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Welcome to St. Joseph Hospital of Elmira, New York, where they claim on their website:
“St. Joseph’s Hospital, a Catholic health facility, is a voluntary not-for-profit community general hospital founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Rochester in cooperation with the physicians and citizens of Elmira, NY. The St. Joseph’s Hospital community, by maintaining a deep respect for the dignity of each person, strives to heal, as Jesus did, in mind, body and spirit, all who come to us.”
“Maintaining a deep respect for the dignity of each person”… except for Gary Harvey.
Oh, I’m so sure Jesus would be quite proud of the staff of the hospital, the guardian group of people and attorneys involved in the Harvey case. Of course, I wouldn’t be counting on him having picked out everyone’s heavenly spot yet.
It was Thanksgiving Day and Sara Harvey had made the arrangements to visit her husband. She and the guard arrived only to be told that the hospital hadn’t received an okay. Guard is not authorized if visit is not authorized, but the dignity people continued with their refusal.
(Cliff Note: A guard is required because Sara is supposedly a danger to her husband because she supposedly didn’t follow medical advice. The hospital, guardians et al petitioned the court to starve & dehydrate Gary to death, but she is the danger. Irony at its best.)
So, while all the important people, who should have made sure the visit was authorized and those who could have given the okay after the failed communication, enjoyed their Thanksgiving meals with the ones of their choice, Gary was denied a mere visit from his wife. The wife that loves him… talks to him… reads to him. Instead, he, a person who has always loved holidays and spending them with the wife he loves — got to lay there alone in the isolation that is his life.
What a group of people…
Local politics of control at its best with the dignity people so proud of their compassionate behavior — the refusal of a simple visit on a special holiday! But then… it was only Gary & Sara Harvey!
Nov 28, 2012 @ 00:05:47
These people are disgusting. The Catholic church has one purpose……taking your money so the priest don’t have to do a days work. They could care less about how patients are treated in this hospital..they only care about how much money can be made off the sick and dying. This is one of the most horrible stories I have seen on this guardianship abuse thing. Did you press charges against them for attempted murder? You should have! That’s all this is. Murder for profit. Say a hail mary on that one you sick perverts!
Nov 26, 2012 @ 15:28:14
Hmm, I wonder (not really….just sayin’) what would be the case if Gary Harvey had no money for his care coming in…..oh, I know, he’d be taken care of at home whether his wife could care for him herself or not……always follow the money trail, whether its about holding people hostage in “hospitals” or “care” facilities while ALLof their money and assets are raided, OR whether its about “foal mills” (big horse breeding farms) producing thousands of foals annually, keeping the horses with potential and then disposing of over a 100,000 horses annually for FREE (instead of having to pay anywhere from $300-$1000 per horse for humane euthanasia and disposal of the body) to horse slaughter in Canada and Mexico and the meat sells for high $$$ as expensive cuisine in Europe, Japan, Russia, etc.
If the hospitals and care facilities didn’t make a boatload of money by holding elderly and/or incapacitated people hostage because they have money for their care and they bleed them dry and then toss them away, and the mass production horse breeders didn’t save a boatload of money, then both these classes of people/businesses would not do what they are doing because they wouldn’t be making and/or saving A LOT of money.
Absolutely criminal is what it is, but until more of the general public that hasn’t had this stuff happen to them and/or is not aware of the rackets being run takes an interest in it, change is difficult….but luckily and with a lot of hard work, not impossible……
Nov 26, 2012 @ 08:57:15
Is it just about money or is it a coverup of medical malpractice as well?
There’s no other reason to take such a disgracefuil stance in a so0-callled Catholic facility.
Nov 26, 2012 @ 02:53:35
I’m so sorry Sara. This sounds like Sara and Gary are being punished again. Its about power and control. What a horrible example, a Catholic Hospital.
Nov 26, 2012 @ 02:16:10
Well said – what a group of people. St. Joseph’s Hospital is technically a Catholic Hospital, but this kind of behavior disgraces their professed mission and motto. It’s time for St. Joseph’s Hospital to stand up and start acting like representatives of the true Catholic faith.
Nov 26, 2012 @ 02:15:15
HORRIBLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!