That must have been one helluva cut. Doesn't make sense that the hospital could not treat the infection or that they would release someone who was still badly infected.
I receive my assisted living patients back from the hospital too early very frequently because Medicare will not pay for an extended stay. They require daily wound care from visiting nurses, but Medicare will not pay the agency enough to make the required frequency of visits.
The wound care ends up being done (and frequently not done) by untrained caregivers because the facility does not have nurses on the premises. They don’t want to pay for nurses, so they hire anyone off the street to be a caregiver for about $8.50 an hour. Many of them can barely speak English.
Agreed! "Ruby R. Guillory, 90...was hit in the leg by a garden cart...Guillory’s leg bled from the 8-inch cut..."
Eight inches?! That's the approx. width of a sheet of typing paper. That's approx. 2" longer than a dollar bill. From being hit in the leg by a garden cart? From a garden cart? Like this?
Cheese louise, it must have nearly sheered off her leg!
MY mother is 78 and diabetic for years.
I have watched her just rub her arm absentmindedly and peel off all the skin to the meat.
Easy to see where a cart could cut her badly.
Was the frail lady that died taking precautions to keep distances between herself, and the cart, and other objects that could harm her?
Most elderly people I have noticed have this thin skin,easy to peel, hard to heal problem.
Yes, the associate could/should have been more careful.
I would like to see the surveillance tape myself.
Off to take grandkids to the doctors.
Morning Gabz and Mrs Nooseman!