Care Suffers as More Nursing Homes Feed Money Into Corporate Webs - Sensationalist Headlines

[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/business/nursing-homes-care-corporate.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=business&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Business Day&pgtype=article"]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/business/nursing-homes-care-corporate.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=business&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Business Day&pgtype=article [/URL] [QUOTE]MEMPHIS — When one of Martha Jane Pierce’s sons peeled back the white sock that had been covering his 82-year-old mother’s right foot for a month, he discovered rotting flesh. “It looked like a piece of black charcoal” and smelled “like death,” her daughter Cindy Hatfield later testified. After Mrs. Pierce, a patient at a nursing home in Memphis, was transferred to a hospital, a surgeon had to amputate much of her leg. One explanation for Mrs. Pierce’s lackluster care in 2009, according to financial records and testimony in a lawsuit brought by the Pierce family, is that the nursing home, Allenbrooke Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, appeared to have been severely underfunded at the time, with a $2 million deficit on its books and a scarcity of nurses and aides. “Sometimes we’d be short of diapers, sheets, linens,” one nurse testified. That same year, $2.8 million of the facility’s $12 million in operating expenses went to a constellation of corporations controlled by two Long Island accountants who, court records show, owned Allenbrooke and 32 other nursing homes. The homes paid the men’s other companies to provide physical therapy, management, drugs and other services, from which the owners reaped profits.[/QUOTE]

that first line :sick:

Fuck those nursing homes. It's like a lowkey prison.

Man this shit scares me. My grandma has dementia pretty bad (she hospitalized herself by eating spoiled food for a week straight and getting so sick she was critically dehydrated), so we've been looking at alternative care facilities, but then I hear about shit like this and don't want to put my grandma through that.

This is basically the story of almost all US business sectors, they're being sucked dry by these huge companies.

Someone should call Saul.

I personally work at one of these nursing homes, and we are critically short on employees due to a number of issues such as refusing to raise pay. The lower skilled jobs have people leaving monthly to be replaced by someone who will also leave a month later while the more skilled positions also do not have enough people but even worse the small amount they have left can't be fired or the residents will suffer more and so you have these extremely lazy, incompetent shitheads who don't give a fuck and arrive 30 minutes late to each scheduled routine. So at this point I try to help as much as much as possible but get depressed that I see gnats flying around different areas of the building in droves, messes that sit on the floor for multiple hours (and I try to mop even if it is not my duty but as said short on people means I am always short on time) and overall a terrible morale that infects everyone like a bad fart in a room. This also wears down the veterans as they have to deal with delirious patients on top of all this which can subconsciously build up a resentment towards certain residents who then get worse because they do not receive any love or attention. I want to get out so bad but I also don't want to just abandon the residents here as they can't put in a two weeks notice and leave. Best part is that mine isn't even considered the worst here in my city. Oh and also many of the families who put people here are aware of this, but caring for a human being that can't function on their own is a full time job in itself and becomes impossible for a lot of these people so they have to sit there and watch their parent scrape by on the cafeteria food we serve that is honestly less nutritious than most prisons. We're actually encouraged to tell them it is ok to die and to let go, which they say is part of psychologically preparing them for death but I still find it fucking disturbing even if it makes some sense.

[QUOTE=1chains1;53039361]We're actually encouraged to tell them it is ok to die and to let go, which they say is part of psychologically preparing them for death but I still find it fucking disturbing even if it makes some sense.[/QUOTE] Jesus Christ, I worked at a Nursing Home up until last week but that's pretty fucking grim.

[QUOTE=QueenSasha24;53039802]Jesus Christ, I worked at a Nursing Home up until last week but that's pretty fucking grim.[/QUOTE] Yea, their mindset was that by telling them to hang on they may prolong their suffering due to obligations to loved ones even if they may be ready to die. It supposed to be some kind of comforting technique? Like "there, there it's ok you dont have to fight if you don't want to, you can let go." But it is still very weird to hear even when explained in that way.

i think i would rather die than live in a nursing home

Nursing homes get flak here in Danmark too, but shit, our problems are nothing compared to peoples limbs rotting off from neglect. What the fuck is happening over there?

