Insurance won't pay for nursing facility/hospital.
She is 88, has broken both hips, has macular degeneration and Celiac disease. She was put into the psychiatric wing of a local hospital after her incident and they're giving her new drugs to stabilize her mental/emotional issues. Her HMO won't pay for more hospitalization or a skilled nursing facility because they say she doesn't require constant care. Her assisted living facility won't take her now because of her incident. She has nowhere to go. Does anyone have any ideas? Because of her health and mobility issues, family members can't take her in.
When we moved her to traditional Medicare, voila, all of a sudden nursing homes had beds available. (They get reimbursed at a higher rate with Original Medicare). Now this is for skilled nursing not long-term nursing home care.
You really want to be careful where they place her as a lot of Nursing Homes are awful.(I know this from researching them in WPB, Fl). The government has just changed how they rank nursing homes so you might want to start there to see how they rank for hours of nursing care, etc. Then, you want to research the ones that will accept Medicaid. She'll get in there faster if she has some money to pay for care initially. Otherwise, you're back to square one waiting and praying for a bed because they take forever to find if she is on Medicaid.
This is all awful what our parents go through. Until they're practically comatose, they're going through hell. I don't blame her from wanting to commit suicide. If she's of a right mind, she should be able to do that. (Should could if she was in Washington, Oregon or VT.)
Best of luck to you.
The nursing home that my mother is in seems to have a locked wing, for patients that are a danger to themselves.
like an atheist in a casket ..
i dont have any advice for you , just lame inappropriate jokes .