Slow Death Inside Of Nursing Homes

Slow murders and quick murders inside of nursing				- BRING this to their attention, and ask that a
homes:				committee be formed. Have that committee
Please note there is an extremely important				arrange to go inside of nursing homes and into
update to this article, at the end of the article. If				physical rehabilitation and care centers. Have them
you are any way involved in living in or visiting a				write and or call and ask for permission to bring
nursing home or rehabilitation and care center, or				visitors and programs inside of the facilities.
if you have friends, relatives or co-workers inside				- Organize holiday concerts or programs that you
of one of these places, it is vitally important that				can bring in during regular days, weekdays and
you read this complete article and the				weekends into any of these residences.
ultra-important update at the end of the article.				- Approach your local nursing homes and rehab
What is happening inside of our nursing homes and				centers and tell them that you want to help the
inside of our physical rehabilitation centers today				residents become connected on the internet so
would shock the average person. Right now,				they can contact their families which are usually in
today, while you sit in your comfortable home				other states or countries.
reading this, someone your age, someone of your				- BRING as many visitors as you can bring in to
background is suffering at the hands of				visit these patients and residents, (Ask permission
unscrupulous staff in nursing homes and in physical				from relatives and then sign in at the security
rehabilitation and care centers right in your own				desk of the nursing home. Tell them what you
city.				are there for and they should lead you to where
Just recently a friend of mine from across the				you are due).
country called me to tell me that her mom was				Why You Would Want to Help:
put into a hospital due to bedsores. The				Here is what we observed while visiting a physical
home-health care agency that was in charge of				rehabilitation and care center in the United States:
trying to help her and keeping her safe, neglected				- Have you ever noticed that when the
to turn her or move her every two hours and as				supervisors knew that visitors would be coming
a result of that neglect, this woman was				into the place, there seemed to be a 'mysterious'
hospitalized when the bedsores got so bad they				burst of extra employees and extra care and
were life-threatening. Would you think that a sore				extra attention to residents while the visitors
could be life-threatening.? Yes, and this is especially				where inside the building. On ordinary days, when
so to seniors, fragile , ill people and to disabled				there usually was a lack of care or negligence due
people. This woman recently died. And she died				to lack of staff or missing staff or staff that just
not from illness, but from needing to be				wasn't there or staff that was overworked --
hospitalized due to horrible bedsores.				that was the situation, but somehow , when the
What permits this to go on? Sometimes it is				visitors were inside the building, there was an
indifference but most times what permits the				abundance (compared to regular days) of staff
abuses to go on is that people are not aware that				and everyone "seemed" to be attentive to
this is happening. This article brings it to light,				residents and nicer to residents because they
brings it to your attention and begs your				were putting on the "show' for the public.
participation in changing things for better and asks				- Have you ever noticed that once the visitors
you to take small steps to save a life today.				left the building (most visitors left even though
As you are reading this, pause for just one				there were many hours of visiting hours left , so
moment and let me ask you this question: Are				one or two visitors remained), that the staff
you one of those people who do not or will not				mysteriously got 'busy' somewhere else, and that
believe that people are being treated so horribly in				is the time when residents were forced to wait
America? If you are, give yourself and everyone				one or two hours to be brought to the bathroom.
else the benefit of the doubt and read the article				If a resident needed a bathroom while a visitor is
that is listed inside this link near the bottom of the				present, somehow that resident was able to get
page. Also, if you know any doctors, ask them if				to the bathroom (while witnesses were there),
they would put ANY family members inside of a				but once all the visitors left -- the residents went
nursing home. You will have your answer there.				back to having lack of care and to some possible
One of the biggest reasons that residents get				negligence and or malpractice.
more unhealthy and sometimes die in nursing				- One family member even overheard that one
homes is due to bedsores. And usually bedsores				resident simply walked out of the rehabilitation
are a direct result from lack of care, lack of good				center and the staff was not even aware that
nursing home management and supervision and				she was missing until she had gone miles from the
under-staffing of rehabilitation and care centers. In				place. No one noticed that this lady was missing!
other words, the management in these places is				Imagine that? They were so busy doing other
so lacking and so inexperienced at keeping people				things, that they didn't have time to keep an eye
healthy, that they do not keep proper track of				out for a patient who obviously needed to be
how often patients are moved and changed from				watched and cared for.
