Consulting Services
Healthcare Delivery & Death Consulting
We consult one on one with individuals, family members and attorneys regarding delivery of medical and mental healthcare services, and caregiver services within hospitals, nursing and retirement homes, and prison and jail systems nationwide. We are experts in the mechanics of healthcare services delivered within the prison and jail populations within the U.S. That expertise has afforded us keen insights into the problems of healthcare delivery in society and an increased expertise in end of life issues and death investigations. Our job in part is to give sound, factual information and provide the required tools to individuals to ensure their healthcare and end of life wishes and decisions are understood, enforced, adhered to and carried out. This is accomplished in part by putting in place LifeGuard℠ documents, specifically created by the Institute to ensure the best qualified and sufficient-to-the-need healthcare delivery and end of life decisions are followed.
We possess a working knowledge of the multiple forensic disciplines implicit within the healthcare, law enforcement and death investigation system, and have a worldwide database of experts within specific disciplines. Being prepared means being able to make informed decisions based on sound information-in all things. We explain in detail and in no-nonsense language through our one-on-one consulting, the avenues and options available, problems within each, provide LifeGuard℠ documents that must be in place, in order to ensure as far as possible, that your individual wishes are respected and followed
Consider . . .
People taken advantage of who have a debilitating disease such as MS or Alzheimer's, who have no living relatives, whose needs are ignored by the very agencies contracted with to provide healthcare and caregiver services. Unwillingly and unknowingly unsuspecting residents sign over power of attorney and other powers to the principals of the very healthcare "caregiver" agencies contracted by the nursing home, assisted living residence or retirement home, to control their finances and make life and death decisions concerning their healthcare. Those principals in turn "share" the undeserved wealth with a designated caregiver-employee hand-picked to be a witness to the signature. Methods may vary-from over medicating patients to outright deception. The net result is that a fast death is a cheap death and nets monetary results for the healthcare agencies and its personnel.
Consider . . .
For a fact, healthcare and caregiver agency personnel falsify work schedules, duck out the back door during shifts to meet their boyfriends or girlfriends, or invite them in. Medications are not given on time if given at all. Meals are set before a patient who is unable to feed him/herself. Rather than feed that individual as they should be doing, these healthcare agency personnel document that the patient was "despondent and not hungry." Your family member doesn't eat. Sometimes for days. Malnutrition and dehydration set in causing complications that sometimes are irreversible
Consider . . .
If your family member is living in an assisted living residence or nursing home and you are not living in the same state to oversee his/her healthcare and needs, how do you know how your Mom or Dad, sister or brother, or other family member is doing? Are you actually relying on reports and conversations from the facility? Its personnel? Third person hearsay?
Consider . . .
A loved one who is bed ridden, relegated to a hospital, nursing home, prison medical unit, assisted living residence or retirement home and needs to be turned in bed on a regular basis. Consider further the reality that healthcare and caregiver personnel fail to do so consistently, often resulting in pressure ulcers which can quickly turn into open wounds resulting in sepsis and possible death.
Consider . . .
The guilt and despondency of a family member when it's discovered that upon moving an elderly parent from one nursing home to another due to suspected substandard care, that on admission to the "new" facility, multiple bruises and contusions are documented by the receiving facility, and it is subsequently confirmed that the helpless patient had been beaten repeatedly.
Consider . . .
Those individuals within local jails and state prison facilities and prison medical units who are sick and/or dying, who are premeditatedly refused adequate healthcare under the façade of cherry-picked inadequate protocols insufficient to a presented medical need. Robitussin for lung cancer. Maalox for coronary heart disease. Aspirin for brain tumors. Pepto Bismol for staph infections. Eye drops for impending blindness. All the norm not the exception. Consider further, the state control of a closed system, even with private ownership involved, inevitably results in the omission of key information from medical records and the silencing of dissent. Quality assurance and risk management personnel stand at the ready to ensure that access to adequate healthcare will be more and more difficult to obtain and the voices of those that request it are ignored.
Consider further . . .
- Families given inaccurate information about healthcare and condition of a loved one.
- The arrogance of physicians in response to your questions and concerns regarding medications, treatments, advanced directives, end of life issues of a loved one.
- Tactics of deceit by administrators to obtain power of attorney authorizations from the elderly living in nursing homes or assisted living residences.
- The lax response to nursing home, hospital, assisted living, and prison deaths.
- Questions ignored; phone calls not returned by physicians, nursing home, assisted living residences or hospital administrators, and prison administrators.
- Medications inappropriately administered to patients or denied.
- Informed consent summarily ignored.
- Medical records altered or missing.
- Personal property missing.
- Contracted healthcare workers with assigned shifts within nursing homes or assisted living residences who leave their post, fail to feed their patients and administer medications, and falsify records.
- Unqualified coroners determining cause and manner of death.
- Medical examiners that state families cannot solicit second autopsies and force signatures.
- Medical examiners with no forensic training determining cause and manner of death on you or a loved one.
- Conflicts of interest between M.E.s, coroners, sheriffs, funeral homes, contracted hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, jails.
- Cause and manner of death determined by hearsay.
- Deceased bodies transported without documentation.
- Bodies embalmed or cremated without authorization.
