Home Health Care/ Organizations

nancynurz · Nov 27, 2004

Call your state ombudsman. I know there are times when the nursing home has to take him back. They cannot discharge him without making arrangements for further care needs-- your dad was dumped! If he is not doing well and home health can't come out due to lack of physician coverage, you can always go back to the start and use the ER. The home health campany was not supposed to accept the admission without confirming there was a primary care physician to sign their orders for service. We NEVER use the facility doctor unless an appointment has been set up to see the primary or for a visiting physician. Depending on the type of MRSA and the teaching that was done for you, the family, you are all at risk of infection! You should be able to find the number for the state hotline on his facility paperwork.

stn2003, RN · Nov 27, 2004

honestly, if he has a three stage sacral wound, MRSA, and the nurse is only coming in twice a week, I would take him to the ER and have him admitted for wound care, then have the physician at the hospital write the scripts necessary for the home care nurses or other help to come in more often.

stbernardclub · Nov 27, 2004

good point...can i ask why he was discharged from a nursing home?I can see a skilled or rehab facility, then home to homecare, but why a nursing home?

Call your state ombudsman. I know there are times when the nursing home has to take him back. They cannot discharge him without making arrangements for further care needs-- your dad was dumped! If he is not doing well and home health can't come out due to lack of physician coverage, you can always go back to the start and use the ER. The home health campany was not supposed to accept the admission without confirming there was a primary care physician to sign their orders for service. We NEVER use the facility doctor unless an appointment has been set up to see the primary or for a visiting physician. Depending on the type of MRSA and the teaching that was done for you, the family, you are all at risk of infection! You should be able to find the number for the state hotline on his facility paperwork.

LisaG21 · Nov 27, 2004

It was a nursing home, but the rehab part, sorry I should have made that clear. And I don't know if it is possible well I guess anything is possible butI can't put him back in the hospital, he will hate all of us for it, he hasn't been home in 2 years and this is his first time back and he refuses to go back, he said he would rather die. I'm only nervous about the mrsa because my mother is immunocompromised from a lung ttransplant but everyone keeps telling us it is fine, however when I work in the hospital we gown and glove. I just feel like this is horrible. I don't know. I hate the health care system, and if this is how it works and if this is what I am going to onload to families I don't want to be a nurse. :angryfire