Veronica1228 said:
Hey there Blondie. Sorry I didn't respond to you earlier, but I had a fully packed Saturday. I was really hoping that Bonnie would be able to come back and give us an update, but apparently her hands are still full. I imagine they will be for a while. I just hope she is okay.
By the way, Blondes are being disparaged on a thread in the Auto Accidents and Vehicle Claims Forum. I think they're just jealous.
Hey all, just had a chance to check in. Sorry it's been so long, but Verionica sure had it right. But one thing at a time, right? Did all the legwork, complaint checking, first visits, etc, and narrowed down my choices to three homes, thanks to all your input. My oldest brother came into town yesterday and I then took him to the three to get his impression.
My younger (estranged) brother came into town today and older bro took him to same home. Amazingly, (and this is almost impossible in my family), we all three agreed on the same home. Yay!
Now, the other crudola that I've been going through. Although I handle all my mothers affairs, a letter somehow went to her address from Medicare requiring she tell them who her designated physician was. She never responded (there's a reason I handle her affairs
). So they randomly assigned her a Dr. Although she nor I had ever met this Dr., he was in charge of her care upon admittance to the hospital. I did not like this Dr. from the first time we spoke upstairs, after admitting from ER. I told the advocate/caseworker this and she told me I certainly had a right to fire him, but good luck finding another Dr. to take her in this condition that took Medicare.
I started asking around about this Dr., thinking I was a little frazzled and could have been wrong in my impression. I have a few friends that have been at this hospital for over 20 years so I started with them. "Oh, no, Dr. XYZ, you've got to find Momma another Dr. I'm surprised he still has his license." The same kind of comments followed from nurses, home administrators, the admissions office, etc. Matter of fact, yesterday, the nursing home that he has his office and practice out of was shut down by DHS for having 120 violations, per the avg of 8.5 He's not on staff at the hospital, just the designated dr for the "Alliance" my mom was randomly assigned by Medicare.
So I took things logically. If Mom HAD responded, who would have been designated dr? Ahh, her GP, Dr. ABC. Find out Dr. ABC closed her practice 4 months ago and all her patients and files were transferred to Dr. Zhivago, who as it happens, is also my family's physician. Wow, great! Call Dr. Zhivago's office and explain what's happening, they look in computer and confirm that Mom is indeed in the system as Dr. Zhivago's patient. You're sure right? I ask. Absolutely, I'm reassured. Go ahead and tell Dr. XYZ that Mom is now Dr. Zhivago's patient. Advocate called dr to tell him he was replaced Thurs about 5:15.
Called Dr. Zhivago's office Friday morning to confirm Zhivago was seeing Mom that day and was told Dr was on vacation til Monday and that the employee I talked to Thurs was new and didn't now what he was talking about. Dr. Z would decide on Mon whether he would "accept" Mom (meaning, do I want another Medicare patient). Sorry, we'll let you know on Mon. Spent a half a day calling every dr in county trying to find one to take her. No luck. So now Mom has NO Dr. I've got to rehire the pariah until I find out what the other dr decides Monday. One of the homes we were looking at refused to even accept a patient of Dr. XYZ because they didn't want him in their facility. I am not kidding about what I've heard about him!
I'm sorry if this is long, just wanted to update all, and since I don't know when I'll be back wanted to thank you all for your good wishes, thoughts and insight. You're really helping me through this. Bless Y'all!
And, Doc, I knew you'd show up sooner or later. I'm just wondering where Hot Toddy's been. Did he get in trouble with his wifey or something.
