Anonymous wrote:Back to add: Montcare was so bad, we caught one of the aides moving the call bell remote out of my mom's reach a number of times. On the weekend, my mom waited FOUR HOURS for someone to come help her to the bathroom. She ended up pooping herself in bed and no one came back for FOUR HOURS to help clean her. She is a timid, sweet lady, and cried daily until I could come up with the cash to get her out of there. I felt awful the entire time she was there. If you end up putting anyone at Montcare, please, for the love of God, visit them daily, you have to stay on top of LITERALLY EVERYTHING in that facility. The building "looks nice" but it is not a well run place. I feel really bad for having put my mom in there.

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all of the ones that will accept someone who is already on Medicaid are going to be unacceptable. The best hope I would say is Little Sisters of the Poor in DC. However there is a law that says a nursing home that does not accept Medicaid for admitting residents, must accept Medicare from an existing resident if that person has lived there for a certain period of time. My recommendation is to get together enough cash to pay for that duration at a place you like and then switch to Medicaid.

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Anonymous wrote:Please avoid Montcare Potomac. Maybe all nursing homes are equally bad but they were perpetually understaffed. There were many kind workers but it was typical to only have one nurse for an entire corridor and the nursing assistants were overworked resulting in my loved one waiting an hour or more at certain times of day. She was left to have accidents because she couldn’t get to the bathroom. Later she was left in dirty diapers for hours.

This may be due to the challenges of finding staff, but may also be due to corporations successfully lobbying to lower patient/resident to staff ratios. Lots of folks blame blue state guvs for COVID deaths in nursing homes but refuse to acknowledge that the Trump admin weakened nursing home regs that may have limited/stemmed contagion.

Start with the nonprofits and see if they have openings. I'm sure not all are tops, but I've had much better experience with them. Nothing like overhearing staff at the nonprofit home talk amongst themselves about how great it is to open a supply closet and find the supplies needed to do their job, usually not the case for them at the corporate-owned homes.

It's not any better at for profit vs. non-profit. Non-profit sounds better but it's not.

I can only go with our experience and the non-profit nursing home was heads and shoulders better than the for-profits.

This was not in large metro area, so perhaps that played a factor.

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all of the ones that will accept someone who is already on Medicaid are going to be unacceptable. The best hope I would say is Little Sisters of the Poor in DC. However there is a law that says a nursing home that does not accept Medicaid for admitting residents, must accept Medicare from an existing resident if that person has lived there for a certain period of time. My recommendation is to get together enough cash to pay for that duration at a place you like and then switch to Medicaid.

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Anonymous wrote:Please avoid Montcare Potomac. Maybe all nursing homes are equally bad but they were perpetually understaffed. There were many kind workers but it was typical to only have one nurse for an entire corridor and the nursing assistants were overworked resulting in my loved one waiting an hour or more at certain times of day. She was left to have accidents because she couldn’t get to the bathroom. Later she was left in dirty diapers for hours.

This may be due to the challenges of finding staff, but may also be due to corporations successfully lobbying to lower patient/resident to staff ratios. Lots of folks blame blue state guvs for COVID deaths in nursing homes but refuse to acknowledge that the Trump admin weakened nursing home regs that may have limited/stemmed contagion.

Start with the nonprofits and see if they have openings. I'm sure not all are tops, but I've had much better experience with them. Nothing like overhearing staff at the nonprofit home talk amongst themselves about how great it is to open a supply closet and find the supplies needed to do their job, usually not the case for them at the corporate-owned homes.

Anonymous wrote:Please avoid Montcare Potomac. Maybe all nursing homes are equally bad but they were perpetually understaffed. There were many kind workers but it was typical to only have one nurse for an entire corridor and the nursing assistants were overworked resulting in my loved one waiting an hour or more at certain times of day. She was left to have accidents because she couldn’t get to the bathroom. Later she was left in dirty diapers for hours.