My uncle was the to build his strength back up after a 7 day hospital visit at St. All. The lady that came in to interview my uncle in the hospital from Riverview was very nice and after talking to her with my Uncle about his condition and what our goals were she gladly accepted him. the next day (Thursday) they picked him up in a nice transport van (wheel chair accessible) and got him situated in his nice room with a beautiful view of the creek. (My uncle loved waking up and seeing a herd of deer every morning) come saturday morning I received a call from a nurse named JT. JT was less than welcoming and told me that my Uncle was not progressing in the right direction and would be having to go home monday morning (Gave us the 48 hour notice) and my family and I were caught off guard sense we have just got in there. How could they have seen that so fast? Granted my uncle was a cancer patient and we all knew his time was limited, but making progress in the hospital we figured he could continue making progress in the rehab facility to but some more time to live. I then get a call back sunday from another nurse after I complained saying that it was an error and she apologized. We were moving forward with rehab.
Come later that SAME after noon my sister gets a call from JT again stating that my Uncle would need to be taken home monday (2 days) due to lack of progress! Infuriated as I was I went in and then again was apologized to and that JT would be talked to about calling us any longer. My Uncle, having a clear mind still told me that he was infuriated with PT and staff for not listening to his request (He asked to be the last patient of the day as mornings he was pretty weak). They would accept but then ask him to do PT in the morning and when he would tell them he can't, and that he had an appointment for the afternoon they took it has him declining to do PT and was met with the nurse saying he has to go home if he is refusing PT.
My Uncle and I got fed up with it and we decided to leave the facility and return back home on Hospice as he given up. Once we told the nurse and staff thats when they finally got the Administrator involved who claims to have not known about any of this going and asked us to stay. we declined and headed for home.
Should have waited for a bed to open in Aspen where friends and others recommended. read more