Obsessing over things you can't change

does anyone else do this? Get something they hear about or read about or see and while it doesn't affect them on a personal level, the injustice and suffering of it just gets to ya so ya can't get it out of your mind?

It's "old" news..but I don't think a damn thing has probably changed for the veterans in these facilities. I wish so much better for them than they are getting today. And all I can do is what..pray? To a god that allows it?

No, no anger..trying not to go there. But I can't get shit like this out of my mind sometimes, even if it isn't very "productive".

less than fifty.

In March 2011, 47-year-old Donald Demonbreum was charged with using excessive force while caring for four patients at the Ardmore Veterans Center. The charges allege Demonbreum had been abusing residents since 2010. He is awaiting trial.

During the police investigation, Sgt. Kevin Norris told the Ardmore Ardmorite, staff members at the center had been aware of complaints against Demonbreum for months, but failed to report it to police. That revelation led to the June 2011 resignation of the center’s administrator, Greg Robertson.

• On June 28, 2011, Jeremy Craig Lyday, a 27-year-old employee of the Norman Veterans Center, was charged with one count of rape and two counts of forcible oral sodomy against patients with advanced dementia. Lyday’s case is pending in Cleveland County District Court.

In 2011, several high-level ODVA staff members and the Norman Veterans Center medical director resigned, citing concerns about veterans’ treatment.

Hiti, the medical director who resigned, said she gave up the position because too many veterans were being hurt.
“It’s absolutely disgraceful,” she said.

Hiti said the problems have spread across the state because there is little oversight of center administrators and other staff.

“It’s systemic,” she said. “I used to be part of the medical directors group. We would get together and review each other’s cases, and they are happening at every center. The administrators feel empowered to decide everything. The problems are not going to go away until they improve staffing, provide better training and stop the administrators from making medical decisions.”

[link to journalrecord.com]