Latest update on Mom is that she was moved to a Rehabilitation Facility yesterday afternoon, however English Oaks where we wanted her to go, would not take her The only thing that the Discharge Planner said to us was that "English Oaks is not willing to take her because of the feeding tube, Parkinson's and *slight* dementia." Neither Dad or I can figure out why in just a matter of 4mths, that her Parkinson's & dementia is a problem. She was just released from there July 23rd and she was doing GREAT !!
So, the discharge planner had come up with 2 other alternatives and luckily I had a Dr appointment Thursday, because my primary Dr has been my Mom's Dr for about 20 yrs. He told me that the 2 alternatives were, and these are his words, "Death Traps!!!!!" So I went online and found another facility not to far away and asked that they check and see if they would take Mom. They did accept her, but again the bed vacancy problem came up.
I am NOT thrilled with this facility, but realize that it is better than the others they wanted to ship Mom off to. Dad and I have a meeting on Monday with the Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapist, and Dietitian to go over Mom's course of care. In the meantime, while Mom is at Evergreen, I intend to go to English Oaks and ask them WHY they would not accept Mom since she still has the same problems she did in July
Mom is doing a lot more talking, holding her own drinking glass & drinking from it, and moving all her limbs on her own. So the next few steps will be to get her working on feeding herself and strengthening up her leg and arm muscles, so she can go back to using her walker.
Again, words can not express the gratitude of all the thoughts, prayers and that have been sent to Mom, Dad and myself
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Lyn
Thanks for the update.
Death Traps was actually the name of a place?
No, not at all But as far as the Doctor was concerned, their names might have well been that. Both places have had numerous deaths due to lack of staffing and the Medical Group, Sutter Gould, will NEVER place ANY of their patients in either facility.