|
Does the daughter have any recourse of Paying For Nursing Home?
QUESTION: What do you think of a nursing home, doctor, and spouse who
work together to force a 94-year old man take a drug (Zoloft)
against his will...just to keep him from wanting to go home?
His daughter objected, and the nursing home immediately
retaliated by discontinuing physical therapy so Medicare would
stop paying the $4,600 a month nursing home bill.
Does the daughter have any recourse?
ANSWER: Zoloft is an anti-depressant. What makes you believe that taking it
prevents the man from leaving the nursing home? Why would the nursing home
try to have his Medicare cut off? If he doesn't have Medicare how will the
nursing home be paid? If the daughter is not his legal guardian she probably
doesn't have much recourse. If the man or his guardian doesn't like this
nursing home he should move to another nursing home.
|
|
|
|
