BIANCA'S STORY

Bianca Krizek was born in Canada on 16th October 1981. She attended Catholic grade school in Windsor, Ontario, then continued her education at Key West High School in Florida. While attending Key West, she was scouted by a stylist from the brand Versace in Miami.

Her mother, Helena, realized that Bianca had a promising future. Bianca was dedicated to her loved ones, her studies, her work, and her career. She was kind, focused, and proactively engaged in building her life.

Once relocated with family to New York City, Bianca was signed to both Elite Model Management and New York Model Management. She attended the Professional Children’s School in Manhattan while managing both schooling and modeling.

Bianca’s career took off. She was featured in British, Japanese, Italian, and French Vogue as well as Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, W and ID magazine.

Bianca worked with a list of photographers that included Michel Comte, Nathaniel Goldberg, Steven Meisel, Satoshi Saikusa, Camille Vivier, Alex Cayley, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Vicent Peters & Dirk Bikkembergs.

From 2001 until 2005, Bianca attended Boston University where she studied International Relationship. After leaving the university, she signed up for acting classes and began voiceover work in film projects such as “Lake City” in 2008.

In her 31st year, Bianca moved to Hawaii. She became an avid member of the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii and continued to be engaged with environmental activism. She sustained an ankle injury that same year, 2012, while walking in heeled shoes. Three years later, after complications that arose because of that injury and the absence of professional health care accountability in the environments she trusted with her safety, she would spend her final days in Honolulu at Queens Medical Center.

Over the course of Bianca’s 35 years, she became fluent in French, Spanish, and Czech. She traveled internationally and showed tremendous commitment to her goals. Bianca’s presence in the lives of her family, friends, and colleagues impressed upon them her unique spark for life and her love for people. Even in the short time she lived, she was a legacy-builder who deeply cared for others.

Such a person would never grace the world, once Bianca had left us. She was admitted to Queens Medical Center on 28th December 2015, and her life was lost on February 5th, 2016.

The injustice of Bianca’s death is unacceptable to those who loved her and to all who learn her story.

The attorney who presented Bianca’s case to the Medical Inquiry and Conciliation Panel (MICP) hearing in Honolulu in Autumn 2017 described alleged negligent acts or omissions that fell below the applicable standard of care.

His statements included:

“Over-sedation causing rapid deceleration;
…failure to obtain informed consent;
…perforation of artery during central catheter insertion;
…improper supervision of employees;
…failure to follow policies and procedures;
…repeated episodes of prolonged oxygen deprivation leading to brain injury and death;
…and attempted cover-up.”

Bianca’s 2012 injury had resulted in 2 left ankle revisions within the span of 3 years. In the fall of 2015, she developed skin redness on her left leg and was prescribed antibiotics Bactrim and Keflex by Waikiki Health Clinic (WHC). The antibiotics had no positive result — instead, vomiting and dehydration.

On December 28, 2015 her roommate called an ambulance. Bianca was taken to Queen’s Medical Center Emergency Room. Bianca was admitted to the hospital in stable condition for skin redness to left leg and generalized weakness due to dehydration.

Bianca’s signature is not documented in admissions paperwork. There were no consents for admission to the hospital, CVC catheter placement, blood product administration, or NG tube placement and intubation — all of which done to her without her consent. A further discrepancy is the consent document’s date, marked 2017 rather than 2015.

Her mother speaks of what she recognized in the differences between Bianca and herself. Helena says, “I had never seen it until after her death. She was very loving, compassionate, almost like an angel. I am more of the warrior. I have never been like her. This is something I started to realize only after her death, how different we were.”

We know that what happened to Bianca and Helena are happening to many other families in the United States, Canada, and all over the world.

Bianca's steadiness and grace in caring for others and Helena's warriorship in fighting for awareness of the influences that caused Bianca’s death are strengthening our force of will in a global movement to ensure safety, respect, and dignity for all who entrust their lives to health care institutions.

As court proceedings unfold towards honorable resolution, Helena is working to establish resources for families who are confronted with these disturbing forms of obfuscation and violence. To support our communities in the midst of medical trafficking pathways, please watch this website and contact us for donations information.

As more materials, photos, and documents are added to this website, we will share Helena’s experiences as she has moved through meeting the challenges of hospital representatives, DOH Hawaii, RICO, Medical Examiner’s Office, AG criminal division, cover up and the lawsuit.

Bianca’s example to us lights a fire in our hearts to know our family and community members are safe from harm in any professional health care environment they rely on for accurate information, honesty, integrity, and accountability in relationship with those it claims to serve.

Bianca brought no less than her full passion and dedication to her time here on this planet. We will learn from her and practice the same.

Thank you for your prayers, faith, and attention to this important story.

With collective care and conviction,

Helena Krizek and the friends of Bianca Krizek