Forced Overtime?

4/16/2012

techs are being told that they "have to" work overtime or change shifts whenever. Doesnt seem to matter if they have kids or other jobs to pay bills. If they get sick and call off managers are asking for notes from the doctor different than what policy is. Techs are scared to say anything because they need there jobs. Just because things are rough out there doesn't mean cory nelson should be taking advantig of people.
Bullies create bullies remember that.

26 Comments

4/17/2012 05:40:37 am

Is he seriously considering hiring one of the supervisors for an investigator job after being responsible for so many eeoc complaints? Very poor judgement!

yankton

6/22/2012 08:00:18 am

you should contact a few employees frim his previous employer I am sure you would hear a lot.

PJ Reed

6/30/2012 04:11:04 am

Hi. I would love to communicate with anyone in the Yankton mental behavioral care community about Mr. Nelson. Please feel free to drop by my blogsite anytime (PJ Reed The ArizonaState Hospital and Patient Abuse) and/or visit me via my secure email address: [email protected]. I assure you that I will take whatever measures necessary to protect your identity as per whatever terms you're most comfortable with.

PJ Reed

6/30/2012 04:22:34 am

Wow! What nature of eeoc complaints are we talking about here? Please feel free to drop by and share any input or comments you have in relation to this matter at my blogsite (PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse), and/or via my secure email address: [email protected]. I will take whoever measures are necessary in order to assure that your identity is protected as per whatever terms you deem to be most comfortable for you. Thank you.

Aftermath

6/26/2012 03:46:19 pm

We are still dealing with the damage he caused in Yankton. He proved he could reduce restraint use by removing them, not giving any care for the increased injury to staff. His gestapo regime is still terrorizing staff. Our only saving grace is that his replacement has been hired and he will hopefully clean house and make our hospital safe again. My prayers go out to Arizona. You guys are in need of help.

PJ Reed

6/30/2012 04:18:39 am

Hi. The staff at The Arizona State Hospital are subject to undue pressure from administration in terms of reporting issues specifically related to the quality of the work experiences under Mr. Necosn's supervision, something that I am sure the good health care workers in Yankton understand. That said, please feel free to share any information or comments that can aid in addressing this matter as it exists today, here in Arizona, or as it formerly stood there in South Dakota, with me through my blogsite (PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse) and.visit me via my secure email address:
[email protected]. I assure that I will take whatever measures necessary to protect your identity as per whatever terms you're most comfortable with. The staff at ASH need your input in order to both protect their interests as well as to assure that the experiences of the patients at ASH are optimally preserved in keeping with standrard codes of health care and so on. Thank you.

Red Rider

2/10/2013 08:39:38 am

Cory brought over from South Dakota his butt buddy Don Whitmire who is an arrogant looking rat. Now they have created a position for him downtown. It practically takes an act of congress to hire unit staff. It is corrupt here. Bad.

Injured

7/5/2012 11:07:39 pm

now if you get hit you cant get help, staff asisting someone on the ground get attacked now to becuz there isnt enuf staff around. Its gottenvery scary.

7/7/2012 12:08:34 pm

Since when is it ok to be forced to work 24 hours? Working as a temp employee, filling in for the regular staff, which only increases the dangerous situations for other staff members and residents. Wonder why there is an increase in aggresive behavior by staff towards residents. Stems from lack of sleep and increased fear for their jobs. Police reports not only for agressive behavior by residents against residents it includes staff towards residents where things get turned around on residents to make it ok for staff to create unsafe environments.

Residents attacking other residents more than 7 times, which get reported to adminisration, and nothing happens to keep the residents and the staff safe. When residents defend themselves, since no previous action to keep safe by adminisration, the resident then face jail and or prison time. This is suppose to be a safe environment for residents and especially for staff, unfortunatlly for the forced overtime and poor work ethics of the administration it is far from safe.

