A TOUR: ''God's Hotel'' - The FORMER HOSPITAL BEFORE OUR REBUILD IN 2010.

---Here is a video that I found recently. I thought that some may like to see it. ''God's Hotel'' was the term Dr. Victoria Sweet used for her book chronicling her twenty year experience of working at the old Laguna Honda Hospital. The video lasts less than 8 mins. This is a quick tour of the inside of the old LHH.

I made it a TOUR of the old Laguna Honda Hospital because I knew that NOT everyone got a chance to see it. I call it a TOUR of ''God's Hotel'' after her book of the same name. ''God's Hotel,'' was written by Dr. Victoria Sweet...a former doctor at LHH. The book was well received by the public having spent time on the NY Times bestseller list and won a Guggenheim in the process. She made a TEDtalk about  LHH at the time.

She was, also, my own doctor for awhile.

Dr. VICTORIA SWEET

We, as I'm sure many are aware, Laguna Honda Hospital is slated to be shutdown and emptied by the feds in September, 2022. This news blindsided most of us because we have to move elsewhere for this to happen. A small amount of residents have been moved causing 9 deaths already, in the first three weeks They have put a pause  on the transfer

 movement. Many lawsuits have sprung up. Let's put a sticker to ''MAKE THE PAUSE...PERMANENT. KINDNESS IS THE WAY!''

MAKE THE PAUSE...PERMANENT!

We have now as of 10/12 been given an extension to our closure. A lawsuit was settled and Laguna Honda Hospital will remain open until November 13, 2023. The pause is slated to be lifted in February, 2023. We have not been recertified, but we are making progress to that which, of course, would be our goal.

Laguna Honda Resident Rights Town Hall

LAGUNA HONDA RESIDENT RIGHTS TOWN HALL

TO THE NURSES of LAGUNA HONDA HOSPITAL...

 

---I would like to dedicate this song by the Beatles to ALL the nurses at Laguna Honda. I know that this song was written by John Lennon about a relationship to a girl he may or may not have been involved with. He may have found it applicable to that situation. But, I think it applies very strongly to myself and many others at any hospital or nursing home, also.

---I was very self-reliant most of my life and was very able to fend for myself. The bad times were the bad times, but I seemed to survive them alright. The stroke hit me in 2002...and I had NO idea what to do. I was immediately plugged into the system and ended up at living in a hospital..

---People have been very good to me here. I love them ALL and I really think I mean that. They have helped me...so many times in so many ways. The song fits in, in so many ways, also. I didn't think too much about what people did who couldn't do the fundamental things that I used to take for granted. Well, I learned, in spades. They get - HELP!
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---The version of the song has expired. I, finally, added a different version in its place.  It is NOT the BEATLES, but i  HOPE that it serves the purpose.

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TEDtalk - FRED LEE - ''Patient Satisfaction or Patient Experience''

FRED LEE

''Patient Satisfaction or Patient Experience''

A MUST SEE!

VERY POIGNANT -

AS I SEE IT!

 

KQED - The FORUM LINK - LAGUNA HONDA HOSPITAL

 LAGUNA HONDA LINK

LAGUNA HONDA HOSPITAL - CRISIS!! 

THIS IS WHAT THE STATE SURVEYORS DON'T SEEM TO KNOW - LONG-TERM PATIENT FOCUS GROUP

The FOCUS GROUP – FEB. 27, 2018.

REPUBLISHED

---Today we had a focus group for the long-term residents. I am glad that we had an opportunity to speak our minds. I would like to see us have more groups like this. I don’t think we even scratched the surface as to what we could have said. In my own case…I would have done better if I had more time.

WHAT I MEANT TO CONVEY:

---A woman mentioned that she enjoyed the groups that she goes to. I followed her statement with the fact that we should actually have more groups to learn different things. My answer was NOT to the point.

---I meant to say that we should have many more groups that convey SELF- KNOWLEDGE and SELF-WORTH. We should have more groups concerned with REAL REHABILITATION as I see it. We should be concerned with teaching the resident/patient how to know him/her-self. Since we are concerned with sending people into the society/community, it behooves us to equip those individuals with REASONs TO SAY NO. We do NOT WANT folks to fall into the same addictive patterns…so he becomes re-addicted. We need to teach those who are on this track to learn GREATER SELF-WORTH so they are able to say NO to things that re-addict them and cause them to re-enter the addiction system ...and mean it. If we get to the root cause before this happens, we may nip in the bud and keep the RESIDENT/PATIENT from having to deal with another malady stemming from the same root cause that was responsible for his/her entering the system this time. The root cause is usually much the same in each case.

Promotes Independence

---Or, it may be very worthwhile to help the patient discover what it is that really  gives him/her fulfillment. Then we could help him/her to actually learn to implement meeting those needs he has discovered. We would be doing a great service NOT only to the patient who learns this skill, but to the people who are his victim, so to speak. If he doesn't find something productive, he'll wander from pillar to post trying to find something to fill all the extra time that he seems to have, all the while, looking for these VERY ANSWERS and cause some kind of ruckus. In the long run, we could teach the Resident/Patient how to get his/her needs met...and NOT rely on the system or others to do things that he is able to do for himself. If we are able to teach folks to be self-reliant, in this way we promote independence. And...to boot, he will be much happier!

 -– With love and understanding and some SELF-KNOWLEDGE, we hope to teach the Resident/Patient how to make better and more LIFE AFFIRMING DECISIONS. MORE LATER…

---This Is What I CONVEYED To The People From The State In April 2021.  I Am NOT Sure What They Took Away. A REPRINT!

CHARTER FOR COMPASSION

The CHARTER FOR COMPASSION

FROM A FEW YEARs AGO