Nursing homes are supposed to exist to care for the aging members of our society who are no longer able to care for themselves. They are supposed to be places of safety and security where our elderly loved ones can get the often extensive care that they need and the love and support of the staff that they desire. Unfortunately, these nursing homes have become less and less about the patient and more and more about turning a decent profit – or a more than decent profit.
One of the biggest drains on the finances of any business can be the employees, and the more highly trained and well educated these employees are, the more expensive they are to keep in employ.
A nurse is a highly trained medical professional, and are essential to the safe and proper running of a good nursing home. Unfortunately, the more focused these nursing homes get on money and on profit, the fewer nurses each shift seems to have until the remaining nurses are trying to do the work of twice their number.
These skeleton crews of nurses are simply unable to keep up with the demands of caring for our elderly relatives and for their invalid patients. They might find themselves taking shortcuts due to the nursing home’s negligence, desperately trying to keep up with the endless work of caring for people too old or too sick to care for themselves.
These nurses quickly become burned out, with many of them quitting or transferring into new fields to escape the physical and emotional stresses of working under these conditions.
The more nurses leave the nursing homes, the more the homes try to make do with fewer and fewer capable hands to do the work. These nursing homes become hotbeds of neglect and abuse, all in the name of turning a profit at the expense of the health and well being of the patients that the system was created to care for.
Nursing home patients are frequent victims of this terrible nursing home negligence, and little is done about the dangers that they face until truly horrible harm is done or patients die because of the negligence of the nursing home owners. Not only do exhausted and overworked nurses become more prone to aggressive or angry behaviors like neglect and abuse, but they also become prone to human error.
Incorrect medications or incorrect doses might be given by nurses who are working too many hours and doing too much work for their bodies to handle, causing painful complications and even death to the patients.
For too long, we have stood aside and hoped that the system would improve on its own, and the system has continued to get worse. As nursing homes realize that there are few to no consequences for behaving in a negligent fashion, they realize that they can get away with their terrible behavior without modification for the better. Occasionally one of them will get tagged with a lawsuit, however the huge profits that they have been turning help them to take care of settlements without any problems. The lack of consequences might even make them more bold in their negligent activities.
The time for letting these nursing homes get away with their neglectful behavior is over. It is up to us to stand up for the victims of these crimes of neglect and abuse and help the victims find their voices in the legal system. Anyone who has had to watch a loved one suffer from the aftermath of nursing home neglect or abuse knows the pain that they are going through.
It is time for these families to band together to stand up to the greedy nursing home owners and managers and make them stand accountable for their actions. The abuse will not stop until we stop it, and nursing home abuse lawyers can help us make this stand against the corporate profiteering mentality.
With the aid of a nursing home abuse lawyer, families of the victims of this terrible crime can make the nursing home owners pay for the suffering that they cause their patients through their negligence. They will be forced to deal with the consequences of their actions, and a big enough hit to their purses might even cause them to reconsider their impersonal and impractical approach to heal care for the elderly.
It is in our power to end nursing home negligence if only the families of the victims stand up and fight together for the justice that should be theirs.
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Would a nursing home assistant be likely to respond to a letter on behalf of an elderly man?First of all, I haven't seen or heard from my grandfather in years, as he doesn't really like our family. I wrote to him to make sure he's doing okay. He's unable to read and write. Would a nursing home assistant be willing to read/write for him?
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Nick Johnson is lead counsel with Johnson Law Group. Johnson represents plaintiffs in many states and focuses on injury cases involving Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect and Negligence. Visit http://www.topnursinghomelawyers.com or call 1-888-311-5522
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i live right across the street from this…it was amazing to watch…i know the info about it, message me
i live right across the street from this…it was amazing to watch…i know the info about it, message me
You have to be flexible…especially, in this type of economy!
Hospitals are not hiring at this time until the economy is improving and people are gaining back their health insurance. But if this is your choice…then good luck to you!
I really think this is wonderful of you…In the past I have worked at several Nursing Homes as a RN….Alot of the residents have depression, so its really hard to get them interested in anything….the thing is, don't give up on them…go and get them in their room and bring them to bingo…some are just very shy…good prizes are: plants for their rooms, lotions, soaps, shampoos anything that smells nice…go to the dollar store, they have alot of stuff that doesn't cost alot…the main thing is don't give up on them…one week they won't go and the next they are more than ready…God Bless you
Sweetie…you are a wonderful person for doing this….
