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HiPointDem

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10. They *do* have nurses at this facility, lots of them. If this woman wasn't a nurse, why

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #9)

Thu Mar 7, 2013, 11:48 AM

Mar 2013

Last edited Thu Mar 7, 2013, 12:19 PM - Edit history (1)

did she claim to be one?

And why won't the management say she wasn't a nurse, instead of "she was acting in the capacity of director of resident services"?

Glenwood Gardens is a single facility with multiple levels of care in separate sections.

Glenwood Gardens located in Bakersfield, California offers Independent Living, Personalized Assisted Living, Alzheimer's and Dementia Care, and Skilled Nursing Care options for seniors.

http://www.brookdaleliving.com/glenwood-gardens.aspx

Furthermore, this facility is not locally owned, but corporate owned, the largest such corporation in the country, with 700 facilities in 36 states.

And it's their blanket policy not to give cpr to anyone in independent living.

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87-year-old woman who supposedly didn't want CPR got CPR regardless [View all] HiPointDem Mar 2013 OP

I think this is emblematic of "corporatist ethics"-- i.e., no ethics at all. hlthe2b Mar 2013 #1

i agree. but apparently it's the wave of the future, as a number of supposed 'democrats' think HiPointDem Mar 2013 #2

Dozens of democrats, trilling about how the woman 'got the peaceful natural death she wanted' HiPointDem Mar 2013 #4

k and r--and you are correct, that vision of dying in corporate arms is creepy. and, didn't a niyad Mar 2013 #3

it seems we're in the minority. i'd like to pee on a few people too. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #5

It is horrible that they are allowed to do this. WCLinolVir Mar 2013 #6

i am mocking people on other threads who keep insisting seniors shouldn't be given cpr because HiPointDem Mar 2013 #7

and kick HiPointDem Mar 2013 #8

"but won't say whether or not she was a nurse," dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #9

They *do* have nurses at this facility, lots of them. If this woman wasn't a nurse, why HiPointDem Mar 2013 #10

Please link me to a story which says definitively 'she was not a nurse' which includes the source HiPointDem Mar 2013 #11

ABC news, here: halfway down the page dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #12

The staff member was "serving in the capacity of a resident services director, not as a nurse," HiPointDem Mar 2013 #13

How much of a profit do they make on that $2500 monthly fee with no medical services? LiberalFighter Mar 2013 #14

They aren't doing a very good job as a business madville Mar 2013 #18

k&r Starry Messenger Mar 2013 #15

kick HiPointDem Mar 2013 #16

My grandmother lived in one of these for a few years before she moved in with my aunt dsc Mar 2013 #17

as you say, independent living = healthy elderly. so that would preclude dementia i'd think. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #19