More fall out from that horrid piece of legislation, now directly effecting patient safety. Prior to this purely partisan piece of putrid poo, when patients were seen here at the hospital for whatever condition, in particular, joint replacements, they'd have surgery, then the following day, barring in complications, physical & occupational therapy would begin. Patients would be seen somewhere between 3-5 days, then discharged. They'd discharge home, if they were safe, or to a nursing facility if they needed more time to recover. System worked great
Enter Obamination care.....where now its been made clear to the surgeons & DC planners, that patients MUST go home by day 3 (And surgery day counts as day 1, which means they must go home after only 2 days of therapies) If they need more therapy, as in not safe to DC home on day 3, they must go to a Nursing facility. But wait, that costs far more money (tax dollars).
So, if a patient only needs perhaps 1 more day of therapy in the hospital, in order to be safe to go home, under the new mandates, the ENTIRE hopsital stay, including surgery could be denied by Medicare. YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. A pateint needs 1 more fricken day, to be safe to go home, but we can't get it, because Medicare could rip the cost of the entire hospitalization, incl surgery, from our hospital services, since we'd be out of the new compliance
And the only 2 other options are for the patient to go home, less than safe, thus at risk for falling and making things far worse, or being admitted to a Nursing facility, that they don't need, since nursing facilities don't take patients for just 1 day, and thus at a greater cost to tax payers
Unfrickenbelievable
