My Mom caught C diff while in rehab following a broken, pinned hip. Several long term care facilities flat out said they would not take her since she had had this infection. She was considered an asymptomatic carrier; always tested positive after the infection but stopped being sick. Can ALFs and Alzheimer's care facilities decide who they will take based on their history of a disease? For example, suppose she had AIDS and they denied her entrance. That would be illegal, I think?
Take care,
Caro
But even if they do it can still be a probkem. My moms 2nd NH had a wing adjacent to business office and central supply, that had a few isolation rooms - mainly with residents who got pneumonia (not just the flu), had more serious wound care or were hospital discharge from CDiff. But they would not accept MRSA. Older NH tend to have been designed with isolation rooms.
CDiff with advanced elderly seems to turn into a revolving door of readmissions to the hospital. Please keep in mind that if your elder is still hospitalized, placement primarily is a problem of the discharge coordinator at the hospital & you should not be the one having to find a facility. BUT If you take them to back to your home or to their home, then it totally becomes your problem to find a facility.
As for whether a nursing home can deny your mom admittance because of the c-diff there's probably a statement in the contract somewhere about denying admittance at the discretion of the facility.
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