side to side. Once residents are allowed to lay still				- Family members have told me that sometimes
for hours at a time, these patients develop sores,				the staff made certain residents 'cry', that these
which most times never heal. Most times, these				residents were not crying when the visitors were
sores can be life-threatening. How? If a resident				there (there are witnesses when visitors come
has diabetes or other serious physical ailments,				into these places). And no staff wants a resident
these sores can cause the patient to be more				crying or complaining while the visitors are
unhealthy and unhealthy to the point where they				present.
can reach near death. And the horrible truth is				- Some have noticed that in some places,
that ALL of these sores are totally unnecessary				supervisors and administrators lie right to the
and totally avoidable. All the rehab and care				faces of family. We noticed that most of the
centers and nursing homes have to do is to turn				staff diligently covers up what happens as soon
patients and move patients every two hours and				as they want to cover it up. We noticed many
document such moves. However the bad rehab				things that we cannot type here. But trust that it
and care centers and bad nursing homes just let				is all true.
the patients rot immobile until they develop sores.				If you visit and stay long enough inside some
How do they get away with doing that? Here is				facilities, you will see that some facilities are guilty
what they do. They allow the patient to rot in				of lack of care -- at the minimum and guilty of
bed, bringing breakfast and other meals to the				more than that probably to this very day. Inside
room, not encouraging the patient to come out to				some nursing homes and inside some physical
the dining room. Then once they rot in bed, they				rehabilitation centers some residents are totally
begin to be able to not move or turn themselves.				helpless and can not find anyone to complain to.
This happens over time to patients in these bad				effectively to (Even though the law provides
centers. Once they cannot move themselves,				avenues of complaints and even though the law
they are getting worse, more unhealthy and				provides departments and organizations that
sometimes die due to ulcers and bedsores.				residents "CAN" complain to) Some of the
Injury happens; patients may need amputations				residents are totally helpless and cannot safely
due to bedsores if they develop into gangrene.				and healthily make legitimate complaints about lack
And then the cycle goes over and over until the				of care , so they remain there in their sad
person dies. And the bad rehab and care centers				situation. The residents know that they have to
get away with this action. And today, they are				stay there and that it is not easy or almost
getting away with it over and over and over.				impossible to get out of there, so they are stuck
How? They are getting away with it because				with their complaints and stuck with their
many patients have no visitor that can see what				situations until visitors come to see them.
the place is doing to the resident. And the really				Help Save Lives and Help Change Lives Forever,
bad places try their best to stop the other				try these:
patients from having visitors. What can you do				- Ask your co-workers to form a team that will
about this?				visit individual residents in places like these.
You can help also by reading ALL the articles that				Contact the caregivers and family members of
talk about negligence and malpractice inside nursing				the residents and tell them that you would like to
homes. Print these articles here and have them				begin visits to that nursing home and ask their
circulated inside of libraries and other stores that				permission to visit their family members who
give you permission to put these articles out				reside in those places.
there. If you are store owner, kindly post this				- Ask your boss to begin a program where you
article on your bulletin board and pass it around				work that will enable your workers to visit people
the colleges and other schools. Thank you for				inside of nursing homes.
saving lives. If you work in a nursing home, I urge				- If you know Geraldo Rivera or if you know any
you to copy this and bring it inside the nursing				other journalists or media people personally, ask
home and circulate it amongst family members				them to help uncover the injustices that are
and visitors. Please spread the word. You can do				happening on a daily basis throughout nursing
this anonymously. Leave it in bathrooms in a safe				homes in Staten Island, NY, and all along the east
place. Place one in peoples' rooms , of course with				and west coast. Ask anyone you know that has
their permission. But spread this word about what				finances or community backing to help you begin
is happening inside of these bad rehab and care				to organize groups of people that will legally go
centers and nursing homes. Pass the world, just				into nursing homes to visit people. Contact us if
like they passed the word about concentration				you need names of nursing homes that can use
camps, spread it person to person, business to				your help in saving lives.
business. Thank you, read more here.				- Advertise and seek out voluntary lawyers and
Please check the email box at the top and				legal professionals to help families deal with the
circulate this to all your friends.				red tape that some of the offending nursing
The average person would wince if they knew				homes and physical rehab centers dish out to
the truth. The truth is that each and every day,				families and residents who make legitimate
there are nursing homes and physical rehabilitation				complaints.
