Sunday, January 31, 2010
Will there be the "right" place
With every visit to the "rehab" facility I get more frustrated. It would be really nice if I could get them to do things MY way. I am not sure that this is the right place for him. I wonder, though, if I will be happy with any place charged with caring for my daddy. They have only done OT and PT evaluations in the last 4 days. Therapy has not begun yet. They didn't have orders for speech therapy and no was was following up on that. He has aphasia, what are they waiting for. Apparently for me to tell them to get the order done. They have him in a shared room where the remote control changes both televisions and both phones ring to the same extension. Okay so if you have a confused patient why would you place him in a room where any one would get confused. They have no regular schedule for him so he never knows what is happening next. He can only shower two times a week. He doesn't know what day of the week it is or when he might get to shower next. Maybe a visual schedule would be nice!!!! Okay so aren't these people trained to work with patients who have cognitive difficulties? The contact people aren't responding to my emails. There isn't one contact person to speak to. Talk to the therapist about schedule, talk to the nurse about orders, talk to the MA about medications. They don't make following his care very easy for the family. Yesterday he stayed in bed all day. He was still in his pajamas when I arrived at 10:30. He was free to do what ever he wanted which was lie in bed. He won't get better that way. He could have done that at home!!! When I asked about his schedule for the day they said he was free to participate in the activities happening around the facility. I asked if he knew what the activities were, and they said all he had to do was ask an aid. Okay do they remember that he has aphasia, he gets confused, his memory is not yet recovered. Trust that I will be looking into other facilities. When we moved from the hospital the questions were about insurance, space etc. I now have a new list of questions regarding quality of services.
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