I apologize in the following letter to Mark Zahner where I wrote he was the head of the DOJ's BMFEA in 2003, when in fact it was Claude Vanderwold who was.  Why did Claude Vanderwold tell Dolores Otting and I in June, 2003, that it'd take one and a half to two years to get Sun Healthcare into court on contempt proceedings when we revealed they were in violation of their 2001 State Injunction not to understaff nor have broken equipment again?  Dolores told Mr. Robeson and Mr. Vanderwold in that conversation that she herself had been dragged into court overnight on a public nuisance case in Santa Ana, Calif.  Why didn't the DOJ's Investigator Joe Fendrick demand his bosses at the BMFEA follow the law with those proceedings when he saw Sun Healthcare violating staffing laws?  Surely the DHS had cited Sun and OSHPD had cited Sun for lack of HVAC to patient rooms.  Yet patients died in 2003 from these violations and not one DOJ employee prosecuted Sun for it.  WHY?  Was this corruption?

Deborah S. Calvert 

March 13, 2013

VIA EMAIL

Mark Zahner DOJ-BMFEA

RE: Wrongful death by Sun Healthcare Group Inc of Evelyn M Calvert

Dear Mr. Zahner,

In response to your recent email, you stated that you thoroughly investigated the matter of my mother’s death (and four other deaths, three I witnessed) at Sun Healthcare Group Inc’s nursing facility “Sunbridge Newport Beach” 2002-2003.  I remind you that this happened while Sun was committed to a 2001 California State Injunction and YOU were head of the governing agency responsible to prosecute!  You state that the reasons for your decision had been presented to me –Can you tell me when and can you forward to me those reasons in writing?  Because I must be in a coma, I have no recollection of such presentation.  Assistant Attorney General Claude Vanderwold did visit the malpractice law firm of Andres & Andres that I hired to successfully sue a corrupt elder abuse attorney, Daniel Leipold, and it was there that Mr. Vanderwold stated very clearly in my presence to my attorney Eugen Andres that the DOJ-BMFEA did NOT hold Sun responsible for anything at Sunbridge Newport in it’s September, 2005, settlement of $2.5 Million.  Mr. Vanderwold said that was only for citations in other Sun Healthcare Group Inc facilities in California.  When Mr. Andres asked why not, Mr. Vanderwold said “We just didn’t”.  That is not presenting me with reasons why the numerous Dept of Health citations were not properly prosecuted by you.  Clearly deaths caused by lack of staffing and broken equipment. Stella Carter, Richard Laga, Betty Harness, the man in Rm 2B Oct 2003 and my mother Evelyn Calvert died because Sun committed the crime of violating the 2001 California State Injunction.  Dr. L Scott Stoney even stated to me in 2006 when I picked up his Medical Review “those bastards killed your mother”.  The evidence I have in my mother’s medical records coupled with the Dept of Health citations were valued by an expert elder abuse attorney hired by Andres & Andres at $500,000-$1,000,000.  Yet you never prosecuted Sun? 

I’m shocked that your agency rushed to settle with Sun in Sept 2005 while the civil lawsuit I filed in July, 2005 for wrongful death hadn’t yet presented evidence in court.  In June, 2006, I filed with the Orange County Superior Court the Medical Review from Dr Stoney declaring Sun killed my mother.  Sun’s CEO Richard K Matros was well aware our lawsuit would include Dr Stoney’s testimony and would be damaging.  Therefore Sun Healthcare Group Inc’s then CEO, Richard K Matros, defrauded you, by entering into that settlement.  Mr. Matros was a personal friend of Dr Stoney’s and I understand they discussed my case on various occasions.  You should have investigated because in my case these two seemed to “set up” each other by engaging in “planted telephone messages” ordering to withhold hypertensive medications (to a stroke patient no less!), and other intriguing situations involving setting up Dr Stoney with a high priced call girls at Laker’s games (November, 2003).  All very strange, and interesting enough to have had investigated.

