I have for more than a year been preparing documentation about Arkansas Continued Care Hospital (ACCH) in Jonesboro. Within the next month or so I hope to be able to send letters to the state medical boards, a defrauded insurance company, and to the Attorney General and governor. The recent closing of that facility prompted me to send you this letter now instead of waiting another month or more. As I state in my letters:

ACCH was not a general hospital - it was a recovery and rehabilitation facility. It did not provide emergency services, it had no intensive care unit or critical care unit and did not provide surgical services. All patients were transferred from other hospitals and in stable condition. If the condition of a patient deteriorated or some other life-threatening condition existed the patient would be transferred back to one of the other hospitals. Thus the death rate at ACCH - barring unforseeable circumstances - should have been zero. I have documented 146 deaths at that hospital and am aware of one person who died after being discharged in such a condition that he had to be taken to another hospital the next day and subsequently died.

I will endeavor to transmit my work within the next month or so. As the facility is now closed records and witnesses may be difficult to obtain. I am sixty-nine years old and have an optimistic life expectancy of a year or two, due to the damage done to me there. I have nothing to lose by trying to have justice done for those less fortunate and nothing to gain except being able to prevent others from suffering at the hands of those who crippled me. I hope that the appropriate authorities will investigate and hold them accountable.