Nurtsing Homes should be a place where one can spend their twilight years in peace

I know there will be some who wonder what does this have to do with disabilities. Well it has everything to do with disabilities because this may be the only place where some of us may go when there is no one left to help take care of us. Therefore we should all, the disabled and the on-disabled alike, strive to make sure that nursing homes are places where, if the necessity arises, one can go to spend his or her last days in comfort instead of places where one is sent to die. It came to my attention that some nursing homes might not be places to spend your last days in comfort when my family was forced to place our elderly mother in such a facility. She spent exactly one week in this home and then was rushed to a hospital where she eventually died.

Now the home where we placed our Mother was supposed to be good in the treatment of patients who have COPD (Congestive Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). This turned out to be a farce because one day I discovered that my mother had been without her oxygen for a whole day simply because some supposedly qualified employee did not know how to correctly hook up her oxygen. Besides this the whole week that my mother was at this nursing home she complained that they fed her slop.

After my mother's death I discovered that many homes receive $176.00 dollars in government assistance to keep these invalid patients, yet most homes, even those with 100 or more beds complain that they do not have enough money to hire qualified personnel or to provide the quality care necessary for many of their residents.

Something's wrong here with the math. $176.00 X 365 day equals $62,240.00 dollars a year just for one patient. Multiply this by 100 beds and you get a paltry fee of $6,224,000.00 a year in government assistance. With this amount of money coming in why can't these homes afford to hire qualified help? Yet if you listen to them complain you would think that they don't get enough money to adequately insure that their patients receive the type of care that they disserve.

Where does the $6,224,000.00 go it has to be going some where but apparently it's not going into hiring qualified help which would insure that Nursing homes are not a place where one is sent to die.

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