because she had used up her 3 weeks covered by Medicare. I had to fight with the nursing home because they were misapplying the law. The law doesn't limit care to only three weeks, as they thought. It allows for care for about three months, as long as daily rehab is needed to improve OR MAINTAIN skills. They said she wasn't getting better, so she had to leave. I said that as long as she needs the rehab to stay constant (walking with the aid of a walker), then she qualified.
The reason it mattered was that we knew she couldn't go back to her own home, and we needed more time to figure out where she could go next -- she wanted to move out of state to where one of her adult-children was living.
I emailed them pages of documents from government websites, till I managed to prove that the law had changed three years earlier and my mother did qualify. So I encourage everyone to make sure facilities have the correct information. My mother's place hadn't realized the rules had changed 3 years earlier. There could still be places that don't know the law.
Anyway, again, I am so sorry for what you are going through now. I'm glad you have that hospice nurse on your side.
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