I do not expect you to re-open the case of my mother’s long suffering that resulted in her death.  Yes it was sad but my concern now is to get answers why and how the BMFEA allowed overall conditions at Sunbridge Newport to become so horrific that all those patients died.  Neglect from lack of staffing causing both gangrene and fecal impaction, and even known broken equipment.  I would like to know why you did not file contempt proceedings to protect my mother as soon as Mr. Richard Laga’s gangrene was determined to be the cause of his death from lack of staffing in July, 2003.  Why instead did you authorize the DOJ-BMFEA agents lead an intense investigation of the employees of a San Diego county Sun facility because a patient did not get her eyedrops? That is exactly what the ElderAbuseExposed.com blog says you folks do at the BMFEA, you pick the “low hanging fruit”, the easy pickings that maintain your conviction records.  You go after lowly workers, the employees who have no legal representation –instead of going after the employers who create the conditions that foster the neglect.  And then you dropped the charges in that San Diego case against the employees making a mockery of the whole process.  First of all you knew through a citation issued by the Dept of Health that Stella Carter died when an overworked nurse did not fill a physician’s order for “stat”.  Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Sun prior to August 1, 2002 when my mother was admitted to Sunbridge Newport. In June, 2003, I wrote to you and had a telephone conference call with Mr. Vanderwold and Dolores Otting.  Your investigator Joe Fendrick met me in early June, 2003, and visited the Sunbridge facility where he saw the condemned HVAC (by OSHPD May 15, 2003).  You knew or should have known that equipment was condemned and a warning was issued by its employee Chuck DeCapite on June 4, 2003, “The need for urgency was discussed this date, NO EXCEPTIONS”.   Jackie Lincer at the OC Dept of Health then knew Richard Laga was dying from his gangrene in July, 2003, as even a citation was issued.  Yet you allowed Sun and it’s scruge to fester until in October, 2003, when two more patients died and my mother was fatally harmed by a “planted telephone message to withhold all hypertensive mediations” from Dr Stoney. How do you think that makes me feel, considering we were watching patients die in Newport Beach?  This is not something easily forgotten.  Why did you not wait for Dr Stoney’s testimony in June, 2006, before settling with Sun for $2.5 Million in Sept 2005 which would have only handed you a victory against Sun in a contempt proceeding?  Citations were issued for the deaths, can you tell me that the deaths I witnessed were not crimes?  Your office ignored those citations.  That is my simple question to your Mr. Zahner, why?

I believe my correspondence has been clear, that my main concern is the fact you ignored the State Injunction against Sun which was obtained while Bill Lockyer was Attorney General.  The State Injunction was dated 2001 and I complained in 2003, so why did you not uphold the law in respect to the patients I, and others, witnessed die in 2003?  Several agencies had cited Sun for broken equipment that caused deaths to several people other than my mother.  I was witness to what amounted to Sun Healthcare Group Inc’s crimes.  You should have filed contempt of court against Sun, instead you turned a blind eye.  I need to understand why.

I do understand that HIPPA laws prevent you discussing their individual cases with me.  HOWEVER you appear to be hiding behind HIPPA laws of protecting the other victims.  Why did you not ask the various victims if they wanted to share and pool information so that we could have presented a united front, instead of keeping each of us in the dark about your decision making process –which defies credulity.  There is not justification for your ignoring the crimes I saw and which the other agencies documented with citations that you continue to ignore.

I’ve asked you this before:  Who was asleep at the helm of this Ship?  Who needs to be replaced so that the citizens of California get the protection we deserve?  Why do you let our government be cheated by allowing Sun and other chains to fraudulently get Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for rotten medical services which are not in the patient’s ‘best interest’?  Based on what I have read in the ElderAbuseExposed.com blogs you are jeopardizing California’s entitlement to Federal Medicare matching funds because instead of making sure that nursing home medical care in the patient’s best interest, you ensure the chains ability to prey on the patients and grift without fear.

BECAUSE the California DOJ-BMFEA allowed Sun Heatlhcare to continue their crimes, Sun  merged with Peak Medical in 2005 and again with Harborside in 2008.  This led to serious injuries to patients in Oklahoma and at least one dehydration death in Kentucky resulting in a $42 Million jury award.  That man never received even a glass of water in the 9 days he resided in a Sun facility.  (Something my poor mother suffered from consistently in the last 10 months at Sunbridge Newport, coupled with U.T.I.s she ended up with complete renal failure.)  This proves widespread fraud perpetrated by Sun which you allowed happen.

