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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome 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-n1087341BISHOP, 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, shed 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 homes more-than-$7,000 monthly fee, so, thinking she had no other options, she left. (A relative dropped her off at Jamies 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
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Raster
(20,996 posts)1. For profit healthcare strikes again.
blm
(112,920 posts)2. Political propaganda has made this acceptable to the rotten wing of the US electorate.
Raster
(20,996 posts)3. It's only acceptable...
...until it happens to them.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,039 posts)4. we need to end wealthcare and replace it with healthcare
blm
(112,920 posts)8. Exactly
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)5. Some won't take Medicaid
And Medicare has limits.
This is horrible
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)6. Thank you for posting that.
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.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,085 posts)7. Sickening
Our seniors deserve better.