California Nursing Board Will Require Fingerprints From All Licensees

My husband has been hospitalized eight times during the last three years at various hospitals in the Long Beach/Los Angeles area. I noticed immediately that the nursing care was poor at his first hospital. Because this was a small psychiatric hospital, I assumed the problem was with the particular facility, so I had him transferred to UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Although the physicians and social workers at this hospital were among the best in the world, the nursing care was so poor that my husband refused to return to this world class facility. For example, he needed help to go to the restroom during the night.  When he buzzed for help, the “nurses” (orderlies?) who came abused him verbally and warned him not to bother them again.  Another time, when my husband was transported on a stretcher, one “nurse” said to the other: “This is a dead man.”

At a hospital in Long Beach, the “nurses” seemed so bad that I complained to the doctor. His answer was “That’s all we can get for what we can pay.” At this hospital the attendants just seemed lazy and unresponsive. At another hospital in Long Beach I actually felt that my husband was in danger because the attendants threatened him if he didn’t “behave.” I made a formal complaint to administration.

I used quotation marks because I’m not sure if these people were licensed nurses or orderlies and aides. One thing I’m certain of is this: These poorly trained people are the individuals who provided most of the care while my husband was hospitalized. The best nurses and attendants were at Cedars-Sinai and Los Alamitos medical centers.

Thank you for this investigation. It is badly needed.

Mr Charles Ornstein-Mrs.Tracy Weber.
My daughter Veronica,aged 28,was admitted at the huntington memorial Hospital of Pasadena on June 30th,2002 to deliver my grandaughter Indiana. Her prenatal records warned about proteinuria +2 and concernings of IUGR (growing retardement of the baby) and other clear symptoms of a preclampsia in progress.No one (not the admitting nurse nor OBGYM GERONIMO RODRIGUEZ MD,attending labor and delivery, took into account serious existing warning at the records.She delivered baby at 6am and records showed high blood pressure during and after the event.Six hours after she started with unbearable upper abdominal pain ,nausea,vomiting,seeing spots light.It was sunday.Doctor was at home.Nurses told my wife that they were cappable to attend the situation.(they never knew what was occuring).When Veronica vomited,nurses showed a disgusting rictus.They treated her and her mother in a roughly manner.Almost three hours later,Rodriguez paged at home,precripted by phone tylenol and mylanta(never came).She was progressing to a mortal HELLP.Nobody did anything at all,even a simple fresh plattelets transfussion. When Blue Code was started she was mortally seizing bleeding by eyes,ears,mouth.She was brain dead.She died.Not Rodriguez and another Dr Joseph Li recognized gross simptoms and outcomes related to the existing preclampsioa,eclampsia or hellp ,neither reg.nurses Robin O Brien,Cricki Morrissey and Hillary Warren. So,after years of suppossedly “serious” investigations done by MBof Cal and RegNBoard,no one of them resulted proffesionally accountable despite a lot of reports given in USA and in Argentina by witness and renowned experts ,and a ten pages report of the Public Health Service of California pointing wrongdoings on doctors and nurses,the Medical Board´s final report sent-like in almost every complaint since 1975,the year of its creation-through that real” black hole” of the “single departure” definition given by the Medical Practice Act on the B&PCode;of Cal.So,there was no one responsible.The Registered Nursing Board,in a cynical final report did not find responsibles despite experts reports and despite the PHService Report.So my poor daughter died because she wanted to die. Can you believe such falsehood ?The existing corruption of the boards is not new.Is an accepted secret that they are simply useless brotherhoods.No one doctor(and the boards are ruled by doctors and nurses ) will accuse a peer.Doing that they can be isolated.Actually I got my daughter`s experts outside Los Angeles area.I´m still awaiting a piece of justice and I will never give up.Go ahead with your investigation.It is more than necessary because the health care crisis is killing people daily.Something must be done in order to put out the bad professionals
to let arise the best health care quality.
Arq.Roberto Glaubach.Buenos Aires.Argentina.
PD:Geronimo Rodriguez clairly falsified the death certificate.Obviously he couldn`t sign that the cause of death was the Hellp. Doing that he was going to recognize his gross ignorance because he never did any treatement on that direction.

There needs to be more tests and supervision of cosmetic surgeons. celebrities relatives getting killed and no new laws. What will it take? Kanye’s mother had a supposedly simple breast reduction procedure that left her w/o life.