Posted on 05/29/2020 8:42:25 PM PDT by george76
A Colorado mom hospitalized for 21 days died Tuesday without seeing her husband or two children, despite the family’s repeated requests for an exception to a policy barring visitors during the coronavirus crisis
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Elizabeth, who had autoimmune issues and heart problems for years, was at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora for three weeks with severe infections in her lungs and blood. Her family was not allowed to see her because the hospital, like many during the coronavirus pandemic, has enacted a strict no-visitor policy
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No matter how many times Reiter asked to visit Elizabeth, even when he tested negative for the virus and when he told them he had never seen his wife of 19 years so depressed, and even on Mother’s Day, he was denied. Hospital officials would not make an exception.
Then .. Elizabeth went into cardiac arrest and died.
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The ambulance brought Elizabeth to UCHealth Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, but within a couple of hours she was taken to University at her doctor’s request. At home, Reiter was making plans to stay in a hotel near the hospital in Aurora when Elizabeth called to say she was not allowed any visitors.
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Eleven other hospitals in the UCHealth system, however, are now allowing patients to have one visitor per day.
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Elizabeth, who tested negative for coronavirus a second time while in the hospital,
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No one should be isolated in the hospital without a loved one,” Reiter said. “No one should be at risk of dying alone.”
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The day after his wife died, Reiter was overwhelmed. His words were interrupted by heavy sighs. His sons, he said, are in “absolute shock.”
“They are really hurt that they couldn’t see their mother at any point during the last three weeks,”
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Sometimes, a good doctor can forget or greatly minimize the positive effect of a family visit. The eye contact from someone who knows you and cares about you is priceless.
The same can be said about a caring touch.
I’m not speaking of when the patient is hot with fever or displaying symptoms, but when they are clear and at rest.
I have an older family member in the hospital, and she needed
surgery. Her life hangs in the balance, and family has not
been allowed to visit her.
Mental outlook is crucial to recovery. Leaving these types
of people “abandoned” during time of crisis is darn near
criminal treatment > IMO.
I realize they are having to minimize possible infection,
but then provide video conferencing or something.
Going into surgery these people need every bit of uplift
they can get. NOW!!!
And at the same time hospitals are bemoaning that fewer people are coming to the ERs and that people are putting off medical care.
Law of unintended consequences, anyone?
Elizabeth said she was thinking about patients in hospitals across the world who were unable to see their families.
“I feel they’re not getting the chance to choose hope — and in many cases aren’t given understandable reasons why they can’t see their families in a reasonable, safe manner..
Sometimes, unfortunately, they aren’t given any reasons at all, other than ‘it’s policy.’”
My dad passed last month. He almost died alone but my mom was the one visitor allowed in. She was with him in his final moments. I can relate. Not only for deaths but any hospitalizations, it’s important to have some one by your side
Someone needs to sue the hospital on their behalf over this. It’s wrong on every level.
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How cruel and evil.
My oldest daughter gave birth to my tenth grandchild a few days ago, and no one was allowed to visit except her husband.
They must be following the lead that nursing homes set, kill the patients in secrecy.
And, the elderly in nursing homes....who see NO family.
A friend had to admit her 95 yo dad into a rehab/skilled nursing facility....and wasn’t even allowed to check him in, see the room, etc.
It IS evil and cruel.
I have no kids, so there is much I don’t know firsthand, much I will never know.
In the movies, there is often a delivery room for the babies, and later a room where all the newborns lie in their colored blankets, with name tags taped on.
Does anything like that still happen in real life?
Would the rest of the family get to at least see the baby through a window once he had been stabilized?
Bill Gates said this shutdown was just a proof-of-concept.
The next one will be for good.
This is sick. I will never forget who perpetrated this hoax on America.
Covid 19 has caused so much destruction
Thank to the commie Chinese who exported it to the world They allowed flights to keep going to the west, even while they were closing down internal flights in China
This lawyer driven bs is happening from coast to coast.
A woman, we know, had a mother in a NJ Nursing home, the woman lives on the west coast. She got notified that her mother was transferred to a hospital with pneumonia. The woman was told not to come there as she could not see her mother. Her mother was sent back to the nursing home after a couple of days. She was sent back to the nursing home and was put on Oxygen and inject able narcotics. She died after a few days. He daughter was told not to come back as her mother had signed a cremation order. Supposedly, there would be services in May, none yet. Supposedly, her mother had a Covid~19 diagnosis.
A long time church friend was in a high end west coast retirement home and on the care unit with Parkinson’s. On 14 March, his wife, son and daughter were told they could not see him. He died a couple of weeks ago by himself. His wife made sure that he did not have a CV-19 diagnosis.
Another church retiree in his early nineties in the same retirement home was not sick, however, he could not have any live contact with any friends at the senior home or visitors. He told a church caller, that he was dying of boredom and loneliness. He died in a few days after being contacted. He was not ill.
A friend had an emergency spinal cord surgery. He was in the hospital for 5 days and couldn’t see his family. His wife picked him up in the parking circle. She couldn’t come into see him during the 5 days. A couple of days latter, he had to have an emergency gall bladder OR.
Again, his wife dropped him off at the ER circle drive and didn’t see him for another 5 days. Again, she picked him up in the parking circle.
A friend had a knee replacement cancelled in late March. Last week they had his wife drop him off in a drop off area.
They checked his temp and admitted him. His wife said good bye in the parking lot.
He had a successful operation and still had to spend one night in the hospital. He was discharged the next day at about noon. His wife still could not come into the hospital.
They rolled him out in a wheel chair and loaded him into her car. She is a recently retired same day care RN at that hospital. She asked the surgeon, a friend, why all the drama and not sending her husband home the first night. The doc is known as the champion same day Ortho surgeon. He just dodged her question.
“Does anything like that still happen in real life?”
I’ve never seen one of those nurseries with all the newborns lined up.
Just following orders
I am saddened there is not more media coverage of these issues. Nursing home residents should be allowed visits from family members. This is incredibly cruel otherwise. Precautions could be taken. Even our Governor Abbot seems to turn a blind eye to the cruelty of his ban on visitation. It is high time this ends.
I had my kids in the early 2000s and the viewing room for newborns was already a thing of the past then.
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