Hospital gave teen with Down syndrome fatal drug cocktail, placed her on 'do not resuscitate' list without consent, father tells Glenn Beck: 'If we would’ve never taken her to the hospital, Grace would be alive today'

The father of a teenager who passed away in 2021 recently appeared on BlazeTV's "The Glenn Beck Program" to discuss his daughter's case as well as the lawsuit his family has recently begun the process of filing against the hospital that treated her.

On Monday, TheBlaze reported on the case of 19-year-old Grace Schara, who died about a year and a half ago at St. Elizabeth's hospital in Appleton, Wisconsin. St. Elizabeth's is owned by Ascension, a Catholic health care organization which owns and manages dozens of hospitals across the country. Grace was admitted to St. Elizabeth's on October 9, 2021, and she died four days later.

On Wednesday, Grace's father, Scott Schara, shared with host Glenn Beck more details regarding his daughter's illness and death. Schara recalled that on October 1, 2021, Grace, who was never vaccinated, had tested positive for COVID and that within a few days, her oxygen saturation had dropped to a worrisome level, so her family admitted her to St. Elizabeth's. To treat her, Schara claimed hospital staff gave Grace a fatal mixture of the sedative Precedex, the anti-anxiety medication lorazepam, and morphine, all in less than 30 minutes. Schara claimed that the drug combination was a major contributor to Grace's death, whose death was officially listed as COVID-19 pneumonia.

When Beck asked why a hospital would give a sedative like Precedex, which can cause acute respiratory failure, to a patient having difficulty breathing, Schara replied that he had several ideas but could not state with any certainty what a particular individual or group of people had been thinking at the time. He then alleged that some hospitals had been known to give patients a sedative pre-emptively during the height of COVID in order to prepare them to be placed on a ventilator since ventilators were "where the big financial gain with COVID was."

The Schara family reportedly refused to place Grace on a ventilator, a decision which he claimed created tension between the family and hospital staff. At one point, an armed guard supposedly escorted Schara from Grace's hospital room and barred him from returning. As Schara's wife, Cindy, had COVID, she could not visit Grace either. So their other daughter, Jessica Vander Heiden, became Grace's designated medical advocate.

According to Schara, on October 13, 2021, the day Grace died, a doctor spoke to Scott and Cindy via phone. The doctor allegedly told them that Grace was doing well and that he wanted her to get out of bed, watch some TV, and focus on her nutrition. However, after that call ended, Scott Schara alleged that the doctor, whose name has not been given, illegally listed Grace as a DNR, or do not resuscitate.

"How can he have put a DNR on your daughter?" Beck wondered. "Only you can do that."

"Well, that's, of course, one of the reasons why we're filing a lawsuit," Schara replied, adding that Beck was "100% right" about laws regarding DNRs but that "liberals operate outside of the law."

"And you're left to sue them to get justice," Schara said. "And it's ridiculous."

Beck also wondered whether any medical personnel had quietly expressed support for Schara and his case. Schara explained that the situation was complicated because people are afraid to speak out. He cited one example of a nurse who initially accused Schara of lying about the DNR placed on Grace but who changed her mind after a DNR was illegally given to her father. When Schara asked her to join him in the fight, the 66-year-old nurse declined since she was nearing retirement.

"I don't want to jeopardize that," she reportedly told Schara.

Toward the end of their conversation, Beck shared that he has a daughter with cerebral palsy, and he expressed deep concern that medical schools and organizations were encouraging young doctors to participate in Nazi-like eugenics against those with special needs.

"I don't know this doctor," Beck said, referring to the individual who allegedly placed Grace on a DNR list. "I don't know anything about it. But I will tell you, something isn't right here."

"We are starting to just become a culture of death," Beck later stated, alleging that some medical personnel do not believe that people with special needs have a good quality of life. Beck called those with special needs "God's miracle" and insisted through tears that his special needs daughter "is the best of our family."

Schara expressed similar affection for Grace. "She was a special gift from God," Schara said. "... She hunted with me. She drove a car. She played violin, rode a horse. I mean, there was nothing she didn't do. The sky was truly the limit with Grace.

"And, you know, we miss her. We miss her terribly," Schara said.

The Scharas have taken the first step toward suing St. Elizabeth's by filing the necessary paperwork with the state of Wisconsin. As of last year, before the paperwork had been filed, St. Elizabeth's declined to comment on Grace's case, citing patient confidentiality. It did not confirm or deny any of the allegations made by the Scharas. The Wisconsin Department of Health and Human Services has since cleared St. Elizabeth's of wrongdoing in Grace's case.

Scott Schara has previously stated that the family does not want money from the hospital, that they just want Grace's death certificate changed to reflect what they believe to be her actual cause of death. Whether the Schara family still holds those goals remains unclear.

"[I]f we would’ve never taken her to the hospital, Grace would be alive today," Schara told Beck.

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