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jpak

(41,742 posts)
Fri Nov 29, 2019, 09:50 AM Nov 2019

Some nursing homes are illegally evicting elderly and disabled residents who can't afford to pay

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/some-nursing-homes-are-illegally-evicting-elderly-disabled-residents-who-n1087341

BISHOP, Calif. — When Jamie Moore arrived home on a Thursday evening in March, she was surprised to find her mother-in-law in her living room. Glenda Moore, 67, had been sitting in her wheelchair for hours. Without anyone to help her to the bathroom, she’d had an accident. She was also having trouble breathing. “It was awful,” Jamie Moore recalled.

Glenda Moore told Jamie that she had been discharged from the Bishop Care Center nursing home, in Bishop, California. She had been living at the nursing home — a sprawling brick building on the side of a state highway — for several weeks, recovering from a back surgery that unexpectedly left her unable to walk much or take care of herself.

Several days earlier, nursing home administrators had shown Glenda Moore a letter from Medicare, explaining that her rehabilitation coverage was ending. She was unable to pay the nursing home’s more-than-$7,000 monthly fee, so, thinking she had no other options, she left. (A relative dropped her off at Jamie’s home, where Glenda Moore had lived previously, without telling Jamie.)

“They pushed her out and she was not ready,” Jamie Moore, who has worked as a nursing assistant, said. “She was not ready at all.”

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Some nursing homes are illegally evicting elderly and disabled residents who can't afford to pay (Original Post) jpak Nov 2019 OP
For profit healthcare strikes again. Raster Nov 2019 #1
Political propaganda has made this acceptable to the rotten wing of the US electorate. blm Nov 2019 #2
It's only acceptable... Raster Nov 2019 #3
we need to end wealthcare and replace it with healthcare Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2019 #4
Exactly blm Dec 2019 #8
Some won't take Medicaid ismnotwasm Nov 2019 #5
Thank you for posting that. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2019 #6
Sickening Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2019 #7

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
6. Thank you for posting that.
Fri Nov 29, 2019, 01:14 PM
Nov 2019

What I found most distressing is that Glenda Moore was only 67. Not only is that not very old, but what with all her health issues she looked about two decades older.

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