Here was a chance to take their kids to a real expert, a young woman fresh from training in the most modern medical techniques. The doctors sat back and talked about what they had heard. They got an earful. The paramedics looked at his chest; he had stopped breathing. On December 30, he suddenly went into seizures, but a brain scan revealed nothing that would explain the problem. Soon her color returned and she began breathing on her own. On May 8, two days after she testified before the Kerr County grand jury, Cathy Ferguson was taken by ambulance from the mobile home to another San Angelo hospital. Email [email protected]. Kathy and Larrys divorce went through on July 27, 1979. Genene filed suit against DeLany for failure to pay child support, and in August 1976, she won a contempt citation against him. I felt sure something neurological was going on that we were missing, she says. This was a different world. Just a few, Genene told Holland; she had thrown the rest away. I think we should just throw it out. James Harvey Delany Sr. Fdelse 5 Jul 1910 Dd 26 Jun 1985 (lder 74) Begravning. William Henry Delany. Mary Ellen and Thomas Dewey Pearson, Jimmys parents, have retained a San Antonio malpractice lawyer. She pretty much made her own assignment, says Cherlyn Pendergraft. Finally when Genene graduated, she married a high school dropout, James "Jimmy" Harvey DeLany Jr. (Davis claims that she trapped this man into marrying her by pretending she was pregnant.) She mentioned Misty Reichenaus arrest. Maywhort ordered an emergency landing. Didnt Holland remember? Together, the four of them searched through the office records for invoices documenting purchases of Anectine. Soon after Holland and Jones arrived in the emergency room with Rolinda Ruff, a crowd gathered. James R Delaney, age 90. The pediatric ICU is for kids who have been out in the world. They asked me to resign. She moved across the sprawling South Texas Medical Center complex in northwest San Antonio to take a job in the obstetrics-gynecology ward at Community Hospital. I have several obvious concerns, he went on. She took the baby back into the treatment area while Mrs. Parker waited outside. In her notes about the days events in the office records, Genene Jones wrote her own tribute. Each already had one childReid a son named Shay and Petti a son named Cameron. At about noon on March 2, 1982, Pat Belko passed the word that Virginia Mousseau, the hospitals top nursing administrator, wanted to talk to the pediatric ICU nurses. I went all over town: Take your kid to Dr. Holland; she is the best thing since canned beer.. We pacified her because she was damn hysterical. Within seconds Chelsea began to have trouble breathing. The group worked in secret until February 1983, when the Bexar County district attorneys office seized copies of what has become known as the Mangos report, which was still in draft form. Holland told her to search the office. It is possible that such events may occur in sick infants and children in PICU settings at any time, says the report. Bullshit. It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. They set up shop in the old county jail. It was more than an hour. Packard called the Texas Board of Medical Examiners. The paramedics looked at the boy. Genene moved in with her. She was probably the most competent nurse there.. A few days after the funeral, the McClellans took out a two-column advertisement in a local paper. This was the last straw. I figured if I could live the nightmare once, I could live it again, says Genene. She was very honest about things, and I liked honesty. More so, each arrest record search cost $24 . Leave them blank to get signed up. I want them to suffer for a long period of time, says Reid McClellan. She says she called Dr. Hollands office on Thursday to make an appointment not for Chelsea but for her son Cameron, who had the flu. But now there was no time to ask questions: Chelsea wasnt breathing. She was admitted to the emergency room, and doctors pumped her stomach. Why did she think that was happening? The staff was complete and the office ready to open. Ann Delaney of Texas was born c. 1951. They knew it was impossible to hear a heartbeat over the din of the helicopter. Why do babies always die when Im around? she asked. Startled, she told Holland, Something just made me write this. They needed to figure out the meaning of what she had written, Gwen said. She told me that Chelsea had a cold that day, that she was having some funny little spells againfrequently. When her recommendations for a patient were ignored, she predicted disaster. Petti and Reid McClellan, after learning from Sutton and Joe Davis that their daughters death might not have been natural, retained a medical malpractice lawyer. It was all [Gwens] idea, and now theyre trying to accuse us of witchcraft, says Genene. They didnt even want to look at Jimmy. Genene Jones quickly came to think of herself as an ICU nurse. She had gone into seizures shortly after starting to eat dinner. Never, in the course of dozens of suspicious medical incidents and several lengthy investigations of them, has here been hard, irrefutable proof of what the prosecutors believe happened. Holland wanted to admit Misty to the hospital to test for the disease with a spinal tap. It is so deep & strong, it will last for all eternity. She got a job at Methodist Hospital, but she was ushered out in late April 1978, after only eight months. It was addressed To All of Our Friends in Kerrville.. