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BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING
The Bridges program offers many bereavement support programs. For information about sessions, dates, focus and times please call Bridges at (727) 586-4432.

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Loyalty to the Hospice Mission or to Unethical Hospice Practices?

The hospice website states that:
"The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast was born of the thoughtful pledge made by a few dedicated volunteers 25 years ago -- a pledge to improve end-of-life services for the people of Pinellas County -- a pledge to value all aspects and phases of life."
What is it that Mary Labyak doesn't understand about valuing "all aspects and phases of life?" Is Terri Schiavo's life valued by Mary Labyak and those who conspire together to kill her? Does Terri qualify as being part of "ALL" aspects of life? Does she deserve consideration as the vulnerable disabled woman she is? Would the founders of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast turn over in their graves seeing their hospice turned into a killing field? Is Mary Labyak's vision true to the mission of the founders of this hospice quoted above from its website and promotional literature? Do Labyak and the hospice still truly value all life, including Terri Schiavo's?

And what about the staff at the hospice? Some hospice employees have left this hospice and have been disgusted with the actions of the leaders. But some have chosen to stay. Will they cooperate in the killing of Terri Schiavo? Will they think they are "serving" Terri by starving her to death if the judge orders that her tube feedings may be stopped? Will they hold their heads high in pride, knowing they did their best for Terri?

Did Hitler's Nazi SS know they were doing wrong? What about the low-level soldiers who killed the Jews, the disabled, the mentally ill? They cried out when they were tried for war crimes, "we were only following orders! We are loyal soldiers!" But what were they loyal to? What are the staff loyal to? Are they loyal to the hospice mission and the patients as well as the trust of the public? Or, are they loyal to leaders who have led them down a dark path? If a judge orders that the feeding tube for Teri Schiavo can be removed, any staff that cooperate in that removal or cessation of feeding, would be co-conspirators in the murder of a defenseless disabled woman.

The Nazis killed the disabled. Any hospice worker who does the same, even with court approval, would be guilty of murder. The public knows that each person IS responsible for what they choose to do. Those who follow orders which violate the laws of humanity will certainly answer to a higher authority, eventually. Killing defenseless Terri Schiavo would be a crime against humanity, a crime against Terri and a betrayal of everything mainstream hospice stands for.

Any employee who chooses not to speak up to the authorities is helping the cover up, helping the violations continue, and helping to send this hospice into an ethical disaster zone, with great harm to the mission of hospice. Employees who know about the breach of confidentiality, but remain silent, are co-conspirators in the coverup of the breach of confidentiality. Employees who know about diversion of donated funds to the personal benefit of hospice managers or others, and remain silent, are co-conspirators in those actions.

If no employee were willing to just "go along" with the violations and look the other way, the extremists running the hospice would never get away with all of this! Every employee at the hospice knows it is against the law and unethical to share actual confidential data with others who are not directly involved in the care of patients at the hospice. Every employee knows that killing the disabled is wrong. And every employee of the hospice knows that taking donations which were given to the nonprofit hospice for services to the dying, and using them for profit is wrong. Those who donated to the hospice did not wish to donate to a money-making venture; they donated to the mission of the hospice which is serving the patients in the nonprofit hospice.

There is nothing wrong with trying to create software to serve hospice agencies. And there is nothing wrong with having a for-profit business so long as the funds used to create that for-profit venture come from investors who knowingly invest their funds in the undertaking. What is wrong is to give the public the impression that their donations are going to direct services to the patients and then shunt their donations over to the for-profit, where staff are paid extremely well, while simultaneously cutting costs at the nonprofit which directly serves the patients!

Staff at this hospice or any hospice need to remain true to the mission of hospice. Extremists who hijack hospices and pervert the activities of the hospice, violating the hospice mission, should be removed from power. These hospice extremists tarnish the image of hospice that hospice staff have worked so hard to achieve, through their dedicated service to the patients. Staff who remain silent are co-conspirators! And even though they can cry out, "I was just following orders!" The law does not view "following orders" as an excuse to violate the laws and regulations governing hospice or any business.

If this hospice is ever prosecuted for any violations found during an investigation, it is certain that a staff member will be used as the scapegoat. Staff members of this hospice: beware! Even former employees may be used as scapegoats. Resigning alone does not exempt one from responsibility for what you have done or known about beforehand. Those who have covered up wrongdoing will be considered co-conspirators and part of the problem. Those who expose wrongdoing are part of the solution and among those who will bring this hospice back on track.




Anyone having further information about the Hospice of the Florida $uncoast and its practices is advised to contact the plaintiffs' attorney of record:

Jonathan L. Alpert, Esquire
Florida Bar No. 121970
THE ALPERT LAW FIRM
100 South Ashley Drive. Suite 2000
Post Office Box 3270
Tampa, Florida 33601-3270
(813) 223-4131 - Tel.
(813) 230-9915 - Tel.
(813) 228-9612 - Fax

The Board of Directors
http://www.hospicepatients.org/Saving-Hospice-from-Hospice-Extremists.html

Hospice Patients Alliance Reporting the Whole Truth:
A Free Press in A Free Nation!
http://www.hospicepatients.org/Hosp-FL-Suncoast-entrypage.html



Judge George Greer: Ruler of the Kangaroo Court set on killing Terri Schiavo. Impartial? Not in the least! Worked side by side as county commissioner with Barbara Sheen Todd (county commissioner) for eight YEARS. Barbara Sheen Todd is on the board of the hospice. Also, Judge Greer's fellow judge, Judge John Lenderman is the brother of Martha Lenderman (also on the hospice board! See the Hospice Board members! Greer accepted as the basis of his rulings, the questionable testimony of Michael Schiavo (and his family) that Terri would wish to be killed, yet Michael never stated that before he got about a Million Dollars to care for Terri forever. Greer also accepted as the basis of his rulings, the "opinion" of a third doctor who just happens to be the brother of a close associate of George Felos, right-to-kill attorney, and very significantly, former CHAIRMAN of the hospice board! If there ever was a rigged court, Judge Greer's is it!


NOTICE! 10/6/03: Governor Jeb Bush acts to save Terri Schindler Schiavo's life by filing Amicus Brief in Federal Court!
(a large Adobe .pdf file, may take a while to load in your browser)


Judge George Greer


Mary Labyak: "compassionate?" Not by a longshot! Mary Labyak on the board of Partnership for Caring which absorbed into itself "Choice In Dying" (formerly called The Euthanasia Society). Agenda? Kill the NON-terminal in hospices! Mary is one of the leaders in hospice who is actively using her own hospice to further the agenda of the right-to-kill crowd. And pleeeaaase! For the naive, don't give us that line about the "right-to-die!" It's all about making more money by not spending it on the severely disabled, elderly or chronically ill, ... inheriting their assets (court judgments, i.e., Michael Schiavo), balancing the state and federal budgets (reducing expenditures from Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) and private health insurers... Mary Labyak: promoter of the "duty to die," with Terri Schindler Schiavo as the current target. The right-to-die agenda (which allows for the killing of helpless disabled people like Terri Schindler Schiavo) is a direct, documentable, outgrowth of the euthanasia movement of Hitler.

Anyone who wishes to see actual video of Terri Schindler Schiavo responding,
log on to the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation website.
http://www.terrisfight.org