Former employee spills beans on unsanitary Planned Parenthood clinic
“Why do Planned Parenthood’s abortion centers get all the money while non-abortion centers fall apart?”
Lola* knew the answer to her question but was using it to educate me about the Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Planned Parenthood clinic that she, along with several other staff members, recently quit in disgust.
Lola emailed me a couple days ago, having learned about my blog, ironically enough, from bosses who mocked it during meetings. “We read your stuff and thought you were all crazy,” Lola said. “But not any more.”
Lola and I have now spoken a few times by phone. She also sent me some pictures. The Stroudsburg clinic doesn’t commit abortions. Lola concluded this is why it fell to the bottom of the upkeep pile.
For instance: “Every single one of our chairs is stained with blood or vaginal secretions,” Lola said. “The Department of Health mandated that PP abortion sites have waiting room chairs that are nonpermeable, so this wouldn’t be a problem. Is the Department aware PP’s nonabortion centers still have the upholstered chairs? We asked multiple times for nonpermeable chairs but were told it wasn’t in the budget. Patients sometimes sat on the floor rather than on infected chairs.”
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“It gets worse,” Lola continued. “One of our two exam tables was contaminated with blood, secretions, and infectious waste – for years. Despite cleaning the table after every exam, the foam underneath was soaked due to the tear, a making it a sponge for the spread of infectious diseases, since our facility did STD and HIV testing. Corporate refused to repair or replace the table until our clinician threatened a work stoppage, because this was such a gross health violation. Realizing they were going to lose big money, corporate finally had someone come and reupholster it.”
“When the refrigerator where we kept meds and cold-storage birth control broke, it took corporate a months to get us a new one,” Lola continued. “Even though meds and food can’t mix, we were forced to.”
“Again, they only responded after we threatened,” Lola complained. “Then the refrigerator they brought was DRIPPING in mold and mildew. It had to be cleaned with hospital strength cleaner and disinfectant.
“There was graffiti on the clinic walls, the emergency exit was blocked with boxes, and the waiting room was filthy. Actually, the whole place was filthy – what you would expect at Gosnell’s clinic,” Lola said. “They refused to hire a painter.”
I think I’m thankful Lola had no pictures to go with her final gross story about the Planned Parenthood Stroudsburg clinic.
“On August 28 [2013] the sewer line backed up, causing a waterfall of crap to cascade and fill the basement,” Lola began. “RotoRooter found tampons, used condoms, drug paraphernalia, and other stuff clogging the lines. The center was covered from front to back in fecal footprints as RotoRooter and the manager had to go up and downstairs to test various things.
“An emergency call was made that night to every single regional manager, but no one picked up.” Lola continued. “Finally we called the head of finance, asking for someone to come out and help. We were scared. The place stunk like corpses. We were nauseous and wretching. But the finance manager said the only person who could come out was already ‘in her nightgown, so do the best you can.’
“A biohazardous clean-up crew did not show up for 48 hours, because corporate was price shopping,” Lola said. “Meanwhile, corporate refused to close the place. Patients and their children – and us – were walking and breathing in feces for two days.”
Lola concluded, “After the clean-up, they sprayed a sporicide and industrial strength cleaner. Again, corporate refused to let staff leave. We all began to go into respiratory distress, sharing the same asthma inhaler.
“‘If we die, we die together ,’ we joked.”
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I called the Planned Parenthood Stroudsburg number to request a comment or response and reached a central call service. The operator transferred me directly to the Stroudsburg clinic. The phone rang 20 times with no answer (even though the clinic was open) and then went to a busy signal.
I then tried calling the corporate office at Planned Parenthood Keystone. My call went to voicemail. That was an hour ago. I have not received a return call.
But I have received two hang-ups.
*Pseudonym
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
And what else would you really expect from the Dead Babies R Us mob? Do you expect them to actually care about cleaning a lowly birth control dispensing, STD testing facility (never call this a clinic) that doesn’t make them any “real” money? You have to go up the food chain or should I say “money” train to do abortions to make PP “real” money, even then don’t expect much. WOW!!! No real surprises here. It speaks volumes that Gosnell is not really an aberration even in places that don’t commit abortions.
Should have used a better set designer. Very amateur.
I was a patient there. I have no insurance and had to go their because the doctors at the hospital wanted almost 300 for my visit, At this office I only paid like 90 something based on my income. The staff was really nice and the doctors are very sweet. But yes the place is a nasty mess. The waiting room chairs all have stains and stink. The toys in the box for the kiddies are dirty. Magazines from 5 years ago. Carpet was nasty. Walls black like there was a fire. But they treat you nice and do what they have to do. Just wish they fixed it up. When I asked the manager why they didn’t fix it he said (yes it was a dude, weird but he knows his stuff) he was trying. He looked really depressed. I guess working like that I woud be too.
Come on,
We’re talking just basic sanitation and cleanliness here. Your home doesn’t keep itself clean and neither does your place of employment. Don’t employees have some responsibility? I mean, you expect your beautician or barber to sweep up and keep their stations clean, the restaurant and bar staff to wipe counters, tables and chairs,
Buy some new chairs at Goodwill or the nearest thrift shop. The kind that easily wipe clean. Get discount carpetting or linoleum floors with throw rugs that can be washed. Use a broom dustpan, and mop. Soap and water aren’t that expensive. Pick up messes. Throw out the dirty toys and buy clean ones at the nearest K-Mart. At the end of the day make it someone’s responsibility to wash the toys. Bring in your subscriptions when you are done reading them. Order subscriptions isn’t that expensive. Does someone there know how to use a paintbrush? Our city offers free leftover paint to low income people. Check it out. There may be a similar service there or you may have paint sitting in your basement that you no longer need.