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. In the meantime, children in the pediatric intensive care unit continued to suffer, and sometimes to die, from unexplained medical problems. You might want to step out in the hall because its not easy on a mother to watch, Genene told her. When Genene accepted the job with Dr. Holland in Kerrville, Debbie followed and took a job at the local hospital. Before the nurse leaves the pediatric ICU, the security guard walks down the long fifth-floor hallway, clearing the corridor and closing patients doors so they will not see the procession. Hap goes to live with Mr. Miliam after Martha Logan dies. Dr. Joe Vinas, a young surgeon, sat down beside him and asked what was wrong. They took off again for San Antonio, Maywhort holding Jimmy Pearson in his arms and performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Garcia massaging the deformed childs heart. It was a one-page handwritten suicide note, apparently left the day before, when Genene had taken the overdose of pills: There isnt anyway to explain to you why things are going to change. Belko knew the ICU nurses had been trading such talk for weeks, maybe even months, but she considered it vicious gossip. Exhausted doctors began to think of her as the most serious possible obstacle to a few hours rest: the nurse who cried wolf. But if they were puzzled, the hospitals surgeons were furious. Genene Jones seemed to make a point of displaying how much more she knew about pediatrics than they did. She shouted and gestured to the paramedics; she seemed to think Jimmy was seizing. Suzanna Maldonado began working in the pediatric ICU in 1980, less than a year after getting her RN degree. sister. She says she didnt think twice about it. Sir, mark time! Maywhort radioed the pilot. Rolinda had an oxygen mask over her face. Genene Anne Jo. Vinas was not surprised at the doctors suspicions. Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business. They came back positive. Its a creepy feeling., The codes and trips to the cold room are the dark side of working in the pediatric ICU, the part of the job that makes a nurse, every few months, ponder whether she wants to find a less difficult job. Jones turned down the offer, and on March 17, 1982, she quit working at Bexar County Hospital. Mrs. Parker watched anxiously from close by. Debbie began trying to act like Genene, even to dress like Genene. Holland said she appreciated their concern and would welcome advice, but she knew of no problem. Holland was upset. The parents whose children became ill in Kathy Hollands office have responded in different ways to the investigation. She was about four weeks premature, and the delivery was difficult; the placenta tore early, and Petti bled heavily before she arrived at Sid Peterson Hospital. Its full, and its got holes in it. The hospitals lack of experience with pediatrics made Dr. Holland determined to find a nurse with good technical skills for her private practice. I told her I was pretty stout, I could take it, she says. Children are brought there to recover from surgery or to be treated for a disease or an injury. Your daughters just had a seizure, she said. The car pulled over to the side of the road, Holland rushed in, and they revived the baby. Genene ordered the driver to stop the ambulance, and they pulled over onto the side of the road. They reconciled in 1977 and had a second child. She spoke freely of the joys of sex, boasting of past conquests and pointing out those she had in mind for the future. The nurses had become reluctant to prepare any kind of drug without a witness. Onea blue-eyed, fifteen-month-old girl named Chelsea Ann McClellandied. