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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy => Topic started by: Anonymous on September 26, 2006, 06:34:44 PM
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Dear Parents and Consultants:
Recently, we noticed an increase in the number of negative incidents in our medications dispensary. As we all know, degrees and certifications do not automatically make an organized, responsible employee. Personnel are consistently evaluated and staff changes made if we see no way of correcting the situation. All health-related organizations have negative incidents occur, but we always endeavor to address the issues and make changes in order to move forward.
Joe Stapp is now acting as the Dispensary supervisor. Joe is an Assistant Headmaster, clinical supervisor, and a former peer group counselor at Hidden Lake Academy.
In order to minimize errors and continue to provide quality care for the students, Joe is looking to implement the following changes:
Blister packaging medication in order to help with better medication management.
Acquiring delivery service from the pharmacy with whom HLA contracts.
Increasing communication among the dispensary staff in order to better coordinate dispensary duties.
Begin a more formal process of tracking dispensary activities to catch problems before they occur.
Begin cross-training assistant counselors on Dispensary duties to ensure adequate coverage in the Dispensary.
If you have any additional issues needing to be addressed involving the Dispensary, please feel free to contact Joe Stapp. We look forward to another great school year at HLA.
Sincerely,
Nicole Fuglsang, MA, NCC, LPC
Director of Admissions/ Public Relations
Hidden Lake Academy
nicolef@hiddenlakeacademy.com
phone (706) 864-4730
fax (706) 864-9109
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Recently, we noticed an increase in the number of negative incidents in our medications dispensary
Anyone have any idea what she's talking about?
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I can't imagine that the incidents have been any higher than they have been for the past three years.
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Recently, we noticed an increase in the number of negative incidents in our medications dispensary
Anyone have any idea what she's talking about?
My child sometimes wouldn't get the correct meds or receive them way past the time he was supposed to receive them... the people handing the medicines out didn't have a clue what meds the kids were on or when they needed to take them. He'd have to tell them they gave him the wrong meds or he was missing meds. There were kids that went days without medication because HLA failed to get their prescriptions refilled. Then they tried to pin that one on Dr. Reddick saying she forget to give the kids refills. Bull. The driver who took the kids to her office forgot to turn the prescriptions into the school.
One time a boy went for 4 days without any meds. It wasn't until he talked to his parents that they found out he was out of meds. Another girl had a reaction to one of her meds and went for 10 days without a replacement med because HLA failed to get her to the psychiatrist for an appointment.
What happened to the new nurse they hired? Now HLA wants to train the Assistant Counselors to hand out meds? Is that legal? Unbelievable.
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Training the Assistant Counselors to pass out meds would probably be an improvement. I suspect that they have passed meds in the recent past with no training. Legal? Maybe. Ethical? Now thats a different story.
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Gin Stokes was fired for taking other kids meds, supposidly. The nurse Teresa fell down the stairs and will most likely be out for a while.
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?p= ... rse#215548 (http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?p=215548&highlight=nurse#215548)
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"My child sometimes wouldn't get the correct meds or receive them way past the time he was supposed to receive them... the people handing the medicines out didn't have a clue what meds the kids were on or when they needed to take them. He'd have to tell them they gave him the wrong meds or he was missing meds. There were kids that went days without medication because HLA failed to get their prescriptions refilled. Then they tried to pin that one on Dr. Reddick saying she forget to give the kids refills. Bull. "
This exact thing happened to my son. I spoke directly to Dr. Reddick who told me she had written new prescriptions and she
stated she had delivered them directly to the "dispensary" At least
a week went by before the new meds were given, and then my son had to tell staff what he was taking and how much to give him....and
he had substance abuse problems. When I reported the problem
to Clay Erickson, he seemed surprised and "assured" me he would
look into it. His assurance made me feel so much better - NOT.
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It is absolutely amazing that no child has actually died from HLA's incompetence. It's probably just a matter of time.
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In order to minimize errors and continue to provide quality care for the students, Joe is looking to implement the following changes:
Blister packaging medication in order to help with better medication management.
Acquiring delivery service from the pharmacy with whom HLA contracts.
Increasing communication among the dispensary staff in order to better coordinate dispensary duties.