As for exam tables, yes you have to replace those. Again, maintain with cleanliness and good sense.
As for the sewer line, yes disgusting but are proper disposal cans provided with instructions to use them and for what items? Again, not rocket science. Also, was this situation reported to the Health Dept? This was far more serious and dangerous than bad odor.
It seems like when threatened, the PP honchos respond. Well maybe a few more calls to the Health Dept. would light a fire under their butts.
In the meantime employees do not have to be victims, there is action they can take, like notifying the Health Dept. They can also do the basics to keep their environment, and the patient’s, a little more tolerable.
Reality, have you heard of something called Occam’s razor? The simplest explanation is often the true one. I once debated someone who claimed that years of accumulated water and rust damage on machines was caused overnight by marauding prolifers. I suppose a Hollywood special effects crew could create something that looks similar to the damage in some manner of hours, or perhaps in that case the simplest explanation was that the abortionist was generally a hoarder and didn’t care about cleanliness when he never had to face inspections. His car was full of food wrappers, paperwork, garbage and dirty clothes. Perhaps for a second you could consider the fact that the clinic was generally very dirty, and drop this see-no-evil. I saw some unsightly dust once in a CPC I volunteer to clean, it was conceivable to me they hadn’t done a thorough cleaning in a few months, it didn’t shake my worldview apart, but then again they don’t perform medical procedures there and aren’t funded with half a billion taxpayer dollars.
How sad. As a nurse myself id call the health dept.!
@ GG please dont go back there.
The simplest explanation is often the true one. – ‘often’ isn’t always.
I once debated someone who claimed that years of accumulated water and rust damage on machines was caused overnight by marauding prolifers. – that must have been frustrating.
I suppose a Hollywood special effects crew could create something that looks similar to the damage in some manner of hours, – if what we see in the photos is the best they can do I wouldn’t hire them.
or perhaps in that case the simplest explanation was that the abortionist was generally a hoarder and didn’t care about cleanliness when he never had to face inspections. – perhaps, perhaps not. Does he work alone?
His car was full of food wrappers, paperwork, garbage and dirty clothes. – have a habit of going around inspecting the interior of peoples cars do you?
Perhaps for a second you could consider the fact that the clinic was generally very dirty, and drop this see-no-evil. – the photos don’t match the rhetoric.
I am sure the employees have offered to repair and paint and judging by the corporate lack of concern was probably presented with the answer of it’s not in the budget or it needs approval. And why should employees put money out of their own pockets, which I’m sure aren’t deep, to fix a center that the corporate doesn’t even care about? I’m sure there would be no reimbursement. I was a patient there and I remember one lady asking if she could come in and paint and the girl told her that corporate has to approve it and being that it’s still not painted, they haven’t. A health center should be up to code and that center unfortunately wasn’t. The staff there are amazing, willing to help you in any way they can, but you can tell they were frustrated with the looks of the place. It’s just a sad situation. Planned parenthood has enough money to afford basic upkeep and cleaning. It’s just pure lack of concern.
And I have seen that center Reality and those pictures are exactly what that center looks like. It’s unfortunate.
Even if the place were regularly sterilized by NASA, I would still call it disgusting for what goes in there.
Hi Sassypants,
Good points. What I am arguing is that basic cleanliness, such as washing toys, picking up, sweeping, and mopping, and wiping furniture and counters can be done by employees. It isn’t too much to expect restaurant or bar employees to sweep and mop a floor or wash tables, or your beautician or barber to keep their stations clean and sweep up the floor where they service you.
I maintain that a few calls to the Health Dept. and minimal cost, not necessarily the employees’, could turn this place around. Backed up sewage isn’t just inconvenient and smelly, its downright dangerous. Also, doing something as basic as providing proper disposal cans can prevent this type of situation.
I volunteered at a local Crisis Pregnancy Center around the corner from them. They go through managers like water. Nobody wants to work there. Patients also tell us about the clinic since we have to send them there for pregnancy tests. The welfare office wont accept CPC documentation. Planned Parenthood should have the money. They charge $35 for a pregnancy test done by a medical assistant. An unlicensed person puts a due date and thats ok to get public assistance? That center is shoddy and yes everyone says the staff is nice but they were always so sad. Talking among themselves about how nobody cared. I hope the staff has moved on and realized their full potential. Hopefully they are working somewhere that really helps moms out
I am pretty sure the center had a cleaning service and I have seen the girls throwing out trash and cleaning the rooms and bathrooms. It’s just so beyond basic cleaning. Sewer back up and having the employees sit there and get sick because planned parenthood wanted to stay open? C’mon that is just absolutely unacceptable. Patients having to been seen in such deplorable conditions is beyond excusable. Planned parenthood wonders why they have such a bad rep? Well here are some prime examples. That place is absolutely disgusting and planned parenthood should just win up to the fact that their lack of concern or action is just down right disgusting! How can you call yourself a “healthcare provider”? How about a disease infested dump?
