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!
I truly do not understand why, in almost all guardianship cases, the abusive guardians choose to isolate their “ward” on national holidays and punish the family. This is another example of the abuse and denial of a human beings civil and humanitarian rights. And what exactly do the employees of Chemung County, the law firm of Davis and O’Mara, Senator O’Mara, St. Joseph’s hospital, get out of this? Does it make them happy? Do they all sit there at home with their families and talk to their loved ones at the Thanksgiving table how “We stopped Sara Harvey from visiting her husband today, isn’t that wonderful? We isolated Gary and upset Sara! We have so much to be grateful for!” And then do they thank God for giving them the power to hurt and abuse others?? For the life of me, I cannot understand this. My Mom’s last Thanksgiving on earth was spent locked up in a facility by Mary Giordano, attorney with Franchina and Giordano in Garden City, NY. While my mother cried and begged and pleaded with anyone and everyone to go home, called me hysterically crying and begging me to pick her up, I think Mary Giordano, Judge Joel Asarch of the Nassau County Supreme Court Mineola, NY and Anne Markowitz Recht of AMRecht Associates in Plainview NY, all sat home with their families and friends having a wonderful holiday dinner with not one bit of concern about Dorothy Wilson. Mom told me not one of them called her to wish her a Happy Thanksgiving or even stopped by. Instead, it appears to me that they were quite proud of themselves for abusing her once again.
Gary and Sara Harvey deserve better than this. Where are the real politicians, the honest ones? Is there any person employed by St. Joseph’s Hospital in Elmira NY that is aware of the abuse and is keeping their mouth shut? What about Chemung County and Davis and O’Mara law firm? Is there any person employed at either of these locations that is willing to come forward and report this abuse and stop it? Is there any individual in any of these places that has seen enough and had enough of this and actually believes in the hospital’s mission statement that says in part “…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.” In my opinion, they have no right to use Jesus name and pretend that this is what Jesus wanted. Shame on every single person who denies the civil and humanitarian rights of any of God’s children.
Local Politics it is. For those in Chemung County and St. Joseph hospital that sit by and just watch the abuse of our family. God is watching. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. (Albert Einstein)
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Catholic vs. Corporate is more like it, as it is only about the Money.
I just might be a stupid old Aussie so let me just give them the Great Aussie Curse to St Joesph’s “may their Chickens turn into Emu’s and Kick their Corporate Dunny Down”..!!!
P.S FREE GARY…!!!