Cara Anguisette's blog: "My Momma"

So last week I decided to have my momma evaluated for dementia/alzheimers. On the same day I was also told that they were doing blood work to rule out any sort of possible illness and they would call me with results when they came in.  As of thursday last week I was still waiting for said results when my mommas kidney specialist called to express concerns about something they had seen, telling me that they called the nursing home about their concerns the day before so after I get off the phone with the drs offince i procede to call the nursing home to let them know that my moms drs office called explaining what they thought it was and that they felt she should have it evaluated by a dr asap if not sent to the er.  the nursing staff seemed like that was the first time they were hearing this news about the kidney specialist concerns. now i know they are short staffed and all but isnt this why have reports during shift changes and notations to charts so that everyone is up to date on every resident and knows everything there is to know that has happened be it a call from a drs office or family member with concerns so that when an audit happens on the state level they can see all notations made to the charts. 

so today I had to step up my calls to the administrator of the nursing home to find out what was going on to express concerns that i left messages on thursday and have yet to be called back. thinking that 2 business days is more than enough time for the person to give me a call back. I realize that my momma is not the only patient in there and that i probably wasnt the only one that called during that time but even drs offices call you back within that amount of time. 

I have found out that she is schedule to be eval'd on the 15th not by who they had said but still someone that is qualified to do it and we will go from there.