PJ Reed

7/7/2012 05:42:41 pm

Staff: I cannot easily tell you all how much this concerns me. I mean it when I say that I care just as much about you as I do myself and my fellow (former) pateint-peers there at ASH. I only wish there were a direct line of support that i could throw your way. There isn't, of course, because the admin keep that whole operation tight as a slipknot, and I am running into the same blatant denials of reality now that I am in the process of taking some of my concerns into the state's minor legal courts. Trust me, if I were in this of myself, I would and most definitely could have sued long before now. But that is of topic. Keep the communication rolling, because that is your best avenue in terms of getting this b.s. cleared up. I mean this too- contact your elected state and federal representatives, and make it clear to them that these issues are as alive and well as I try to make clear in my blog: PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse. Also, please believe me when I tell you that I know many, many of you do your best and and do indeed care for your patients, so please don't necessarily take
my writing personally. I have to remain honest in my writing, and I do have very strong feelings about those staff who are not up to the task of working at ASH because they are too subhuman to sincerely care about weaker, vulnerable persons. Hang in there, make your concerns made, and contact me anytime. I am on your side, I know it is against your training and so on, but it is true. I care.

2 FRIGHTNED

7/12/2012 12:12:53 pm

I FINALLY HAD TO QUIT. MY REG UNIT WAS GOOD BUT THEY KEPT FLOATING ME OVER TO THE BAD CIVIL UNIT. I AND OTHERS KEPT GETTING ATTACKED IT'S LIKE OPEN SEASON ON TECHS THERE NOW AND THEY DO NOTHING. TOO MUCH FLASHBACKS AND TERROR FOR ME TO STAY. SORRY TO ABANDON YOU -THE FRIENDS THAT I LEFT. THERE ISN'T ENOUGH STAFF AND NO MORE SECURITY GUARDS TO HELP.

LAST WEEK ANOTHER AWOL AND DIDN'T HE TRY TO KILL HIS DAD BEFORE GOING TO ASH?? WHERE ARE THE STAFF AND GUARDS?

7/20/2012 06:47:36 am

Again, the administrators at ASH are up to no good. And from all appearances at this moment, they have failed to take into consideration the threat to public safety, presumably so as to avoid scrutiny and accountability in the face of clear administrative shortcomings. I am very sorry to hear of your need to leave your position with the state, and I hope that you do everything you can to make clear to your elected officials why this has come about. Likewise, get that story about the AWOL out to the local press before this individual does somebody in the community harm. You are under no threat of reprisal now, and you have both the right to speak up and the obligation to do your fellow citizens at least this much good, given your unique status today and the knowledge that you do have about these matters. It is your time to shine.

Former security officer

8/5/2012 05:42:57 pm

Since I left I have heard stories of more assaults. I got out at the right time, and am doing well in my new career. I still keep in touch with many of my old coworkers, and consider many of them to be good friends. Until the good old boys network is broken up there, I'm afraid nothing will ever change.

pj reed

8/6/2012 02:07:05 pm

Good for you! I hope that your new career serves you well, for after putting in your time at ASH, you deserve the best. I am not certain who you are, but I do have a suspicion; and if I am correct, I think you know who I am, too. Congrats! Thanks for chipping in your ten cents worth of empathy and concern for the wellbeing of your former fellow staff at ASH, and as it may apply to the patient community at ASH, as well.

2 FRIGTNED 2 SAY

8/17/2012 10:05:27 pm

ASH CLAIMING ON THE NEWS (CHANNEL 3) THAT ASSAULTS HAVE GONE DOWN. LIARS!! WORSE THAN EVER!
WHY DOESN'T JACO OR MEDICARE LOOK AT EMPLOYEE TURNOVER RATE?

8/21/2012 01:02:40 am

Of course ASH administration will do everything to cover their asses. Very disappointed in the extreme lack of investigative reporting done on behalf of ASH employees and patients alike. If chanel 3 did even half of their job in reporting they wouldn't have reported the extreme amount of mistruths given by Cory Nelson. Obviously the news doesn't know about this website someone should point the reporter in the right direction and show the error of the story reported on the news.