I DO trust that the current AG will investigate my claims and do her best to prevent further deaths like happened in the Sun Healthcare matter.  Because it was a crime, 5 patients whom I knew died needlessly.

When asked why Horizon West Management was not criminally charged, AG spokesman Lynda Gledhill said investigators determined that the corporate owners were “very cooperative and took immediate action when the situation came to light”.  How can I have confidence in you?  Lynda Geldhill’s answer proves my point.  You go after the low hanging fruit, the easy pickings, and you let the real wrongdoers (the corporate chain owners) of the hook provided that they turn on their employees viciously when a publicity spotlight compels you to finally take some action.  That is why I think the AG’s new campaign against elder abuse will turn out to be just window dressing and really a fraud on the public.

Please tell me why I’m wrong.  It was shocking to read in your email that you read every one of my many correspondence since you NEVER replied to me –over all these years –before ElderAbuseExposed.com recently exposed your avoidance of responsibilities.

I want to be wrong.  And I still would like to meet you.  I want answers.  I’m a citizen and entitled to know why my government is not doing it’s job.

Sincerely,

 

Deborah S. Calvert

cc;  Claude Vanderwold, Asst. Attorney General @ DOJ, Jackie Lincer, Head @ Orange County Dept of Health; ElderAbuseExposed.com; Joseph Fendrick, DOJ-BMFEA Investigative Agent; AG Kamalla Harris

How to Avoid Prosecution for violating a State Injunction by forming a Political Action Committee!

Sun Healthcare Group Inc did it in 2003-2004 after 5 deaths in a Newport Beach Sunbridge nursing facility brought about the Dept of Health to demand they sell the facility or risk prosecution!  They trasnferred the license 12/1/2003, then formed the P.A.C. in May, 2004.  Manager Julie Campbell apologised to me for the CEO Richard K Matros in October, 2003, after my mother suffered stroke rendering her unable to swallow the remainder of her life.  She suffered horribly after that stroke and never recovered.  I'd began complaining in May, 2003, that lack of staffing and broken equipment was killing patients.  I believe my mother was retaliated against after employees were fired (Admin Susan Zanca and Admin and Regional Manager Fernando Rodriguez).

June 4, 2003 Tom Greenwold, Div. Maint. Director of Sun met with Office of Statewide Hospital Planning & Development's Chuck DeCapite regarding the condemned HVAC sytem to patient rooms, who stated in his field report dated that date, "The need and urgency was discussed this date.  NO EXCEPTIONS!".

The HVAC system wasn't replaced for 2 yrs, long after my mother, Evelyn Calvert, left that facility with MRSA and died from complications of her stay at Sunridge Newport.  Yet prosecution could have saved her life.

The Dept of Justice's Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud & Elder Abuse visited the Sunbridge facility on Jun3 5, 2003, but refused to file contempt proceedings against Sun -why?

CORRUPTION

In May, 2003 numerous family members of patients in a Sun Healthcare nursing home, Sunbridge, in Newport Beach, Calif, and myself, contacted the State of California's Dept Of Justice division -Bureau of Medi-cal Fraud and Elder Abuse and Dept of Health to complain Sun had violated their 2001 Calif State Injunction with both under staffing and broken equipment that was killing patients.   We met with Joseph Fendrick, Investigator for the DOJ who saw the filth in their basement's ductless HVAC system.  By October that year my mother was harmed to the degree it killed her.  I am certain this was in retaliation for complaining loudly. 

Those who died:  Richard Laga died of gangrene in Dec, 2003, after begging for a wound care nurse  in June and July to no avail. Betty Harness died of fecal impaction in Oct 2003, after lack of staffing caused Sun to neglect to tract bowel movements. A man in Rm 2-B in Oct 2003 died after not only one but two suction machines malfunctioned. Stella Carter died in 2002 when "stat" orders from her physician weren't carried out by the overworked nurse in charge, as witnessed by Dolores Otting, who testified in their wrongful death lawsuit against Sun. And my mother, Evelyn Calvert, died from lack of ventilation from the broken HVAC system which caused her never to recover from recurring pneumonias and strokes caused by broken blood pressure cuffs.   One stroke Sun caused was due to a phoney "telephone message" from Dr Stoney claiming to withhold all blood pressure medications Stoney testified in a depo in 2007 that he'd never have left that message and that it was"planted by Sun". 

