The Reverend John E. Denmark, Chaplain
The United States Secret Service
City of Melbourne Police Department
Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue
3816 MacFarlane Street
Melbourne Beach, Florida 32951
561-324-1406
April 21, 2021
To whom it may concern,
With this letter, I am filing a grievance for what I believe to be carelessness practice by a hospitalist in my treatment after I had receive treatment for a cardiac event on July 27, 2020 at Holmes Regional Medical Center. With this grievance, I commend the the work of many staff who served well and effectively during my four stays at Holmes Regional Hospital. I in no way wish any harm both professionally and personally to any of these fine servants in the medical profession at Holmes Regional Medical Center. I will now itemize what occurred from July 27th 2020 through November 5, 2020.
1. On Monday, July 27, 2020 I was hospitalized for a cardiac event that required stints to be installed in my body to assist with cardiac problems, of which I take full responsibility for my lack of self-care of my body. While hospitalized, my Cardiologist was out of town and his office authorized my hospitalization. During my short stay from July 27 through July 29 a Hospitalists, Dr. S. Faris came into my room to, I believe, examine or check on me. I asked why he was seeing me and he appeared to get somewhat defensive by saying: “You don’t have to see me if you do not want to!” I replied: “No, that’s fine, just wanted to know who you were.” The next time I saw him was on day of dismissal on July 29, 2020. He prescribed PRASUGREL, OR ALSO KNOWN AS EFFIENT for the thining of blood. It appears he did not know that I was already taking plavix and low dose aspirin on a daily basis. I don’t know if it was administered before leaving the hospital but began taking it on July 29, 2020.
2. On Saturday, August 29, 2020, I had developing and increasing head aches to the point of nausea and visited a clinic in Indiatlantic, Florida. They instructed me to go to the Emergency Room at Holmes Regional immediately. CT scan was taken of my head and a serious sub-dural hematoma was discovered and I was admitted to the ICU. Preparations were taken to have surgery on my internal bleeding in my brain. Due to the thinning of my blood, it was decided that I need to have some time to weaken the effects of the blood thinners that were in my system. My Cardiologist told my to stop taking the effienct/prasugrel as well as all other thinners. After three burr holes were applied to my skull, the bleeding was reduced. The neurosurgeon said the bleed moved my brian to the right and he had pictures to show me in a follow-up visit. I was released on September 7, 2020.
3. On October 2, 2020, I began to pass large amounts of blood through my rectum. My wife, Susan Denmark, called the paramedics and I was transported to ER at Holmes Regional Medical Center. While waiting for a room to be ready for me in ER, a paramedic, took me to the restroom and he said I passed out while passing more blood. I was discovered that my hemoglobin was 4 and I was in need of transfusions. I had 9 transfusion during my stay. It was determined I had a lower GI bleed but was never determined exactly where the bleed was. I was released on Friday October 9, 2020.
4. October 29, 2020, I could not walk more than ten steps without giving out of breath. We went to ER again and it was determined that I had blood clots in legs and lungs. After 7 or 8 days in ICU, and extensive treatments, I was release on Thursday, November 5, 2020.
I believe these four events are related by failure to prescribe medications correctly and caused an experience of medical crises listed above. I paid for my co-pays and deductibles to the point of satisfying the maximum deductible for 2020. I will never be the same and the long term effects are evident. I have three holes/indentions on the left side of my head. I continue to have headaches. I believe all of this came about due to how my blood issues were handled.
I ask for an investigation and a response to my itemized situations. Thank you for your consideration of my concerns.
John E. Denmark
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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: Our team positively changing the health and well-being of you and your family through excellent and compassionate health care.
Programs: Holmes regional medical center (hrmc) features 514 beds and more than 500 highly skilled medical staff members. As the region's premier tertiary referral hospital, hrmc offers all patients cutting-edge life-saving technology. The heart center at hrmc offers comprehensive cardiac services and performs more cardiac procedures than all other hospitals in brevard county. As the only state-accredited level ii trauma center serving brevard and indian river counties, hrmc's trauma center offers 24/7 trauma care and rapid patient transport via first flight, a health first operated aero-medical helicopter. Additionally, the birth suites at hrmc includes brevard's first level ii neonatal icu for newborns with medical conditions requiring intensive care. Hrmc is also the first hospital in brevard to offer state-of-the-art robotics-assisted surgery for urology, prostate, and gynecological procedures and is currently the only hospital in brevard to offer anterior hip replacement surgery and reverse shoulder surgery. As a primary stroke center, hrmc offers life-changing interventional neuro-radiology services for advanced stroke treatment. Palm bay hospital (pbh) features 120 acute care beds, 18 dedicated psychiatric beds, and 275 highly skilled physicians. Focused on cutting-edge technology, pbh offers patients extensive digital diagnostic radiology including digital mammography, x-ray, mri, ct, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and tele radiology. Pbh is the first hospital in brevard to offer thoracic endograph surgery. Pbh also offers a full spectrum of healthcare services, including cardiopulmonary, surgery, rehabilitation, intensive care, emergency and endoscopy services. Hrmc and pbh provide high-quality medical services to the community of brevard county regardless of race, creed, gender, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay. It is recognized that not all individuals possess the ability to purchase essential medical services and further, that our mission is to serve the community with respect to providing health care services and health care education such as "healthy happenings" seminars and support groups for the public. In keeping with this hospital's commitment, to serve all members of its community:1) free care and/or subsidized care is provided where the need and/or inability to pay exists2) care is provided at below cost to persons covered by governmental programs3) free healthcare activities and programs are provided to the community. These activities include: wellness programs, community education programs, special programs for elderly, handicapped, and mentally underserved along with a variety of broad community support activities.