I hope the staff makes a connection. If Planned Parenthood doesn’t respect life in the womb why would they after? Their actions show you are expendable. You work for a corporation which dismembers children. You think they care you can’t breathe? Walk on feces. That’s what your worth. Turn to God. He knows your potential and what you are worth. And before you were born he had a plan for you. And working at Planned Parenthood was not part of it.
So much for “caring about women”. This is our tax dollars at work.
The vet’s office I take my cat to is probably cleaner and more sanitary than this dump.
You can BET that Cecile Richards wouldn’t put her sweet #%* on anything in there.
Well said mike. Well said.
Cecile Richards makes high six figures. Her employees, overwhelmingly women, get paid so little they cannot afford basic necessities. Many are on food stamps. Most cannot afford family health coverage and cover their children through various programs in different states. If the Left can rail against Walmart and how so many of their employees collect welfare why not rail against Planned Parenthood? Trust Women? Great job Cecile. Obviously YOU cannot be trusted to care for women. Feminism is dead.
Many great points being made.
PP has the money, maybe Cecile could donate part of her salary, and it would take minimal cost and sensible measures to turn this place around. Sewage is more than annoying and smelly, its dangerous, even deadly.
Employees have an obligation to their patients and themselves to inform the Health Dept. and to do their part to maintain cleanliness and sanitation. The Health Dept. has an obligation to do its job. PP honchos have an obligation to patients and employees.
Yes indeed. GirlyGirl, Sassypants, LifeVolunteer, CommonSense and TruthBrigade have been so informative.
Hi Mary :-)
Well hello Reality,
Good heavens are we actually in agreement that these posters have made some excellent points and have been very informative??!!
*Faint* :)
I believe that the reason the chairs are supposed to be non-permeable is so that the employees CAN wipe them down and clean things themselves. It’s not simple to clean an upholstered piece of furniture that has sustained damage or staining caused by some kind of liquid. Certainly above and beyond what a business can ask of even daily cleaning-staff employees.
I don’t really see any complaints about unmopped floors or counters. These all seem to me to be relatively systemic problems – no, maybe crappy paint isn’t unhygienic but it can indicate a lack of care and concern, and painting a business is a HUGE job – you need to close things down or do it after hours (ie overnight), you need to move all the furniture, the square footage is usually pretty big, etc; you can’t expect employees to do that. Not having a refrigerator when you have medications that need refrigeration is NOT something employees can be expected to fix. A blood-stained exam table with a ripped cover is not something employees can take care of on their own. etc.
What this sounds like to me is a mirror of what abortion support often looks like. A grassroots base of people who believe in what they are doing and believe it is right, who are organized by some figureheads who are much less ideological in motivation and much more politically/financially driven. I was at a dinner party some years ago and I met a man who worked for Planned Parenthood. We spoke quite a bit about his job and he clearly believed that he was doing important work (not as an abortion doctor – he worked in PR or something like that) but he expressed a good deal of frustration with the corporate higher-ups. He felt that they lost sight of “the purpose” for the work and he felt that they made his job much harder with their decisions or actions.
Oops, I meant “what goes ON in there.”
I am a former employee and I would like to say Alexandra hit the nailon the head. We believe in our mission. We fight for our patients. We care deeply about their healthcare. But upper management did not care. Our manager spent all day with patients and no time MANAGING. Why? Because we needed to be profitable and see a gazillion patients a day. He spent more time calling unanswered extensions and shouting profanity at an unanswered phone than anything else. We felt his frustration. This had gone on for years. Even former managers warned him. But at the end of the day it was too much for all of us. And that is heartbreaking. It is a terrible loss for the patients of Stroudsburg. And corporate should be ashamed.
Not quite Mary ;-)
Hi Alexandra,
I agree there are things that need to be done on a large and time consuming scale, but I point out these can be done easily and economically, like getting easy to clean chairs from Goodwill or a thrift store, or no cost paint, so there is no excuse for the honchos not to take action. Maybe they could even pay an employee extra to do a paint job on a weekend instead of hiring a professional painter.
The employees have an obligation as well. Putting up with the danger of sewage is indefensible. Why wasn’t the Health Dept. notified? Are proper disposal cans available, if not why not? Dirty toys? Certainly these can be washed daily by employees. Only washable plastic toys should be available. Basic cleanliness and sanitation is expected from the person who busses your table at the restaurant, it should be from the employee of any kind of clinic. I saw a pile of cardboard in one pic. Can’t employees be expected to properly dispose of this? The floor in another looks like it could use a good sweeping. When I visit my beautician I always see her sweeping up from the previous customer. I expect as a client that she keeps a clean work area, not paint the walls. I think clinic employees have the same responsibility.
BTW its always good to see you here and I hope all is well with you.
Hi ToldUSo,
As I point out these are improvements that honchos could make with little expense and effort, which makes it all the more frustrating.
I can’t accept though employees not reporting the backup of sewage, and a facility being ordered to stay open, to the Health Dept. This posed a grave danger to themselves and patients.
Mary,
Both OSHA and the health dept were called. OSHA said they could be there in a week and it would be pointless since they couldn’t measure chemicals being sprayed or assess waste after a clean up. Same for the health department. They did say they would write a letter to our corporate office asking for a response. We told them not to bother. We would either all be dead from fumes or some exotic viral or bacterial infection. We then politely told them to screw themselves. Thus began our job search.