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved James Adam Harvey Jr. of Bel Air, Maryland, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who passed away at the age of 80, on January 30, 2023. It's that easy to get started! Belko was luckier; a last minute plea by Virginia Mousseau, her boss, won her a reprieve. A few days after Dr. Holland fired her, Genene Jones accepted the invitation of the parents of Chris Hogedathe child whose death was the first considered suspicious in San Antonioto move to San Angelo. She developed a spoiled childs temper, but she was attentive and curious. Fully conscious of his own abilities, Robotham wanted the nurses and residents to learn what he knew. James D. Harvey Jr. 1949 - 2021 BORN 1949 DIED 2021 ABOUT Manzano High School University of New Mexico JAMES HARVEY OBITUARY James D. Harvey, Jr. Long-time resident of Albuquerque,. One is that there will be inappropriate comments resulting in unjustified publicity. To avoid that, Franks would personally conduct a second review of the deaths in the pediatric ICU. He knows medicine with his eyes closed. Most of all, Genene says, she admired Robothams approach. In the middle of it all, performing CPR or handling drugs, is the patients nurse, the one who called the code in the first place. You have the job of tracing her background.. She had to tell someone, but whom? It was horrible.. After a while, youd be tired of going over there. It was filled with supplies and equipment for conducting simple lab tests. The LVNs had been moved out to upgrade the ICU, Holland told them, and all had been offered jobs elsewhere in the hospital. Vinas, wanting to find someone who knew more about Anectine, phoned Dr. Frank Bradley, the anesthesiologist, and asked him to come over. He looked fine. I took some Doxepin. Genene had been taking the antidepressant drug regularly, but now she was saying she had taken an overdose. He was extremely aggressive. To them she was a comforting figure, a woman of patience and understanding. A laboratory analysis later found that the contents of the bottle have been five-sixths diluted. After more that a year of suspicions in two different counties, someone had finally notified a law enforcement agency. But first she wanted Genene to start an IV; Misty seemed a bit dehydrated. Skip to main content Home A few minutes passed. With no real plans, Genene enrolled in beauty school. Holland says Gwen told her Petti was worried about Chelseas erratic breathing and that when Chelsea arrived in the waiting room, she had a bluish tint around her mouth. We encourage you to research and examine . Crying over a longtime ICU patient was common, but Jones seemed deeply affected by every death. brother. Dr. Bradley, the anesthesiologist, was watching closely, and suddenly it clicked: the child was coming out from under Anecitne! December 22, 1981: Doraelia Rios, 25 months old, died at 8:12 p.m. She had been hospitalized several times previously for gastrointestinal surgery, and she entered the hospital again on December 21, suffering from diarrhea, dehydration, and possible inflammation of an internal membrane. When James Harvey Delany was born on 5 July 1910, in Seguin, Guadalupe, Texas, United States, his father, Pleasant Key Delany Sr., was 49 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, was 39. Genene was a sexually insatiable woman who boasted about her carnal experiences. At Santa Rosa, Chelsea improved steadily. Then she took it out to Petti, who rocked the body and stroked it. It was a case of having to use a huge stick because it was impossible to single out one, says Dr. Arthur McFee, chairman of the surgery department. The nurses there called Holland over and asked her to look at him. Shes scared. Genene ordered Mrs. Reichenau out the door. Each nurse was told that she had to have a second nurse watch whenever she drew heparin from its container. When he was admitted in early December 1980, he had a severe congenital heart defect, pneumonia, and diarrhea. They were dying during a single nursing shift, the three-to-eleven evening shift. It just reminded me of what Id seen in the operating room, says Bradley. But by the time that report was written, Genene Jones was long gone from Bexar County Hospital (which is now called Medical Center Hospital). Corum said they would. That afternoon, Joe David took Genene to Austin to take her polygraph examination, and Kathy Holland was notified that her hospital privileges had been suspended. In all ten cases, Genene Jones was present at the childs bedside during what the report gently terms the final events. The report concludes: This association of Nurse Jones with the deaths of the ten children could be coincidental. Each of the children, she explained, was a separate medical situation. They needed to get a tube down his throat to establish a clear airway, but there wasnt enough room to maneuver in the helicopter. She was very bright pink, Holland says. She thought he seemed vague. Associated persons: Jeanine Delaney, Edward Supinski (609) 266-0772. Hell take care of both of us. When his children were young, he bought some property on Fredericksburg Road, cleared the site, and built a nightclub with a big dance floor inside and a patio and a pool outside. It looks bad, she told Belko. Updated February 22, 2023 11:28 AM. Search by Name. Robothams review of the charts