Nursing home care is expensive. Many people do not have long-term care insurance and cannot afford to pay It’s a private nursing home fees. The result is that government pays for a great deal of nursing home care through Medicare and Medicaid.
The problem is that because these programs taken together do not pay well they [...]
It certainly seems like common sense that if you have a medical emergency you should go to a hospital emergency room. If you are so sick that you need intensive care you should be in the hospital. Unfortunately some administrators at assisted living facilities do not seem to have this kind of common sense.
Assisted living [...]
There used to be a frequent television commercial for a roach-exterminating product called “roach motel.” The product’s slogan was something to the effect of, “Roaches go in, but they don’t come out.” Obviously this would not be a good slogan for hospitals, “Patients come in, but they don’t go out.”
Florida state government now has a [...]