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Nursing Homes: How to Find a Good One Or a Few Good Nurses in a Bad One, addresses the reality of today's nursing home care: Good nursing homes are scarce, thus many of our loved ones reside in facilities providing bad care. This guide offers an insider's solution-find a few good nurses and nurses' aids. The book offers insight into identifying a good nursing home and explains why a good nursing home today may be a bad nursing home tomorrow. The myth that a skilled nursing facility, a care and rehabilitation center, nursing center, memory care, etc., offer care superior to a nursing home is laid to rest. Directions on how to find each facility's state inspection reports and Medicare's database aid in side-by-side facility comparisons and objective looks at slick marketing claims. The value of this guide is its simple, direct approach to assuring that a loved one receives the best of care in any facility. Family, friends and the resident are given the tools needed to identify reasonable care and advocate until it is provided. Daily routines affecting each resident are approached in detail, for example, mealtimes, medications, confusion, restraints, incontinence, resident's rights, and more. Each chapter stands alone to provide a quick reference when problems arise. Payment is an issue with every nursing home admission. The Understanding Payment chapter encourages the reader to take control of their own resources whether private payment, insurance, Medicare, Medicaid or veterans benefits. Paying more at an up-scale facility never assures better care. The author explains why a plain vanilla nursing home may be a better choice for your loved one.

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Thirty years as a nursing home insider did not prepare the author for barriers encountered during her mother's nursing home care. Experience gave her the tools to find a good nursing home and the insight to know when that nursing home became just another bad nursing home. Lovett opted to move her mother to a facility near her home where she learned the value of a few good nurses and nursing assistants amidst the chaos of short staffing, management turnover and corporate double talk. She wrote this book as a guide for her sons and other families who may face the same nursing home decisions. Born in Hamlin, Texas, Frances Lovett spent much of her youth in Wyoming and graduated from high school in Hobbs, New Mexico. The author attended Hardin Simmons University and earned a diploma in nursing from Hendrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene, Texas. She practiced as a registered nurse in Oklahoma, Kansas, and South Carolina before returning to Texas. The scope of her professional experience included a variety of hospital specialty units before partnering with a fellow nurse to establish a home health agency. The author's nursing home positions included staff nurse, supervisor, nurse manager, and Medicare coordinator. She served as director of nursing at several facilities. As a certified wound care nurse Lovett consulted in facilities throughout Texas for prevention and treatment of bedsores. Practice extended into financial auditing, legal consulting and expert testimony in nursing home litigation. She lives in the Texas Hill Country and advocates for healthcare fairness. This is her first book.

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