8 August 2014
TO: 6th International Conference on Patient
and Family Centered Care
Bayshore, Vancouver, B.C.
PRESS RELEASE
Woman banned from all Vancouver Coast Health
Facilities on January 29 2014 for disrespectful conduct for ninety days while
husband is dying at George Pearson Centre. (with a threat that it will be extended forever)
Woman unable to access husband until she alone
self-litigated and got a court order only long enough to watch him die from
what could have been a preventable urinary track infection in Vancouver General
Hospital in the Intensive Care Unit on 13 April 2014. I saw him for ninety minutes him being non responsive before
being sent to ICU.
Disrespectful or not, this woman should have had access
to her husband 24/7 because of his fragile health and not a cruel banning. One complaint was that she sent emails to
Kip Woodward, the chairman of the Board of Vancouver Coastal Health. Another one was she was being too friendly
with the residents and visitors and she was barred from talking to them. She
was also barred from talking to the nursing staff and Randy’s doctors. Randy was 57 years old.
Randy’s right to security of person was violated by
VCH. He was imprisoned. He had no right
to see who he wanted, when he wanted or where he wanted. This was part of his
health care plan for which he was denied.
Since he was dying I should have been there. Randy had a spinal cord
injury, an ABI and a trach so he could not talk. Because of $rationing he was
denied a passey-muir talking valve.
Randy gave Audrey the lawful rights given under BC
legislation : the Representation Agreement and an Enduring Power of Attorney
both of which VCH refused to honour. And a will dated in 2006.
Audrey Jane Laferriere
voiceofgoneballistic.blogspot.com
604-321-2276
5976 Cambie Street
Vancouver, B.C.
V5Z 3A9
