Sportsmanship lacking
I think the time is long overdue for the state to conduct an investigation into the operation of nursing and personal care homes. I have proof that the care being given is often substandard.
I know of a case where a man was confined to a personal care home for one month and the poor care may have cost him his life.
The man I am referring to acquired three large bed sores on his buttocks that went all the way to the bone.
The personal care home was paid an additional $250 per month besides the usual standard fee to change his diaper and keep him clean so that he wouldn’t develop any bed sores.
Apparently they did not do this.
A few weeks after developing the bed sores, the man became so infected he died.
On his death certificate as a cause of death was the bed sores. It’s a shame. This poor man was a Veteran of both World War II and the Korean War and had to die that way.
Better care in the personal care home could have prevented this tragedy.
The shame of it all is it won’t bring the elderly gentleman back.
I wonder how many other people were abused in that same personal care home?
Should the ultimate goal of personal care homes and nursing homes be how big a profit you can acquire or that of taking care of their residents?
Ken Zaydel
Monongahela