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| - UPDATE: Since my father's March 4 admission, things went terribly wrong. I wish I could say that he got good care but the goulish way he was treated was awful. They pushed hospice like angles of death and didn't listen when we told them no. They wouldn't give him a feeding tube and nearly starved the man to death. They told us he had mersa one day, then the next told us they were wrong and acted like the infection in his blood was therefore non consequential. We knew Dad was not going to get better, but we did not want him to suffer and he suffered, calling out for food and water. We had to make food and bring it ourselves to try to help him. We even had to hire someone to help take care of him while he was there. Doctor Tacvarian was the worst! She told me he should go to hospice and I told her he couln't go unless he was inpatient. She said he could be but was wrong. So then we were trying to get him healthy enough to go to the Vetran's home. The Hospital did an eval and had him all set to go to some other one star nursing home we never approved! He could never emain stable long so they basically wanted to dump him when they could call him stable for 5 mintues. Tacvarian was being paged to my dads room and never came. We went to get a cup of coffee and she was sitting there doing NOTHING! I fiored her and she still showed uop in ICU when he had been out on Morphine to relieve his suffering and tried to argue with us STEALING THE LAST PRECIOUS MINUTES WITH OUR FAMILY!
My father died haveing starved and thirsted and been in agony for weeks that could have been prevented. But he wasn't worth it to them.
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Since my last review my father has been here several times. I still like the fact that it is fast to get in through the ER, but I do have a few concerns that I want to make known. Though I will say, some of it may just be endemic in what is an increasingly money oriented rather than care oriented medical system.
In February 2013 my father needed to go again for symptioms of fluid accumulation assicated with Congestive Heart Failure. he is diabetic and we brought a list of his medications with him. However, they once again ignored his diabetes and served him a general diet repleat with cookies and pudding. Despite my telling them every day, it persisted and when they discharged him to rehab, they failed to even mention his diabetes.
He was rushed back to the hospital after only being out of rehab for a week. He stopped breathing and sugar plummeted to 30. He was admitted and ventalated, in a light coma state for three days. Let me state that the nurses in ICU: Grace, LaTonia, Pat were great. They were attentive and knowledgable and caring. The medical team got him back and slowly he began to improve. He had fluid in the area outside his lung and they had to drain nearly 5 liters of fluid! It became obvious as we looked back that this problem existed even in his prior admission, but went unadressed on the general care floor he had been on. During rehab he constantly complained of shortness of breath. Who would be able to catch their breath with 5 liters of fluid pressing on their lungs!!!!! The ICU addressed everythign comprehensiely. They were worried about aspiration into his lungs due to swollowing problems and put him on a puree diet, no straws, thickened liquids only and eat upright with chin down. He was moved to intermediate and then the general care floor.When I arrived yesterday it was dinner. The aide was feeing him from an unthickend can of nitrition drink through a straw in a near prone position. When I directed her to the giant yellow sign on the wall with the eating rules on it she said he was doing fine. I told her she was not the one to make that decision and she needed to follow the orders of the therapist as approved by the doctor. She gave me push back and I told her to raise him up and that I would finish feeding him.
The day before that there was a can of ensure on his try. I asked for the dietician to come in and told her that every time he is here nobody seems to understand this man is a diabetic and that his condition is severe. She said they just give insulin when needed. I guess they dion't feel like huge swings in his sugar is detrimental to his wellbeing. I do. She agreed to remove the ensure and to talk to the doctor. But the issue persists with me addressing it on a daily basis with no relief. All the otehr care he is getting is great...but not the eating and diabetic part of it. Because of that, two stars wre removed.
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