Revealing the Truth About the Death of Grace Schara

April 2022
   False rumors have abounded regarding the death of Grace Schara since we published the original story in our mid-February - mid-March edition of WCN. I had an opportunity to speak with Scott Schara, Grace’s dad to clear up these questions.

   RUMOR #1 — Grace’s dad, Scott, turned off the alarms in her room which, in part, caused her death.

   TRUTH — Scott questioned the reason for the alarms going off over and over again. The nurses told him Grace’s IV was put in the crutch of her elbow and every time she would move her arm, it would set those off due to the location of them. He asked why they would put it in that location knowing that would happen and they told him it was easier for them. They did end up moving it. He asked if they could please have the alarms going off at just the nurse’s station and not in her room and they told him they couldn’t do that. Many times, it was 20 to 30 minutes before a nurse would come into Grace’s room to shut off an alarm. If Grace was as ill as they were trying to make her out to be, WHY would you leave alarms going off for that length of time? 

   One of the kindhearted nurses understood that in order for Grace to restore her health, she needed to get her rest, so she taught Scott how to shut those alarms off. Scott would never know how to shut those alarms off by h ...

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