One more point to make on this. People are often sent to hospitals from nursing homes and other institutions with decubitis ulcers that you describe here. So 24 hour staffed facilities with nurses, aids, etc. are neglecting patients as well. And the hospital turns around and sends them back to the same rathole institution. Marta
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> Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote:
> > He came to the hospital because his entire hips, buttocks and thighs were
> > ulcerated and bleeding - not from poor nutrition, but from poor circulation
> > and sitting in one position for too many days. A visiting nurse comes
> > quarterly, and she's the one who sent him to the hospital. In the hospital,
> > we will give him some rehab until his backside heals, put him on a diet,
> > hopefully give him some exercises he can do at home, (but this isn't certain
> > because there is not regular physical therapist at the hospital), then send
> > him back to the same situation.
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