I'm actually starting school to get my CNA certificate here shortly, intent was to work an in old folks home because the starting pay was about 15.55 an hour and it was a stepping stone to going to nursing school.. but I feel like if I see one of my coworkers mistreating someones grammy or grampy, I'll probably deck a bitch

Care in the UK is circling the same shitter albeit we're not quite that deep yet, my mum works as a home help carer where she visits elderly clients and they've gone from being a council to a privately owned company. They still answer to the local council but it's a layer of oversight gone and they're slowly treating employees like shit. The same goes everywhere else, nobody wants wants to work in a nursing/care home for a garbage wage especially when you can get an easier and safer job at the local Aldi/Tesco/Morrisons/whatever for better pay. The government is fully aware of this yet still doesn't give that much of a damn or doesn't have the resources depending on which line you believe, though I find it convenient how they have money to waste on other pointless expenditures.

If my children ever put me in a nursing home I would disown them on the spot. Nursing homes are fucking nightmarish. I wouldn't even put my parents through that and I fucking hate my parents.

[QUOTE=1chains1;53039361]I personally work at one of these nursing homes, and we are critically short on employees due to a number of issues such as refusing to raise pay. The lower skilled jobs have people leaving monthly to be replaced by someone who will also leave a month later while the more skilled positions also do not have enough people but even worse the small amount they have left can't be fired or the residents will suffer more and so you have these extremely lazy, incompetent shitheads who don't give a fuck and arrive 30 minutes late to each scheduled routine. So at this point I try to help as much as much as possible but get depressed that I see gnats flying around different areas of the building in droves, messes that sit on the floor for multiple hours (and I try to mop even if it is not my duty but as said short on people means I am always short on time) and overall a terrible morale that infects everyone like a bad fart in a room. This also wears down the veterans as they have to deal with delirious patients on top of all this which can subconsciously build up a resentment towards certain residents who then get worse because they do not receive any love or attention. I want to get out so bad but I also don't want to just abandon the residents here as they can't put in a two weeks notice and leave. Best part is that mine isn't even considered the worst here in my city. Oh and also many of the families who put people here are aware of this, but caring for a human being that can't function on their own is a full time job in itself and becomes impossible for a lot of these people so they have to sit there and watch their parent scrape by on the cafeteria food we serve that is honestly less nutritious than most prisons. We're actually encouraged to tell them it is ok to die and to let go, which they say is part of psychologically preparing them for death but I still find it fucking disturbing even if it makes some sense.[/QUOTE] I've never worked [I]in[/I] a nursing home, but I've done work [I]for[/I] nursing homes related to air conditioning and venting, and I can confirm that unless it's some high-dollar establishment, they're hands-down the most depressing places I've ever been in. And this is coming from a guy who's done work for funeral homes. Even though none of the ones I've worked in appear to be anywhere as bad as what you're describing (that I've seen), the residents tend to have this look about them. Like they're alone, or worse, lost. Even though they're surrounded by people. [QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;53039838]i think i would rather die than live in a nursing home[/QUOTE] I've already made it clear to my friends and siblings that if I ever get to the point that I need to be put in a nursing home, then they should just shoot me. It'd be a hell of a lot less suffering on my part (I'd likely go mad if I couldn't see to do anything, or lose control of my hands, as I love to tinker and make things), and it'd be a lot less suffering on theirs, too, as they wouldn't have to watch me fall apart. It may sound morbid, but in my great-grandmother's final days, it was somewhat of a relief to me that she passed when she did, because I couldn't stand to see her suffer as she was, and I couldn't stand the thought of her ending up in a home, and neither could she. She was [I]very[/I] vocal about her opinion on nursing homes, and she wanted nothing to do with them.

If I ever get to that point where I'm literally just tooting around barely functioning in a home, just put me down. That's no way to live and I'd hate to even remotely deal with those situations. It's the same thing I tell everyone I love - if I become a vegetable just pull the plug. I refuse to be a burden on anyone, both financially and emotionally. Plus I'd hate to ever reach that state.

Nursing home are expensive [I]and[/I] utter shit, where the fuck does the money goes?

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;53039838]i think i would rather die than live in a nursing home[/QUOTE] I would rather die than loose my bodily functions, and become in capable of functioning on my own. More to the point that I'd want to donate my remaining working organs too than just let them decay doing fuck all for my barely functioning body.