8/21/2012 01:46:26 am

PJ Reed

8/22/2012 09:49:57 am

Staff: As alarming as these newest reports are to me, I am far from surprised. I highly encourage you guys to take a look at ADHS Director Will Humble's blog on the ADHS web site. He too states that violence in general has markedly decreased ever since the new policies established ever since Cory Nelson became CEO, and in doing so he blatantly plugs how great things at ASH are at this time. I know that this is not the truth. I am a former patient, some of you know me, and although I am dedicated to looking at the shortcomings at ASH which directly effect the patient population there, I am also very committed to improving the situation there on behalf of the staff community at ASH, because I know that many of you are very good people who are underpaid and yet still do all you can to take care of the patients. If you guys are content, then it is is only that much harder for you to do a good job in terms of patient needs. I also realize that it is taboo for staff and patients such as myself to join forces, but please hear me when I say that we are effectively in this together, as citizens of the state, and as human beings. If at all possible, please visit my blog (PJ Reed "The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse") via a simple google search, and please feel free to anonymously post comments of any kind to my blog. It is going to take a lot of dedicated team work to address the situation there at ASH, both in terms of your own needs and concerns, as well as mine. But I attest to the fact that I am not out to make life harder than it is for the staff in general at ASH. I promise you that I will do whatever I can to support the quality of staff experiences at ASH. But I need your input. Thank you.

PJ Reed

8/24/2012 07:09:37 am

ASH STAFF: One of you recently stated that "somebody should point the reporter i the right direction." You could not be more correct, and I strongly encourage you to be that person. Somebody from within the staff community at ASH definitely needs to step forward, even anonymously, and clear the air on these graphic untruths. I suggest, as well, that you get in touch with JJ Hensley at the AZ Republic newspaper, inform him that I, PJ Reed, pointed you in his direction, and share your concerns with him. He is a good man, he can be trusted, and he is aware that things at ASH are amiss, but he is lacking the data/evidence he needs to dutifully report about it. You, the staff at ASH, are your own best advocate(s), so be proactive and contribute to improving your own experiences today.

1/12/2013 09:20:13 am

Why was abc news here this week? They talked to Cory Nelson but of course can't talk to employees. We'd be fired if we told them the truth. Cory and the overpaid over-abundant hospital administration would stop at nearly nothing to find out who talked to them.

I'm sure Cory told them how safe it is and how wonderful things are running. Not that staff are being used as punching bags DAILY!! How much money is being spent on workman's comp for injuries and staff leave time? How much money for staff turnover? How much money for vulnerable patients staying longer because they can't get better in an environment they feel terrified too?

Red Rider

2/10/2013 08:29:36 am

ABC News was there because this Monday Night, they will be doing an investigative report on all the security cuts.

Red Rider

2/10/2013 08:34:05 am

Over at the ACPTC they have a surveillance unit. Their manager's husband use to work for MCSO and got hurt. He was given a big pension, however, he cannot work. But he runs a six figure a year landscaping business under her name.they hire illegals. People over there tell me she brags about it all of the time.

Red Rider

2/10/2013 08:36:50 am

PJ Reed link

7/12/2013 03:57:43 am

STAFF: Keep up the good work, and do not give up advocating on your own behalf with the hope of seeing that Cory Nelson, Donna Noriega, Joel Rudd (AZ Attorney General's office- the most powerful law firm in the state defends ASH admn. anytime reports specific to these matters arise- he is ready dangerous to all of us!), and each and every other person in power at ASH and throughout ADHS/BHS are held fully accountable for their clear wrongdoing. It is very big challenge, for this is all very close to the top of the food chain in AZ, but trust me when I say that these people are not nearly so out of reach as I know it appears to you, and their time is coming. I attest to this from the heart, for I directly involved in seeing that this goes down, and as a former ASH patient, I refuse to give up in my own right. But please do not forget that when it comes to these issues, the ultimate victims are ASH's seriously mentally ill clientele, for they are the ones at the absolute bottom of said food chain. In this sense, we are all in this together. Peace and Frogs to all of you.

PJ Reed link

12/3/2013 05:35:46 am

Cory Nelson, Donna Noriega, WIll Humble, and any other number of parties directly responsible for the fact that federal intervention (in the form of possible funding, etc.) have everything coming to them in terms of legal oversight and related retribution at this time. I want to commend and thank those ASH staff who have risked their job security in order to see that the grossly substandard medical-mental health care practices are brought to light, as per the public trust.

Emil

2/6/2015 03:21:54 am

Cory Nelson was one of Bill Janklo's henchmen who was a former governor of South Dakota, elected to the United State's congress,
and eventually forced from office in disgrace.

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