When my Mom ended up in hospital from her assisted living home the hospital tried to bully us and say that we had no choice where she went which we thankfully learned at the time wasn’t true. There were lots of stories in the news around the same time of hospitals threatening families that if they didn’t accept the placement the hospital would start charging $100/day (or more) for her to stay there. This happened to us. The only places that had rooms supposedly were the absolute worst of the worst. The government ended up stepping in and stopped that practice. We told them we wouldn’t accept the placement and shortly after that she was sent to the continuing complex care rehab hospital here. At that point unfortunately she was very close to the end of her life and that’s where she passed away.
The treatment of elderly in this country is despicable. Long term care being turned over to for profit companies was the beginning of the end for decent elder care unless you are very well off!
Chartwell is the top of my list of heinous providers. The assisted living place they were was very nice for a couple of years. Once Chartwell bought it, the change in services, care, food and environment was almost instant.
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