It’s called “dumping” and it’s not legal.
If her condition ain’t life threatening but she needs care, she not going to assisted living or even a nursing home. They are entirely different things.
If it’s one thing I’ve learned about health care and levels of service since March , it’s nothing like one would even think you know.
I’m still not grasping all the querks.
Today it took 3 nurses to get her to wake up. Then I had to help her eat.
By telling her to chew. And keep chewing.
And I had to help her drink, by telling her to close her mouth on the straw and suck, and to keep going. Eventually she just stopped.
They transferred her to a "skilled nursing rehab facility".
I got there with her clothes and saw that there is no railing on the bed. And no bed alarms.
I told them to lower it as far down as it will go, about a foot & a half from the floor, and they put body pillows under the sheet to kind of hold her in. And they said they'd put gym mats on the floor.
Then they kicked me out because there's a 14 day covid quarantine, no visitors, even though she has consistently tested negative.
She was crying as they were literally pulling me out of the room.
I got in the van and hauled ass back to the hospital but the social worker had gone home. The nurses on her floor all told me that bed rails are illegal in nursing homes in Illinois because they're considered a restraint. And soon they'll be illegal in hospitals in Illinois too.
They were supposed to take her to Chicago in the morning for an outpatient MRI that I demanded but they aren't going to do it because it would require an ambulance and it would cost $800 each way and the rehab facility would have to pay for it.
I'm going to call the neurologists in Chicago tomorrow and see if they will order a transfer back up there. Something is definitely wrong but they keep acting like this is normal.
