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Unlock the Secrets of Nursing Home Medical Records and Protect Your Loved One
Ace
August 2003
112 pages ISBN: 0974131318 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
To achieve the best possible care for your loved one, you
must play the watchdog. In this book, we show you some
tricks nursing homes play to keep you--and government
regulators--less than fully informed about patient care.
You'll also learn some tips for outmaneuvering such attempts
to keep you in the dark. And we'll teach you the handy
method of using three-by-five cards to document what you
observe. For patients whose situation requires more
extensive documentation, in the back of the book we supply
worksheets that break down the areas and items you need to
monitor and have included charts you can use to do so. Here's what sets this book apart from many others that
provide advice about nursing home care: most other authors
believe that if you get involved and work through the system
and play nice, you'll be okay. We certainly believe in
getting involved, and playing nice may work at some
facilities--there's no sense in taking a confrontational
approach if the staff is generally cooperative. But the
truth is that at many facilities, you'll just get eaten
alive playing nice, and you'll only be playing into the
administrators' hands. Especially in the world of for-profit
nursing homes, everything boils down to money, and the
business model is simple: every expense the facility can
avoid means more dollars to the bottom line. If you don't
challenge the staff about lapses in care-or don't know how
to-the home will have won the game, and your loved one could
wind up in the danger zone of long-term care in America.
This book will help you level the playing field.
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