Stop Hospitals From Utilizing Guardianships to Override Patient Rights

Petition: "Stop Hospitals From Utilizing Guardianships to Override Patient Rights"

Ending date: July 31, 2017 06:00:00
How to Handle Results? Forward to Petition Submitter for Delivery

Recipients:
Elder and guardian abuse in on the rise across the country at an alarming rate. The Elderly and disabled are for all intents and purposes being abducted and "medically kidnapped" by unscrupulous guardians, many who attorneys. They are then illegally isolated from their family and loved ones. It is an egregious overreach of government and an utter miscarriage of justice. This is an issue that affects us all, young and old, as it is said "you are an adult once and child twice". We will all grow old, God willing, and will require some assistance.

Subject of Letter to Recipient: Elder and Guardian Abuse

Letter to Recipient:

Please stand with our family to help pass legislation to prevent hospitals like Inova Fairfax from Seeking Guardianship As Means to Override Patient Rights. Stand up for Anastasia and assist in her return to her family's care.  Ours is not an isolated incident. There are other instances, cases where a patient already had a court appointed guardian and because the guardian disagreed with Inova's proposed treatment of their son, Inova had the guardianship set aside to give sole authority for medical decisions to their designated guardians.  What has happened to Anastasia and our family is a travesty, a miscarriage of justice, a blatant violation of her and our constitutionally protected rights. However this is an issue that affects us all, young and old, as it is said "you are an adult once and a child twice". We will all grow old, God willing, and will require some assistance.  At the rate hospitals and healthcare are going we will be a society of middle aged, healthy able bodied, individuals, because hospitals and their death panels will have locked away and killed off the elderly and disabled. As Pope Francis once said "A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has not future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise." This is where we as a society are headed.Anastasia needs to be home with her family where she can heal and regain her strength.  Legislation is sorely and desperately needed now to protect the disabled and elderly, to protect individuals like my sister, to protect the most vulnerable of us. Prevent what has happened to Anastasia and her family from happening to anyone else.Sincerely,Yolanda Bell