CRIMINAL....my 74 year old mother was SCAMMED into going to Palm Desert from Ventura. She was depressed and not sleeping and found this place on the internet. Please do not let anyone you love go here. I spent 5 hours on Mother's day trying to get through to a real person and when I finally did, they hung up on me and no one would call me back. I finally had to call the POLICE for assistance...and then I was able to get an actual address for an UBER driver to pick her up! Turns out she was at a SOBER LIVING house and she does not drink alcohol or do drugs! Just depressed. They had her phone locked up and said they could not get to it until the next day so she had to stay overnight. They wanted to charge her $1,000 a day without insurance! What a criminal operation. They should all be put in jail.
I placed my mentally ill peaceful son for medication change and management under a doctor's care in a safe inpatient environment that Sovereign Health Group a/k/a Medical Concierge, Inc. d/b/a MED-LINK advertises and solicits itself as. Sovereign almost killed my son by giving him a violent roomate who assaulted and battered him; Sovereign billed our insurance but never provided any licensed psychiatrist from inttake throughout treatment of our son; for three weeks my son was never treated by any licensed psychistrist, psychologist, LCSW or even licensed Physician's Assistant (Psychiatry) or Registered Nurse. Instead Sovereign has tried to extort upwards of $5k-$10k per day plus lab fees for blood work never done, Sovereign seized my son's psychiatrist medications upon intake and he was completely off his medications throughout three weeks there in residence and worse. My son was falsely imprisoned by Sovereign Health Group, San Clemente such that I had to get Orange County Law Enforcement Sheriff's Office and the Adult Protective Services to accompany me after I obtained a Writ of Mandamus against Sovereign to release my son finally to safety in early January 2016. My son's health is worse and he has deteriorated in his recovery efforts since this traumatic experience and his illness is not violent or any danger to others (he has mild schizophrenia and requires prescription medications under the regulated care of licensed medical practitioner in California). Not one of the many Sovereign Health Groups in CA (San Clemente, Culver City, Palm Desert) are licensed and neither are any Sovereign entities licensed in Utah, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, Massachusetts and Delaware where they are also known to have presence. Read the verified articles and links below and do not risk the life and health of your loved ones.
I have met three families whose teenage and one young Millenial died whle in the custody and care of Sovereign Health Group under mysterious circumstances and Sovereign does nothing to help law enforcement solve any of these crimes so they're complicit criminals. They are indeed an Indian Crime Syndicate under the U.S. RICO Racketeering Crime Statute. 18 U.S. Code Chapter 96 - RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS et seq.
Read the following links and don't take yourself or your loved one(s) to Sovereign Health Group in any state.
From the Orange County CA Register -- ocregister.com/articles/-262991--.html - Article Below.
Sovereign Health Group San Clemente – A British doctor who was stripped of his medical license for conducting unethical drug trials on mentally ill patients is now running an unlicensed San Clemente drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility that focuses on the mentally ill.
The state Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs has begun to investigate the facility, Sovereign Health of California, over its lack of license to run a residential treatment program and is reviewing two other complaints about how the facility is run.
Sovereign officials deny any wrongdoing and say a state official told them they did not need a license.
In 2008, the British agency that licenses doctors struck Tonmoy Sharma off the medical register for lying about his academic qualifications and conducting unethical drug studies. About a year later, he became the chief executive officer of Sovereign Health.
Sharma said what happened in Britain has nothing to do with his new job; he said that since coming to the facility he has added 40 jobs during a bad economic time.
But some familiar with his past are critical of his new role and one has sent a complaint to state officials.
Peter Jay, chief executive of a British private investigative agency that focuses on reducing fraud in clinical trials, said he was surprised and disappointed that Sharma was running a treatment facility, even if his role is purely administrative.
"I don't have a problem with people who do wrong in their life and rehabilitate and start doing right," said Jay of MedicoLegal Investigations Ltd. "But what he did showed a totally outrageous disregard for people, a total disrespect for sick people."
MedicoLegal was hired to investigate Sharma by Sanofi-Aventis, a pharmaceutical company that contracted Sharma to conduct research studies in 1999.
