New Update on Bob

[Guest guest]

Saturday was my husband Bob's 76th birthday. Saturday my husband Bob

was transferred to a third different Rehab Center this year for rehab

post second hip replacement surgery after the last SNF he was at for

Rehab pulled his hip out of the socket 3 months post op and it had to

be redone. Now he is in the care of another SNF. Discharged on

Saturday when there is no Director of Nursing there and staff was not

told anything about Bob. I stayed there all day yesterday. The PM RN

came to the Nurses desk last night when I went there to ask about the

chest x-ray results that they took at 2:00 PM because his oxygen was

only 82 on the pulse ox on arrival there. That RN did not even know

my husband was there as he was not on her list of patients. The CNA's

finally came in when I pulled the call light at 6:30 PM to request

they change him and do his peri care as he was not changed at all yet

since leaving the hospital at 9:00 AM. Bob was flushed and started to

run a low temp. The last ominous sign happened as I was going home

last night on my way past the nurses station I heard a male disabled

patient in a wheelchair with a tracheotomy ballihng out the RN for

allowing him to sit on the toilet for an hour after he pulled the call

light in the bathroom to get off. His words were, " There is no

organization here on weekends and nobody does their job! " This SNF

has a four star rating on the Medicare website. I cringed and felt

like crying as I left the building. I fear for Bob's life and know

that I cannot afford to private pay for a better place for him. Our

Medical system is broken, especially the care of the elderly, disabled

and the poor. I am feeling very bad about this.

Pat M.

Wife/caregiver of Bob 76 dx PD 2003, LBD 2009 now post second right

hip replacement surgery 4 days and in a Rehab Center