New report says seniors being sent home too soon, without proper treatment

[spaminator]

New report says seniors being sent home too soon, without proper treatment
By Kelly Roche ,Ottawa Sun
First posted: Saturday, March 29, 2014 07:44 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, March 29, 2014 11:02 PM EDT
The province’s health reforms are failing acutely ill residents — especially seniors — according to a new report.
“We see emerging a pattern of neglect,” said Ontario Council of Hospital Unions president Michael Hurley.
Following a stroke, “it’s shameful that a person gets sent home without being given the physiotherapy that they need to be able to walk,” he said.
Same goes for a woman with osteoporosis who left hospital without X-rays and later discovered she had nearly 20 fractures.

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[Tecumsehsbones]

Gotta focus those resources where they'll do the most good. Freshmen and sophomores.

 

[SLM]

It may be a new report but it's been going on for years. My disgust with the state of "health care" in this province continues to grow by leaps and bounds. From the mid Saturday afternoon discharge of my disabled mother, without informing family or home care providers, to continually missing the 'football' sized tumor in her abdomen during multiple admittances prior to her death to having to "haggle" with CCAC over whether or not she should have bed rails on her palliative care bed at home.

Oh and then there was the time they sent her to have her leg cast x-rayed and suggested she 'hop up' onto the x-ray table (she was in a wheelchair and unable to stand).

There's just something missing. Common sense and a healthy dose of compassion perhaps? :roll:

 

[Scooby]

A sad irony of Canadian life that because of socialized healthcare we can shift the blame of a person's suffering onto government. We all complain that the services provided are insufficient to meet the needs of a compassionate society, but where do we draw the line on the cost?
Does a family member of the suffering person make that choice? Does the suffering person? A very hard thing to discuss without sounding callous.

The debate on healthcare can run pretty deep if you look at it objectively.

 

[captain morgan]

A sad irony of Canadian life that because of socialized healthcare we can shift the blame of a person's suffering onto government. We all complain that the services provided are insufficient to meet the needs of a compassionate society, but where do we draw the line on the cost?
Does a family member of the suffering person make that choice? Does the suffering person? A very hard thing to discuss without sounding callous.

The debate on healthcare can run pretty deep if you look at it objectively.

The Canadian healthcare system will be collapsing under it's own weight in the not so distant future.

No publicly funded system can represent all things to all people