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 […]

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 […]

Admission Pocket
July 30th, 2012 @ 7:15 am

At 7:15AM PDT I received another email from the copy machine at Woodland Terrace. It contained no subject line or message, but had a twenty-six page, 3MB file attached named doc04431020120730101424.pdf. About five minutes later I received this email from Rosa Rivera with the subject line “Admission Pocket”: Good morning David. I’ve resent the pages […]

ChamberlinEdmonds Calls My Sister
July 26th, 2012 @ 8:14 am

My sister just sent me this text message: I just received a phone call from Debbie Meadows 1 with ChamberlinEdmonds 2. She said she was calling to follow up on Mom’s Disability claim and Medicaid application. She asked for Nana’s maiden name 3 and said she would call me back to let me know the […]

Shelly Calls My Sister
July 25th, 2012 @ 12:21 pm

My sister sent me a text message to let me know she’d just received a phone call from Shelly Sparace at Woodland Terrace: Shelly just called. She said she and Sylvia looked at the website. From what she can tell, none of the items with “Denied” next to them are ones we are currently working […]

Location Confirmation
July 25th, 2012 @ 8:23 am

I got this text message from my sister this morning: Jessica 1 from Social Security called me this morning to verify where Mom was. I gave her the phone number for Woodland Terrace. She is going to contact them to verify Mom’s status and inability to sign her name and send them some forms. I […]

Medicaid Update
July 24th, 2012 @ 4:46 pm

My sister just sent me this email: Hi, David. I logged into the MyAccess Florida site to see if anything had changed. In some areas it says that Mom’s account is “Processing”. In another it says “Denied” next to everything. Then if you click further, it says that “We did not receive all the information […]

A Phone Call with Shelly
July 23rd, 2012 @ 10:07 am

I got an email from my sister letting me know she had talked to Shelly Sparace at Woodland Terrace: Hey, David. I talked to Shelly this morning. I asked her to call you and share with you what she told me so if you had further questions she could answer them. She said she could […]

A Call from Shelly
July 20th, 2012 @ 5:40 am

Shelly Sparace called me and left this voice mail: Hi, David. This is Shelly from Woodland Terrace. I received a message yesterday that you had called me. You can reach me at (386) 738-3433. Thank you.

Informed Consent Form [Update]
July 19th, 2012 @ 2:40 pm

Marsha Porter from Halifax Hospital responded to my request for more information regarding the informed consent form: Mr. Gagne, Thanks so much for your assistance with the consent form. I’m not sure if you will hear from any of the people at CARES unless they need more information. I’m not sure of the protocol after […]