An Email to Michelle Cofano
August 11th, 2012 @ 12:32 am

I was so upset about what happened tonight while dealing with the staff at Woodland Terrace that I sent an email to Michelle Cofano <Cofanom@elderaffairs.org>, the Registered Nurse Specialist at the Department of Elder Affairs who earlier this week helped me make some progress on obtaining Medicaid for mom. The subject of the email was […]

Re: CHECKS
August 9th, 2012 @ 11:33 am

Just a few days before mom died, my sister and I had this email exchange:   From: Gagne, David To: Gagne, Jennifer Subject: Re: CHECKS Sent: August 9, 2012 8:03 AM PT Jenny, If I remember correctly, her Social Security checks are $1104.00/mo. Are you saying you sent Woodland Terrace $1104.00? Why such an odd […]

Level of Care Confirmation
August 8th, 2012 @ 10:32 am

True to her word, Michelle Cofano <Cofanom@elderaffairs.org> from the Florida Department of Elder Affairs emailed me today to confirm that she submitted her “Level of Care” report: Hey David, I just wanted to let you know I personally faxed the Level of Care this afternoon to the nursing home and I hand delivered the Level […]

Confirmation from Shelly
August 7th, 2012 @ 6:30 am

Early this morning Shelly from Woodland Terrace responded to my sister’s email from last night: Yes, all the information was forwarded on 7/23/12. I re-faxed the consents and 3008 again this morning. We are still waiting on the Level of Care and will forward that once received. Shelly (My sister replied with, “Thank you,” about […]

RE: Kathleen Gagne Medicaid
August 6th, 2012 @ 7:27 pm

My sister sent this email to both me and to Shelly Sparace 1 at Woodland Terrace: Hi, David and Shelly. I received a notice in my email that linked to this letter from Medicaid 2. Shelly, have these forms been sent? Attached was a 2.2MB PDF named “Medicaid Letter 8.7.2012”. It is another perfect example […]

Psychiatric Therapy Approved
August 3rd, 2012 @ 10:30 am

I just received a call from Shelly Sparace at Woodland Terrace. She asked how I was doing and I said that everything was going well aside from spending the last nine months dealing with the most horrible, traumatic thing that has ever happened to my family. She said she understood and sounded very sympathetic. She […]

Re: Mom and Therapy
July 31st, 2012 @ 4:41 pm

My sister sent me this email: Hi, David. Sylvia 1 returned my phone call this afternoon. She said that it would be best to go ahead and send them a payment from Mom’s Social Security equivalent to her monthly amount minus the $[redacted] that will go into Mom’s Personal Trust (Mom’s “fun”money account, so to […]

Mom and Therapy
July 31st, 2012 @ 12:59 pm

My sister just sent me this email: […] Do you know if they are doing any kind of therapy with Mom? As I was reading the blog entry about the Olympics and thinking about Mom in a wheelchair, I got concerned about whether or not they were doing ANY physical therapy with her. Even just […]

Returned Admissions Forms
July 31st, 2012 @ 12:01 pm

This afternoon I signed and / or initialed and then faxed to Woodland Terrace the majority of the new documents which Rosa Rivera sent me yesterday. I included a cover letter, and then also emailed it to her: Dear Ms. Rivera, At approximately 3:00PM EDT I signed and / or initialed and returned the following […]

Medicaid Application Status
July 31st, 2012 @ 8:16 am

I just sent this message to wtsocialterr@wterrace.com, which I believe is the email address of Shelly Sparace, the social worker at Woodland Terrace who has been working (primarily with my sister) on my mother’s application for Medicaid: Dear Shelly, I am writing to get information on the status of my mother’s application for Medicaid. Has […]