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·         FW: Ombudsman Office Weekly Update 04-29-2016

·         (May 6)  FW: 2016 Montgomery County LE Memorial Ceremony

·         (May 14) FW: 2016 Business Owner Summit

·         (Save the Date: May 21) FW: Martin Delany educational event at Wilberforce

·         (Save the Date: May 26) FW: My invitation to you to meet Governor Ted Strickland

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From: Shirley Dunson
Subject: Ombudsman Office Weekly Update 04-29-2016

Your Ombudsman staff opened thirteen cases this week on Dayton Public Schools, Food Stamps, Medicaid, Unemployment, the Treasurer's Office, the Social Security Administration, Vital Statistics and the Regional Transit Authority for residents of Dayton, Oakwood and Riverside.

Another 40 households contacted us about Dayton Police and Water, ADAMHS services, Child Support, Daycare, the EEOC, the Federal Trade Commission, HUD, the IRS, the Access Center, legal services, the Attorney General's Office, the Bureau of Workman's Compensation, MyCare Ohio, the OCRC, the Department of insurance and the Ohio Public Utilities Commission.  We provided these households with brief assistance and direction, and invited them to contact us again if they are not successful in resolving the problems. These households are from Centerville, Dayton, Harrison Township, Kettering, Miamisburg, Oakwood, Trotwood and West Carrollton.

Our Long-term Care Ombudsman began investigating cases in five facilities this week on complaints related to the quality of food; the quality of the environment and temperature; staff lack of respect for dignity of residents; access to records; unwanted discharge planning; failure to respond to requests for assistance; lack of privacy for visits; and inability to exercise the right of choice.  Other work included participating in the Ohio Department of Health surveys of ten facilities in our area to provide information about the verified complaints we have resolved in those facilities and information received from our regular visits by staff and volunteers.  Staff and volunteers visited six facilities this week, and spoke with ten callers concerning their resident rights in facilities.

Here are our Facebook posts:

Facebook Weekly Update April 25-29, 2016

Notice threatens stroke victims recovery

The Ombudsman office was recently involved in an interesting case. A woman had suffered a stroke and was admitted to an area hospital. The woman's condition became increasingly more critical and she slipped into a coma.

The woman remained in a coma for several weeks and eventually awoke without the ability to move from below her neck. She then underwent extensive testing and was informed that she could ultimately regain use of her arms and legs, but she would need extensive physical therapy.

Eventually, after six weeks of hospitalization, the woman entered a nursing home for skilled nursing care and aggressive physical therapy. The woman made remarkable progress while undergoing her first three weeks physical therapy at the nursing home. She went from lying flat on her back to being able to sit-up, feed herself and slightly move her legs.

During the fourth week of physical therapy, the woman developed an infection and had to be hospitalized for two days to treat the infection. She then returned to the same nursing home to continue her physical therapy.

Unfortunately, four days after returning to the nursing home, the courageous woman was served with notice that her provider of Medicare was demanding that she be discharged from the nursing home because she should have recovered from her infection. The Ombudsman office was then contacted by the woman and her family.

The Ombudsman then met with the woman and quickly realized there was obvious confusion on the part of the insurance provider concerning why this woman (resident) was initially admitted to the nursing home. The Ombudsman informed the resident she would need to quickly file an appeal with the insurance provider, as they were the entity responsible for her pending discharge. However, in order to file an appeal, the resident and Ombudsman needed to complete an investigation and obtain critical documentation.

The Ombudsman first met with the nursing staff and physical therapy department and confirmed the resident was steadily improving with her physical therapy and that she still required skilled nursing and physical therapy. The Ombudsman then met with the director of nursing, director of billing and the nursing home administrator to obtain all documentation the resident would need to appeal the decision of her insurance provider. The Ombudsman then met with the resident and together they went through the process of notifying the insurance provider of her decision to appeal and then provided all of the forms and documentation required to complete the appeal. The insurance provider told the resident and Ombudsman it would take 24 hours before a decision was made concerning her appeal.

The resident called the Ombudsman the following day with news that the appeal had been granted and she could remain in the nursing home and receive physical therapy. The appeal decision only extended coverage for 10 days, and the nursing home would thereafter have to demonstrate that the resident was making meaningful improvement in order to remain in the nursing home. The Ombudsman continued to follow the resident at the nursing home, and approximately four weeks later, she returned home using a walker and she would continue receiving physical therapy at home until the walker was unnecessary.  

The Ombudsman column, a production of the Joint Office of Citizens' Complaints, summarizes selected problems that citizens have had with government and social services, utilities, schools and nursing homes in the Dayton area. Contact the Ombudsman by writing to Centre City Building, 11 W. Monument Ave., Suite 606, Dayton 45402, or telephone (937) 2234613, or by electronic mail at ombudsman@dayton-ombudsman.org or our website at www.dayton-ombudsman.org. 

 

 

 

From: Pawelski, Christopher
Subject: FW: 2016 Montgomery County LE Memorial Ceremony

The 2016 Montgomery County Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony

The best way to observe the history of local law enforcement is to honor our officers who sacrificed their lives in service to their communities.  Law Enforcement officers from police agencies throughout Montgomery County will join together this Friday, May 6, 2015, to remember the 38 Montgomery County law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty over the past 136 years.  Please see attachement.