"He should not be allowed anywhere near (patients) under any circumstances," Jay said in an e-mail to The Register.
Sharma maintains that the General Medical Council was wrong in stripping him of his license. He called his hearing a "witch hunt" and said he wasn't able to properly defend himself because his father was sick at the time. The GMC ensures proper medical standards to protect public health and safety.
Sharma has written several books about mental health and was a professor at a British university before being stripped of his license. He said he is not conducting clinical trials at Sovereign Health.
"They can call me names, they can strip me of a license on that island, but what they cannot do is take away my knowledge base and what I have done," said Sharma.
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According to GMC documents prepared by a Fitness to Practice Panel, Sharma risked compromising patient welfare by recruiting mentally ill patients for drug studies without their primary care physician's consent. He also told drug companies he had received ethics approval for studies when he had not, documents show.
"The panel therefore finds your conduct to be inappropriate, unethical and to fall significantly short of the standards to be expected of a medical practitioner," the panel wrote in 2008.
Sharma described himself as a PhD even though he never received the degree, according to GMC documents. Sharma said he had a Doctor of Science and considered the two to be interchangeable. The GMC panel said his Doctor of Science was awarded by a foreign institution with an office in India that was not on par with a PhD from a reputable university.
Sharma sued the investigations firm, MedicoLegal, for harassment and malice after it began its investigation. That lawsuit was struck down by a British court when Sharma didn't show up for a scheduled hearing. In 2005, MLI countersued for libel, and claimants, including Jay, were awarded a total of 30,000 pounds and attorney's fees. Sharma said he does not plan to pay that judgment. MedicoLegal provided the GMC with evidence that led to Sharma losing his license. Sharma said he thought the medical panel was trying to get back at him for suing a source.
In addition to being Sovereign Health of California's chief executive, Sharma said he is also managing director at a hospital in India called Sovereign Health, which has a branch that conducts clinical trials, according to its website. Sharma still uses the prefix Dr. He says his original 1987 medical license from the Medical Council in India is still valid.
He described his duties at both facilities as administrative, saying he makes financial and big picture decisions about company direction. A governing board consisting of shareholders oversees his work, he said.
Dr. Larry Snyder, Sovereign's medical director, said he knew about Sharma's past when he took the position, but it did not bother him.
"I see him as simply a visionary trying to redeem himself," Snyder said, adding that Sharma devised the healthcare program at Sovereign including the brain wellness program, which he said improves cognitive function.
Sharma tried to persuade a reporter not to write about his background by saying: "If you feel that having a story like this is going to benefit and is of the public interest, we have no problems taking our money elsewhere. There's 10 percent growth in India."
Rishi Barkataki, Sharma's cousin, is listed as Sovereign's owner and president on a city business license application. The facility, which operated for years as Dual Diagnosis Treatment Center, was struggling to fill beds until the new owners took over, Sharma said.
Barkataki said he hired Sharma for his experience, not because they arerelated. He would not disclose Sharma's salary, saying in an e-mail that it is "extremely sensitive and private." Although he is listed as the owner on the business license, Barkataki said the company is actually owned by a group of shareholders called Sovereign Health Asset Management. He would not reveal the owners names.
It costs about $15,000 to $20,000 a month to be treated at Sovereign Health, which accepts most preferred provider organizations. Health insurance pays for about a month of treatment and Sovereign suggests six month stays. Residents and non-residents of Sovereign's two homes pay the same rate for care. Ten people can live in each home. Sovereign is breaking even, Sharma said.
A former staffer, Nancy Wright, who has been a therapist for 30 years, has sent a complaint to state officials about Sovereign. She explains Sharma's past in the open complaint. Sovereign advertises that its staffers have an average of 25 years experience, she complained, but clients are "being seen by grad students and interns with no experience and are not being supervised."
Dr. Arlene O'Connor, Sovereign's clinical director, said that is not true. She supervises all interns, post-doctoral fellows, and a staff of therapists and doctors, she said. Sovereign's assistant clinical director is a recent graduate student completing necessary supervised hours for her doctoral degree at Argosy University, she said.
