The Employee Foundation
Chapter 15 - The Employee Foundation
Grace transferred the founder’s shares into the Saint Alden Patient and Worker Foundation.
The board included nurses, technicians, former patients, community advocates, and independent financial experts.
No member of the Bennett, Hale, or Sloan families held a permanent seat.
Grace could serve one elected term like anyone else.
She chose not to run.
The foundation restored stolen pensions and reviewed thousands of patient files.
Some errors were accidental.
Others concealed adoptions, births, insurance fraud, or unlawful guardianships.
Corrections were made carefully.
No child was removed from a stable home simply because adults discovered old paperwork.
Affected people received advocates before institutions changed their identities again.
A nurse proposed the foundation’s first rule:
The person named in a record must have access to an independent explanation of that record.
Grace added a second:
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No family relationship creates automatic authority over an adult patient.
Both passed unanimously.