Hi ToldUSo,
It wasn’t mentioned that these agencies had been called. My apologies.
You’d think they’d shut the place down ASAP or sooner. Did the HD ever do anything? They just allowed staff and patients to be put at risk?
Almost makes you wonder if some palms are being greased.
No.
Instead of cleaning up and turning around this Planned Parenthood facility, I say shut it down. Besides calling the county Health Department, I would contact OSHA, the Department of Labor, the Fire Marshall (regarding blocked exits) and every other relevant state and federal oversight agency. If I was employed there and suffered ill health effects, you bet I would file a worker’s compensation claim.
Condoms clogging the lines? CONDOMS clogging the lines??? In a clinic???
I’d love to hear from Lola about what men are having so much sex at Planned Parenthood, and with whom. Is there patient abuse going on? Are the staff a pack of wild animals with one another?
Condoms clogging the lines of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
OK, the clinic apparently does not do abortions. and I’ll admit to not reading the article as closely as I should have before I commented. However, I would think referrals for abortions do, so I still consider it disgusting.
Gerard,
Non-lubricated condoms are frequently used to store drugs. It is a problem at health facilities with that particular demographic. I am a nurse at a hospital emergency room. Patients arent having sex. They are storing their crushed up pain killers or heroin. Sad but true.
MoJoanne,
Good points. Isn’t there a licensing and regulation agency, city hall, the media, something? Staff and patients are being exposed to deadly bacteria and the HD sits on its hands?
You can bet plenty of noise would be made and action taken if this was an animal shelter.
I mean “referrals for abortions are done.” Either I need more sleep or something is screwing up my comments, I don’t know what.
If they aren’t doing abortions there why on earth is there blood and vaginal secretions on the chairs??? Do these girls not wear pants or underwear? I don’t understand this!
I remember reading not that long ago that PP wants to move ALL of their clinics towards doing abortions and if they dont’ do abortions shut them down. This could be proof of that. They don’t care about this particular PP clinic because it isn’t a money maker for them…they’re not doing abortions there.
PP receive $350 million in tax payer dollars. Money isn’t the issue here. If this clinic was important to them they’d fix it. Trust me.
Reality says:
November 6, 2013 at 6:12 pm
Should have used a better set designer. Very amateur.
Extremely amateur. It’s like she just took snapshots of what was there, in plain sight.
Imagine what a real forensic investigator could do with this material!
“I remember reading not that long ago that PP wants to move ALL of their clinics towards doing abortions and if they dont’ do abortions shut them down.”
I thought it was only that they wanted every affiliate (affiliates include more than one clinic) to do abortions, but I could be wrong.
Sydney M says:
November 7, 2013 at 9:34 am
I remember reading not that long ago that PP wants to move ALL of their clinics towards doing abortions and if they dont’ do abortions shut them down.
Planned Parenthood will never abandon the model of surgical facility + satellite feeder clinics. It costs a lot to keep a facility up to standards for surgical procedures. The satellite offices are good for spreading out the salesmen into the target public. As you can see, they can easily avoid spending profits to keep the satellites clean and safe.
However…. for just a little bit of investment in a medically qualified person, they can dispense abortion drugs at the satellite offices. The profit margins are huge for PP. In this regard, it is worth their investment in making every facility “an abortion facility.”
ON THE OTHER HAND, I am an accountant. And it is obvious that Planned Parenthood is being dumb about their internal accounting. As Abby Johnson revealed in her book Unplanned, PP allocates all of the profits from abortions to the surgical centers where the abortions occur. They do not “share” abortion profits with the satellite clinics who refer victims to the surgical centers. Thus, on paper, it looks like all of the money comes from the surgical centers, and the satellite clinics are just “losing” money for PP.
So the surgical centers get all of the awards and upgrades and a maintenance budget. And the satellite managers are badgered to cut expenses and threatened with losing their jobs if they don’t get profits up. That’s why they are so tempted to gouge MedicAid with fraudulent claims, etc.
I suppose this bad accounting also helps PP look like a “non-profit charity” to state auditors, at least on paper. (PP has nothing to fear from the IRS — not under this current Administration.)
Thank you to “Lola” who was brave and came forward to expose this for us. I pray that the people in charge of decision making will eventually see the light and come to terms that just because these clinics may not be making as much money for them by not killing babies they are doing right and they DO need help.
Please God help these people to see the error of their ways and help these workers who are trying to make a difference in the lives of others.
I realize that the employees cannot be expected to buy chairs or extra fridge’s, etc. BUT….why can’t employees be expected to help keep the place looking neat and clean. At a doctor’s office, someone (who works there) is expected to wipe down the toys in the waiting room, swap out the magazines, etc. Our small office moved this year to a new building. We got permission from the building owner to paint. It was $70 in paint. You cannot tell me that the manager does not have $70 in descretion money to spend (yes my manager came in on a Saturday and painted himself). I think if it looked that bad, me and the 5 others I work with would each pony up $12 for paint and bring in a mop. Take some pride in your workspace. Shame on the bigger parent company for not doing anything to fix that. Of course its PP, so they need to make their money in murdering babies.