Sovereign Health San Clemente Reviews
CRIMINAL....my 74 year old mother was SCAMMED into going to Palm Desert from Ventura. She was depressed and not sleeping and found this place on the internet. Please do not let anyone you love go here. I spent 5 hours on Mother's day trying to get through to a real person and when I finally did, they hung up on me and no one would call me back. I finally had to call the POLICE for assistance...and then I was able to get an actual address for an UBER driver to pick her up! Turns out she was at a SOBER LIVING house and she does not drink alcohol or do drugs! Just depressed. They had her phone locked up and said they could not get to it until the next day so she had to stay overnight. They wanted to charge her $1,000 a day without insurance! What a criminal operation. They should all be put in jail.
I placed my mentally ill peaceful son for medication change and management under a doctor's care in a safe inpatient environment that Sovereign Health Group a/k/a Medical Concierge, Inc. d/b/a MED-LINK advertises and solicits itself as. Sovereign almost killed my son by giving him a violent roomate who assaulted and battered him; Sovereign billed our insurance but never provided any licensed psychiatrist from inttake throughout treatment of our son; for three weeks my son was never treated by any licensed psychistrist, psychologist, LCSW or even licensed Physician's Assistant (Psychiatry) or Registered Nurse. Instead Sovereign has tried to extort upwards of $5k-$10k per day plus lab fees for blood work never done, Sovereign seized my son's psychiatrist medications upon intake and he was completely off his medications throughout three weeks there in residence and worse. My son was falsely imprisoned by Sovereign Health Group, San Clemente such that I had to get Orange County Law Enforcement Sheriff's Office and the Adult Protective Services to accompany me after I obtained a Writ of Mandamus against Sovereign to release my son finally to safety in early January 2016. My son's health is worse and he has deteriorated in his recovery efforts since this traumatic experience and his illness is not violent or any danger to others (he has mild schizophrenia and requires prescription medications under the regulated care of licensed medical practitioner in California). Not one of the many Sovereign Health Groups in CA (San Clemente, Culver City, Palm Desert) are licensed and neither are any Sovereign entities licensed in Utah, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, Massachusetts and Delaware where they are also known to have presence. Read the verified articles and links below and do not risk the life and health of your loved ones.
I have met three families whose teenage and one young Millenial died whle in the custody and care of Sovereign Health Group under mysterious circumstances and Sovereign does nothing to help law enforcement solve any of these crimes so they're complicit criminals. They are indeed an Indian Crime Syndicate under the U.S. RICO Racketeering Crime Statute. 18 U.S. Code Chapter 96 - RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS et seq.
Read the following links and don't take yourself or your loved one(s) to Sovereign Health Group in any state.
From the Orange County CA Register -- ocregister.com/articles/-262991--.html - Article Below.
Sovereign Health Group San Clemente – A British doctor who was stripped of his medical license for conducting unethical drug trials on mentally ill patients is now running an unlicensed San Clemente drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility that focuses on the mentally ill.
The state Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs has begun to investigate the facility, Sovereign Health of California, over its lack of license to run a residential treatment program and is reviewing two other complaints about how the facility is run.
Sovereign officials deny any wrongdoing and say a state official told them they did not need a license.
In 2008, the British agency that licenses doctors struck Tonmoy Sharma off the medical register for lying about his academic qualifications and conducting unethical drug studies. About a year later, he became the chief executive officer of Sovereign Health.
Sharma said what happened in Britain has nothing to do with his new job; he said that since coming to the facility he has added 40 jobs during a bad economic time.
But some familiar with his past are critical of his new role and one has sent a complaint to state officials.
Peter Jay, chief executive of a British private investigative agency that focuses on reducing fraud in clinical trials, said he was surprised and disappointed that Sharma was running a treatment facility, even if his role is purely administrative.
"I don't have a problem with people who do wrong in their life and rehabilitate and start doing right," said Jay of MedicoLegal Investigations Ltd. "But what he did showed a totally outrageous disregard for people, a total disrespect for sick people."
MedicoLegal was hired to investigate Sharma by Sanofi-Aventis, a pharmaceutical company that contracted Sharma to conduct research studies in 1999.
