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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 17 2005, 01:19 AM (85 Views) | |
| TexasShadow | Feb 17 2005, 01:19 AM Post #1 |
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More than a year after Sarah Nome was deemed healthy and given her discharge papers, the 82-year-old woman stubbornly refuses to leave her hospital bed. Nome admits there is no reason she should be racking up unpaid medical bills — which have now topped $1 million — but says she has nowhere else to turn. Now Kaiser Permanente's San Rafael Medical Center in California is suing her for the cost of her stay and trying to show her the door. ______________ for the rest of the story, read the article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...spital_eviction my question is: why have they waited a whole year? I'd have had her out long before this. |
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| cmoehle | Feb 17 2005, 05:50 AM Post #2 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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Sounds selfish. Why doesn't the daughter do something? Isn't that the real problem. |
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| TexasShadow | Feb 17 2005, 02:36 PM Post #3 |
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sounds to me like the lady is being pretty selfish herself, and maybe that's why her daughter isn't helping. |
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| sylley2000 | Feb 17 2005, 04:43 PM Post #4 |
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Her daughter may not have any control over her Mother. Her Mother can do whatever she likes as long as she is sane. And no one can force her to submit to a physiatric evaluation if she doesn't agree to it. Glad she's not my Mother. I doubt that she would accept living with her daughter who has probably offered that as a solution in the past. Don't know what the laws are in the States about forcibly being transferred to a Seniors Residence, but here in acute care hospitals, after acute treatment time has passed, she would be given a choice of paying for her treatment or transferring to a facility that would be covered by alternative sources. There would be no ifs, ands and buts about it. She could object all she likes, but she would be moved. Sylvia |
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| cmoehle | Feb 17 2005, 05:23 PM Post #5 |
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I guess it could be the mother. I read it as there's nowhere left to go, she has no one, so the daughter--family--should be there. |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 17 2005, 10:22 PM Post #6 |
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If there is nothing wrong with her, and she can't go back to the nursing home, then she should be transferred to another facility, wether she likes it or not. Just because she wants to stay in her home county is not sufficient reason for her to stay in the hospital. I would think that the very act of refusing to leave the hospital for a year, and refusing a psycological examination would be a good indication that she is a bit off her rocker. How good you refuse an interview under these circumstance. An, uncooperative attitude would actually be part of the evaluation. |
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| sylley2000 | Feb 17 2005, 10:40 PM Post #7 |
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She didn't refuse a psychiatric examination,
Sounds to me like she passed with flying colours. Sylvia |
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| TexasShadow | Feb 17 2005, 10:45 PM Post #8 |
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she's not psychotic. she simply doesn't want to live in a nursing home. |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 17 2005, 10:53 PM Post #9 |
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Gee, that's unfortunate. I'm sure lots of people don't want to live in a nursing home, but it's their only alternative. But, that's no reason for the medical system to absorb $1 million for taking care of her. She should be evicted ASAP. |
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| cmoehle | Feb 18 2005, 06:07 AM Post #10 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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She has no where to go because she's suing the nursing home for sending her to hospital.
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| brewster | Feb 18 2005, 08:27 AM Post #11 |
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You have to add the qualifier that she can't live in THAT nursing home. She doesn't WANT to live in one a little further away. I'd be booting her... |
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