So this woman saw her father in this nursing home for 6 months deteriorating and did nothing to help him? Some of the blame rests with her if she was not ragging on the nursing home about their care. How about moving him somewhere else for better treatment?
It’s all about the money. Where was she during this time? Did she see he was having problems and ask for medical attention? I have no medical background but have to wonder if he was not a healthy person to begin with if he died from complications due to dehydration.
As a former employee of Regency I can only say one thing. The reason I left Regency Employment as a nurse was because of the capricious manner in which their care teams management viewed the issues of intake and output compliance. All out attempts at cost saving and profit taking they discarded factual patient monitoring and in place of that put in electronic flow sheet charting that totally bypasses a major portion of the nursing process. Guess they better write the check. The State of Washington should also be looked at within the upper levels of State government as those nurse board members have failed to protect thousands of patients, age, race, gender, immaterial as their policies have allowed substandard care to be rule #1.
Glenn, apparently you have had little exposure to the nursing home system. If she were able to care for her father I am sure she would have. She probably relied on placement advisors from either a state agency or hospital, it is not about quality of care at that point, it is about who has a bed and how little the state or insurance company will have to pay. When you place a loved one in the hands of “professionals” employed by professional organizations you have a right to expect professional care.
Agent: Does the term talk to the hand mean anything to you? Many patients families have tried to raise quality of care issues with Regency only to be regarded as trouble makers and in some cases asked to leave a facility and in one I know of the facility obtained a restraining order, or would have had the patient not died unexpectedly on one dark night.
So this woman saw her father in this nursing home for 6 months deteriorating and did nothing to help him? Some of the blame rests with her if she was not ragging on the nursing home about their care. How about moving him somewhere else for better treatment?
It’s all about the money. Where was she during this time? Did she see he was having problems and ask for medical attention? I have no medical background but have to wonder if he was not a healthy person to begin with if he died from complications due to dehydration.
As a former employee of Regency I can only say one thing. The reason I left Regency Employment as a nurse was because of the capricious manner in which their care teams management viewed the issues of intake and output compliance. All out attempts at cost saving and profit taking they discarded factual patient monitoring and in place of that put in electronic flow sheet charting that totally bypasses a major portion of the nursing process. Guess they better write the check. The State of Washington should also be looked at within the upper levels of State government as those nurse board members have failed to protect thousands of patients, age, race, gender, immaterial as their policies have allowed substandard care to be rule #1.
Glenn, apparently you have had little exposure to the nursing home system. If she were able to care for her father I am sure she would have. She probably relied on placement advisors from either a state agency or hospital, it is not about quality of care at that point, it is about who has a bed and how little the state or insurance company will have to pay. When you place a loved one in the hands of “professionals” employed by professional organizations you have a right to expect professional care.
Agent: Does the term talk to the hand mean anything to you? Many patients families have tried to raise quality of care issues with Regency only to be regarded as trouble makers and in some cases asked to leave a facility and in one I know of the facility obtained a restraining order, or would have had the patient not died unexpectedly on one dark night.