blowing the whistle

Dear Dr. Putz,

Now that I have gotten grandma back into the OFH (cue the horns and throw the confetti!!) and away from the neglectful rehab (shivers) I had a meeting with Natasha (Na-nausea) to go over grandma's "care plan". (Otherwise known as the plan in which the OFH plans on charging me more money for providing even less service) During that meeting we discussed grandma's medications. I requested that topic because I had noticed that you had taken grandma off her blood thinner. Which I thought was an interesting (ie: Do No Harm doc, sound familiar?) choice for a 96 year old with a current Deep Vein Thrombosis. Upon review I see that you had also stopped giving grandma her cholesterol medication and her therapeutic antibiotic which was keeping her recurring urinary tract infections at bay.

You know, Dr. Putz, I am going back and forth, back and forth in my head about deciding if I want to call up what ever watch dog organization keeps an eye on nursing homes, I mean, after the not bandaging grandma's amputation site slip, and the night nurse taking grandma for walks before she was cleared for walking on her amputated foot slip, and all the other little neglectful potentially dangerous oversights I just don't see how I can go on with a clear conscience if I don't report you and your rehab. There are other unsuspecting families trusting you are your organization to attend to the medical needs of their beloved parents and family members. I can't let any other of those innocent poor old people suffer.

Honestly, I am right now sitting here shocked, that after a six week sentence in your rehab grandma got off so easy with only another frigging UTI. Because while sitting in that meeting at the OFH discussing grandma's current state of elevated confusion, and then finding that the very same medicine that I had on at least 4 separate occasions informed the nurses that grandma must remain on due to her pre-existing rectal prolapse and tendency to UTI had been removed from her pharmaceutical routine. Dr. Putz, do you even know how confused an older person becomes when suffering from a urinary tract infection?

Dr. Putz, I only hope you live to 103 and are treated with the same callous disregard you have shown my grandmother.

See you from the witness stand,
Clickmom

Update: Just got off the phone with NJ Dept of he@lth & hum@n services. (Don't want any google hits) The rehab and the doctor have been reported. I did this for all the other sweet old men and old ladies who are still there. They deserve better.

Comments

[Jenny]

Good for you! I hope you really do send that to him, and make sure he knows its CC'd to the State Medical Board AND the State Insurance Board. My mom was a quack investigator for Blue Cross for years, and I can tell you that they are more afraid of losing their insurance relationships than they are in losing their license.

[Laura]

That's really disgusting. You should go to the tv stations. help me Howard on Channel 11 or Arnold Diaz' Shame On You. They could make it really uncomfortable for the Rehab Center and the OFH. And public humiliation does wonders to get them to clean up their act. Good for you for blowing the whistle on them with authorities.

[danelle]

I can't even imagine what gramma would be going through if you werent around to CARE. Hellooo does anyone CARE about these people at ALL?

Major karma points. Your space in heaven just got granite countertops.

[lilsis]

I am so glad that you did this... at some point you will get back all that you have been giving!!!

[apathy lounge]

You go, girl!