Fifteen monhs at nureing home

gitrib · Nov 19, 2012

It has been fifteen months since I entered the nursing home to be with my wife. It has been a royal change. My wife has been here eight years. Getting use to all of the regulations is terrible. Yet stupidity runs wild. You do not have any control over your medication no doubt this is for the best. Your communications with the you doctor is through the nurse aide and R nurse. I f we managed a herd of cattle the way the y do heaven help us. Total inefficiency. Faulty equipment Lacking being repaired. So I jumped in swinging . Wrote to my State Representative Got a response from her and State Dept of Health. I responded by e-mail complete with camera phone pictures One was of my stool that was plugged for three straight weeks . Pictures do wonders. One week Later he place was invaded by man regulatory people Report just released Over 700 violations. It has been a battle. Children did not want me to pursue this for fear of retaliations. . Plumbers have been at work new heater installed in shower-room. I still get a glare from the administrator and a big smile from Aides & Nurses. So with a little fight left in me I have made a difference ,

Janicholson · Nov 19, 2012

Thank you for being an advocate for the people in that home. To believe all is well when it is not, or to be unable to feel empowered strongly enough to protest is the same complacency that fosters abuse. I and my wife donate time and energy to our senior center and it feels wonderful to be truly appreciated. Jim

David G · Nov 19, 2012

Great job standing up.

Hay_Man · Nov 19, 2012

Good for You gitrib! Go get um. I hope retaliation isn't too bad for you though. I read a response to a news article about someone the other day that said "what can I do, after all I'm just one person." I thought to myself: It only takes one person to make a world of difference. If everyone had that attitude, we all would be lost for sure. I stay in hot water, too, because I don't turn a blind eye to those things I can change. I see you don't either. Bravo!

Walt Davies · Nov 19, 2012

Ain't it wonderful what a cell phone with built camera can do.
Walt

larry@stinescorners · Nov 19, 2012

good to hear from you, keep up the good work! My mom was in a nursing home ,she passed away a little over a year ago. Luckily the one she was in had some very good caregivers and nurses,I just stopped by there the other day,I still stop in, I made a lot of friends there over the years,

Anonymous-0 · Nov 19, 2012

I hope you did this just before the Election, good timing.
But doesn"t the Health Department have a regime of periodical inspections.?

Adirondack case guy · Nov 19, 2012

Gitrib,
Good for you!!! Let'm know what is wright, and proper. They are taking your money to provide you and your wife with quality life services. Give them Hell.
Loren, the Acg.

flying belgian · Nov 19, 2012

If that glare from administrator gets to bold it is time for another letter. Sounds like he/she needs to be knocked down a notch or two. You need to be treated with respect. After all you are the customer. Your monthly payment is paying his/her salary. Dept. of health is keeping track of all comments on all administrators. To many black marks and out the door they go.

Badger bob · Nov 19, 2012

Good job were proud of ya. Bob

robgIN · Nov 19, 2012

Good for you ! Your actions helped everyone at that facility. Most likely there are some who can not take any actions for themselves and without someone like you they would suffer needlessly. Keep up the good work !

retired farmer · Nov 19, 2012

Doesn't seem like it has been that long since I read your post about moving in. Where does the time go? Glad to see you got things changed for the better. Best Wishes to you and your wife.

MarkB_MI · Nov 19, 2012

Good for you! I wish you had been in one of the nursing homes that allegedly cared for my mother. Stupidity and negligence bordering on criminality.

MarkB_MI · Nov 19, 2012

Oops, let me clarify: I wish you had been there to report those crooks; I wouldn't wish for my worst enemy to have been locked up in that ****hole.

SweetFeet · Nov 19, 2012

gitrib,
Good for you! I hope conditions will be much improved.

I'll bet nursing homes do not like patients who can use the internet and cell phones with cameras.

Paul from MI · Nov 19, 2012

Way to go Graydon. I just got apppointed to the board of our local county nursing home. If conditions like that are going on there I want it brought to my attention if I can't find it myself. Ours has a very good reputation, and has received several high honors statewide, but we all have to be vigilant to keep it that way. So I say good for you.

Rick Kr · Nov 19, 2012

The aides and nurses smiling says you did the right thing. They probably wanted to report things also, but feared retaliation.

Rick

samn40 · Nov 19, 2012

We think( over here in Northern Ireland) that the system is wrong...Old people should be put in prison and the convicts in old folks homes... That way the old folk would get 3 hot meals a day, 24 hour supervision, exercise, free dental care and eye tests their own room and their own TV and the cons could make do with being tied in chairs, with a limp sandwich and luke warm coffee in a place that smells of urine!
Hope you like my tractor pics, Gitrib, I took them for the people like yourself that cannot get out to the tractor shows as often as they would like. Keep it going man!
Sam

Wesley Stephens · Nov 19, 2012

I applaud you, sir. People who care for those who cannot care for themselves have too much riding on their action (or inaction) to not be held strictly accountable. It is a blessing for you and also for folks who cannot speak for themselves that you are vigilant and fighting the good fight. If they retaliate, they will be in even more trouble and I doubt they want that. As the old Statesmen tune goes "right will always win, truth will never fail..."

Vito · Nov 19, 2012

Thank you for standing up to the establishment.

Vito

tbish · Nov 19, 2012

get out find a better one

Wesley Stephens · Nov 19, 2012

Once he gets this one cleaned up he'd probably have to do the same thing at a better one.

HuskerMedic · Nov 19, 2012

Wife is a nurse; she spent the first several years of her career working in long term care.

State inspections here are largely a joke; the state would tell them when they are coming; on that day, there would be extra staff, etc. Once the state people were gone, it was back to the same old stuff.

Wife was told by another nurse they do this because if they did real inspections, the state would have to close down half the long term care facilities and there would be no place to put all the residents.

Maybe it's changed for the better; wife hasn't worked in long term care for fifteen years or so.

DeltaRed · Nov 19, 2012

Good Job Graydon!!!

Tim in OR · Nov 19, 2012

Glad you got results. My wife runs an Adult Foster Home in our home. She is one of the good ones, and hears that frequently. Unfortunately, We hear all too often the horror stories of other homes. We strive to make sure that our residents are treated with the utmost respect in our family like home.
I wish the same for you.
Tim in OR

MSD · Nov 19, 2012

Fifteen months already? Man, seems like yesterday you started posting form there. Hope your time there flies by as fast as mine does.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Nov 20, 2012

Graydon, from what you posted I would suspect that the company that owns the nursing home you are residing in has made a deal to sell it to someone else. I used to work on the maintenance staff at the local hospital, and the type problems you have described would get nailed sooner or later by an inspector, even if they were providing an incentive for him not to notice, and especially in larger nursing homes they do not want the publicity that comes with something like that. Having worked for a couple of larger companies that have sold off some properties to other companies, they seem to follow the same pattern. Everything is in good shape, etc. then once the paperwork is signed, there is a time lag, sometimes 2 or 3 months or more getting the necessary government approvals, and during that time there is no maintenance done or anything else that is not an absolute necessity. during this time, the customers (you) are the ones that suffer.

Nancy Howell · Nov 20, 2012

Good for you!

Mike M · Nov 20, 2012

Glad you got things improving and it sounds like the help is to !

To heck with the administrators !

I sure hope your computer doesn't disappear.

barnE · Nov 21, 2012

good for you and your wife and happy thanksgiving.

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