Comments on: Nursing home sued for wrongful death of man with dementia

By: Nursing Home Abuse: Bill protects nursing home residents from signing arbitration clauses | Beasley Allen

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:10:52 +0000

[...] January, we told you about Cole, whose family had filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the nursing home where Cole lived for just [...]

By: Ajlouny

Ajlouny — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:24:53 +0000

Why is this happening. It's an assistant living facility, they should be diligent on taking care of these people.

By: Ajlouny

Ajlouny — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:24:53 +0000

Why is this happening. It's an assistant living facility, they should be diligent on taking care of these people.

By: Helen Taylor

Helen Taylor — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:22:50 +0000

Thank you for your thoughts. We especially appreciate comments from those who work in the field daily.

By: JEN

JEN — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:04:10 +0000

Healthbridge occupational therapy fraud is a growing concern to its rehab team.All patients are billed out as a medicare ultra high even if they dont need it.You must meet day 5 and 14 day minutes to keep upper management off your back.Therapists set a discharge date, as goals are meet.Managers ask us to extend orders to make the home more money.Patients are held their do to poor nsg/social service unwillness to discharge home.Its all about milking the medicare dollars.This goes on daily.I dont know why the state does not look at the therapy notes for progress .Medicare needs to look at the loop holes.I would like to see a 20 day cap put on short/long term care.Patients need to be medical stable before engaging in therapies.20 visits is a resonalbe time to meet goals in this setting.