Tetu and do follow up with Parkridge and I do hope that his happens. He was very considerate and interested. I must tell you the social services learn of your financial business by having their nurses, who should be looking after the patients, like cleaning cathecars so they don't become infected and drive health care costs up by need additional medicines, listen in on your conversations through the intercom - in case any of you wondered how they got the information - that is how. If the patient tells you anything negative they don't like, the patient is punished. If family take anything back in complaint, the patient is also punished, ie. head slammed against the wall in the shower. There is absolutely no where for people to go with their complaints that does not result in harm to the patient. wource: ex workers,ex patients, patients visitors, etc. etc. And to my Florida friend's rebuttal, I did not vote for this dictatorship, it was enforced. Our doctors had an insurance which paid 90% and we paid the rest. They were happy with it, we were happy with it, and many didnt charge the 10% to those disadvantaged, I know that - but it was harder for the politicians to get their families into it and hands on the money, and it had to change not for the paient but for the hierarchy to get their share and its a ripoff of proportions unlimied now. Thank you I agree with your comments on the American Hospitals and doctors. They are great and although we are modest income, none have ever turned us away and made way for us to pay.

I am sorry for what you are going through, but here are the facts. You are a Canadian, and sometime in the past, you all decided you wanted your Government to provide all of your healthcare for you. What you got was high taxes, and low performance. You say you promised to get the best medical treatment in all of North America. Fine, you have that just about perfect. What you meant to say was "I am going to smuggle you across the border into America and get you checked into a real Hospital with Doctors who can earn a living. I'll have to smuggle you in because Canada actually has laws prohibitting this from occurring. I'll make sure I do this because the US healthcare system is the best in the world and is the envy of all. I know that even the poorest public Hospital in America has more up to date equipment than all of Canada combined, and there are no waiting lists for any type of procedure, short of a transplant. I know this to be true because every world leader and anyone who can get here for treatment of any sort does, rather than put up with the convoluted healthcare systems of their own countries". That's what you meant to say. If it's not, then ye reap what ye sow. You asked for it, and you got it.