We have a PP clinic here in Delaware and the conditions are very similar, or worse, than what this woman describes. Several of the employees quit and blew the whistle, even though these are very pro-choice employees who don’t want to be associated with the pro-life movement at all. The state legislature held hearings in which they heard testimony from the employees about all their efforts to report and get this place cleaned up, but from what I’ve heard, the place is still operating and nothing has changed.
Gerard Nadal and HospitalNurse: Yes, Lola told me the clinic serves an at-risk population – drug users, etc., who come for STD/HIV testing. So that’s why the drug paraphernalia, etc., clogging the drains. Plus, women didn’t care about flushing tampons down the toilet.
We just concluded our 40 Days vigil at the local PP surgical center. This building also suffers from neglect.
The waiting room windows are covered with large shades, to prevent their clients from seeing us on the sidewalk. On of the shades broke loose and hung at an angle for several days. We were dumbfounded that none of the staffers took the effort to hang it back up or to take it all down. It was on the main window as clients approached the building, like a billboard announcing “WE DON’T REALLY CARE.”
Birds had pecked holes in the stucco siding and were nesting in the attic space for several years. They finally patched the holes this fall. Now there is black mold growing and spreading up the outer walls. The interior is probably covered with bird guano and black mold, and now it is sealed up to ferment with condensation and moisture.
We have been praying for catastrophic damage to this building, some sort of miracle that would render it unfit for medical service. A lightning strike would be fitting. But it seems that the answer to our prayer has been more subtle. ”Wait, and hope that those inside will repent. Or wait, and let their own culture of neglect bring about their end.”
Del (@11-7-13, 9:48 AM) and Mary (@11-6-13, 10:40 PM), those were classic (and I had to fight mightily to keep from laughing out loud in a public place)! :)
I need to take lessons from you two, in brevity and verbal “punch”!
Really, this is PA, home of the Gosnell clinic. You expect the health dept to do something? Get real. PA is staunchly liberal and that apparently means that women don’t count , especially poor women. I can bet that officials knew and just like with Gosnell, they turned a blind eye.
This is just horrible! Even if they don’t commit abortions they are still in support of them with PP. This whole outfit is filthy and is the work of the enemy. I just pray that more people wake up about the reality of abortion. I went to a PP in my 20’s to obtain BC pills because I didn’t have much money. I went there each month for about a year. I had absolutely no clue as to what they supported or what they were really about before finding them in the yellow pages. Now I look back and feel sickened that I was going there, sitting there in that waiting room at times waiting to see someone about changing my brand of pills. All those women I saw coming in and sitting there waiting who were very much possibly waiting for an appt. about getting an abortion. I saw one woman faint and I can’t help looking back and wondering if maybe she had been going in for an abortion. It’s just all so very sad to me, just makes me want to cry even thinking about it, and especially women who even talk about it like it’s just a standard medical routine.
Susan, I’m in southeastern PA right up 202 from Delaware. We get tons of Delaware plates in our local PP parking lot on abortion days. I was told by other pro-lifers quite a few clinics in Delaware shut down and thats why we’re seeing all the plates from your state.
Really?? You think they made this up? I have been in some of these places, giving rides to people with no transportation. They all are awful! This one is one of the cleaner ones I have seen? Who would go to the expense to hire a hollywood special effects team to create an entire “set” so they could take a few pictures to put on a blog? Wow!
And the idea that the office staff is somehow financially responsible for replacing furniture, painting the office, and replacing/refinishing floors??? I worked in a hospital, and several doctor offices. I know the procedures. You all take your turns doing general cleaning. Wipe down exam tables, counters, sinks, change the paper on the table. A light sweeping of the floors before the doors open, maybe dust a bit to keep cobwebs at bay. It is not possible for office staff to clean fabric chairs, stained with blood and other secretions, or the inside of an exam table that is torn. It is also not the office staff’s responsibility to pay for replacement chairs from goodwill, or yardsales out of their own pockets. All purchases for any medical facility is supposed to meet strict OSHA guidelines. You cannot purchase just any old thing and make it work. You have specific catalogs to look through for medical furniture of any kind. Then a purchase order has to be made, and approved by the corporate office. (or the purchasing officer)
Please don’t sit there and say the office staff could have done something about this. They cannot. The best they could hope to do was clean the fridge, and sanitize the non-porous surfaces. Without proper training in hazardous materials, cleaning up something as simple as vomit, or urine is against the law. There is no way these people were trained to clean up the hazards evident in these photos or the eye-witness testimony given. The one thing they could have done, was refuse to open the doors. Refuse to work until the conditions were improved. However, I’m sure they don’t get paid much, and are dependent on the measly checks they do get, and the patients still need care, but they deserve much more than they are getting at ANY PP clinic.
Yet again, we get a good reminder of “Reality”‘s best joke yet.
Still living in La La Land.
Reality, seriously. Just stop. You never made sense, but now you just sound mentally ill.
Whether or not this filthy clinic does abortions is simply beside the point. It is part of an organization that IS. Frankly it is a blessing for these abuses of PP offices to come to light. These offices (not really “clinics”) are a first step in the chain of the killings of little, precious babies…by the deception of their trusting mothers. Getting “birth control” is just a ruse.
I am thankful, so thankful, that the young woman has told of these conditions. Those who work for PP are seeing just who their employer is…however many do not understand that PPs “mission” is not about the “health” of women, but about making $$ off women in distress, and not caring when these women suffer emotional trauma later.
