Negligent Clinic Christ Health (UPCODING) Named Partner In Birmingham, AL YMCA Redevelopment Project

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Birmingham, AL. based Christ Health Center has been named as a partner in a $15.3 million redevelopment project of the Northeast YMCA. According to AL.com Christ Health Center will operate within an attached 7,000 sq. foot pediatric health clinic. Money contributions have been announced from the city of Birmingham ($1 million), as well as Jefferson County ($1.9 million).  YMCA’s other partners include Habitat for Humanity, Christ Health Center, Impact Family Counseling, United Way of Central Alabama/Meals on Wheels, and Alabama First Class Pre-K and Community Food Bank of Central Alabama.  I was a patient & customer of Christ Health in 2019 and following my negative experiences, I urge all concerned on this project to reconsider allowing Christ Health's involvement (see below) and do some due dilligence on their organization before this project moves forward.  1 Year On: a letter I was told by their lawyer would be sent to me after a scheduled August, 2023 board meeting never arrived (August 2024, 1 year later). She refused to help me correct a laundry list of service and negligence issues in my visit. I also ask why a medical doctor I had no interaction with (Beverly VonDerpool) strangely signed off on my records days following my visit. This was AFTER I had informed their staff I was misdiagnosed by partners Ascension Saint Vincent's Birmingham, AL. for an injury that will takes hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to treat (broken skull / head trauma).   Lawyer Deborah Pickens told me in a recorded August, 2023 phone call Christ Health was not liable for negligence damages I incurred in botched visits with their MD and NP in 2019. She then invoked federal protections by the United States government (that apparently excuses their negligence) AND invited me to consult a lawyer myself. She tells me outright that because of their status, any claim I had against them would need to be made against the U.S. Federal Government. She does not possess a medical license to know if I received appropriate care or not but failed to name one of their practices many doctors or nurses who drew such a conclusion following an investigation she claims was made into my issues.   5 months after speaking to their CEO Dr. Robert Record MD (& 2 months following being connected lawyer Deborah Pickens I am still awaiting a letter  containing the results of an August, 2023 board meeting regarding several outstanding issues that arose during my 2 visits with their NP & MD in 2019.  A "He said she said" exchange of "who called who and when" consumed valuable time in both this call and the previous call with CEO Dr. Robert Record.   I had a broken skull injury I almost died from - 3 inch long insects & worms grew in the wound (SEE X-RAYS / MRI / CT IN VIDEOS).

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00:00All right, as always, you can go to YouTube channel My Medical Nightmare and see 40 plus

00:07hours video on everything that happened to me.

00:10All right, courtesy Alabama Public Radio dated November 15, 2024.

00:16Birmingham approves $1 million redevelopment agreement for Northeast YMCA renovation.

00:23They say the organization is joined with the city and area partners for what is being called

00:30the Roebuck Collaborative, a $15.3 million project to improve the East Birmingham community.

00:38The Northeast YMCA will receive major renovations to its current 18,000 square foot facility

00:44and a new 8,000 square foot addition with a premier healthcare center, mental health and

00:51nutrition counseling, and family and community resource center.

00:55AL.com reported on November 8th that Christ Health Center will run the attached pediatric

01:01health clinic.

01:02Jefferson County is contributing $1.9 million to the project and around $9.5 million is

01:10being raised in private donations.

01:12Expected to open mid-spring 2025.

01:16Others involved Habitat for Humanity, Impact Family Counseling, United Way of Central,

01:21Alabama, Meals on Wheels, and Alabama First Class Pre-K and Community Food Bank of Central

01:28Alabama.

01:29I urge the partners to reconsider the involvement of Christ Health Center.

01:36I was a patient and customer of Christ Health in 2019.

01:41I had a really negative experience.

01:43I'll go into the details of what happened to me.

01:45And I think all concerned should be aware of who your partners and team members are, and

01:52you need to do some due diligence on this organization.

01:56I was a patient for Christ Health Center, Dr. Terry Daniel Smith, MD, as well as nurse practitioner

02:04Anna Musgraves in 2019.

02:07I had a broken skull injury and head trauma that I almost died from.

02:13The wound became infected with parasites, as well as three inch long insects and worms that

02:21you can see in various x-rays, MRI, and CT that I had done.