- Harassment of families by contracted funeral homes.
If your loved one is in a nursing home, assisted living residence, convalescent hospital, retirement home, rehab facility, prison or jail and is:
- Unable to speak
- Disabled
- In a coma-either medically induced or otherwise
- Sick
- Dying
- Denied access to physicians
- Denied access to accurate forms
- Unable to dress him/herself
- Unable to walk without assistance
- Unable to take medications independently and not being given
- Unable to feed oneself and not being fed
- Unable to voice concerns and net effective results
and you are being told by home healthcare agencies, contracted caregiver agencies, hospital, prison medical and administrative personnel that everything is "ok" and "fine," do not assume that to be the case.
If any medical personnel or administrative personnel affiliated with a hospital, nursing home, assisted living residence or retirement home suggests that you call a specific home healthcare service agency for post hospital care or follow-up care-Beware.
Do not assume that because you or your loved one pays a monthly or yearly fee for specific services that they are being taken care of as they should be. There are key steps and actions every individual and family member should take and implement to ensure the best possible outcomes.
What We Do
Fight for the life of your loved one in partnership with you. One-on-one consulting with family members who are advocating on behalf of loved ones in assisted living residences, prison and jail facilities, nursing homes and retirement homes across the country, and regarding the investigation of death of loved ones who have died of suspicious and unnatural death.
We consult with individuals regarding their personal healthcare and end of life decisions ensuring that correct documentation is in place-whether 18 or 80 years of age. We educate extensively and thoroughly on end of life issues and make known and available the Institute's LifeGuard℠ documents
Our Method
We do what we do IN PARTNERSHIP with families, attorneys and other professionals. We cannot accomplish all that we do without your committed partnership with us on your behalf and that of your loved one.
With Families and Individuals
- We educate by action.
- Provide pertinent, accurate and factual information so families better understand the healthcare delivery system, the business of death investigations and their indirect and direct impact on themselves and their loved ones.
- Ensure that key LifeGuard℠ documents are in place on behalf of families and individuals as well as, their loved ones.
- Obtain records, documents, contracts from healthcare providers, contractors, state agencies, policies and procedures in existence but not known.
- Analyze records, determine what's missing, what's being said vs. what's being done in relation to mandated policy and procedures, accepted practices, written and unwritten rules and regulations on the backdrop of state and federal laws.
- Target key issues ignored and not disclosed.
- Recommend and refer cases to qualified, interested attorneys nationwide.
With Attorneys
We consult one-on-one with attorneys regarding standard of care delivery and death investigations within assisted living residences, prisons, jails, hospitals and nursing homes pulling together experts from multiple professional fields and forensic science disciplines when needed.
We know how specialized prison healthcare and death issues are within the prison and jail systems across the country. Prison healthcare (HMO) litigation is a specialty; an area of the law that requires careful navigation, demanding key information and documentation in order to obtain the best outcomes. Over sixteen years of extensive research, study and data collection on prison HMOs and managed care companies has resulted in our becoming a professional consulting resource for attorneys in this area. We are consulting specialists on the organization, structure, policy, procedures, rules and regulations of prison HMO's and hybrid HMOs contracted by states to deliver medical, mental and dental healthcare to the prison and jail population.
We're conscientious.
We're straightforward. Well organized and logical "round pegs fall into round holes". The ability to anticipate problems and address them beforehand, to adapt to changing situations and circumstances simultaneously, and not be straight-jacketed by convention nor easily intimidated are WDI's characteristic trademarks.
We're persistent.
We persevere. We are committed to the spiritual, emotional and mental well-being of those we work with, and to the individual facets of the issue as a whole. We stay the course; we are patient with the end-goal fixed before us. We don't swerve to the right or to the left. We don't give up
We're aggressive.
We are subtlety aggressive; shrewd in our strategy, diplomatic and discerning in our methods.
We're detailed
- We scrutinize all facets involved in each life and death case.
- We research corporation and organizational hierarchies and profiles, track annual sales, contract awards and terminations, track legislative bills, study the voting records of local and state politicians, and follow the money trail between and among corporations, hospitals, departments of correction, nursing home and the assisted living industry.
- We critically examine policies, procedures, rules and regulations, professional codes of ethics, credentialing and accreditation of individuals, institutions, organizations and agencies, on the backdrop of state and federal laws.
- We canvass, study and sift through multi-state policies, procedures, written and unwritten rules and regulations, and legislation to determine systemic patterns and practices.
- We search for and highlight loopholes in policies, procedures and legislation that directly and indirectly effect each case.
- We educate our clients by providing explanations in no-nonsense language regarding the inner workings and mechanics of each agency; their organizational structure, job responsibilities, the inter-relationship of each as they effect the whole, and translating policies and reports into layman's terms as they relate to the personal situation they find themselves in.
- We pull together needed experts from around the world to provide the most accurate and up-to-date data and information.
- We pull together needed experts from around the world to provide the most accurate and up-to-date data and information.
- We pry into the dark corners of non-transparency by those charged with the public trust.
- We recommend and refer potential cases of merit to our network of Triple-A rated attorneys around the country who have expressed an interest and desire to review cases.
Contact Us
816.941.0087
email: DeathInstitute@aim.com
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