Begin a more formal process of tracking dispensary activities to catch problems before they occur.
Begin cross-training assistant counselors on Dispensary duties to ensure adequate coverage in the Dispensary.
NATSAP's Principles of Good Practice
7.0 HEALTH CARE ACCESS
7.1 The program/school will have a policy on health care that addresses the following issues:
7.1.1 Access to appropriate medical care.
7.1.2 Delineation of whom is authorized to dispense medications.
7.1.3 A policy on storing, accounting, and security of medication.
http://www.natsap.org/principles.asp (http://www.natsap.org/principles.asp)
Given that Buccellato funded the creation of NATSAP and HLA is a long-standing member, shouldn't these policies have been in place all along?
Leaves one to question how many other Principles are not being followed, by HLA and other NATSAP programs.
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NATSAP, buccel paid to have this group formed , and the same group that the very next year kicked him off the board?
NATSAP Hates Buccel they just abused him for his money.
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It might be better put if Nicole opened up with:
"Some of you have begun to notice an increase in the number of negative incidents in our medications dispensary"
This would be more accurate. Hence the only reason they are bothering to make a change. I've got to say I'm suprised, they're actually hinting at the fact that they have an unqualified untrained person on the job.
A.C's have always dispensed meds, trained or not didnt matter.
Any students or parents wishing to share information that might prove helpful to the cause please PM me.
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It is absolutely amazing that no child has actually died from HLA's incompetence. It's probably just a matter of time.
It was a close call with the girl who hung herself in the closet. I guess HLA greed trumps ethics and apparently concern for the young lives they have been entrusted with.
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That girl was dead when they found her. She wasn't breathing or anything. They had to resesitate her.
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That girl was dead when they found her. She wasn't breathing or anything. They had to resesitate her.
Didn't HLA claims this never happened? I wish this girl's roommates would speak up.
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Contact Lumpkin county fire department, the run logs are public record. Anytime EMS is dispatched, there is a record of the incident. There WAS an incident where a student hung herself, and EMS was dispatched, as well as lifeflight. Len does not have the ability to cover that one up.
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Contact Lumpkin county fire department, the run logs are public record. Anytime EMS is dispatched, there is a record of the incident. There WAS an incident where a student hung herself, and EMS was dispatched, as well as lifeflight. Len does not have the ability to cover that one up.
They've managed to cover up a lot of other things that should be a matter of public record.
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Contact Lumpkin county fire department, the run logs are public record. Anytime EMS is dispatched, there is a record of the incident. There WAS an incident where a student hung herself, and EMS was dispatched, as well as lifeflight. Len does not have the ability to cover that one up.
I have never seen that denied on this site, or anywhere else. I think HLA has claimed that no student has ever commited suicide at HLA, which is true.
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Contact Lumpkin county fire department, the run logs are public record. Anytime EMS is dispatched, there is a record of the incident. There WAS an incident where a student hung herself, and EMS was dispatched, as well as lifeflight. Len does not have the ability to cover that one up.
I have never seen that denied on this site, or anywhere else. I think HLA has claimed that no student has ever commited suicide at HLA, which is true.
HLA denies, downplays, and/or won't admit that students have attempted suicide or have been severly injured by other students.
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Contact Lumpkin county fire department, the run logs are public record. Anytime EMS is dispatched, there is a record of the incident. There WAS an incident where a student hung herself, and EMS was dispatched, as well as lifeflight. Len does not have the ability to cover that one up.
I have never seen that denied on this site, or anywhere else. I think HLA has claimed that no student has ever commited suicide at HLA, which is true.
HLA denies, downplays, and/or won't admit that students have attempted suicide or have been severly injured by other students.
Yeah, and they also deny that they take violent disturbed kids or court-ordered kids, but their idiotic moron of a "spiritual advisor" just wrote int the newspaper that HLA is an ATI (alternative to incarceration) program.
They LOVE telling on themselves! Nice job, Churchie. Thanks for more ammo.
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Contact Lumpkin county fire department, the run logs are public record. Anytime EMS is dispatched, there is a record of the incident. There WAS an incident where a student hung herself, and EMS was dispatched, as well as lifeflight. Len does not have the ability to cover that one up.