02:27At the time I visited Christ Health Center, I was trying to get an MRI scan, and I had a lot

02:34of trouble doing this.

02:35I believe that some person involved in my health care and treatment may have gone to some length

02:43to deny me health care, specifically more detailed scans on this area.

02:49Because days before the Christ Health visit, I went to the Ascension St. Vincent's East Emergency

02:56Department where I had a computed tomography scan of my head and cervical area of my neck.

03:02I was misdiagnosed in that scan.

03:06The radiologist and the doctors in the emergency room, they would not note an injury that I

03:13later found in the images.

03:16And I'll put them up here so everybody can see.

03:18My rundown of issues with Christ Health Center, Birmingham, Alabama.

03:23I believe I received no measurable level of service in my visit.

03:27I was charged the same amount of money, $110, to see the doctor and MD as the nurse, a nurse

03:37practitioner.

03:38Other medical practices around Birmingham, I paid roughly half of that price.

03:46Christ Health is partners with Ascension St. Vincent's Hospital.

03:50And it looks like either Christ Health decided to ignore my injury or were ordered to ignore

03:58my injury.

03:59And I believe this is to protect the reputations and million dollar salaries of the quote professionals

04:04unquote involved.

04:07I also believe it may have been patient dumped.

04:09And that's a violation of EMTALA, E-M-T-A-L-A, in the course of my seeking treatment.

04:15I was a self-paid patient.

04:17I had no insurance and I could provide no stated source of income.

04:22Dr. Terry Daniel Smith, MD, outright refused to grant me a referral for an MRI.

04:29Just a few days later, I got that MRI.

04:32I had to pay cash out of pocket.

04:34And broken bone surrounded by infection shows up in that scan.

04:40Broken bone also shows up in the CT scan.

04:43He claims in his notes in my medical chart to have reviewed in detail.

04:49I was billed $50 for a hemoglobin blood test and electrocardiogram I never received.

04:56And yeah, I think taking money from people who don't have anything, such as myself, is obscene.

05:03Nurse Musgraves wrote in her report that she suspected psych etiology to explain my symptomology.

05:10And this is absolutely wrong.

05:12Broken skull bone is visible in the MRI, CT, and X-ray that I've had done.

05:18Nurse practitioner Anna Musgraves agreed to give a referral when I secured my MRI.

05:26So I had to go out and find another medical practice with the equipment who could do the scan.

05:32I was given three avenues of financial assistance to pursue, and all three of these led to dead ends.

05:41I did not qualify.

05:43This is for Ascension Access to Care, Cooper Green Hospital, and UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

05:49After I paid $500 cash out of pocket for an MRI at American Health Imaging in downtown Birmingham on the south side,

06:00the diagnostic center staff told me that they needed a medical referral.

06:06I informed them to call Christ Health Center in Woodlawn.

06:11They were put on hold 15 minutes.

06:14And then someone, we don't know who, at Christ Health Center hung up the telephone.

06:20They backed out on giving that referral.

06:22I believe somebody didn't want me to get this MRI scan because it would show the truth of an injury that I was told I did not have.

06:31A medical doctor I had no interaction with, also strangely edited, and signed off on my records and chart days following that visit.

06:43This was shortly after I lodged my first official complaint for lack of service from Christ Health.

06:51This doctor was Beverly Vanderpool.

06:54I put all my records from this visit in several hours' worth of video on YouTube channel, My Medical Nightmare.

07:03You can go there and see my side of this story.

07:07Deborah Pickens also tells me that a letter with a statement was going to be put in the mail to me after that August 2023 meeting.

07:18And what I can say is I have not yet received this promised letter.

07:24One year later, they know my address, too, because they sent me those bills for those medical services that weren't performed on me.

07:31So people out there looking at health care options in the Birmingham, Alabama area, please take my experience to heart.

07:40And I would advise that you look elsewhere when seeking medical treatment from a doctor or a nurse.

07:48So people out there waiting they don't see the case and they see them are Syrian areas.

07:56And we've got some services that they'll see in their faces.

07:59But we've got some reassuring in this list.

08:01Here's the line in the road.

08:03And I really want to change it, we need to snap out of school who've been out there with other little helpers.

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