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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 59627" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>Let me add my experience as a long term care nurse. I worked in county nurseing home for 10 years. (I also worked Hospice and Alzheimers) </p><p>It was not uncommon for us to have to send patients to the hos[ital. Ones that had had strokes or were paralyzed. They would return to our nurseing home in deplorable condition, saying that the hospital staff would not feed them, turn them etc. The paralyzed patients nurses at hospital would bring food trays, and set them on the bedtable and walk out without offering assistance. </p><p>AT that time it was also common to send ALzheimers patients to a psychiatric unit for medication adjustments on their psychiatric medications. Sadly, the psychiatric unit had no clue what to do with these poor elderly patients. </p><p></p><p>And do not for one minute think that just becuz a hospital discharges someone and sends them home that they are ok enough to be home. I had an aunt several states away who was wheelchair bound and blind, but she did live home alone with in home help 4 hours a day. She lived in very rural MN. She was insulin injection dependant, but needed the in home help to fill her syringes with her 3 types of insulin. She had to have abdominal surgery, and 3 days later the hospital tried hard to discharge her to HOME (alone) in spite of in home care not being set back up. </p><p>My husband was in ICU at VA hospital at the time my son was at univ hospital for his eye surgery. The VA decided to discharge my husband, who had sepsis, and was psychotic even tho I was 5 hours away at another hospital. When I did not come to pick him up- they sent him home, in Nov (winter) in a hospital gown via cab- (90 mins away from his hospital) </p><p></p><p>Not long ago, CNN had a story about a lady at a hospital I think in CA? SHe was in the ER and collapsed? Her husband called 911 for an ambulance becuz noone from hospital tended to her, but the dispatch said no sir, she is already AT a hospital ER. A little bit later another patient in the ER called 911 to try to summon help for the collapsed lady, but she was told the same thing. The lady died on the floor of the ER.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 59627, member: 1697"] Let me add my experience as a long term care nurse. I worked in county nurseing home for 10 years. (I also worked Hospice and Alzheimers) It was not uncommon for us to have to send patients to the hos[ital. Ones that had had strokes or were paralyzed. They would return to our nurseing home in deplorable condition, saying that the hospital staff would not feed them, turn them etc. The paralyzed patients nurses at hospital would bring food trays, and set them on the bedtable and walk out without offering assistance. AT that time it was also common to send ALzheimers patients to a psychiatric unit for medication adjustments on their psychiatric medications. Sadly, the psychiatric unit had no clue what to do with these poor elderly patients. And do not for one minute think that just becuz a hospital discharges someone and sends them home that they are ok enough to be home. I had an aunt several states away who was wheelchair bound and blind, but she did live home alone with in home help 4 hours a day. She lived in very rural MN. She was insulin injection dependant, but needed the in home help to fill her syringes with her 3 types of insulin. She had to have abdominal surgery, and 3 days later the hospital tried hard to discharge her to HOME (alone) in spite of in home care not being set back up. My husband was in ICU at VA hospital at the time my son was at univ hospital for his eye surgery. The VA decided to discharge my husband, who had sepsis, and was psychotic even tho I was 5 hours away at another hospital. When I did not come to pick him up- they sent him home, in Nov (winter) in a hospital gown via cab- (90 mins away from his hospital) Not long ago, CNN had a story about a lady at a hospital I think in CA? SHe was in the ER and collapsed? Her husband called 911 for an ambulance becuz noone from hospital tended to her, but the dispatch said no sir, she is already AT a hospital ER. A little bit later another patient in the ER called 911 to try to summon help for the collapsed lady, but she was told the same thing. The lady died on the floor of the ER. [/QUOTE]
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