I mean “referrals for abortions are done.” Either I need more sleep or something is screwing up my comments, I don’t know what. – which comment was that “JillR“? Are you referring to the one made by Memyselfand I at 7:59am?
Imagine what a real forensic investigator could do with this material! – laugh.
The waiting room windows are covered with large shades, to prevent their clients from seeing us on the sidewalk. – or was it to stop your faces being pressed against the windows?
Greetings HospitalNurse, CBTooch, ruth, Mossna and Theymissedone :-)
Is Big Joe in the room Mary?
I’m not the one making the joke MaryRose.
Is Big Joe in the room Mary?
Uh no Reality. I’ll try to break this to you gently. He’s dead.
Folks,
Don’t waste your time and energy trying to convince Reality this is anything other than a staged scene. When he can’t intelligently prove what you are posting is wrong, you know like posting a source, he’ll just insist you are wrong and/or he doesn’t like your source.
I meant metaphorically Mary. You’ve told us before that he’s dead…yet you keep hearing him.
a staged scene…with a growing list of characters Mary :-)
what ‘source’?
“Don’t waste your time and energy trying to convince Reality this is anything other than a staged scene.”
Better yet, don’t waste any time even reading his comments. I haven’t read any of his comments for about six months and I am happier for it.
Reality,
I have claimed to remember his words of wisdom. I recall it generated a lot of confusion for you so I always specify what is metaphorical.
Seeing dead people is never a good sign Reality. Again, I’m trying to be gentle.
See what I mean folks? Don’t waste your time.
I haven’t read any of his comments for about six months and I am happier for it. – and yet you persistently fell the need to chime in with your incisive and inciteful responses.
I have claimed to remember his words of wisdom. – yes, you have claimed such. Whether the ‘words’ constitute wisdom is another matter.
I recall it generated a lot of confusion for you so I always specify what is metaphorical. – isn’t memory a funny thing sometimes. Never mind.
Seeing dead people is never a good sign Reality. – well I was only mildly concerned for you. Glad to hear all is ok.
Again, I’m trying to be gentle. – you always say that and then…. ;-)
Reality,
Try to get a good night’s sleep. You won’t be so grouchy.
What makes you think I’m grouchy? I’m very much enjoying reading what you have to say. On a number of levels. Say hello to your ‘friends’ for me :-)
Nitey nite Reality.
Time for you to sleep? Sweet dreams ;-)
I have a problem seeing staff here as any knd of victims or holding them completely blameless. If animals are being abused, do we see their tormenters and employees as victims? Hardly. Yes they came forward and exposed the animal cruelty, but why were they ever involved in it in the first place?
What about the staff just saying we will not come to work so long as patients and staff are in danger? By keeping an open toilet staffed and open to clients, are the clinic staff any less complicit? Maybe the threat of a walkout and media exposure would force the PP honchos to cough up a few bucks. The only victims here were the unsuspecting clients, who being poor and ”high risk”, apparently didn’t matter. After all, they’re not abused animals.
Maybe the staff was truly dedicated, but as far as I’m concerned they failed miserably in their responsibity to their clients.
Yes people have to make a living, but so does the person who turned a blind eye to animal abuse.
LifeVolunteer, did I read your post correctly? Your pregnancy center refers women to Planned Parenthood for pregnancy tests? Seriously?
Jennie,
Yes. In Monroe County they are the only ones who can do an affordable pregnancy test. The welfare office will not even accept a blood HCG test from the hospital. Women hve gone to the hospital emergency room, gotten a sonogram with a visible 8 week baby, and been told it’s not good enough. But the welfare office will accept a dollar store pregnancy test from Planned Parenthood. A non-medical person does the pregnancy test and puts a due date.
Mary I am a patient there for a long time. I don’t support their abortion business but I get my depo for my endometriosis there. The girls and the manager there are all single parents. They get paid very little. I have spoken to them. Even the manager was on food stamps. I know they did everything they could without going on strike and being homeless or without food. They were constantly apologizing to patients and saying they wish they could change things. Not everyone has money in the bank and is able to stop working at the drop of a hat.
Hi LongTimePatient
Years ago I visited a petting zoo and was so horrified by the conditions I called the state humane society. As far as I was concerned the owner, his/her employees and everyone who paid to go there more than once were complicit in the cruelty. I don’t care how tight their money was or how little they were paid. I at least had the excuse of being an unsuspecting client. I think humans deserve at least this much concern and consideration.
Obviously PP, while supposedly so concerned about women, isn’t concerned enough to give their employees, male or female, decent living wages. I am not unsympathetic and I don’t question they truly had some difficult choices to make.
The last straw was the backup of the sewer and the employees not only endangering their own safety, but that of unsuspecting clients, which included children and HIV/AIDS persons, people with very compromised immune systems. What were employees and clients taking home to their families after walking through sewage?
Somewhere, somehow you have to draw a line. I would hope your grocer, mechanic, or your landlord doesn’t also feel your safety can be compromised.
Please tell more abortion workers about And Then There Were None.
You can find new employment and help while healing from what you saw and did at the abortion mill.
http://www.attwn.org/
Sydney,
I am guessing those chairs were just “passed along” from center to center so……
gross.
I was just thinking about when our Pregnancy Care Center was moving. We tore off wallpaper, repainted, mopped and swept, put in wainscoating bought or donated lamps, rugs, chairs and then we ALL helped move. And that continues. We came together. We knew what to do to help each other. We cared.