Note:  Two (2) officers are being added to the local Fallen Roll this year:  Germantown PD Sgt. Robert Woods, who died from a heart attack in 1976 while handling a domestic call; and B & O Railroad Police Det. Alfred Knight, who was shot and killed in 1927 at the North Dayton railway yard.

The procession of retired and active-duty officers will leave at 10:15 a.m., walking south from Temple Israel parking lot at 130 Riverside Drive and west on Monument Avenue for the Memorial Service at the Riverscape Pavilion, East Monument & North Patterson Boulevard, beginning at 11:00 a.m.

 

 

From: Emma Andrews, MSSA, DCRN Secretary
Subject: 2016 Business Owner Summit

The Dayton Community Revitalization Network (DCRN) and the Westwood CNA welcomes the opportunity to have you as a part of our 2016 Business Owner Summit. This event is sponsored by the City of Dayton Mini-Grant Program.

DCRN will be doing a welcome to all attendees and we would like you to do a response from the City of Dayton to start the activities of the day.

Please find information on the event and our agency from the attachments.

 

 

From: Larry F. Crowe
Subject: Martin Delany educational event at Wilberforce

Dayton chapter of ASALH and the Kemetic Institute of Chicago are sponsoring an historical gathering at Wilberforce to explore the life and times of Dayton Walk of Fame nominee, Dr. Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885), who along with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass is one of the great heroes of the fight against slavery. Unfortunately, his memory is still largely invisible in Dayton. The program starts at the National African American Museum and Cultural Center (NAAMCC) at 1350 Brush Row Road in Wilberforce, Ohio (on the campus of Central State University) on Saturday, May 21, 2016 at 9:00 am.

If you don't know who Martin R. Delany is, you can blame miseducation. Douglass, co-editor with Delany of the North Star, wrote in 1852, "I thank God for making me a man, simply, but Delany thanks God for making him a Black man." Dr. Martin R. Delany, whose services were nation wide, moved his family to Wilberforce in 1864. He was a physician, editor, novelist, organizer, anti-slavery fighter, African explorer and scientist. "What would seem an obstacle to most men is easily brushed aside by Martin Delany" said abolitionist William Wells Brown. Black Episcopal Bishop James Theodore Holly wrote in the Christian Recorder that Delany was "the standard by which we will judge all black men in the future." After a career as a doctor, agitator, and explorer of Egba country in what is now Nigeria, Delany was selected by President Abraham Lincoln himself in 1865 as a Major in the Civil War - the highest ranking Black officer.

Our program explores Delany's life and times in the context of the story of the founding of Wilberforce. His mentor, Rev. Lewis Woodson, Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne, Hallie Q. Brown, Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and many others make up the largely hidden history of Wilberforce University, the oldest HBCU in the nation and our struggles in the days leading to and following our emancipation.

Special guests include Prof. Yvonne Jones, director of Chicago's Kemetic Institute, Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr, chair of Africana studies at Howard University, Dr. Mario Beatty, president of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations, Khabir Shareef of Indianapolis as "The Black Major," Larry F. Crowe and Omope Carter Daboiku of the Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch of ASALH.

This is a great opportunity to bring youth groups and family members to learn some real history, explore the new exhibits and offer libation to Martin R. Delany, Hallie Q. Brown, Colonel Charles Young and the rest our ancestors at Delany's nine foot monument at Massies Creek Cemetery on nearby route 42. The formal program at Wilberforce lasts till noon. For those who wish, we will eat at Bing Davis' EboNia Gallery and tour the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Saturday afternoon.

For more information contact Kweku Larry F. Crowe at 937-776-5541 or at crowemidwest@gmail.com. Crowe started organizing these commemorations for Martin R. Delany in 1997. The program is free of charge, though you need to have your own transportation for you or your group.

 

 

From: Donald Nguyen
Subject: My invitation to you to meet Governor Ted Strickland

We will host an event for Governor Ted Strickland who is running for US Senate in November. I hope you can find 1 hr in your busy schedule to attend and meet many friends and colleagues who are passionate about what goes on in Ohio and around the nation. Ted has been a great ally of health care and when in public office, similar to the other great Senator of Ohio Sherrod Brown, Ted and Frances chose to pay for their own health insurance coverage before the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. He felt that it was unfair for elected officials to receive health coverage at a time when so many Americans and Ohioans were not covered. Few people know that when Ted was Governor, he signed the law that allowed children to stay under their parents' health insurance until the age of 28, compared to 26 under the ACA. And I always remember this fact, that in 2010, even in the height of the Tea Party up rise, Ted only lost to John Kasich by a mere 2% of the votes. Ughhh!

I have reached out to you in the past regarding health care reform and this is no different. If you care about health reform, about protecting and improving the gains that have been made in expanding health coverage to millions of Americans, about protecting and strengthening Medicaid and Medicare, about children's health, then we need a strong and progressive Senator like Ted Strcikland.

It will be a warm and small gathering at the home of Dr. Inder and Suresh Chandra and you would be so glad to speak to Ted in person, a most genuine, down to earth friend and one of the most beloved Governors of the Buckeye state. Hope you can join me.

When:    Thursday May 26th, 2016 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Where:    176 Debs drive, Beavercreek, OH 45434

Please look over the attached invitation details, and call me 937-657-0425 or email me back or contact Katie Hough. Her contact info is:

Katie Hough; Strickland for Senate
P.O. Box 2196, Columbus, OH 43216
C: 412-398-5552; khough@tedstrickland.com; www.tedstrickland.com

 

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