It’s Wednesday 11/1. My mom was taken to the hospital on Monday 10/30. She’s been at a nursing home since June. She has breakthrough seizures that require hospital stays. 4 so far. Each one she has gone to the hospital, her bed has been held and she goes back after getting discharged. This time however they gave her room to a new patient and placed her things in a storage closet. Now they want to just say they don’t have a bed for her, sorry. I really don’t want to have to move her. She got along with the nurses. Her roommate. Her hospital is 3 minutes away. She has anxiety. Change in environments and routines increases her anxiety. Any thoughts on what I should do to fight this? She hasn’t been discharged yet. So I have some time, but not much. Her doctor seems ready to discharge. Mom is eager to go back as well.
Honestly, a NH that would do this to an elder is just cruel. Forcing such a big change on her is very detrimental to her....what a lousy place!
But the NH probably has a good reason.
Think about it from their point of view. Their options are:
1. Disrupt your mother's living situation by, in effect, evicting her. Disrupt her room-mate's routine. Piss you off. Make the aides feel bad. Give the hospital, their near neighbour, an admin. headache and behave in a way which is not good PR. Acquire a new resident of unknown quantity in terms of care needs and socialisation skills.
or
2. Hold the room for your mother. They continue to receive her fees but have no work to do while she remains in hospital. No reason they shouldn't be happy with that - unless there is some other factor at work.
So since they have gone for option #1, which seems by far the less attractive and profitable, there must be some additional factor. Have you had a conversation with them about what it might be?
Now that I think about it, it was rather odd to have this deposit since my Mom was self-pay and paid on time. Could be extensive Administration work involved every time a patient leaves a nursing home for the hospital.
(My wife's bed at her NH was given to a new patient while she was in the hospital.
She was on Medicaid.)
Grace + Peace,
Bob
If she is on Medicaid (in Missouri) the facility is required to hold the bed for three days providing the facility is 97 % full. If she is in the hospital past the three days, Medicaid will not pay anything and if the facility is full the resident goes to the top of the waiting list to come back.
If she is private pay most facilities require the resident/or their family to pay for the bedhold. The home is required to ask you if you want to pay for bedhold or not. If they don't then they can't charge you for bedhold. If you have already paid for the month then that would cover the cost of the bedhold. Bedhold is generally the cost of room and board per day.
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