Reply With Quotewhy didnt they move their mother to a new facility? or take mom home and care for them at home?
why didnt they complain/file suit sooner?
Patti Moriarty smiles when she remembers her mother, Ruth Moriarty.
“She just had a love for life and her family,” said Patti.
Ruth, a devoted mother who was born and raised in North Tonawanda, died in June at the age of 86 after spending the last years of her life in a nursing home.
atti said she and family members occasionally found their mother in “horrible” conditions during Ruth’s seven-year stay at Williamsville Suburban on South Union Road.
“The facility was very dirty. Not clean, sanitary where they eat. Where they sleep. Where they live,” said Patti. “It broke my heart to see my mom in that condition.”
She said her mother could not speak or walk and had difficulty breathing, and suffered from sores on her skin during the final months of her life.
“The attention just wasn’t there,” Patti added.
She said the family expressed concern, not just about her mother’s care, but the care of other residents in the facility. The family recently filed a complaint with the State Attorney General’s Office, and retained a law firm to pursue a possible civil case.
In response, an attorney representing Williamsville Suburban told News 4 Investigates that Ruth was “highly regarded and loved by the staff.”
Attorney Richard Sullivan says the “family never complained about her treatment” during the seven years she was a resident there, adding, “We don’t understand what their complaints are about.”
Nursing Home Compare – a web site run by Medicare – tracks quality of care information on every Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country. Williamsville Suburban has an overall rating of one out of five stars, which is much below average.
http://wivb.com/2014/07/22/family-fi...-nursing-home/
People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.
why didnt they move their mother to a new facility? or take mom home and care for them at home?
why didnt they complain/file suit sooner?
Willful ignorance is the downfall of every major empire in history.
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Mao, 1938
Yes, maybe the family should be chastised for not taking action. But that doesn't excuse the nursing home if it was not providing care in accordance with the minimal required standards. It may impact on the credibility of the family's claims, but if there is independent evidence of substandard care by the nursing home, the fact that the family was a bunch of duffeses is meaningless.Originally Posted by FMD
Whether patients have an involved family or no family, the nursing home owes all of them a minimal standard of care that they cannot fall below.
WoW! all I can say is WoW!
Willful ignorance is the downfall of every major empire in history.
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Mao, 1938
I was wondering the same thing
People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.
They were content for 7 years and now there's a problem?
Like Judge Judy says, "If you eat the steak you have to pay for it. If you don't like the conditions..... ahhhmove! "
Pretty obvious they don't want to pay the bill. Nonads stop making excuses for these losers.
Democrats & Republicans Suck Alike.
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