"He should not be allowed anywhere near (patients) under any circumstances," Jay said in an e-mail to The Register.
Sharma maintains that the General Medical Council was wrong in stripping him of his license. He called his hearing a "witch hunt" and said he wasn't able to properly defend himself because his father was sick at the time. The GMC ensures proper medical standards to protect public health and safety.
Sharma has written several books about mental health and was a professor at a British university before being stripped of his license. He said he is not conducting clinical trials at Sovereign Health.
"They can call me names, they can strip me of a license on that island, but what they cannot do is take away my knowledge base and what I have done," said Sharma.
STRUCK OFF
According to GMC documents prepared by a Fitness to Practice Panel, Sharma risked compromising patient welfare by recruiting mentally ill patients for drug studies without their primary care physician's consent. He also told drug companies he had received ethics approval for studies when he had not, documents show.
"The panel therefore finds your conduct to be inappropriate, unethical and to fall significantly short of the standards to be expected of a medical practitioner," the panel wrote in 2008.
Sharma described himself as a PhD even though he never received the degree, according to GMC documents. Sharma said he had a Doctor of Science and considered the two to be interchangeable. The GMC panel said his Doctor of Science was awarded by a foreign institution with an office in India that was not on par with a PhD from a reputable university.
Sharma sued the investigations firm, MedicoLegal, for harassment and malice after it began its investigation. That lawsuit was struck down by a British court when Sharma didn't show up for a scheduled hearing. In 2005, MLI countersued for libel, and claimants, including Jay, were awarded a total of 30,000 pounds and attorney's fees. Sharma said he does not plan to pay that judgment. MedicoLegal provided the GMC with evidence that led to Sharma losing his license. Sharma said he thought the medical panel was trying to get back at him for suing a source.
In addition to being Sovereign Health of California's chief executive, Sharma said he is also managing director at a hospital in India called Sovereign Health, which has a branch that conducts clinical trials, according to its website. Sharma still uses the prefix Dr. He says his original 1987 medical license from the Medical Council in India is still valid.
He described his duties at both facilities as administrative, saying he makes financial and big picture decisions about company direction. A governing board consisting of shareholders oversees his work, he said.
Dr. Larry Snyder, Sovereign's medical director, said he knew about Sharma's past when he took the position, but it did not bother him.
"I see him as simply a visionary trying to redeem himself," Snyder said, adding that Sharma devised the healthcare program at Sovereign including the brain wellness program, which he said improves cognitive function.
Sharma tried to persuade a reporter not to write about his background by saying: "If you feel that having a story like this is going to benefit and is of the public interest, we have no problems taking our money elsewhere. There's 10 percent growth in India."
Rishi Barkataki, Sharma's cousin, is listed as Sovereign's owner and president on a city business license application. The facility, which operated for years as Dual Diagnosis Treatment Center, was struggling to fill beds until the new owners took over, Sharma said.
Barkataki said he hired Sharma for his experience, not because they arerelated. He would not disclose Sharma's salary, saying in an e-mail that it is "extremely sensitive and private." Although he is listed as the owner on the business license, Barkataki said the company is actually owned by a group of shareholders called Sovereign Health Asset Management. He would not reveal the owners names.
It costs about $15,000 to $20,000 a month to be treated at Sovereign Health, which accepts most preferred provider organizations. Health insurance pays for about a month of treatment and Sovereign suggests six month stays. Residents and non-residents of Sovereign's two homes pay the same rate for care. Ten people can live in each home. Sovereign is breaking even, Sharma said.
A former staffer, Nancy Wright, who has been a therapist for 30 years, has sent a complaint to state officials about Sovereign. She explains Sharma's past in the open complaint. Sovereign advertises that its staffers have an average of 25 years experience, she complained, but clients are "being seen by grad students and interns with no experience and are not being supervised."
Dr. Arlene O'Connor, Sovereign's clinical director, said that is not true. She supervises all interns, post-doctoral fellows, and a staff of therapists and doctors, she said. Sovereign's assistant clinical director is a recent graduate student completing necessary supervised hours for her doctoral degree at Argosy University, she said.