Dolores Otting was also witness in my case yet my attorney Daniel Leipold never obtained her testimony.  More importantly the DOJ-BMFEA settled with Sun Healthcare in Sept 2005, conveniently just months before my lawsuit went to court, for $2.5 M for violating the injunction in it's OTHER Calif facilities, ignoring these deaths happened in Sunbridge Newport and had not only also been cited but well known by the Dept of Health's head Jackie Lincer.  None of the citations were for death nor $100,00 fines for death.   I have never been given an answer why not, as I have asked on many occasions.   

I sued Sun Healthcare in 2005 for the wrongful death of my mother and was fooled into signing off my rights for her death by my then attorney, the late Daniel Leipold, who also threatened me in mediation for the CEO of Sun, Richard K Matros. Sun admitted in that mediation they under staffed most every day she was in their facility -so what they said.  That corrupt attorney also failed to obtain the testimony of the Administrator who knew about the stroke they caused in October, 2003, Gail Cosner.  I sued Mr. Leipold for his malpractice in 2007 and won that case in 2008.    Interesting, Sun merged both in 2005 and again in 2008 with large conglomerates in Oklahoma and the East Coast. Sun had serious lawsuits in Oklahoma and Kentucky, causing one jury in Kentucky to award $42 Millon for a dehydration death. Sun never gave that man a glass of water in 9 days of living there. In Oklahoma a news reporter contacted me asking if I really believed Rick Matros, Sun's CEO, had "killed my mother" in retaliation like Dr Stoney had said. I replied "ABSOLUTELY". She told me she advised patients to leave that Sun facility in Oklahoma and not look back. 
I uncovered in 2010 that documents (field reports condemning the HVAC system and demanding it's immediate replacement) generated by the State's OSHPD agency that oversees equipment such as HVAC systems were purged from their files. I had kept my copies and shared with them the fact their employee, Chuck DeCapite had demanded the HVAC system be replaced ASAP in mid 2003 yet never was. Why did the State of California's Dept of Justice refuse to consider this violation of their injunction that killed my mother when settling with Sun Healthcare in Sept 2005? I knew five patients, 4 deaths I was witness to, died 2002-2003 from the neglect and direct fault of Sun Healthcare Group Inc at Sunbridge Newport located at 1555 Superior Avenue Newport Beach, CA 92662. 
Other facts:  The Director of Nursing, Elizabeth Van Dyke, stated when Betty Harness was returned from Hoag Hospital with the determination she was dying from fecal impaction and had two weeks to live, "Well we killed that one. Tomorrow every patient who cannot speak will get milk of magnesia". The Medical Director, Dr. Stoney overheard her comment and demanded that his patients not receive mofm without his order. The Dept of Health issued a citation for the death of the man in Oct in Rm 2-B from equipment failure yet the BMFEA ignored this in their settlement? The Dept of Health also issued a citation for Richard Laga's death from gangrene -he had no family to sue. Stella Carter's family sued and also used the corrupt Mr. Leipold and afterward also consulted the malpractice law firm of Andres-Andres, prior to me, knowing that Leipold was obviously paid by Sun to ignore the injunction and all the witness testimony he failed to obtain in my case.  Giving Andres & Andres good reason to file my lawsuit against the late Mr. Leiopld.
My malpractice attorneys consulted with elder law attornyes and valued the original wrongful death case at $1 Million.  In our investigations we found that Mr. Leipold was found to have a sister named Barbara Ownings who had a trust fund that owned southern California real estate Mr. Leipold's immediate family lived in.  While she lives in Kallamazoo, Michigan.  That says a lot.  I consulted with attorneys who said they'd never file a lawsuit against Sun again (i.e., Steve Garcia of Long Beach, California).   I believe that the former CEO is from New York and operates like a bully.
Why all this corruption? So Sun could go on to merge and make the CEO a very wealthy man, regardless of the danger to the elderly. Richard K Matros Shame on you!