and care centers that make people sick. Instead				- IF you know anyone who does radio shows or
of helping the patients get better, they allow				tv shows, ask them for free time to talk about
them to vegetate. When elder care abuse occurs				the abuse that happens inside of nursing homes,
in the nursing home or physical rehabilitation and				and ask them to put a call out to lawyers and to
care centers across the nation, that abuse is				other professionals who will help to work for
more apt to be "covered up" because there are				social change inside of nursing homes.
entire teams of people to do the covering up. In				- ASK everyone you know to go and visit inside
other words, something happens inside of a				of nursing homes whenever and where ever
rehabilitation and care center or nursing home; it				possible. (always check with the families first and
happens at "one level" -- for example, inside a				always obtain permission.
patient's room or in the bathroom or other				- Go through your community and ask all families
solitary places, and only that staff person sees				who have people inside of these facilities if you
what that staff person is doing or has done.				have permission to write to these seniors. Donate
Once this abuse is "discovered" within the physical				stamps and envelopes to seniors and write back
rehabilitation center or nursing home -it is the				and forth to them. Keep them connected. This is
nursing home's "job" to see that this abuse is not				extremely important. Ask the families if you can
'let out " to the public. After all, the staff, in reality				telephone these seniors or disabled individuals and
is there to protect the nursing home's image and				then do that once you gain permission.
to protect the nursing home's finances and future				- If you are phoning someone at a nursing home
FIRST -before they are there to protect the				and they never answer the pay phone, document
patients. Anyone who has been behind the scenes				that fully. Document how many times the phones
and inside of nursing homes can see that in most				ring and document how many hours or days or
places or in lots of nursing homes --the staff does				weeks it takes you to actually reach the resident.
just that - protects staff and the corporation				- All of the above information will be quite helpful
from social and financial losses.				at Congressional and public hearings when they
One of the worst abuses that some rehabilitation				come up. You can save lives and you can change
and care centers commit are those abuses where				conditions. Please help in all these community
they permit patients (who are able) to recline in				projects.
bed all day just because it is easier for the staff				- Write to us to share your ideas about what you
to do that. Patients who come into the center in				or your organization are doing to help things get
fair condition begin to lose muscle because they				better. Share your information . You can help.
are permitted to recline in bed for many long				BY doing any and all of these things you will help
hours during the day and night. These abuses are				change the conditions inside of nursing homes.
intolerable yet they still exist today in some				Here's another way you can help. Be in contact
centers and nursing homes.				with residents inside of these places. Reach out to
Wheelchairs as Restraints: Another of the worst				isolated patients via email and via telephone calls.
abuses in bad nursing homes is when they use				Contact is what changes things inside of nursing
wheelchairs as restraints. Wheelchairs are				homes and inside of physical rehab and care
supposed to make residents lives easier and				centers. Contact someone today to begin your
happier. They are not supposed to be used as				own project.
restraints, but in the bad nursing homes and in the				Here are people to contact:
bad rehabilitation and care centers, the wheelchairs
are restraints. Most of the residents on their long				1. Contact your Senator or your Congressman to
term care floor are basically prisoners and they				ask for public hearings regarding the conditions
wait for hours to go to the bathroom even				inside of nursing homes and rehab centers. (When
though they are fully aware they have to go and				discussing the problems inside of nursing homes
they tell residents they have to go.				be sure to emphasize that you are speaking
Most times, in these offending rehab centers, the				about physical rehabilitation and care centers also.
residents are forced to wear diapers even if they				These problems are not only restricted to nursing
do not want to wear a diaper. Would you want to				homes). When speaking of the issues, remember
wear a diaper if you did not need to wear one?				to use that wording "rehabilitation and care
No. But in the offending rehab centers, the				centers" or rehabilitation centers. This will make
residents are forced to wear them. Their other				your investigations and reports more complete
choice is to sit in their wet, cold clothing for hours				than if you just speak about nursing homes.
and hours (because no staff brings them to the				2. Contact any of your local community
bathroom). The staff keeps the residents in				organizations and ask for help in changing
wheelchairs and diapers as a matter of control,				conditions "behind the walls" of nursing homes. Go
and as a matter of less work for them. (If a				to your local community leaders and ask them
resident has no clean clothes, the resident (bound				where you can go to for help. Reach out to
to his wheelchair cannot come out of the room				everyone you know in your neighborhood and ask
and stays isolated in there). Once they are bound				for referrals. You will find the right person to help
to their room, the staff has less work. That is				if you just keep asking as many people as you
one less resident that they have to care for. So				can ask.
