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AVOID AVOID AVOID and if you can't -- watch them 16 hours a day.
They deliver breathing treatments and anything highly billable with such stunning impeccable accuracy....its AMAZING!!!!
However? They can't help put people on toilets (its a clue Blue! Get your crayons!)
Nor do they track intake of water, write down if the patient has had water, keep track of when the last time the patient voided or if they're not voiding at all.
They act like the nursing and care side of their money machine is secondary to the Rehab needs of their clients.
Too bad an 8 ounce cup of water isn't billable at 500.00 a pop.
Maybe The respiratory therapist - should be assigned a shadow aid to go with her on her rounds and pour water and get people on the toilet:
She's the only person I ever encountered doing any hands on delivery of care to our bed bound patients.
My dad's roommate stunk so bad from rotten food impacted under his dentures, thrush tongue, sour head and stinky bm bottom and rotten slimy food in his overgrown beard and onion armpits-- I bathed my dad and then
Bathed Him. The man was delirious with relief. No bath in 3 Weeks. Oh.... And we changed his gown covered with food AND his sheets which had spilled urine from his 'bottle'.
So, I get in there and do their jobs for them then suddenly they're ALL over it. I said "are you sure you're Ok to do this? If you couldn't smell this from the doorway
four days ago you might want to get scanned for a brain tumor."
Yes it was catty. I should have gone LION on them. I thought from the man's condition he was a homeless Medicaid guy banking a bed. No. Engineer with a hip replacement.
Lazy staff with RN degrees only want to do fancy 45.00 an hour RN things and sit in chairs documenting it while talking about vacations right? but nursing is about the ENTIRE patient. 90% of your patients needs are practical supportive care. Washing, bathing, toileting, SKIN CARE!!!, 10 % is the technical side.
WHEN The staff came in to help me do their jobs when I asked for a third bed bath set up because it took twice the amount of supplies to clean the encrusted bm off his bottom I used the opportunity for staff training. Why not.
Because HEALTH SOUTH ADMINISTRATION who's reading their one 1 Star review horrified? (And thinking 'hey, we gotta get our family members who yelp! To write some good reviews to quash this one? Yes you'll do it because corporate? Is going to chew you like a bone...) you never know who that family member is you're discounting.
So GET THIS:
No amount of drugs or physical therapy can overcome the basics of healthcare: hydration and elimination.
Garbage In. Garbage Out. 24/7.
So, Look at it like this: LTC & Rehab clients? your geriatric patient is their Golden Goose Slot Machine. The more expensive treatments they can slather on the happier they are. But can they help people shave and keep them clean, semi washed off and deliver water?
Why no. Not really.
There's no $$$ in THAT part of patient care.
User BEWARE. Health South's OTHER favorite money making game is stepping in medically (uninvited and without permission) and acting As MPOA's calling in Doctor whoever to do what ever and not informing family.
Family who MIGHT KNOW what's going on....
Despite the HUGE sign over the head of the bed to "Contact Guardian of ANY change in medical status."
Will they call you? Oh sure. After they've let your family decline for 19 hours straight rotating their fingers out their collective and RIGHT as they decide the full bed isn't worth a death on their watch --- because that's a lot of paperwork. But, yes.
They'll call you when they've successfully blown your family member's entire survival window...Maybe.
Or the ER will call you for them.
In our case, my dad out their back door to St. Rose's ER at midnight. But if I'd been alerted? I'd have been smart enough to pre qualify St. Rose to see IF THEY ACTUALLY HAD A BED in ICU where my dad belonged with ICU level of care.
Health South Rehab sells its shabby care wares partially on the Proximity of St. Rose Hospital a block away..... But St Rose is a war zone in the ER. No beds is a frequent song they sing. If you think a loved one needs admitting? Call First. If no bed? Keep calling.
Both St Rose & Healthsouth could stand some serious accountability for the numbers of employees it takes to successively, continuously make mistake after mistake.
Don't go here if you need any type of supportive nursing care with your rehab. If you do? Hire a sitter. This facility is eaten up with primadonnas who like nurse pay but arent interested in earning it.
dehydration in an 1800.00 a day bed is unforgivable.
But as I was told: "well, he's old."
It will be your turn one day. Tread carefully.
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