Any Hospice Horror Stories?
Question by getnabargain: Any Hospice horror stories?
Here’s mine.Nurse comes to house acting odd,doesn’t make a lot of sense, Falls asleep.Gives patient inferior meds,approved by hospice.Patient deteriorates at rapid rate.Caregiver recognizes patient has problem immediately after starting new meds,{zoloft}Nurse refuses to stop zoloft, explaining that the patient is simply getting worse on his own.After all he is dying,that is why he is in Hospice.Finally after several weeks,patient stops zoloft on his own,begins to gain weight,feels better.I complain to the local hospice.They now send out a “grief counselor” who is not at all sympathetic,citing the familiar theme,”he’s dying anyway,patient is tossed from program for complaining. By now someone has reported the nurse,who fails a reasonable suspicion drug test for marijuana &?. She is put on a drug abuse program and sent back to work after about 30 days.Grief counselor also fails drug test. Hospice national HQ says no patient entitled to program.Thank you Hospice of Lake &Sumter Florida!