After a 5 day stay at hospital, 3 of those awaiting for an "emergency" colonic decompression, my otherwise healthy 90 year old dad was unsafely discharged without any PT evaluation.
Case manager simply wanted signature so I made sure she knew father was too weak to stand up, walk nor go up any single step. Regardless later that day he was transported back home via ambulette. 15 hours later dad was back in ER after falling while trying to put his foot down to get up next morning. As noted, he was not ready to transition home. So now back in hospital and was in a worse condition and prognosis than previous ER visit. This time with a painful broken hip.
In retrospect a same day discharge order seems unfair to the patient and advantageous only for the insurance since there is no time for patient nor advocate to search for second opinion or legal consult. To tell you the truth .....things can always get worse and they are. I wish there was a way to bring this daily wrongdoing to light so it would deter doctors and case managers taking advantage of the weak and elderly by withholding treatments meant to improve their health. I feel more emphasis is placed on supporting their organic winding down thus openly promoting their ultimate discharge from this world. This is true elder abuse. Knowingly endangering lives while being very professional about it.
What I have written here is simply the tip of my current iceberg.
You can always request in home therapy. Medicare does pay for it.
Will look into JCAHO and anyone who may be able to make a dent in a corrupt philosophy of care. These ARE lives. Not apples in a market stand.
The problem will be then....if these boards are colleagues of colleagues etc... then how can they act without conflicting interests on behalf of the "common citizen"?
When I wanted to get a second opinion of treatment, I was told I would need to get it from a doctor under the same group. I responded that defeated the purpose of a second opinion, getting it from the same group mentality you are questioning is wasting time. Doctors will never incriminate a colleague much least selfincriminate . So ...things remain the same. Unless maybe a good lawyer pro bono agrees with you....and does not work for any medical board. I wish there were lawyers posting here. I feel all people here are gut drenchfully truthful to themselves. That makes honest character. Good witnesses.
Hopefully you can get the social worker involved and get grandpa into a good skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation.
Ask everyone and anyone you know what they recommend. It makes a huge difference for the outcome. Make sure that they have intensive highly rated rehabilitation.
I am so sorry that your grandfather has been treated so poorly.
I was able to get a call back from doctor in 15 minutes. So it helped in that sense.