Bringing you up to date, I have just spent the last 24 hours at Einstein Hospital, a division of Montefiore Hospital. We left Florida yesterday and the plan was to have Mom admitted to the hospital to be evaluated so she could go to a nursing home. Unfortunately to be able to use Medicare a person has to be admitted to the hospital for three days then transferred directly to the rehab facility. Medicare will pay 100% of the first 20 days and 80% of the rest of the three months. Somehow Mom's insurance paid for 100% of more than one month. Okay with me.
Now you have to find a way to be admitted. Generally claims of weakness and lethargy get the ball rolling. Since we were flying I expected Mom to be weak and lethargic. Unfortunately she was confused as well so her hospital visit was a little more real. She asked me about seven times where we were after we landed at Kennedy Airport. It didn't stop during the ride to Einstein Hospital. And it got worse once we got to the hospital. They kept Mom and I would have insisted if they didn't want to. What I didn't expect was to still be in the emergency room 24 hours later. Years ago I had a family member going through a mental breakdown She waited in the emergency room over a day. As of 3:30 this afternoon Mom still doesn't have a room.
Montefiore is not one of New York's public run hospitals. It is privately run so you expect more from it. Jacobi Hospital is a public hospital and I saw a doctor within an hour of my visits. Mom was seen in a few hours and checked out. However getting a room is taking a while. I did get to run home at six this morning and come back at 8:30. After six hours though my pee was coming out brown, an indication I am becoming malnourished. I am about to go back to the hospital hopeful I won't spend another night in the ER.
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