The Montana Suicide Rate Reduction Council. 

 Founded in Missoula, Montana. August 06, 2021.

 

Hate the fate. Reduce the rate

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This will be brief. To the extent that the state of Montana may be taking more seriously the extent of DPHHS's general lack of qualified health care officials, in attendance with the newest development specific to Care Coordination for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs), it cannot be taken for granted that such measures will actually much good in the state of Montana. Such recent attention to these issues are a direct result of the work of The Montana Suicide Rate Reduction Council. We provided our data to many people over the last 15 months, and while it's fair to look at it as a snowball effect, these developments are one result of our work, to date. The process as it plays out will continue to be the focus of work. 

It may be that some other states have benefitted from these CCBHS projects, but the question must be asked:

Do the actual circumstances in any of these other states- that may have benefitted from CCBHSs- bear any resemblance to the circumstances faced by the citizens of Montana today?

To the extent that these CCBHSs perhaps work well in some other US states, the breadth of MTs health care crisis is simply beyond the breadth of such crises seen in virtually any other states, with very few exceptions. MSRRC has always focused on the plain as it gets-fact that lack of access to mental health care services is one distinct causal factor that underlies these issues. This issue can stand alone a matter of profound concern, in that equitable access to health care is recognized as a fundamental human right. And as per established standards of law, an all encompassing system of health care services by statutory design is what the citizens of MT deserve. Piecemeal approaches of this nature (CCBHSs, DPHHS' ongoing rhetoric, and the other 3 entities directly involved....) will not provide what is actually needed, and this is as clear as might be possible to myself and to others who share my concerns and those who I actually work with in MSRRC project today.  

On this note, it's also true MT lacks health services of any type not provided in equitable fashion in the state. COVID related issues in recent months have made this clear, little if any direct access to critically needed testing and vaccine resources in the interest of MT kids today. Thus contributing to lower vaccinations and inevitable spread. The discourse, thus, must include all aspects of how this lack of services is affecting all citizens of MT, including but not limited to only mental health services. 

No matter how this is looked at, Montana is somewhat if not entirely unique in having a lack of health services to the degree of our own. There is no utility in having something like this that only served in state's that do not share the reality in MT. To approach this as such is textbook bad scientific method, drawing from faulty sources of data.  

Recent attention to these issues are a direct result of the work of The Montana Suicide Rate Reduction Council. We provided our data to many people over the last 15 months, and while it's fair to look at it as a snowball effect, these developments are one result of our work, to date. The experience of MSRRC's founder is legitimate and extensive, in Montana and at least one other state. Former projects have always prevailed to our founder's general satisfaction, including the federal oversight and intervention that Montana State Hospital was subject to in 2016-17. This was covered by Holly Michels of Lee news. Of several articles she published at the time, see "Feds find state hospital put patients at risk." Fact of the matter was that, our founder provided the MSH's administration ample time to address this specific matter prior to subsequent federal intervention, including a meeting with the acting superintendent of MSH at the time, Cory Pottenger. But as it pretty well always goes, Pottenger acted in complicity with several other high ranking administrators in seeking to suppress the very real flow of information specific to the issue at that time.  

An MSH psychiatrist named Dr. Colby Wang was dismissed from his position after our founder and a host of other concerned consumers of DPHHS services at the time took initiative to report his abusive conduct; Wang's misconduct included amongst other concerns, textbook violations of the tenets of informed consent (prescribing medications without the consent of his patients) and breach of the privacy protections afforded to all disabled Americans via the provisions of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (inviting certain MSH staff, purely to his own selfish convenience, who have no direct relationship with the care of MSH patients). 

Dr. Colby Wang.

In Arizona some number of years ago, our founder was centrally involved in bringing about long over due federal oversight and intervention to that state's sole long term mental health care facility, a process that culminated somewhat with seven fairly high ranking health care officials in AZ being summarily fired, all of whom were employed in direct association to operation of that facility. Three are named: Donna Noriega, Cory Nelson, Michael Bloomberg. Noriega was the acting CEO at ASH at the time of being fired in early 2015. Nelson was her predecessor and had since been promoted to a higher position in the construct of AZ Department of Health Services prior to when he was fired in early 2015. Bloomberg is an attorney who had been invited to work under Nelson's authority, a pal of sorts from the state of South Dakota prior to being fired in early 2015. Four others who worked in association with the operation of ASH also found themselves unemployed in early 2015. They had all been provided ample time to do the right thing, and yet refused that in favor of their own depraved interests. These type people are not the sort that any one would seek to care for the health and welfare of vulnerable American citizens, arguably sanctioned sociopaths who are allowed to oversee such hospitals. On point with far too many individuals currently working in the DPHHS construct, including at least four others who worked at the MT State Hospital in 2016-17, and some of who still work there in Warm Springs today. 

The pattern remains the same. Down in Arizona at time of this writing, regardless of who replaced those who were fired in 2015, ASH is once again being subject to intensive scrutiny as a consequence of staff generated reports about administrative corruption. While at this time, Montana State Hospital is again being subject to federal oversight on the basis of the same issue that are putting the Montana citizens hospitalized there at undue risk of harm. All involved with every problem And as we all know, the crucially required video material specific to the tragic and wholly preventable death of an elderly MT citizen last summer was "accidentally recorded over" by the appointed in-house investigator of that tragedy. Chances are good that a man named Jeff Pflug was in some way involved in that failed investigation, while the in-house DPHHS attorney Craig Fitch has very definitely been very aware of all that has led MSH into these circumstances.  

Pflug has no qualifications specific to actual health care, is nothing more than another substance abuse level social worker who has no actual medical training. Pflug actively sought to suppress the fact that DPHHS/MSH was putting patients and direct care staff at gravely undue risk of harm in fall of 2016, literally telling our founder, "All I am asking is that you be patient." This is the wait and watch mentality of the state even today, and it is equally posing undue risk specific to the suicide crisis in Montana at this time. 

While for the last 14 years, this Fitch character has made it his practice to walk around the MSH poverty and tell just anybody willing to listen that he is the "patients' lawyer", in patent defiance of the plain fact that he is not in a position to actually work as any patient's lawyer. Nope, he is a bottom feeding legal professional who works for the state, obligated as such to represent the interests of the state, versus the actual interests of the patient community at MSH. Patent deception and designed to mislead those who are hospitalized at MSH.

"I have come to abhor dirty lawyers who work in public mental health care no less than I abhor depraved psychiatric professionals. As to the current suicide prevention experts working for DPHHS today, 

I intend to cook your asses." 

                                                 P. Jack Reed.

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