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Backtalkers continue to respond in force to comments made here regarding the conditions in nursing homes. Another sampling follows ....—Ed. Note
Hi, Ed, here’s more on nursing homes and hospitals. My father was in a nursing home that was supposed to be one of the best. We paid several thousand dollars each month for his care, but every time I visited I noticed bruises on his hands and arms and so on. I complained to everybody, even the doctor, and nothing was done. I could not keep him at home because the private nurse we had caring for him could not lift him into a chair; he was a big man. They had a machine at the nursing home to do this. Also my mother was in a nursing home in Hamilton. People judge this nursing home by its name, which is supposed to mean the best care. That name is a laugh. They would put her clothes on every day without even bathing her and take her down for therapy. Hospitals are another sad story I won’t even touch. I don’t know what’s wrong with this country, but the medical world has certainly gone down the sewer.
Ed, I’m calling in response to some of the nursing home horrors printed in BackTalk. I’m a registered nurse at a nursing home, and I do agree that families should come as often as they can. But there should be no generalization that nursing homes don’t care. Most of us became nurses and attendants because we do care about people. I also suggest that families hang up pictures of the patient when they were younger in their room. Nursing staff needs to be reminded that before they became sick and old, they were someone’s mother, father, sister, brother, and child, and they lived a life and were loved. I find that keeps things in perspective for myself when I become overburdened with my nursing duties.
Hi, Ed, not all nursing homes are bad. I had an experience with my mother, now deceased, who was in a nursing home where the staff was good. (My father ended up in a nursing home where they treated him terrible and stole everything from him). But I’d like to comment on Mercer County welfare and social services. I believe they are in bed together with some of these nursing homes. They told me to get my mother, throw her in a cardboard box, pay $500 for a state funeral and give the rest of the money from the sale of my mother’s house to the nursing home, which was pretty sad. I found out from a friend who worked at a nursing home that I could have used the last $8,000 to $10,000 from her home for her funeral and given the rest of the money to the nursing home. That way I could bury her with a proper funeral, which is what we ended up doing. Anybody in this situation definitely ought to see an attorney who knows what they’re doing because our attorney apparently didn’t. The factory where my mother worked had closed and moved away, and all of her life insurance documents were missing.
Ed, I’d like to expose a county-run nursing home that is the pits. starting with the administrators on down. I had a loved one there by default. Not only are the administrators crooked but they conspired with lawyers to drain the assets of our elderly. My loved one was charged $6,000 a month only to have meals placed before him that were very unhealthy. They over-medicate and drain them dry. They only hire uneducated minorities as caregivers. The administration is horrible; they steal, lie and try to put down dementia as the problem. They were medicating my loved one, and he was not demented. Everyone, please do not send your loved ones to a nursing home or you will have to stay on top and chart every single thing. Please expose them, Ed.
Hello, Ed, I have to give my side to complaints about “nursing home horrors.” I’ve worked nine years at Mill House as the admissions director, and all I have to say to these people and you is, what about state surveys of nursing homes? We are surveyed once a year. We get a report card from the state Department of Health and Senior Services. I suggest that families go on the Web site to medicare.gov, and then go to nursing homes to see how they are rated. I urge you to look at Milll House; we are proud of our nursing home and that we pass every year with flying colors. We do a good job, we work hard. There are some good and bad in everything, but you need to hear the other side. And if families have problems, they can call the state ombudsman for the elderly. Why would they let their loved ones be hurt in a nursing home when there are avenues you can go and have them reported. I feel we’re getting a bad rap, and it’s upsetting because I know we’re doing a good job.
Hi, Ed, here’s more on nursing homes and hospitals. My father was in a nursing home that was supposed to be one of the best. We paid several thousand dollars each month for his care, but every time I visited I noticed bruises on his hands and arms and so on. I complained to everybody, even the doctor, and nothing was done. I could not keep him at home because the private nurse we had caring for him could not lift him into a chair; he was a big man. They had a machine at the nursing home to do this. Also my mother was in a nursing home in Hamilton. People judge this nursing home by its name, which is supposed to mean the best care. That name is a laugh. They would put her clothes on every day without even bathing her and take her down for therapy. Hospitals are another sad story I won’t even touch. I don’t know what’s wrong with this country, but the medical world has certainly gone down the sewer.
Ed, I’m calling in response to some of the nursing home horrors printed in BackTalk. I’m a registered nurse at a nursing home, and I do agree that families should come as often as they can. But there should be no generalization that nursing homes don’t care. Most of us became nurses and attendants because we do care about people. I also suggest that families hang up pictures of the patient when they were younger in their room. Nursing staff needs to be reminded that before they became sick and old, they were someone’s mother, father, sister, brother, and child, and they lived a life and were loved. I find that keeps things in perspective for myself when I become overburdened with my nursing duties.
Hi, Ed, not all nursing homes are bad. I had an experience with my mother, now deceased, who was in a nursing home where the staff was good. (My father ended up in a nursing home where they treated him terrible and stole everything from him). But I’d like to comment on Mercer County welfare and social services. I believe they are in bed together with some of these nursing homes. They told me to get my mother, throw her in a cardboard box, pay $500 for a state funeral and give the rest of the money from the sale of my mother’s house to the nursing home, which was pretty sad. I found out from a friend who worked at a nursing home that I could have used the last $8,000 to $10,000 from her home for her funeral and given the rest of the money to the nursing home. That way I could bury her with a proper funeral, which is what we ended up doing. Anybody in this situation definitely ought to see an attorney who knows what they’re doing because our attorney apparently didn’t. The factory where my mother worked had closed and moved away, and all of her life insurance documents were missing.
Ed, I’d like to expose a county-run nursing home that is the pits. starting with the administrators on down. I had a loved one there by default. Not only are the administrators crooked but they conspired with lawyers to drain the assets of our elderly. My loved one was charged $6,000 a month only to have meals placed before him that were very unhealthy. They over-medicate and drain them dry. They only hire uneducated minorities as caregivers. The administration is horrible; they steal, lie and try to put down dementia as the problem. They were medicating my loved one, and he was not demented. Everyone, please do not send your loved ones to a nursing home or you will have to stay on top and chart every single thing. Please expose them, Ed.
Hello, Ed, I have to give my side to complaints about “nursing home horrors.” I’ve worked nine years at Mill House as the admissions director, and all I have to say to these people and you is, what about state surveys of nursing homes? We are surveyed once a year. We get a report card from the state Department of Health and Senior Services. I suggest that families go on the Web site to medicare.gov, and then go to nursing homes to see how they are rated. I urge you to look at Milll House; we are proud of our nursing home and that we pass every year with flying colors. We do a good job, we work hard. There are some good and bad in everything, but you need to hear the other side. And if families have problems, they can call the state ombudsman for the elderly. Why would they let their loved ones be hurt in a nursing home when there are avenues you can go and have them reported. I feel we’re getting a bad rap, and it’s upsetting because I know we’re doing a good job.
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