I work in a nursing home (in Australia if you go on the waiting list for my home you could be offered a bed in one of their other homes in the area it can be up to a 2 year wait it depends on need of the person if they knock back a bed twice they will go back on the bottom of your list).
Ask your doctor,nurse & friends what the homes are like? would you put your parents there or if they are in one are they happy there?
You might want to talk to your parents about planing for it if the need arises. There are some very good nursing homes out there its just the few bad onesget the press!
Call around see if can get a tour of the home (also you could pop in when they dont expect you but do take a tour)!
some things to look/ask for
* How clean is it?
* Do they look happy there?
* How many to a room?
* Could husband and wife go in the same room?
* Try and see how the staff act with the residents!
* How much and what does that cover?
* Why should i pick this home?
* What actives do they offer (some will have an extra charge)
* Does it have a bus so they haave days out?
* Will they take them to appointments if you cant eg x-ray etc
* Do they take residents on hoildays (mine does)!
* Talk to staff & the people + their familys do the like there?
* Could they live there?
Most of all does it feel like a home not a nursing home?
Medicaid reimbursement RATES don't change.
However, if this is one corporation selling to another corporation, the new owner has to be approved to be a medicaid provider in order to get paid.
If there's no ownership change, and one stockholder just sold all their stock to another entity, then there's really no legal ownership change, and you don't need to do anything.
I'd check with a lawyer on this.
Yes, the patient is expected to pay for the nursing home, if he or she has the assets to do so. Many people transfer property and assets to avoid this issue.
The law has been that the transfer had to happen a year to a year and a half before the person entered the nursing home. However the recent Budget Reconcilliation Bill changes the ruling to a period to five years.
There is an article about it here: http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=128962
Some to lose Medicaid aid in paying for nursing home By DOUGLAS TURNER News Washington Bureau Chief 2/10/2006
"WASHINGTON – The days are over when Grandma or Grandpa could give their money to relatives, then, shortly thereafter, enter a nursing home with Medicaid picking up the tab. A bill President Bush signed this week requires a five-year wait for those wishing to employ this little-publicized but widely used practice. … While critics fear the new rules could hurt people of modest means, advocates say the changes will help erase the practice of wealthier seniors artificially impoverishing themselves so the government assumes their nursing home expenses."
click link for rest of the article – http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=128962
Of course you can, Never sign all assets over to anyone.
I've worked in either nursing homes or assisted living facilities for 20 years, and it's never been okay for staff to accept gifts from a resident or their family. I'd strongly suggest NOT giving a gift card — while the staff might take it gratefully (times are tough right now and you can hardly blame them), they are risking their job to do so. Accepting a gift that is intended for them only — cash, gift card, perfume, etc — is grounds for dismissal in EVERY place I've worked and every healthcare facility I've heard of. Fruit baskets, cookie trays, etc are often given, but I know one of the best "spreads" we got was from a family who brought in a bunch of really nice deli sandwich trays — enough for each shift to be able to enjoy.
Nursing home is different from Assisted Living. You only need to meet legal requirements for ALF if you want to get state or insurance money. Many seniors will happily rent a room from you and pay you additional for meals, various assistance that is NOT nursing. It could range from driving them to the store once a week to daily bathing and personal services. It depends what you want to do and what they need and what your home is set up to offer. Just be clear before they move in and have some kind of written agreement as well as a plan for what happens when they need more than you can give. You can't just throw them out on the street if they suddenly have a stroke or something.
Unless your dad has a long term care policy…then he's going to have to liquidate his assets to pay for his care.
Government programs (Medicaid/Medicare) have a look back period. So you can't hide dad's assets by putting them in your name.
And that's they way it should be. When Medicaid/Medicare pay for your dad's care…that money is coming from all of us through our taxes. I don't pay taxes so you can have an inheritance and you don't pay them so I can inherit when my parents die.
Your dad worked his whole life to acquire his assets. It is now time for all his hard work and his assets to be used to make sure he gets the best care he can afford. And he will get much better care as a private pay patient than a medicaid/medicare patient.
By the time your dad passes…hopefully he has had a long, wonderful life. He has had love and great care and his assets have been used to make sure he had everything he needed.
That's my wish for my parents. That they have long wonderful health lives. And when the time comes, I'll make sure to liquidate their assets and make sure they have top notch care. If all goes right…..mom and dad will have been well cared for…well loved and the only thing I'll be left with are the great memories and lessons learned from my parents. It's not my parents job to leave me an inheritance. It's my job to make my own way…provide for myself and work hard…so that when I am old I will have the resources I need to get the care I need.
Good Luck with your Dad.
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