Perhaps that is the difference. When you make next to nothing or hate what you do do you really care all that much??? PP is a hierarchy. You go from upper level to upper level to get help that doesn’t seem to come. It’s a business. The uppers make the big bucks and the grunts do their best to make a living.
Because they CARE!! They TRUST WOMEN!! amiright?
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I want to thank all of you precious people that commented on this thread. I love your courage and boldness in speaking out. We need a fresh perspective. Thank you. I will be praying for you!! Please don’t go back.
Hi Carla,
Exactly, pride in what you do. You don’t make any money at the CPC, but that doesn’t mean the place has to be a rathole, posing a danger to both volunteers and clients.
As I pointed out, with minimal cost, PP honchos could make the place presentable. The staff could also pitch in and wash toys, pick up clutter, or sweep a floor.
I’ve taken my vehicle to garages that look cleaner and neater than that place. Since I’m sure the garage owner doesn’t hire a maid service it would seem the mechanics are not only expected to fix vehicles, but to clean up and maintain a clean work environment as well. I would expect at least that much in a medical clinic.
“Please tell more abortion workers about And Then There Were None.”
Since this clinic does not itself perform abortions, I’m not sure if they meet the criteria. But it can’t hurt to try, they may be willing to help.
JDC,
That ministry is for mill workers. Any and all. Until there are none.
Oh and “Lola”?
GOD BLESS YOU!! THANK YOU for your witness. THANK YOU for risking it to tell the truth about the disgusting conditions of this place.
You know the truth and have the courage to share it!! THANK YOU!!
PS
I love that peeps working in abortion mills read this blog!! :) They are reading. They are watching. They scoff but that’s ok.
I agree Mary.
Pride in what you do.
“JDC, That ministry is for mill workers. Any and all. Until there are none. – See more at:”
Fair enough, I was just wondering whether those that worked at facilities that refer to but do not commit abortion count as mill workers.
Hello Marys
Hope you had a good sleep :-)
Reality,
Last night you were having hallucinations, now you’re seeing double?
My word, you do have some strange dreams! Is that a contributing factor?
Oh no, not double at all, it’s all quite clear. ;-)
Reality,
In case you didn’t notice you added an “s” to my name in your 5:24PM post. When you added an “s” to my name, that made it more than one Mary, thus my question as to if you were seeing double.
Ah, but are you sure it was me?
But anyway, I can assure you I am not seeing ‘double’ ;-)
They all need to get out of the biz. They work in an industry that kills babies and harms women for profit. They need help to leave.
“They all need to get out of the biz. They work in an industry that kills babies and harms women for profit. They need help to leave.”
Agreed.
My perspective is that PP couldn’t give a rat’s ass about these feeder clinics or what the people who visit these clinics think of them. They only spend money on building new mega abortion centers.
@ Reality…please leave Mary alone! I believe we pro lifers as a group have seen the absolute dump carhart operates from. Cleveland Ohio abortionist Martin Ruddocks clinic looked about the same. Huge holes in the windows potholes in the parking lot…garbage behind the clinic and bigger holes in the back windows. eeek these women were actually walking into this dump for an invasive surgical procedure. Many left in ambulances.
Ruddock has left the state after numerous health code violations as well as lawsuits filed against him for botched abortions. One woman won a one million $ lawsuit. He killed the baby but he also left her sterile. One day he came out ranting at pro lifers saying “you are ratteling up my patients” NO we were ratteling him up.
Often he would stand on the roof of the dump and shout profanity….p**** was a favorite to a particular pastor in the group. He would get all jacked up flip the bird yell f*** you and it would usually be those days women would leave in an ambulance. His worst nightmare as the staff would hide the women with an umbrella. We would also see PA license plates often.
I think what is really unfortunate is the employees of PPKEY work under paid and not paid market rate for there positions. then on top of it work in the unsanitary conditions, like robots, in humane ways to treat humans. Most of the employees working here are on welfare themselves that’s pretty sad That they are so worried about paying there clinicians more and keeping the money rolling in but they forget who holds the offices togther.they run a shady shady business and I am glad that this has come out maybe Kim Custer will open her eyes and see that her poor employees are suffering and her centers are disgusting!!! Of course I can hear them now we have to clean up so we can’t even look at market rate for ur position…ugh we are there slaves!
CC,
U think that white lady cares? PPKEY spent thousands for a Employee Appreciation at the Country Club so they could all blow they own horns. How bout instead u get me a gift card for groceries. I would appreciate that. How bout Im full time and get food stamps and cant afford insurance for my husband. Corporate is a bunch of white.folks who never wanted for anything in their life. U know how many times Stroudsburg manager called asking my manager for help. Lotz, why cuz his regional manager was too busy gettin that nasty spray tan. When they were walking on sh%% I told him to leave. But he was still in love with PPKEY. Not no more. He got the hell outta dodge. Same for York center. 3 managers in 6 months? Almost all their staff gone. Shame on Kim Custer, shame on da regional managers. U let this happen. U r responsible.
