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[quote=Anonymous]Hi - title says it all. We are in Maryland. My dad is in a new rehab facility due to a fall in his apartment and has fallen 3 times in the past week. This is his 4th rehab stay over several years but in different facilities (first was for a stroke about 10 years ago) and then he has had a few other stays unrelated to falling. He can ordinarily walk with a hemi walker or regular walker.

During this stay he has fallen 3 times. When I come and visit him, they have him parked in his wheelchair at the nurses desk because they say they are understaffed and they will have him parked there for hours at a time. He asks repeatedly to go lay down in his room and they will refuse because they say he is a fall risk.

Also his bedrails only extend 1/3 of his bed so a little above the waist. Two times he has fallen from trying to adjust himself and ended sliding off of the side bed (which could have been prevented with full railings on he side). They claim they cannot put him in a bed with railing along the entire side of the bed because he may hurt himself and they also cannot restrain him at the waist (as was done in the hospital) for the same reason - because he may hurt himself.

I’m trying to see if this is the norm. This was never an issue in other facilities where he has been and he has never before fallen in a facility. [/quote]

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