Taken from Dr. L. Scott Stoney's Medical Review dated June, 2006:

There are several incidences of concern in this patient's case which should be noticed. The patient did suffer severe stroke rendering her bedfast for many years. The patient was unable to swallow eventually and required tube feeding. She did, however, maintain a quality of life which was interactive and sufficient to the satisfaction of her daughter, the durable power of attorney in this case. However, the frequency of her recurrent pneumonia is concerning as well as the type of pneumonia which she developed were concerning. The infection incidence at Sunbridge Newport was monitored quarterly and it was noted over the national average during infection control meeting in the final quarter of the year 2003. As I was medical director for this facility I had requested further evaluation by the staff to the etiology of this occurrence within the facility. It was subsequently found that Sunbridge Rehabilitation was made aware by family members of other patients that the ventilation and heating system at Sunbridge Newport was not working. Multiple families had complained about this problem. Unfortunately, the administration dd not take due diligence in ameliorating this problem in 2003. Lack of sufficient ventilation contributes to pneumonia (reference #1). This was a sentinel event, however, the administration continued to give both patient's families and the undersigned a variety of excuses why it was "taking some time" to fix this problem. Upon review of the medical record, it is medically probable that this patient's recurrent pneumonia (especially methacillin resistant and staphylococcus resistant pneumonia) was related to the physical facility of Sunbridge Newport. (reference #1).

There is another incidence of concern. Blood pressure monitoring cuffs which were not working in Sunbridge Newport in 2003. This, again, was a sentinel event and of great concern. (reference #2). As Medical Director, this was an extraordinary event which prompted my immediate reaction as Medical Director to request the administration immediately order new blood pressure equipment for the safety of the patients within the facility. I was subsequently directly in contact from my Newport Beach private practice office on 3/6/04 with Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse Special Agent Supervisor Joseph Fendrick (619 388-4200) to discuss this matter.

Unfortunately this was too late for Mrs. Evelyn Calvert, she arrived 7/16/04 to the emergency room in again respiratory distress and she died.

 Due to the limited response of the administration to meet patient needs, I resigned from Sunbridge Newport Rehabilitation in March 2004 and gave sixty day notice of my termination as Medical Director from the facility.  The administration did in fact go without a Medical Director for several months after my leave as Medical Director from that facility. 

It is my opinion as a Board Certified physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, an unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of California, s well as my extensive experience and training in the position as Medical Director of rehabilitation centers, that this patient's death is within medical probability aggravated or in causation by the failure of the ventilatory system within Sunbridge Newport as well as the failure of the blood pressure monitoring devices within the facility.  The decline in health status began to deteriorate rapidly after the course of the events occurring in December, 2003.

 

The California DOJ (BMFEA) used cameras to uncover elder abuse in a San Diego, Calif, Sun Healthcare operated nursing home in 2003, which revealed employees didn't give eye drops to an elderly patient. Ha!  While at that time we were reporting to the DOJ and Dept of Health that serious neglect, lack of staffing, broken equipment in Sun's Newport Beach SunBridge was killing patients. Five patients died that I know of, four I witnessed: Stella Carter; Richard Laga -gangrene; Betty Harness -fecal impaction; Evelyn Calvert -strokes from lack of medications, numerous pneumnias, dehydration, kidney failure and finally heart attack; the man in Rm 2B Oct 2003 of aspiration pneumonia after two suction equipments failed to work. Yet no "death fine of $100,000" by the Dept of Health either. Why? Corruption in the system. CEO of Sun, Richard K. Matros got away with murder while amassing a personal fortune through mergers.

Who is at fault for allowing Sun Healthcare Group Inc to continue elder abuse and neglect at it's nursing home facilities througout the United States from 2002-2012?  The SEC allowed them to merge with Peak Medical and again with Harborside yet they continued violating basic human right laws against the elderly.  Is the Dept of Justice in the state of California to blame?  There exists a 2001 Calif State Injunction prohibiting Sun from elder abuse after patients died in 2000 in Burlingame, California.  Yet my mother, Evelyn Calvert, experienced severe neglect in a Newport Beach, California facility, SunBridge Newport, in 2003, which caused her death.  I witnessed 3 others die as a result of the CEO's own negligence.  Even the Medical Director, Dr L Scott Stoney, told me "those bastards killed your mother". 

