According to a US Health and Human Services report, more than 90% of US nursing homes were cited for federal health and safety violations in 2007. The most commonly cited deficiencies concerned quality of care measures, including treatment and prevention of urinary tract infections and bedsores. As well, 43% of homes were cited for problems with dietary services. HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson said, “In 2007, for-profit nursing homes averaged 7.6 deficiencies per home, while not-for-profit and government homes averaged 5.7 and 6.3, respectively.” Have you had a personal experience with nursing homes? Share your opinion. Read more.
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Dr. Steven Chang, the author of DailyDose, is a staff physician with Kosmix RightHealth. Dr. Chang practices Family Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where his medical interests include both pediatric and geriatric care, public health, gay and lesbian health, and sleep medicine. Dr. Chang trained at the Stanford University affiliated O'Connor Hospital, and was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health. He holds an M.D. from McGill University and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 am
My husband’s mom was taken to a brand new beautiful nursing home close by. When we checked on her (during our lunch break) she had a nice tray of food, coffee, etc. there by her bed. Only trouble was that she was unable to feed herself, so there she lay, hungry. We were told there were no extra aides to feed her. She was removed from that facility. My own mother was put in a nursing home. She was bathed once a week, but diapers not changed and she was not turned in her bed, so there were pressure sores that would not heal. One evening she was being undressed for bed.The aide went to the closet, leaving the rails down on the bed. She lay unconscious for weeks and then died without waking up, after falling out of the narrow bed. Needless to say I don’t care much for nursing homes. Now that I am old, I’m saving up my pain pills for do-it-yourself euthanasia, if the government doesn’t do it first. Another thing that bothers me is that the primary visited once a week, signed the chart, but did not visit my mother. Why? Do you think they might gas us like in the camps?
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I feel exactly as Betty does. Since I have been in the medical field for the past 30 years I have developed a distaste for the medical profession to the point that I am no longer working in it.
My mother who had mini strokes for years was doing well until her
last episode while in a nursing home. She had a fall while being
helped out of bed by a “so called nursing aide” and it wasn’t reported. My mother told my sister, with great difficulty and only then was she examined. She complained that she couldn’t
swallow, she didn’t say that she had a sore throat or that she had a cough. T
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
The physician taking care of her in the nursing home, Dr. Deepak Setia is nothing but a money hungry crook and shouldn’t have a medical degree. My sister was in the room with my mother when he
visited her. He did not check her throat with a light and tongue
depressor but yet prescribed a cough syrup and an antibiotic. He also claimed to have seen her many more times than he actually did.
This symptom she experienced was one of a stroke, one which would
be considered a major stroke which caused her throat muscles to
fail making it impossible to eat or drink. Of course she wound up
dehydrated, had placement of a feedng tube, which she didn’t
want, as I am well aware of, being her health care proxy, but beinggi
told different diagnoses by the physicians in the hospital were she
was transferred we thought that by some miracle she would overcome
this symtom and be the loving mother she was. My mother died on
New Year’s Day, January 1, 2008 at 85 in the hospital afew hours
after my sister and I left. I feel with all my heart that this
should not have happened to her and the biggest mistake was letting
her placed in a nursing home (Dry Harbor N.H.) in Queens, NY for
an alleged 2 week rehab stay which began in the beginning of Oct.
2007. At 84 years old, the previous year she was still working
full time and still enjoyed life. I will never forgive the people
involved with my mothers death. They are not caregivers, they are
takers and I will never be placed in a nursing home and I would
rather be given wings and go on to a better place than “exist”
in a death hole. I miss her so much.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:45 am
I understand how you feel. I put my mother in a half a dozen nursing homes and decided I could not allow these people to abuse her so I took her home and had aides help me with her. These places should be condemmed, they are all alike, they are under staffed, under paid and very cruel. I would rather be dead than be in a nursing home.
November 19th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I WENT IN A NURSING HOME LAST YEAR AND THE FIRST THING THEY DID WAS PUT ME I A DIAPER EVEN THO I WAS CONTINENT
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:12 am
Undoubtably, the listed dames are gorgeous but these ones are sluts. Just see Tressie Dewalt http://bit.ly/9sv7b