Nursing Homes That Flunk the Care Test
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Treatment in nursing homes
Just like the family in NC. WE went through a similar situation as for the care of our mom. We are very active in her day to day program. But we found that the were over medicating my mom to keep her sleeping and off of their nerves. She has demetia. They acted as though she would be woke and moving around. Not true, we changed our visiting habits and learned a lot. Not being fed, or bathed in the mornings, sleeping, sleeping ETC. Things got ugly. We had to get her to the hospital for testing. She had slept for 3 days. Met with staff said things would improve they didn't. If we were involved everyday and things were still going on during the hours we were not there. My question is what happen to the patients that don't have family members. My mom walked in this place in October. She has not walked in 6weeks. We moved her to another facility. And sent in a complaint to the state.
these articals
The artical does not tell me what nursing homes are bad I need to know if the one my mom is in Bad. Where is the list. This is junk
Grand Prairie Nursing Home
I can't beleive the condition the Grande Prairie nursing home is in. It is located in Pleasant Prairie WI. Who do I call to report such understaff and poor cleaning in this place. Also lack of care. The outside will fool you as it is a rather new building but my God, it is a nightmare inside.
Casued my fathers death
My father went for rehab and care.Instead he was neglected,never got the rehab needed,wrong type food plan, and SO much more. Because we were there everyday checking they eventually illegally threw him out. My Mother being unable to care for him I had to stay with him. No other facility would help take him not even the hospital.One week at home his diabeetic sores that we had almost gone then came back 10 fold under their care got BAD. His toes were black as twigs. We took to a special hospital found out 3 days later he had gangrene. They removed his leg and with so much infection his sysytem had a temp over 102 .He passed 7 days after removing his leg.
Never have I seen a facility like the nursing rehab place in Lenoir NC so bad. It smelled likeSHIT all the time,floors dirty,toilets didn't work half the time, and then the Administrator Hollared yelled screamed at my Mother telling her she was banned from property-could not come back(we were paying cash for his care and All Mom said was you are not taking care of my husband of 53 years the right way.).The Administrator was so awful I had to call police for the safety of my Mother. In Dad's file from there is said they called police,I have call sheet,they called DSS,I have the sheet,and so many more lies.
The states did nothing from Nursing home board ,nursing board, adm. board, NOTHING! They all called ana told them they were coming to inspect them.A huge violation.
the adm even called other facilities we wanted him in to not take him.
So if in Lenoir NC beware of this one facility it will kill your loved one.
Bad nursing homes
To see some "bad" treatment of individuals in nursing homes, one only has to go to the newspaper or court room. There are literaly thousands of cases in which a nursing home HAS been found negligent, a person has dies. Habana, a facility in Tampa, was spotlighted recently in a well-researched and documented New York Times article. This article, by the way, has been made part of the congressional record, by a Congressman truly interested in nursing home reform. There are national reform organization that can substantiate how bad the care can really get in a nursing home. Are they all bad. No. And it is not the "home" that is bad, generally fault lies with cost-cutting for profit corporations, lazy staff, or lack of consistencies in day to day care by nurses, and their ever-changing assistants.
the "worst" nursing home list
The "worst" list is a little misleading only
since there are thousands of homes that are not on the list, that deserve to be on the list. SO consumers and residents must know that just because the nursing home they are looking into is not on the list of the "worst" that does not mean the home is a "good" nursing home. It just means that possibly it did not make the list. We need to remind consumers that other nursing homes might possibly be "worst" even when not on the official list.
Hospitals and Bedsores
When are these same concerns about nursing homes going to be applied to hospitals? Where are the unannounced inspections of hospitals? As the Sept. 5, 2007 issue of the Wall St. Journal reports, about 15% of patients in our acute care hospitals are suffering from bedsores (pressure ulcers), yet hospitals are somehow immune to questioning.
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