I do not know who should investigate this matter but as my life expectancy is very short I leave it in your hands. In 2021 I was hospitalized in the Arkansas Continued Care Hospital (ACCH) - the details are in the enclosed material. Only the intervention of my family saved me from death - they removed me over the strenuous objections of the doctor and I recuperated at the home of a family member. It was more than a year before I was able to investigate the circumstances and become aware of what had been done to me.

I had planned to write later but the matter is now more urgent as the hospital has been closed and it may be impossible to investigate but more troubling is the plan of yet another health care company to occupy the facility. To quote their press release:

I am familiar with that hospital and its history. It is a 44-bed facility and is old and in very bad condition - to make a 70-bed hospital suitable for current needs (it was built fifty or more years ago) of that size would have to be nearly doubled and would require millions of dollars and a year or more. From what I know about the company I seriously doubt that they intend - or are capable of - any such thing. The fact that it is intended for children is even more concerning.

Some years ago there was a company in Jonesboro known as Ascent Children's Health Services (ACHS). ACHS had several facilities around northeast Arkansas. In 2017 a young child died a horrifying death while in the care of ACHS, left locked in a van for hours on a hot day. Several employees were prosecuted but the owners of the company were not held accountable - the fact that when this happened the CEO - a state legislator - was attempting to pass legislation that would lower the standards for such facilities and remove government oversight. The Chief Operating Officer was one James Cox. Stick a pin there.

ACHS closed soon after. When I nearly perished in Arkansas Continued Care Hospital four years later the CEO was that same James Cox. While researching the hospital I documented 146 deaths at the hospital in the six years it was in operation and am aware of another patient who died after being discharged and admitted to another hospital on the following day. Whether approximately 150 deaths at a 44-bed hospital in six years is suspicious is irrelevant - the death rate of such a hospital should be zero or close to it. ACCH was not a general hospital - it did not accept emergency patients, had no intensive care or critical care facilities, and surgery was not performed there. In fact no patient in imminent danger of death was admitted and a patient whose condition deteriorated should have been immediately returned to a regular hospital. ACCH was strictly a recovery and rehabilitation facility. The average age of death was well below life expectancy - many were under sixty years of age and some were much younger. Only in the most extraordinary or unforeseen circumstances would a patient die there.

Thus I find it extremely troubling that a company that seems to resemble ACHS intends to use that facility for a similar purpose. Who will prevent children from being abused and killed? Who ensures the competence of the doctors? The doctor who almost killed me and probably did kill quite a few is still licensed by the state medical board (they don't yet have my complaint) and can go on to wreak havoc elsewhere if he can find a hospital to hire him. Who will protect these children from being harmed whether through incompetence or the greed of the hospital operators? Mental health is even less well understood by most that physical ailments and parents of these children are at the mercy of the 'professionals'.

My condition is such that I might live for another year or so but even getting out of bed I risk a fatal fall or other misadventure. If I am extant and you have any questions feel free to contact me. I am at your service,