watch out for places that use the wheelchair as				3. Contact other families in your communities.
restraints, because most likely they will use				Contact them through PTA meetings and contact
diapers for their convenience, even though some				them through business improvement meetings
patients do not need nor do they want to be in				and contact them through various meetings that
diapers.				happen in your community. Once you contact
Discern: What is the difference between a place				them ask EVERYONE to participate in some way
that is using wheelchairs as restraints and one				to help isolated nursing home residents. Ask some
that uses wheelchairs only when necessary? Look				to write letters to Congress or to the Mayor. Ask
around. Go into many of the homes to visit. If				others to contact patients' families and ask
you see tons of people in wheelchairs, just sitting				permission to visit. Ask the professionals, doctors,
around for hours (not for minutes), then you				nurses and lawyers to come forth and say the
know that place is using wheelchairs as restraints.				truth about what happens behind the closed doors
They make the people in wheelchairs wait and				of those places. You can do it. You can help!
wait and wait and wait for ordinary living things				4. If you know a lawyer, or a professional
like having meals or going to the bathroom. The				worker, enlist them to help in this campaign
good place that uses wheelchairs only when				against nursing home and physical rehabilitation
necessary has residents in wheelchairs too,				centers abuses and malpractices.
except the residents do not have to wait for				Some simple ways you can help: First, Believe!
hours and hours to go to the bathroom. The				In order to help, you must believe. You will hear
waiting time is cut down, yet in the offending				some incredible stories and they are true stories.
places, the waiting time is prolonged until no				You need to be able to listen to them and then to
human being could wait that long.				assure the patients or residents that you do
Good verses Bad: That is the difference. And you				believe what they are saying. This is some of the
will know as soon as you walk in whether the				most valuable help that you can give someone --
home really cares for residents or whether the				first, believe. You can help by believing the
home is just out to make money no matter what				resident. Once inside these places, when residents
the residents feel like or look like. In the offending				complain to their families about the mistreatment
homes it is all about money. In the good homes, it				or lack of care, the first thing that some families
is all about making residents and families				respond with is 'disbelief" . After all, who would
comfortable. No one is making a blanket				want to believe that PAID staff is not caring for
statement against all nursing home. However, the				their relatives. Who would want to believe that
people who work inside of these nursing homes				they put their relatives in a place that is possibly
and care centers are well aware of what is				mistreating the relatives.
happening. . This article is about the ones that are				The best way you can help is believing the words
lacking in care, lacking in respect and about the				of the residents when they complain that the
ones that are daily breaking the law and on a daily				nursing home staff is giving them lack of care or
basis violating the residents, patients and visitors'				giving them abuse., believe them. Do not think
rights. There have been cases where staff inside				that they are making up stories. Believe them.
of physical rehabilitation centers and nursing				They are in no position to make up stories. They
homes have purposely covered-up wrong-doings				do not want to complain. They are afraid to
to protect their own jobs and to continue to				complain about staff . So believe them. They feel
collect money from insurance for the benefit of				safer complaining when you are there visiting
the corporations that owned the rehab centers				them. So that's why they mention it to you. And
and nursing homes.				then once you leave , they are left to stay there.
Now, here's the news breakers that you might				So believe them. Take them at their word. That's
want to notice:				how you can help. There are things happening
Inside some Nursing Homes and Physical				inside of those centers that should not happen,
Rehabilitation and Care Centers:				yet they are there to witness it , and when you
- There are some residents and patients who				do not believe their words, when you doubt
have to wait an HOUR or more or sometimes				them, you take their hearts and dispose of them.
two hours in order to go to the bathroom.				So believe them. If someone is complaining to you
Sometimes when residents complain about the				about conditions inside of a facility, go and ask
treatment or complain about the lack of care, the				your Pastor, Priest or Rabbi how the community
residents are punished for speaking out. This is				and how the church can help the residents. Please
why you will not hear the complaints of the				reach out to these people who need help. You
residents who are presently inside these nursing				can save a life today!
homes and physical rehabilitation and care centers.				Handling the red tape of refusals:
- There are some residents who are emotionally				- Diligently document times, dates, days, places
forced into wearing diapers because the staff lets				and the people that you speak with. Put all your
them wait so long to go to the bathroom and the				requests in writing to help document. For example,
residents know this and thus they have to wear				write a very friendly letter stating that you want
diapers against their will OR they have to sit in				to come in and entertain or be with residents as
wet clothing for hours because no one can or will				part of your community project or school project.