Sick of Keystone,
i applaud you, and agree they should have saved that money from “Appreciation day” and helped us out , I couldn’t agree with you more!!! We should try to start a union! Admin would crap there pants if we all did that, because than we would have rights! i have sat in on my share of several manager meetings via phone calls and not one manager speaks up! it’s like they have some power over us! and could care less about any of us, it’s all about racking in the dough for themselves. I love the comment about the spray tan,, it’s so true!! Lol. I wish that we could all stand up to them, I wish they would treat us better. We have families to support. They schedule our appointments every 5 minutes, who sees a patient in 5 mins…its not possible it is horrible care. Of course after this blog originated now kim is all about cleaning up now, and what can we do for your center…oh please! So what do I have to do to squeeze some pennies out of her a** so I can give my children a decent christmas!!! That whole place is going to be write us checks from they own checkbook if I uncovered all the shady crap they do, what a horrible work environment, and they care about no one…but themselves.
Sick of keystone, I wish I knew who u were..I know we can’t though, Christmas is coming and I gotta put food on the table. love ur post!!
I think that there are a lot of Ppkey employees who have longevity and they should work on that as an employer. I also think that a good majority of people in the centers working care about what Pp is supposed to stand for, and corporate has really made it all about $$$$$$ it is quite upsetting, i like helping my community gain access to healthcare, like birth control, pap smears, and clinical breast exams. Unfortunately they have raised the prices so high I could not on my salary working there afford to get services there. I’ll tell ya corporate has got to do something and do it quick, there will be other employees who will get so dissatisfied and they will do just like *Lola. To retain patients there needs to be happy employees, clean office, and short visit times, appointments every 5minutes is insane.
CC wrote, “That whole place is going to be write us checks from they own checkbook if I uncovered all the shady crap they do.”
CC, you can make that happen. Email me, please: jill@jillstanek.com. A PP whistleblower recently got a $1.25 million settlement from the government: https://www.jillstanek.com/2013/08/breaking-bombshededit/
I can connect you with attorneys.
I think it’s unfair to critique the Stroudsburg PP staff for the unsanitary clinic. I guess I didn’t expect that. These employees were under the gun to see patients at a rapid pace to increase profits, so much of their time was eaten up. They likely were disallowed overtime. They had management that didn’t care (seriously – the frig corporate finally sent was used and moldy? who does that?) and was abusive. Meanwhile, these people were stuck in a work situation from which they felt they had no escape. They had families to house and feed. They were getting slave wages to the point of qualifying for food stamps. A low level employee can only do so much, and s/he can only care to a certain point.
The buck stops with PP.
Jill I might do just that. This place is like an episode of the Sopranos. Except its all vaginas. Why don’t you report how Keystone lied to patients and said Medicaid wasn’t covering their brand of pills anymore. We made them change pills when they didnt have to. I know. They tried to make me change too. But im not stupid. I called the insurance and sure enuf it was still covered. They made patients change because they got a better deal on pills. I saw the packing slip. Chateal the new pill costs about half of what Sprintec used to. These leeches think they are so slick. And patients pay the price.
SickOfKeystone – I’m happy to report on that and/or put you in touch with attorneys who help PP whistleblowers report Medicaid fraud to the gov’t. Can you please email me with any paperwork? jill@jillstanek.com.
I can’t for the life of me understand why PP still gets so much support from the pro-choice community. I understand the support they get from the government due to lobbying, corruption, fraud, and the like. But how any individual regardless of their political leanings or stance on abortion can support this organization given their ugly history with racism, Medicaid fraud, poor record of care and poor quality of contraceptives like condoms, misrepresentation of services, and a myriad of other abuses is simply beyond me. Especially when most hospital systems (at least the larger ones) now provide women’s healthcare clinics for low income and uninsured patients where they can access top notch doctors and receive free or low-cost contraceptives and other medications.
There is simply no reason if this clinic is charging $90 a visit and seeing patients every 5 minutes that they can’t afford to perform regular maintenance and upgrades. Between their fees and the federal money they receive, PP could easily afford to have at least one maintenance person on hand at every clinic to be proactive about such offenses. These issues aren’t simply the result of not cleaning – we’re talking about things like upholstery that has been stained and damaged beyond the point where it can be easily cleaned. I don’t even want to think about possible contamination with samples and specimens that require refrigeration if clinics are forced to combine medication and food – or how many women may have been misdiagnosed due to contamination from that torn exam table.
Hi Jill 9:17am
I agree its unfair, to a point. If I’m someone who now has a serious illness, or who’s child has a serious illness because of backed up sewage, I will hold the staff partially responsible. They had an obligation to me as their client or my loved one and failed to carry it out.
As for basic cleanliness, we ran ragged many nights in the ER with DOAs, accidents, fights, life and death situations, etc. and never once were patients brought into dirty and soiled rooms with the excuse that we were too busy to clean up. Everyone knew how to wipe down stretchers, change sheets, use a mop, and wipe up soilage of every kind. The same with the OR. The nurse is not above using a mop and pail, I clean up my own equipment when the aide is unavailable or busy. We have an obligation to our patients to make the time.
Yes I agree the buck stops with PP. But that doesn’t relieve employees of some basic responsiblities to their patients, like refusing to staff an open sewer and endangering a patient’s safety.
Oops… looks like I just “blew my cover” up there. (-: Well, it’s true. My name is Jill, but you are welcome to call me either name (MemyselfandI refers to the fact that anything I post comes exclusively from my own thoughts, whatever one may think of them. I know that’s true of most people on here too, but, well, I guess I was in a weird mood when I came up with it lol)