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<p>When Dorothy fell and broke her L4 vertebrae, staff documented “no visible injury” and noted her screams as baseline behavior. A whiteboard in her room gave staff a standing instruction: redirect and reassure. No one ordered an X ray. No one ran a urinalysis. No one caught the UTI causing delirium or the small stroke she had suffered.</p>



<p>For weeks, she was transferred, repositioned, and toileted with an untreated broken spine. She was given Tylenol for agony.</p>



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A whiteboard in her room gave staff a standing instruction: redirect and reassure. No one ordered an X ray. No one ran a urinalysis. No one caught the UTI causing delirium or the small stroke she had suffered. For weeks, she was transferred, repositioned, and toileted with an untreated broken spine. She was given Tylenol for agony. Stay informed. New investigations published daily. Nursing home abuse, neglect, and accountability from across the country. Read All Investigations → linktr.ee/nathaliefriaas The post They Called It Baseline appeared first on Silent Voices by Nathalie Frias.

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<p>When Dorothy fell and broke her L4 vertebrae, staff documented “no visible injury” and noted her screams as baseline behavior. A whiteboard in her room gave staff a standing instruction: redirect and reassure. No one ordered an X ray. No one ran a urinalysis. No one caught the UTI causing delirium or the small stroke she had suffered.</p>



<p>For weeks, she was transferred, repositioned, and toileted with an untreated broken spine. She was given Tylenol for agony.</p>








  <p>Stay informed. New investigations published daily.</p>
  <p>Nursing home abuse, neglect, and accountability from across the country.</p>
  <a href="https://nathaliefrias.net/healthcare-news-investigation/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read All Investigations →</a>
  <p><a href="https://linktr.ee/nathaliefriaas" rel="noopener noreferrer">linktr.ee/nathaliefriaas</a></p>

<p>The post <a href="https://nathaliefrias.net/2026/02/21/they-called-it-baseline/" rel="noopener noreferrer">They Called It Baseline</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nathaliefrias.net" rel="noopener noreferrer">Silent Voices by Nathalie Frias</a>.</p>

They Called It Baseline

Silent Voices Audio Overview is an AI-generated audio series based on original articles, investigations, and fiction published on Silent Voices by Nathalie Frias. Each episode is an automated audio overview of a real post, covering healthcare failures in long-term care, elder abuse, documentation fraud, and the stories institutions tried to bury. Content is generated using NotebookLM. Written and published by Nathalie Frias, medical records professional and founder of Silent Voices. Silence protects the system. We protect the people in it.

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