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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MOST important thing is that neither you nor the relative accept him into your home now.  Then the hospital will have to find a bed for him in a place that will care for him, no matter what insurance he has, or doesn't have.

Once someone accepts him into their home, it is it is over, and on you, rather than the hospital, to solve the problem. [/quote]

This!!!  Just had to deal with this with my mother.  To make a long story short, severe alcoholic who lived with her boyfriend for the last 18 years.  Boyfriend went into hospital, mom couldn't take care of herself and ended up in hospital also.  Boyfriend died and hospital kept mom until court ordered guardian could be appointed.  Hospital and guardian found rehab facility (not for alcohol) to discharge to and then rehab found memory care facility for long term care. [b] It takes time but if no one will take the elderly person the hospital is required to find next facility.  Then that facility has to find the next.  Sort of like passing the buck.[/b]  For my mom, she does have money so she ended up in a good location but they had to handle it rather than me stepping in.[/quote]

Yup.  Once you touch it, you own it.  If a facility accepts a resident and then discovers that the hospital wasn't entirely truthful upon discharge (I'm an RN, this happens every day in order to get someone out of a hospital bed and into a facility), the accepting facility must now find placement for that resident.  Which means embellishing/lying about why the resident needs a new placement[/quote]

They can kick someone out and not  make a plan.  The nursing home my loved one was at tried to kick her out and tell us we had to take her.  We had to fight it with an attorney and ombudsman.  We won in the end.[/quote]

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