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[quote=Anonymous]thanks. the police said that it isn't a police or criminal issue. I spoke with the leder abuse people. Very nice but because the incident involved equipment, they see it as failure to use equipment properly and a retraining issue. Apparently a certain level of distress, pain and hurting is acceptable when it is related to health care. The woman compared it to "getting a bruise or having pain from having blood taken" and that some people just aren't great at their job. Basically she told me that compared to what she has seen and been able to charge, this doesn't even register. She did tell me to put up security cameras.

I spoke with the government level complaint department and they 'filed the complaint" and I should hear back from someone to get the details in 3 business days.

I spoke with the director of the facility and they are 'investigating' and will set up a meeting for next week to discuss what they found.

It is very hard to move her due to her finances and places that are in our budget. facilities only make room in case of a 'crisis' and this apparently doesn't constitute a crisis.

Right now, we are trying to just have family with her but we can't sustain that long term. Thanks to the PP for the kind offer, she needs a great deal of equipment to move about so unfortunately a home is very impractical. I am consdering trying to get the equipment to have her move in with us but I don't have an extra room - plus I have stairs so she would be housebound. [/quote]

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