take them to the bathroom when they NEED to				Tell them when you would like to visit (and try to
go to the bathroom				arrange these projects during times when there
- There are sometimes walls of people in				are no visiting hours). When the facility refuses to
wheelchairs in the corridors. Some residents are				let you entertain the residents or visit with
put in 'recliner-type' wheelchairs which they cannot				residents, later ask to do the same - visiting-
move. Some sit for hours and hours in a corridor				during regular visiting hours.
with no one around. They are left in these chairs				- Document each and every request for each and
unattended, unable to move, unable to get out of				every visit to each facility. Note the name and
the chair; they sit and just hope that someone				time and date of your request - and the name of
passes by. Then, when and if they are permitted				the person that you speak with. Focus on one
to have visitors, the place changes "atmosphere"				facility at a time. You can begin with those in the
and the staff makes it appear as if these				largest cities and work to those out in the
residents are actually getting attention and care.				country. We need help sending visitors into East
- There are some residents who are very afraid				Coast cities - those nursing homes that seem the
to speak up or to complain about these places				hardest-hit. If there is any facility who refuses to
because they have to be there all alone with the				cooperate , or any that seem to be hiding
staff and SOMETIMES there are some staff who				something, it would appear that those would be
will retaliate against residents who complain about				the ones needing the most help and the most
anything that happens behind the closed doors of				visitors. (Connect with your lawyers and
these facilities. Speaking out is a punishable				investigators in your own cities to see what kinds
offense (though it is not legal, it still happens).				of help you can receive).Obtain permissions from
Patients and residents are being punished for				any of the families and from any of the residents
speaking out. Visitors and family members are				and patients that you wish to visit. And do this all
being punished for speaking out. And this is the				year round. Visitors are needed every single day
very reason why society needs to continue to				of the year, and especially on weekends.
speak out - for the protection of residents all				- If you are in a position of political power, think
over the United States of America and all over				about your own relatives who someday might
the world.				wind up in a nursing home or rehab center. If you
- There is a majority of staff --against a small				think you can avoid this malpractice by sending
amount of family members, so when it comes to				them to a good fancy home, you are mistaken.
complaining to staff, when family complains				What affects one person affects all people. Please
"verbally" , those complaints are and will be				help spread the world.
ignored; and when family complains in writing,				For some interesting readings and reviews about
those families are retaliated against and the				nursing homes and about hospitals, check this site
facilities illegally stop visitors on false trumped up				Please send visitors into your local rehab care
charges.				centers and nursing homes today. They need as
These are just a few of the horrible things that				many visitors as possible. If you are a family
happen inside of some physical rehabilitation and				member of a resident, ask all of your friends,
care centers and some nursing homes , today				relatives, co-workers and others to visit the
and every day, or every other day. Yet, none of				patient. The more visitors, the better; have
this is put in the newspapers. None of this is made				visitors taking turns, shifts and that will best
public because families and residents and patients				protect the resident. I know it is hard to do this,
are afraid of further retaliation. So, where does				but wherever possible, do it, and you will help
the buck stop? Who can help these residents and				better the quality of care inside of that particular
families. What can you do about these horrible				rehabilitation and care center by sending more
injustices? How can we help those people inside of				visitors inside the walls of that place.Please
nursing homes and inside of physical rehabilitation				contact us and keep in touch so we can all benefit
centers?So, how do you help change lives? How				from your ideas and suggestions on these
do you change the system that is damaging				matters. Be sure to read part two of this article
many seniors and disabled individuals? How can				which is being posted as you read this. I need to
you look inside of a nursing home and or				hear from you. You can help improve conditions
rehabilitation and care center and bring care to				inside of nursing homes even if your nursing home
those that might not be receiving care? You can				stay was more than a year ago or five years
help and you can help today. YOU, yes YOU --				ago. Your comments are so important to
can make a big difference in this world				everyone. Kindly let me hear from you. Thank
today.Read and learn how you can help in this				you.
world today, help residents, help patients and help				Last note: You can see some more news about
save a life today!				nursing homes at this video website. I am not
Beginning steps:				affiliated with this website but find that the
- Get together with your local community				information is vital to the safety of people all over
organizations and or churches or synagogues				the world.

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Slow Death Inside Of Nursing Homes