Friday, April 4, 2008

Nursing homes alert: Do you know someone in a rehab and care center or nursing home?

If you check the news or the web, most of the alerts about nursing homes were written years ago. We need updates and we need our politicians and other community members to get after the nursing homes and the rehab and care centers that are providing bad care to our family members, friends and other relatives.

If you know someone who is in a nursing home now or if you know someone who was in one in the past, you have the power to change things for the better.

Leave us a note and you have the power to change the world for the better.

All emails will be answered.
There is a union of patients, residents and family members that will help you register complaints anonymously in the future. That will stop the rehab and care centers and nursing homes from stopping legitimate complaints.

In the past, when residents or patients registered complaints, what happened was most times, there were punishments for patients and for family members who made legitimate complaints.

Now the union of patients and residents and family members will aid you in making complaints and making your legitmate complaints anonymously in the future.

There is more than one group that is now forming (and some have formed already in your own neighborhoods). Here are some details:

  • All you need is an email address to participate.
  • Interviews are free and can be over the phone or by email.
  • Some interviews will be in person but not at the nursing home or rehab and care center.
  • You anonymity will be protected. Your information will not be shared with anyone against your will.

If you have gripes about a rehab and care center or a nursing home, contact us as soon as possible.

(Note, there are no fees; no one will ask you for any money at all; there is no registration process).

These groups are forming and have been formed for your protection and for the protection of people inside of rehabilitation and care centers and inside of nursing homes.

There are many good nursing homes; you just need to know which ones they are. By sharing information about rehab and care centers that are horrible , you will be helping someone and you will be saving a life one day.

If you have a bad or good experience in any area of rehab or nursing homes, we urge you to send us your information and help this country change these things for the better.

Please write to us and email us so that you can change things for the better. Thank you for reading.