I sent this message to Judy Martin <Judy.Martin@HamptonManor.net> and copied my sister: Dear Judy, I never received a response to the message I sent last Wednesday, January 18, 2012. I’ve included it here again, and am copying my sister, [name redacted]. ([name redacted] lives in Seattle, WA.) On the evening of Thursday, January 19, 2012, […]
Delia McClain sent me this email in response to my previous email and questions about Medicaid: Good morning Mr. Gagne, During our previous discussion, you also informed me that your mother had been diagnose with Dementia. I’d advised you that there is a program for clients with Dementia that I would add her name to […]
I sent this email to Delia McClain, Medicaid Client Services Specialist at ElderSource in Jacksonville, Florida: Hello, Delia, Thank you! You said that my mother, “will remain on the wait lists until funding becomes available.” I was only aware of a single wait list, what I have been referring to as the waiting list to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I sent the following email to Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman: Dear Sophia, I spoke with both the Elder Help Line at (888) 242-4464 and C.A.R.E.S. at (386) 238-4946 and neither one of them has any record at all of my mother. I spoke with a woman named Linda at C.A.R.E.S. and a woman named Deborah […]