The home where I'm at has a dedicated attendant who insures we get lots of exercise with minimal excessive calories.
I have to get back to weaving "genuine" Navajo blankets now or it's back in the hot box again.
Posted on 08/06/2026 10:55:39 AM PDT by Morgana
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (WTVF) — Last week we told you about the man in Robertson County who wound up on the side of a busy road, all day in his wheelchair, with all of his belongings. He'd been a patient at the Waters of Springfield nursing home. After he was sent to the hospital for tests, the nursing home refused to take him back, apparently violating state rules.
And at that same nursing home last week, emergency crews were called after another resident got out a back door in his wheelchair and rolled into a large ditch in front of the facility. The elderly man was taken to the hospital with injuries.
And before all of that, a patient's sudden death at the Waters earlier this year raises questions as well. That man's daughter said she doesn't understand why the Waters of Springfield is still even open.
Olivia Kritsch said, "I cannot describe the way I felt when I first heard the 911 call."
The 911 dispatcher can be heard asking, "Is he awake and breathing?'
The caller replies, "No."
"He's not breathing?" the dispatcher asks again, confirming the patient's status.
Again, the caller says, "No."
That 911 call was made early February 5th of this year.
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There was an accident with a motorcyclist who ran into a bridge in our area - he was decapitated. When the person who came upon the scene called 911 and explained what happen, like the guy’s head was not attached to the body, the 911 operator was insisting to check if the guy was dead and to check him out. Ya, rly??
Hospitals are not allowed to discharge a patient without a responsible party picking up and accepting responsibility for that patient.
Somebody dumped that man on the side of the road. The hospital is at fault or the man’s family is at fault or perhaps the nursing home did send a person to go get the man. The story does not say.
They’re not supposed to do that.
But granny dumping is still a thing.
I suspect the nursing home was staffed by uninterested, unqualified friends, family members, and/or DEI hires who weren’t willing or able to do their job.
Outrageous! Most nursing homes hire the absolute cheapest help they can find; it’s all about the benjamins. Administrators get bonuses based on how little they spend. I was Director of Nurses at one, and was not satisfied with the quality of care. When the administrator fired me, I told her what a poor specimen of administrator she was. She drew herself up and replied, “My bosses are very happy with me!” I told her to try spending some money and see how they liked her. Several months after I left, it was closed down; a couple of the LPNs had been abusing patients. Thank God I was not director at that time.
The article said he was at the side of the road with all of his belongings. I doubt he brought them to the hospital. It seems to me he was returned to the nursing home and packed up with his belongings and dumped at the side of the road.
My in-laws were in a nursing home about a year or two prior to their deaths.
My mother-in-law suffered a stroke and needed around the clock 24/7 care. My father-in-law stayed with us in our home until he reached a point where he needed more care plus he wanted to be in the same home as his wife.
We were very fortunate that this was a privately run family owned nursing home. Not part of a chain. And the head nurse was a very good friend of ours .
Nursing homes aren’t homes, and they don’t provide medical care. Each patient is a meal ticket, allowing the facility to rake in big bucks. Most patients are unable to look after themselves or to defend their rights, so the facilities use them as the excuse to bill Medicare. They are hell on earth.
Technical correction—the largest source of Nursing Home revenue nationally is Medicaid not Medicare.
“Nursing home tells 911 CPR is being performed on a patient, but it wasn’t, raising questions about man’s death”. I’ve been trying to get my wife of 47 years into that nursing home, but they won’t take her.
Some are, some aren't. My brother and I finally persuaded our mom to go to an assisted living facility, but only after she reached the point of no longer being able to drive, cook or clean. My wife & I visited her small condo with some take out and she fell on it like a starving wolf. She could no longer open cans or jars and reaching for pots and pans was too much for her. The place was also dirty, although anywhere she had ever lived before was kept spotless.
She still resented going to the home, but at least she got fed and kept clean. As she declined she wound up accusing staff of taking her license or meds but of course she was just forgetful and misplaced them.
Taking care of cranky, declining old people (a state to which I am slowly advancing myself) is not a bed of roses. So I have a lot of respect for the staff who do their jobs right.
But the low pay attracts some real low-lifes as well, which is also a problem in Europe and not just the US. And that problem is exacerbated by grasping owners and managers.
I see a lot of nursing homes and they’re mostly hell holes. Eloping is common.
I once facilitated nursing home escape by an “unresponsive” patient playing possum with the LPNs. When we loaded him into the ambulance he raised his head, smiling ear to ear. I told him I was happy to provide the respite if he could state a medical complaint.
I used to do nursing home ministry. If people really cared about their family members, they’d do whatever it took to keep them out of one of those hell holes.
When my mother developed Alzheimer’s, my wife decided to keep her in the home with us so that she could be spared the indignation of the nursing home. She lived for another 9 1/2 years, 5 of that on hospice, before passing away. As hard as that was with three of my daughters still home, we have no regrets.
The home where I'm at has a dedicated attendant who insures we get lots of exercise with minimal excessive calories.
I have to get back to weaving "genuine" Navajo blankets now or it's back in the hot box again.
I’m sure that was very hard, but I salute you. May God bless you abundantly.
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