Social worker Xiamara Ramirez has her old office back, on low-functioning N Unit again. (I haven't heard whether she's papering over the window so nobody can see what she's doing in there.) Amazingly, she was recently re-assigned as Gus' social worker (!!) when Joe "dumb-as-basalt-rock" Basso was moved to another unit for reasons unknown.
Joe was unable to accomplish even the most mundane tasks for his "patient" and apparently chose instead to just flat-out lie about having contacted community facilities which might accept Gus into residential treatment programs when he may be conditionally released from EMHC. Joe claimed he had been talking to people about whether they might accept Gus at the following facilities: Lydic Healthcare Center, HSI, Ecker Center, Thresholds, and HRDI (possibly among others).
The reason Gus is willing to accuse Joe of just flat-out lying about doing his job... is that Gus got the list of facilities Joe claimed he had called, and then checked by calling each of them himself and being told they never heard of Gus, or Joe, or Elgin Mental Health Center.
In a recent monthly staffing, I also accused Dr. Vikramjit Gill of just flat-out lying, because he said he didn't recall anything about Xiamara Ramirez having previously been unwilling to be Gus' social worker. Dr. Gill was the one who recruited Joe "dumb-as-basalt-rock" Basso to become Gus' social worker when Xiamara unceremoniously stopped talking to Gus and refused to have anything further to do with him, actually quitting her position on Gus' treatment team possibly because she blamed him for my having insulted her on this blog. I even put her name in headlines, back in 2025 and 2024. (See, here, here, here, here, and here, maybe among other mentions in other articles).
In one other article from July, 2024, which has been very popular because of its racy headline, I made the point that sexual abuse of mental patients is absolutely endemic in IDHS psychiatric institutions, because those facilities are not really hospitals, they are slave plantations. The staff act as though they believe that the patients are their property, to be used for whatever benefits might be available. To me, it even harkens back to Sally Hemmings having Thomas Jefferson's babies. I mentioned Xiamara Ramirez in the context of accusing the whole system of such slavery. Maybe I shouldn't have, because I never believed Xiamara's door window was papered over so she could sexually abuse her patients. But it's the kind of thing people think of when they can't explain why she breaks the rules. It's such a corrupt environment that all manner of perverse corruption almost has to be suspected any time anything looks odd.
Dr. Gill remembers that time, and the problems of Gus and Xiamara in 2024. In the recent monthly staffing, he specifically queried my mention of psychiatric slavery as "an over-exaggeration," maybe for Xiamara's benefit as she continued to sit in the room even after Gus had asked her to leave and made a very direct point that she cannot be his social worker. So I was disappointed that Vik would flat-out lie and pretend he recalled nothing about the whole brouhaha. But he's often between a rock and a hard place. He doesn't like many things about the institution, or at least he pretends he doesn't to me, and he keeps saying he's about to retire, but he never does. Who knows, maybe Xiamara has some kind of effective pull with the administration at EMHC. Maybe she's an agent of James Patrick "The-Almighty-Statewide-Forensic-Medical-Director" Corcoran, and she ran straight to him for air cover,with a new complaint about Gus and me, as soon as that staffing was over! (But this is speculative to a point of absurdity, of course!)
One fact remains. Gus has been told that his treatment team was working on a conditional release packet for the better part of the last year. But nobody has actually done anything. Either Joe was just too dumb-as-basalt-rock to try to find a placement, and lied when he told Gus he was working on it in order to cover his own incompetent rear-end, or there's a whole program from somebody else that is actually intended to mislead Gus and me.
Just incidentally, I noticed that a white KIA Seltos with Illinois plates had taken Corcoran's sacred parking place at EMHC the other day. Somebody is playing with fire!
Weird, weird thing, I sure can't figure it out! Someday it'll all be part of a book.
