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A Message to Connie
January 23rd, 2012 @ 2:03 pm

I just received this email from Constance “Connie” Wade at Halifax Hospital: Dear David. I am sending you the information you requested. Your Mother’s height is recorded to be 67.99 inches and weight is 228.84. It is good you are working on a medicaid waiver. We do need to understand her funding. I have requested […]

Re: Kathleen Gagne
January 23rd, 2012 @ 1:56 pm

Here is an email I received from Delia McClain, Medicaid Client Services Specialist with ElderSource: Good afternoon Mr. Gagne, I rec’d your mother’s info and have updated the database accordingly. Hope your mother’s health improves so she can get her independence back. As advised during our previous discussion, she will remain on the wait lists […]

Intake Assessment Follow-Up
January 23rd, 2012 @ 1:14 pm

I just sent the following message to Delia Mcclain, Medicaid Client Services Specialist at ElderSource: Dear Delia, We spoke on Friday, January 20, 2012 at approximately 12:45pm Eastern time. This is regarding my mother: KATHLEEN ANNE GAGNE aka “KATHIE” GAGNE Maiden Name: [redacted] DOB: [redacted] SS#: [redacted] You had asked me to confirm her height […]

Writing Letters
January 23rd, 2012 @ 10:28 am

I started writing my mom a letter every day almost immediately after she was admitted to Stewart-Marchman at the beginning of December. I printed bunches and bunches of photos of my son and me, and I included two or three photos in almost every letter. When she was transferred from Stewart-Marchman to the Psychiatric Unit […]

A Neurological Evaluation
January 20th, 2012 @ 11:30 am

I just received the following email from Constance Wade at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit: I am pleased to inform you a neurological evaluation has been ordered for your mother. We will be mailing the guardian advocate book and test to you. Please fill out the test and mail it back to us. Our nursing […]

A Very Long Day
January 20th, 2012 @ 6:20 am

Here are my notes from January 20th: 0620: Connie Wade called, my first conversation with her unsure of her own email address – conniewade@halifax.org? sounded very caring and competent, said mom is on 2500 unit and Rhonda is her nurse today Connie gave me address to send mom cards, etc. Halifax Psychiatric Center 303 N […]

Location Confirmed
January 19th, 2012 @ 7:00 pm

I called Halifax Hospital to see if I could talk to my mom. I figured she’d be scared and anxious about being transferred from Stewart-Marchman ACT to there so abruptly. Unfortunately because it was so late and because of the amazingly consistent inefficiency and incompetence of the healthcare system in Volusia County, nobody there could […]

Rodney
January 19th, 2012 @ 4:00 pm

Rodney Curtis, the discharge coordinator at Stewart-Marchman ACT called me at four o’clock this afternoon and we had a lengthy conversation. Here are my notes from the call: 1600h Rodney called said an ALF was found in Palm Coast said that in the last 3 or 4 days (01/16-01/19) mom has gotten worse, she’s unable […]

ElderSource Call
January 19th, 2012 @ 1:30 pm

I spent a long time on the phone this afternoon in yet another fruitless attempt to get my mom approved for Medicaid: Timothy Jefferson @ ElderSource 904 391-6650 said he received an email from Linda Kattenoff and had Deborah‘s supervisor on the phone listening said CARES is the only agency that can do assessments said […]

Waiting List Mistakes
January 19th, 2012 @ 8:51 am

I just received a very disturbing email from Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman: David, I called Cares at 904-238-4946 & they told me they had spoken to you yesterday & that your mother was not on their waiting list because their waiting list is for long term diversion age 65 & above – I called the […]