The former CEO of Sun, Richard K Matros, threatened me in mediation through a corrupt attorney I later sued for malpractice and won.  That attorney told me in mediation that Mr. Matros was in his office in Irvine and was on the phone in the "other room with his attorneys and he had a message for me:  YOU'RE NOT GETTING THE KEYS TO RICK MATROS' BENTLEY".  That "they'd rip me a new A hole and make me out to be a crazy woman if I pursued my wrongful death lawsuit and proved Matros' willful misconduct".  Which we could do and would amount to his losing his job.

Read the evidence posted here, how the Peak Medical merger ended up in lawsuits and chaos in Tulsa, Oklahoma and ask yourself: How did our regulatory system betray so many elders and cause such havoc by ignoring my requests for help in 2003:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120929_11_A1_Atroub803945

Summary

A CEO, Vice President and other Corporate Officers of a public corporation who ignored a 2001 California State Injunction not to have broken HVAC systems in nursing homes after killing patients in 2000 in Burlingame, California?  Yes, Richard K. Matros, William Mathies, Chauney Hunker and others of Sun Healthcare failed to inform their Medical Directors of this state injunction dated 2001.  They refused to follow demands by the State June 4, 2003, to install a new HVAC system in his Newport Beach SunBridge facility in 2003 and told Chuck DeCapite of OSHPD so.  When I requested a copy of those demands in 2010 I found the file had been purged of those documents I provided my attorney when I sued Sun in 2005.  This proves fraud and begins tolling in 2010.  Although there are no statutes of limiation on murder.  Those documents are posted on this website and prove how corrupt SUN and the DOJ were when they settled in Sept 2005 for a mere $2.5 M for violating that 2001 injunction.  The Office of Statewide Hospital Pubic Facilities Development issued not only requests but demands that Sun immediately replace the condemned HVAC system in July, 2003, signed by Chuck DeCapite.  Sun ignored those demands and that contributed to the death of my late mother, Evelyn Calvert.  She contracted MRSA from that facility and as a result of the lack of ventilation in her room exasperated her condition to the degree she suffered nine more months before dying in July, 2004.  She was consistently dehydrated so often that shortly after leaving the facility in December, 2003, she suffered complete renal failure.  It was a horror to watch.  We begged this CEO for help, even his Medical Director, Dr L Scott Stoney begged for help but he chose to ignore us.  Why?  Maybe because he was a known cheater and Dr Stoney could destroy his marriage.  I don't know anything about that but have been told -and as we know, once a cheater always a cheater.  Did this horrible CEO also cheat his partners (shareholders) when Sun entered into a sale in 2010 with Genesis.  It would follow suit.

I can prove Sun violated it's State Injunction in 2003 on these dates: May 28, June 3,5,6,9,12,13,14,15,28 and 29.  That Richard Laga left the facility July 6 for the acute care hospital because he had gangrene.  With lack of staffing on those dates is it any wonder Sun caused his death from gangrene?  The Dept of Health cited Sun, yet the Dept of Justice, via the BMFEA did not hold Sun responsible for his death when they settled with Sun in Sept 2005 and fined them $2.5 Million for violating that injunction.  Why this corruption?  Sun began a policital action committee 2 months before my mother died in May, 2004, giving congress members over $400,000 annually.  The manager of that P.A.C. was none other than Julie Campbell, the employee of Sun who apologised to me for Richard K Matros when my mother suffered yet another stroke in October, 2003.  A bogus telephone message from Dr Stoney was planted in her medical records stating to withhold all blood pressure medications.  No good Dr would ever give that order to a stroke victim.  What's going on here?  Retaliation for getting the DOJ to investigate?

What does Rick Matros really know about care in a nursing facility? He allowed 5 patients to die in his hometown Newport Beach, Calif, in a SunBridge facility he operated in 2003, while the families pleaded for help. (Stella Carter, Richard Laga, Betty Harness, Evelyn Calvert and the man in Rm 2 B in Oct 2003).  Even Sun's Medical Director, Dr L Scott Stoney, pleaded for help and he quit because Matros refused as he was more interested in settling score with a former witness to another death of Stella Carter, whom she witnessed die after stat orders were denied by a Sun nurse, overworked and underpaid. She testified in that wrongful death lawsuit that cost Sun $105,000. Yet Sun was under an injunction dated 2001 not to under staff or have known broken equipment after killing patients in Burlingame, Calif in 2000. Yet the Dept of Justice refused to prosecuted Sun for this 2003 injustice. Why? Corruption. Read my story how Matros, former CEO of Sun enlisted my former attorney to commit fraud, I sued for malpractice and he died 2 weeks later. Matros asked for a restraining order against me but Judge Gregory W Jones replied, NO, she proved he killed her mother, certainly she can state it, freedom of speech, protected speech and peaceful protest. This blog is peaceful protest. I protest this man is crazy and due diligence should be performed on his past behavior. Sun needs to stop paying him $1 M salary to find real estate to purchase which was part of his job as CEO prior to steeping down in 2010. This is a wasted $1 M to shareholders. Why: Because there exists a $42 M judgement in Kentucky by a man's family who died from dehydration so where will that settlement come from if assets were moved to a REIT?

