01/24/2013

The results of the meeting were that mom is not progressing and that is a medicare rule in order to stay in the 100 days. So they have deemed her a long term care patient but have no beds so she will have to be transferred to another facility as a Medicare patient. 

Then IF she can show progress there she can maintain the 3/15 date if not she will go on to medi-cal long term somewhere…. I could challenge the no progress rule and may do so. The fact that she has no teeth (for a month) thanks to the negligence of the hospital and cannot eat food enough to sustain her and thus she has no strength then she is not likely to participate in rehab very robustly. 

And on Jan 3rd, when she returned to the SNF, the doctor d/c her Ritalin, and meghase without my knowledge. So, how much can you expect a stroke victim to accomplish with out the meds they need? The second stroke happened on their watch when they d/c the aspirin b/c she was “bleeding” even after we found the bleeding source I had to tell them to start the aspirin stroke preventative again.

I did not appreciate having this “no progress” status sprung on us, it would have been nice to have been notified after the first week.  If you, Miki have been so on top of my mom’s condition then how is it that you first learned that her dentures were thrown away from me on 1/22?