Her room mates were on Winter Break. Most of us were. We all found out about it after the fact when we got back. I was especially close to Walter Keeping as he was my volleyball and softball coach, and he was there when we were picked up at the airport. He was the one that tried to recessitate (sp?) her, and he told me about the incident first hand at the airport, before they announced it on the bus ride back to HLA. It was Walter and my counselor, Darlene, that found her. Darlene quit shortly after because she just couldn't get over it.
This most certainly did happen, her name was Amy Klemm. They never told us what happened to her.
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oops, quoted wrong post. meant to quote the one before about wishing the room mates would speak up.
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"my counselor, Darlene, that found her. Darlene quit shortly after because she just couldn't get over it. "
Was that the Darlene who was there in 2003? She was my kid's counselor for about a month before she quit (PG 59.) They never told us why she quit. They told us some lie - like everything else they told us. All a bunch of lies.
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that was her
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that was her, and that was the reason, it was all hush-hush. Everytime a staff would leave, we were told not to discuss employee issues
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I think her name was Amy Smart, not Klemm. I had a box of her crayons on restrictions that said SMART (in sharpie, you know, how they'de write our last names on everything.) and Klee Hall yelled at me, took the crayons, and didn't let me finish my project. I didn't mind though. I really liked her. She had been crying for weeks in the lodge before christmas break, but that just could've been b/c she wanted to go home. Her roommate, Jennifer Wills, was on Christman break. When we came back, there was still a blood or vomit stain on the carpet in Jenn and Amy's room from when they resesitated her. Jenn and I had to clean it up and Jenn slept in my suite for the next few weeks.
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"my counselor, Darlene, that found her. Darlene quit shortly after because she just couldn't get over it. "
Was that the Darlene who was there in 2003? She was my kid's counselor for about a month before she quit (PG 59.) They never told us why she quit. They told us some lie - like everything else they told us. All a bunch of lies.
Yes, it was Darlene that was also the counselor for PG 59. She was also going thru a nasty divorce, and then finding Amy was the straw that broke the camels back I guess. But no Chynna, I'm pretty sure her last name was Klemm.
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"my counselor, Darlene, that found her. Darlene quit shortly after because she just couldn't get over it. "
Was that the Darlene who was there in 2003? She was my kid's counselor for about a month before she quit (PG 59.) They never told us why she quit. They told us some lie - like everything else they told us. All a bunch of lies.
Yes, it was Darlene that was also the counselor for PG 59. She was also going thru a nasty divorce, and then finding Amy was the straw that broke the camels back I guess. But no Chynna, I'm pretty sure her last name was Klemm.
It was definitely Klemm. Confirmed by staff.
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Is Theresa Allen still the nurse at HLA?
http://www.hiddenlakeacademy.com/loadPr ... userID=204 (http://www.hiddenlakeacademy.com/loadProfile.aspx?userID=204)
They say she is. Is this false and just on the website to make it appear as if they have a nurse on staff?
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http://www.hiddenlakeacademy.com/loadPr ... userID=210 (http://www.hiddenlakeacademy.com/loadProfile.aspx?userID=210)
"Hi, this is the dispensary communicator. I'd like to announce that I have taken all of the meds in the dispensary and I feel great."
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Yikes....you could have warned us first.
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Is Theresa Allen still the nurse at HLA?
http://www.hiddenlakeacademy.com/loadPr ... userID=204 (http://www.hiddenlakeacademy.com/loadProfile.aspx?userID=204)
They say she is. Is this false and just on the website to make it appear as if they have a nurse on staff?
This lady is still listed as the "nurse" on their website. Hasn't she been gone for quite some time now?
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Are you insinuating that HLA would claim on their website and to parents to have staffed postions filled that are currently vacant? Or claim that individuals are still working at the school long after they have left?
How dare you!
Let's ask the current hla Spanish teacher Lori Heist about what's really going on.
Lori????
oh damn.
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OK, so you're saying she is NOT employed there any longer?
If so, why does she allow her name to be used to give the impression that one, there is a nurse there, and two, that nurse is her?
She should call them and tell them to remove her name immediately. Also the lawyers for the class action suit should be advised of HLA's ongoing fraudulent misrepresentations of staff.