Today was moving day for GGPA. This morning, Scott, Ken, Jeff and Owen met GGPa at Virginia Mason to coordinate the big jail break. After talking with the Doctor's, Nurses, and Social Worker's, and getting the paperwork straight, we helped him into his best looking sweat suit, grabbed a wheel chair, and headed for the exit. Scott chaufferred GGpa to the Manor Care Rehabilitation Center in Lynnwood. There was a lot of paperwork and information sharing, but they quickly brought him a nice lunch and site Doctor was right on the heals of lunch to do a full patient history and exam. Dr. Brieghton gave him solid marks.
The place is nice and the staff very welcoming. One drawback was that he was admitted on to the second floor which is the skilled nursing floor and has the look, feel and smell of a nursing home instead of a rehabilitation center. We talked with the Administrator and he will be moved down to the first floor tommorow which is the floor that Ken and Jeff toured originally and is filled with people that are working to get better as oppossed to residents who seem like they are the final stop on the line. It will be a much better environment, filled with people that are motivated to get better and move out.
Tomorrow we hope to find out more about his DSHS eligibility and who will pay for what. We are confident that DSHS will pay for his stay at Manor Care, but we are also lobbying for the Doctor at VM to change his stay staus there from "Observation" to "Acute" status, which would confirm that Medicare will pay 100% for at least the first 20 days. Either way, we are 99% sure (as is the facility) that his stay at Manor Care will be covered.
Matt came over at 5:00 PM and stayed with GGpa through dinner. Now he is home here with us at Scott's and GGpa is mellowing out at Manor Care watching the Olympics and healing up.
Hello Everyone! What was the reason they admitted Dad today to the 2nd floor versus the 1st floor at Manor Care?
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