I spent a staggering sixty-nine minutes on the phone with a social worker named Marilyn at Halifax Hospital this afternoon. I took over a page of notes, and when the call was finished I was mentally and emotionally exhausted. Here are my notes from the call: 1240 – called Marilyn, social worker; super nice, smart, […]
Late on February 29th, 2012, my friend’s wife replied to my frustrated email about administrators at Halifax Hospital suddenly wanting to discharge mom without having a good option of where she should go: From: [redacted] To: Gagne, David Subject: Re: Treatment Team Meeting 2.28.12 Sent: February 29, 2012 7:56 PM ET Any way you […]
I called and spoke to Maryann at Chamberlin Edmonds. We talked for twenty-seven minutes. Here are my notes from the call: 1417 called Maryann at ChamberlainEdmunds. They are a national company with offices in many hospitals; said their mission is to “help people with little or no health insurance.” Maryann was very nice. She said […]
Here is a voice mail I just received: “Mr. Gagne, this is Marilyn at Halifax in Daytona. I just gave [name redacted] a call to see if she could join us in a meeting on Friday, this Friday, eight-thirty in the morning, 1 to discuss the Medicaid application and that kind of thing that is […]
This is an email I sent to a friend of mine. From: Gagne, David To: [redacted] Subject: Fwd: Treatment Team Meeting 2.28.12 Sent: February 29, 2012 2:18 AM ET Hey [redacted], This is an email (see below) I received from my sister summarizing what was discussed at Monday’s treatment team meeting. I find it […]
My sister just sent me this email: Hey, David. This is a brief rundown of what I got out of the meeting. (I am not agreeing with all of it, just telling you what I heard them saying.) I am also working on a journal of my visits. I will send you that once I […]
On the morning of February 24th, 2012, my little sister forwarded me an email she received from someone at Emeritus at Port Orange: From: Gagne, Jennifer To: Gagne, David Subject: Fwd: Emeritus at Port Orange Sent: February 24, 2012 9:01 AM Hi, David. I received this from one of the places I visited. I […]
I received the following email from my sister today: David, I met Connie & Marilyn today. Marilyn thinks that where Mom is at now is what her baseline is going to be. Neither of them seems to think Mom is going to improve, and that at best we can improve her environment. Connie was saying […]
My sister asked me to send this email to Connie Wade 1 at Halifax because apparently they were giving her a hard time about returning my mother’s personal items to her. 2 It is a fine example of their strict policy regarding the arbitrary enforcement of their other policies. 3 Dear Connie, This message is […]