Oklahoma Wasteland: Money Down the Drain

"Treatment" costs, per the OKLAHOMA HEALTHCARE AUTHORITY

Fiscal Records

$288,094.76 (January 2015 - July 2016; the 18 months prior to Jeff's last arrest)

$326,905.24 (August 2016 - Sept 2018; the 2 years after Jeff's last arrest)

Jeff's cost of "care" the past 3 1/2 years

$615,000.00 

That's $14,643/month.

That would pay for a private hospital, like www.RoseHillCenter.org - one of the top 30 Gold Standard Psychiatric facilities in the USA according to www.artausa.org

Rose Hill Center is located in Michigan, but this private mental health facility is willing to and DOES contract with others states (and countries!), to appropriately care for the most chronic mentally ill.  For example, Rose Hill has contracted with the state of Wyoming, to care for some of that state's most chronic mentally ill.  It's the right and smart thing to do.  
That's probably because saves Wyoming $MONEY$

So, why can't Oklahoma do this?

I live by a "where there's a will there's a way" mentality.  So, we've made our case.  We've presented the numbers, and these facts.  But no.  Oklahoma won't consider this.  We've proposed this, because it as an appropriate placement option for a "chronically mentally ill" person the state had no appropriate options for.  We've spoken to legislators and told of how it would be fiscally responsible.  

Still...no.  

Instead, Oklahoma has thrown this huge amount of money down the drain.  And it gets worse.  Oklahoma has SPENT this money making a chronically "mentally ill" man WORSE, due to the standard of care currently in place in the Sooner state.

This has been going on with my brother, Jeff, for 30 years.  

Time for some simple math: 

$175,714/year X 30yrs.

We're looking at 

$5,271,428.00

FIVE & A QUARTER

!!!!!     MILLION     !!!!!

DOLLARS

our government has

 WASTED 

MAKING MY BROTHER WORSE.

What put a stop to this madness was the 

Genesight.com

DNA swab.

At least now any medications given to Jeff will not harm him.

At least there's that.  

But he has been damaged.  Exponentially.  For decades.  

Only by the grace of GOD, and our Mother's eternal LOVE for her son, has he survived.  At some point I'll post his consent to share his medical/psych info

(he has signed a consent...he wants the world to know, especially if these facts can help change things for the better, which is our GOAL.)  

Mother has been diligent.  She has done an amazing job of keeping track of the facts.  

Mom has put together what has grown into a 60 legal-sized page document listing Jeff's hospitalizations and medication list. It's shocking and hard to believe one person has been subjected to such a massive list of every medication on the market.  You wouldn't believe how VAST this document is.  Jeff is truly a miracle walking...and his life WILL have great meaning, because soon enough, his story will be told in MAJOR ways.  Many wheels are turning, and our dear Jeff stays strong, in the midst of damage and anxiety that sometimes feels crippling.  I'm dying to be more specific, but time will have to do those honors...and let cats out of bags in an organic way.  

But it IS happening...finally. 

It can't be soon enough for this family!

So, let me pose some questions.

Is $5 million enough wasted government money to LEARN from this real story?

Are 30 YEARS of this man's life, ENOUGH to learn and change?  

Or - are we going to keep ignoring and refusing to learn from black and white hard facts, that are a perfect example of what NEVER to do again.

This life...Jeff's life... has LESSONS ON:
* HUMANE TREATMENT
* the hyppocratic oath to first DO NO HARM
* how to save enough money on the hundreds of chronic mentally ill in the state of Oklahoma!

Then we would have enough money to build an appropriate new kind of care facility.  
One modeled after the www.artausa.org private facilites like Rose Hill Center.

But our facility will be for the indigent.  For the forgotten ones.  For the criminalized and long-suffering that have been treated like animals, and way worse.

The burden has been on the taxpayer forever, and the statistics are getting worse.  

Jeff is a survivor.  A hero.  He is a living example of strength

                                                                                honor
                                                                                hope
                                                                                generosity
                                                                                kindness

He doesn't and has never used street drugs.  His troubles are from trauma, nutrition, PTSD, and forced treatment that has harmed him.  The standard of care needs to adapt the latest technology: The DNA swab.  It will save lives.  It HAS saved Jeff's life.  And in turn, has eased our mother's 3-decades long WAR to save her son from the scourge of chemical restraint and sheer torture by an arrogant psychiatric culture.

Tough words.  But they fit the circumstance.  

Pay attention.  Closely.  The times are starting to shift.

We feel it.

And I'll just put this out there... every mental health facility should have a therapy animal or two, or three...  

Anyone want to sponsor a 
PTSD therapy dog 
for Grand Lake Mental Health Center?  


We can start there.  

Benefactors and team effort needed.  


We can do this.
Jackie Welton DiPillo

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