could not substantiate that suspicion. But now, Franks told Dunn, there had been a documented case of heparin overdose; there was laboratory proof of it. It sounded peaceful and calm. They agreed to begin in Kerrville in August. Charleigh had bought the land in May 1980 with the help of a Veterans Land Board loan, and theyd been dreaming of living there ever since. But Genene Jones and James DeLany werent through with one another. Kerrville also had the largest general hospital in the area: the 120-bed Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital, a strong institution that was weak in pediatrics because Kerrville had for years been a town of old people. Misty was sent home after five days at Medical Center Hospital. She wore purple slacks, a flowered blouse, and a gold chain around her neck. Everybody was real excited about it, says Petti. Agency nurses kept an eye on patients while the staff members from two shifts crowded into the ICUs small back room. Seizure? She picked the child up and took her out of the office. There were six LVNs besides Genene, and one of them had been there since 1969. But Robotham believed that critically ill children required care from someone specially trained to treat them; that, after all, was why he was there. Email: [email protected]: Phone (573) 884-9682: Address: 146 Mumford Hall: His condition didnt appear to have changed. She had signed a five-year lease and spent hours selecting wood stains for the cabinets and soothing colors for the walls. That doesnt make a whole lot of sense. It was as if someone had tried to hide the fact that the bottle had been entered. Patients would come into the unit, sick but suffering from problems children had been able to lick in the past, and die. Genene had already prepared the syringes. Shed said she had a lot of different jobs, but that was because of disagreements. Holland asked Gwen Grantner to join her fledgling medical office. We worshipped the ground these people walked on, says Reid. She had planned to take a handful of the pills, Genene said later, but she had decided at the last minute to face her problems head-on, just as she had in San Antonio. Im going with Daddy because I miss him and I want to be with him. We should say we never found it.. And it was great. When Pat Belko assigned another nurse to help him insert a special catheter in a child, Robotham said he wanted Genene instead. Without IVs, nurses would have to turn patients into pincushions, sticking them a dozen times a day in a dozen different places. We are continuing to evaluate unexpected events in the unit in a formal way, he concluded. Jimmy Pearson recovered enough to return to Kerrville, but there his condition deteriorated again. In May, he developed hepatitis, and infection spread throughout his body. But Holland intubated Rolinda anyway. If the child is large, the nurse places the body on a metal stretcher. Dr. Conn had made a recommendation, and they were going to follow it and move to an all-RN nursing staff. Why Does He Get to Make That Call? This article is an account of what really happened inside Bexar County Hospital and the pediatricians office in Kerrville. William Harry Delaney, Danny C Delany, and four other persons spent some time in this place. Any little thing, shed be calling youtwo, three, four times as much as anyone else. He was my boy, she says now; she had cared for the child for months. Did she know the result of the investigation in San Antonio? At the far end of the sofa was Debbie Sultenfuss. Also known as: James H Delaney JR, Jim Delaney, James H Deloney JR. Dr. But there were only two bottles of Anectine in the office refrigerator, and Holland had not ordered a third bottle. Residents accustomed to offering shallow presentations of a patients status suddenly faced an endless succession of pointed questions: What were the lab results? Today, Genene Jones is free on a $225,000 bond from the Kerr County jail; she is scheduled to go on trial next month on a charge of murder. A short time later, Bexar County Hospital, a public institution created to save lives, began the first of a series of extraordinary private searches to determine whether one of its nurses was killing children. Though the problem had not been linked positively to any one employee, Franks wrote that he had returned to a position of not knowing whether or not there is a problem.. He smells a rat real fast. Like the other doctors in town, Vinas believed that the number of patients who had had emergencies in Hollands office indicated that something was very wrong. Born in 5 Jul 1910 and died in 26 Jun 1985 Seguin, Texas James Harvey Delany Sr. Shed say, Before you call the mom in, wait a bit. Shed hold the baby and rock him.. She turned blue and began having a seizure. He kept after the nurses as well. 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