Please allow me to introduce myself. While I am not especially wealthy I consider my tastes to be better than average. If you didn't get the joke please ignore it.

I am a retired Information Technology Systems Architect aged sixty-nine years. During my career I enjoyed an enviable reputation among my peers. In the final eighteen years my career I built the IT infrastructure that took a mom-and-pop (literally) company to one of the largest in its market with over thirty million in annual revenue. I was an honor student in high school and when I was younger I served briefly in the U.S. Air Force and attained the maximum rank possible in four years and received sterling performance reviews and the usual medals and other awards. I had a TS/SCI (google if necessary) security clearance and was often selected for special duties because of my security clearance and performance record. I don't put much stock in IQ tests - the Unabomber reportedly had an IQ of 167 - but for what it's worth mine is higher than that. I have never committed a crime or even been accused (or as far as I know suspected) of one and have never been diagnosed as mentally ill. The longest period of unemployment in my life was about two weeks. That should be enough to at least suggest that maybe, just maybe, I am not a crackpot or conspiracy theorist or other such person of dubious credibility.

My purpose in relating that information is to ask you, should you reply to this letter to consider your response carefully. Please do not patronize me or insult my intelligence. In forty years of systems analysis and design in work requiring absolutely accurate results my performance has never been found wanting. Ignore me if you like but do not take me for a fool. Four years ago when my family removed me from that place I was literally near death and remain permanently crippled and with a reduced life expectancy but many less fortunate patients are completely dead. In seven years more than a hundred and forty patients died in a facility that should have had an annual death rate of nearly zero and even one death would have warranted investigation. In the course of my own investigations I made the acquaintance of the mother (herself a health care worker) of a young man who perished there under the same circumstances - incompetent and abusive treatment by staff, misuse of medications, lack of attention by the doctor and a fatal failure of diagnosis. I am aware of at least one lawsuit against the hospital alleging wrongful death due to medical malpractice. Guess what? The description of the treatment of the deceased patient was similar to my own experience. In my case I was among other things administered five psychotropic drugs simultaneously (by an unqualified doctor), something that is extremely likely to result in death. I suspect that in other cases it did.

Perhaps a hundred or more deaths caused by incompetence, greed, fraud or whatever doesn't bother you? That facility has been purchased by another health care company which announced plans to to remodel the hospital into an acute, 70-bed psychiatric facility for children under the age of 18. I know a lot about that place. It is a 44-bed facility and is old and in bad condition - to make a 70-bed hospital of that size to current standards (it was built fifty or more years ago) its size would have to be nearly doubled and would require millions of dollars and a year or more of construction. 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. As an adult I was a victim and escaped only because my family members saw what was going on and removed me while I was still alive. Children whose parents have voluntarily surrendered them to treatment will have no defender. Allowing a company to stuff 70 children into a facility substandard for any purpose with no oversight seems somewhere close to - apparently there are no legal provisions to prevent it so I won't call it criminal but I believe it is evil.

As for the doctor responsible if the medical board doesn't have any problems with his actions and the results perhaps attention from state law enforcement is warranted. It may be difficult to investigate now since the facility was closed some months ago but the victims deserve at least an attempt.