My mother also was dehyrdrated she suffered complete renal failure shortly after leaving SunBridge in 2003, eventually dying from MRSA and had brain damage from suffering a large stroke they caused. It was a horror to watch the others die as well. I protest Rick Matros ever earning another dime from federal or state funding for healthcare. 

He should be prosecuted for elder abuse.

In 2003 after many complaints of understaffing and broken equipment in a SunBridge nursing home my mother resided in, in Newport Beach, California, on Superior Avenue,  myself and other patient's family members took our crusade to the Dept of Health in Orange County, Calif.  Jackie Lincer, it's head, told me in December, 2003, they ran Sun Healthcare out of the State of California for shoddy care of it's patients.  This, after I witnessed total neglect and abuse in this facility, which is in the hometown of the CEO's, past and present, and corporate offices.  Actually, the CEOs own and built new homes just down the street from this facility in an area known as "the wedge", on the peninsula in Balboa / Newport Beach, Calif, all the while slumlording in this facility to the degree 5 patients died from their neglect.  Out of those five, two families sued for wrongful death.  Two more had no family to sue, the other elected not to sue.  The two families who sued and settled out of court used the same elder abuse attoney, the late Daniel Leipold, of Santa Ana,  The families who sued sought the advice of a malpractice attorney, Andres & Andres, also of Santa Ana, due to the negligent conduct of Mr. Leipold.  Simply put, my case was valued at $500,000 - $1,000,000 yet Mr. Leipol advised us to settle for $55,000!  Why?  Simply negligent on his part.  I sued this attorney and he died 2 weeks after learning I'd retained the lawfirm to sue.  In his sleep at age 59.  Reasons were not immediately clear how he died, later determined to be from diabetes.  I filed my lawsuit shortly after he died and won that case in 2008, by settling out of court with his malpractice insurance co.

My point in bringing to light all the evidence herein is for others to see the corruption in our system.  I believe the former CEO of Sun Healthcare, Richard K Matros, committed gross negligent homicide and business fraud in order to amass a fortune in personal wealth.  That we could have proved his willful misconduct as a board member of a publicly traded corporation as well as statements he made on S.E.C. forms that were blatant lies.  Specifically that he knew of no financial liability that could harm the company.  FIVE PATIENTS died from his direct negligence in their SunBridge facility down the street from his home.  I personally informed him and many others in the SunBridge organization many months before my mother was harmed and they did little to help, in fact the medical director believed "Rick Matros killed my mother".  Even Judge Gregory W Jones stated so in 2007.  Giving me the right to state in a poster.

One particular patient died from gangrene, Richard Laga, whom I befriended in early 2003.  He'd been living in SunBridge for many months.  But in July, 2003, he made it known to everyone he needed a would care nurse for his foot wound.  I heard him personally beg the Admin Susan Zanca for help.  She left for the July 4th holiday and didn't schedule a nurse.  The following week Mr. Laga left the facility for a hospital, was shortly afterward told by a Dept of Health nurse how sorry they were but that he was not just losing his foot, he was losing his life.  There is no excuse for a nursing home patient to die from gangrene.  It is definately the fault of the facility, they did not staff according to law.  Yet a fine was not issued for his death for $100,000.  WHY?

Another patient died from fecal impaction.  Hoag Hospital Doctors returned her to the facility to die, saying it was even in her lungs.  She'd resided long enough in the facility that is was their fault for not tracking bowel movements due to understaffing.  She suffered horribly before she died -Betty Harness.