A brief summary of my husband, Scott Keith’s cruel and inhumane treatment at Community Medical Center in Toms River, N.J.

He left our home via ambulance on 12/14/21, and I did not see him again until he was brain dead and on a ventilator on 1/10/22. He passed on the following day, 1/11/22. 
He was 62 years old. We were married for 41 years with two children and 9 grandchildren. He was in the Operating Engineers Union for 37 years hauling heavy equipment and planning retirement in 2 years! Healthy and strong. My soulmate. 

His first symptoms appeared on 12/3/21 as a cough.

+ Covid test 12/6/21 at Urgent Care. Told to just go home and ride it out.  No medications given.  Told him to go to ER if he has trouble breathing.

Called ambulance on 12/14/21.  Pulse ox at 66.  EMTs let him walk down a flight of stairs BEHIND THEM and out to the ambulance in the street.  Climbed up into ambulance by himself.  In ER, he was at 89% pulse ox with 15 liters on nonrebreather mask.

Admitted at Toms River Community Medical Center 12/14/21. Could not reach my husband or get any information on his condition until the following day. 

201 lbs at time of admission.  160 lbs at time of death. 

Started on Remdesivir on 12/15/21  200 mg $2,600.00
                  Tocilizumab on 12/15/21 800 mg $10,208.00
                                          (1 mg injection/quantity 800)

Remdesivir given for 5 days even though I specifically told them NOT TO GIVE IT TO THE PATIENT.   Scott said NO and I said NO.   No informed consents were provided with his medical records.  They said it was “the hospital protocol” and if I didn’t allow it, I would have to take him to another hospital.

Scan on 12/15/21 states, “Low probability for pulmonary embolism.” Yet the doctors continuously said he came in with a clot in his lung.

FLU VACCINE was administered on 12/15/21 at 0:47:00! Why? Found in the consultation notes, but not on the itemized statement. 

12/21/21 started using telesitter on patient to watch him on video. Stated he was pulling tubes.  Agitated. I spoke to nurse that same day. They told me NOTHING. They put him on Xanax. 

They told me they were turning him every 45 minutes. In all of the notes up to the day before he was moved to ICU, it said repositioning was “self-encouraged”. They denied that he had any bed sores. In the notes it states, “Bed wound. Barrier cream used.” 

Bed sores within 14 days of being in the hospital.

He was put in a diaper, because they didn’t have enough nurses. Her exact words, “You don’t know what’s going on in here.  We are very understaffed!”  My response was, “That doesn’t give you the right to neglect my husband!” 

On 1/7/22 4 days before he passed, my husband told the physical therapist that, “He feels like no one is helping him.”

On 1/8/22 3 days before he passed and the day before he was ventilated, he called me very upset.  Said to please call the nurse’s station. He was hitting the buzzer for 2 hours and no one was coming.  He was lying in a dirty diaper for over 2 hours. 

The nurse told me, I could not see my husband unless he was discharged or at time of death.   

I have a FULL notebook of daily notes. Every nurse I spoke to, the date, and the time. 

The first pulmonologist, Dr. Das, worked with his wife. He didn’t return my phone calls for 5 days.  I filed a complaint with Patient Advocacy. Fired him and hired new doctors. 

With comments of “behavioral issues” they continued to drug him. Restraints used 3 days before he passed. 

On 1/10/22 while in ICU, they gave him 2 injections of Midazolam (1 mg each) with 25 doses (0.1 mg/ml each) of Fentanyl.  This is when he went into cardiac arrest. They did CPR for 30 minutes and my son and I rushed to the hospital. They put him on life support. He responded when he heard my voice. The next day, no neurological response. 

32 pages of drugs pumped into my husband. He could no longer fight. He was murdered after 27 days in the hospital with NO CONTACT FROM HIS FAMILY. 

His death certificate said multi-organ failure, sepsis, cardiac arrest. I had them amend the death certificate to state covid, because it was the only reason, he set foot into the death camp.

I did medical billing for many years. There are codes used by the doctors billing for HIGH COMPLEXITY with 30 minutes face to face with patient.  If they did enter the room, it was for under 5 minutes.  I would ask my husband every day. The higher the complexity, the more money they get. The billing discrepancies are endless.  

The hospital charged for a doctor’s counseling on end of life. The doctor stated that we declined an autopsy.  That was NEVER discussed and the doctor NEVER “counseled” us. But they were PAID by the insurance company. 

I placed a phone call to the ICU department to question WHY we weren’t offered the autopsy.  I received a call from Dr. Kahn, critical care doctor, and he stated, and I quote, “That was a mistake on their part.  I will take this to my superiors. I am so sorry.”  He mentioned how they are now a teaching hospital, so it may have been overlooked. 

I promised my husband on his deathbed that I would fight in his honor for this inhumane torture he went through. My husband did not die of covid. He was murdered by the Hospital Covid protocol.