Date: Wednesday 20 November 21:59:11 1732161551 From: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx P.O. Box XXXX Xxxxx AR XXXXX To: Arkansas State Board of Nursing 1123 S. University Ave. Ste. 800 Little Rock AR 72204 ATTN: Complaints Subject: Nurses at Arkansas Continued Care Hospital Jonesboro, Arkansas From 15 January to about 28 March 2021 I was confined to the Arkansas Continued Care Hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas. During this time the physician responsible for my care was guilty of gross malpractice which resulted in my permanent disability. As part of his treatment I was given (without my knowledge) a number of dangerous and injurious drugs, which the doctor was not qualified to prescribe. I was tied to a bed with wires for days and not administered physical therapy for weeks. This treatment left me permanently disabled and experiencing chronic pain. It was only after my family removed me from the facility over the strenuous objections of the management that I began to recover. With one definite and perhaps two other exceptions the staff treated me in a most demeaning and dehumanizing manner. They stood outside the door of my room and laughed and joked about things I said while under the influence of a mix of psychotropic drugs which made hallucinate. One of them, a man, berated me when, too weak to move, I was unable to cooperate in changing my position on the bed, instead picking me up (he was big) and dropping me where he wanted me. I was left tied to the bed (wrists and ankles wired to the frame) totally naked and uncovered. My left arm was twisted in an unnatural position and - despite being only marginally conscious - I was vocalizing expressions of severe pain. When my sister came in and demanded they rectify the situation the nurse present at the time reluctantly did so, remarking that it was my fault because they "couldn't keep a diaper on him". The fact that they even complied with instructions to tie me hand and foot to a bed with wire (rather than actual purpose-made restraints) is disgraceful. I wore the same dirty gown for days at a time and had a nonfunctioning telemetry device (it was turned off most of the time and only one or two of the sensors were attached) hanging around my neck and constantly becoming tangled with a feeding tube that was only being used for administering medication. That these people acted as they did does not surprise me, given their appearance. Uniforms were anything but uniform, there were rarely two that came close to matching, appearing to be a random collection of whatever parts were available. Most did not seem to be especially clean (but then neither was the environment) and neither did the wearers. Since the hospital is at present involved in a lawsuit (Jackson v. Arkansas Continued Care Hospital of Jonesboro LLC et al) apparently a wage and labor dispute it would seem that not only does the hospital employ low quality personnel but doesn't even pay them enough. This letter was sent by certified mail. Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx

Date: Wednesday 20 November 21:58:51 1732161531 From: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx P.O. Box XXXX Xxxxx AR XXXXX To: Arkansas State Board of Nursing 1123 S. University Ave. Ste. 800 Little Rock AR 72204 ATTN: Complaints Subject: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx From 15 January to about 28 March 2021 I was confined to the Arkansas Continued Care Hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas. During this time the physician responsible for my care was guilty of egregious malpractice which resulted in my permanent disability. As part of his treatment I was given (without my knowledge) a number of dangerous and injurious drugs, which the doctor was not qualified to prescribe. I was tied to a bed with wires for days and not administered physical therapy for weeks. This treatment left me permanently disabled and experiencing chronic pain. Madison Thompson is a person I have, to my knowledge, never seen. That may be because I was in a drugged - nearly comatose - state at such times as such a meeting might have occurred. Yet she is on record (see attachment) as being part of a most egregious breach of medical protocols and ethics perpetrated on my person. She should have been aware of the scandalous conduct of the doctor and the conditions in the hospital and reported it. My family tried to extricate me by having me moved to other facilities but all refused as - the records show - due to the alleged 'behavioral issues'. Instead it was only after my family removed me from the facility without the approval of the management that I began to recover. If this complaint is made available to the subject, let me say this: In 65 years (exactly as I as committed to that facility on my birthday) I have never been diagnosed as having any type of mental illness and no need for an examination has ever been recommended. Since the day I left that hospital almost three years ago I have never been suspected of any sort of mental illness or exhibited any behavior suggesting it. Furthermore my recovery, such as it has been, began only after I left the hospital. It is not complete after almost three years and probably never will be. A perfectly functional and productive human being was turned into a near invalid by the treatment in that place and by your silence you are, if not in part responsible guilty of doing nothing to prevent it or bring it to the attention of someone with the ability to do so. You should be ashamed but you can take comfort in knowing your incompetence, malfeasance or whatever it was was to my benefit. Had one of those facilities accepted me I might have lingered for much longer and perhaps never recovered. When you thwarted their efforts to have me moved me my family simply took me home - over objections and warnings of dire consequences - and I recovered to the degree that I have (some of the damage you did is probably permanent) with no further treatment. Such negligence and incompetence leaves yet another stain on the reputation of the medical industry. I realize that you do not care but the sooner that doctor is held accountable for his actions the fewer people he will harm. If you have reported the misconduct of the doctor and generally deplorable conditions in that hospital I will withdraw the complaint. This letter was sent by certified mail. Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx

Arkansas Continued Care Hospital

Jonesboro

AR

Arkansas

ACCH

James Cox

CEO

Jeffery Blake Copeland

MD

Chief Medical Officer