Is the Hospice Industry Really Corrupt?

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[samanthafigueroa]

As my mother's caregiver, I have realized that she has been sent to hospice care at home. I was lied to and she did not even realize where she was being sent. I almost lost my mother due to a medication she was prescribed by her RN which she did not even need. I'm working towards getting justice done to others who are being killed by this system.

[kathyherman]

I didn’t listen to the whole video, but hospice was an incredible blessing to my family for both my parents. And yes, my parents both lived much longer than 6 months. My dad was 100% bedridden and was on hospice for 2 1/2 years. He died at 92 years old in the home he lived in for over 60 years. Without hospice, we would not have been able to honor my dad’s wishes to die at home. I feel he lived much longer because of hospice. He had consistent nurses, bath aide’s, chaplain and social worker. They also brought in pet therapy and music therapy. I highly recommend hospice to everyone who is in a similar situation.

[burnedouthealthcareworker]

While there are a few bad hospice companies. Assisted living centers rarely if ever tell the new residents families they will need to step in and either pay more or medicate the resident when they decline. As a health care provider, I don't recommend assisted living centers as the families often end up paying more than a nursing home and receive less care. In addition, the assisted living centers rarely if ever are staffed with a nurse to medicate the patient so they their the family stays the night or they have to pay an outside nursing company to stay with the resident of an assisted living center. Who's more likely to be corrupt?

[markrichards]

Another eye opening video. Appreciate being educated on this sensitive subject.

[hummingbirdbumblebee]

I am new at being sick. When covid was around, the parks and libraries were shut down. I stopped exercising. Nowhere to go. After a year of that, a itchy spot became apparent on my ankle. I thought it was poison ivy. Then this spot got bigger and bigger to the point that both my legs were covered with it. The itchy stopped, but my muscles weakened. My legs were draining some kind of fluid I had never experienced before. I could no longer move like I wanted to. My diet changed. Nothing tasted good. Milk was all I could tolerate. I wanted to lose weight anyway. But then I fell and couldn't get up. I was taken to a hospital that knew how to lessen the swelling of my legs, but these legs hurt a lot for some reason. No one would tell me why.
Then I got a ride to a nursing home. They did nothing but put bandages and ace wraps on my legs. Pills did nothing and the foods were toxic carbohydrates and sugars. This was a huge, nice place where everyone got their own bedroom. After a month it was time to go. No one spoke to me about where I should go. They gave me no suggestions. People showed up with places to live way above my budget. Then a man showed up on the last day that insurance would pay. I wasn't warned of him. It was scary, yet I had to get out of there. He did say he was taking me to a group home, I think. So I went. This group home put 2 people in the same small bedroom. The bathroom was too small for a wheelchair. I had to use a portable potty in the closet. This house was too small for the 5 people they were taking money from. The first two weeks they could get no money from me. But I was allowed to stay because they thought they would get money later. But I could not stand to be there anymore because they locked the door from the INSIDE. Plus a whole lot of hospice type people showed up. They wanted me to sign papers. No money was involved. My first experience with hospice people.
Somewhere in there I had received papers from a doctor saying that he expected my health to go down in 6 to 12 months. My health is fine except for the metabolic acidosis diagnosis I was given. Since when does itchy, hurting legs turn into death?
I didn't know I was on the edge of dying. No one in that place was on the edge except one man did have some kind of stroke.
I moved from that house soon after to go back to the RV I had been living in. These hospice people showed up there, too. Maybe 2 or 3 times somebody wrapped my legs with products they brought. A man showed up maybe 5 times just to talk. I still could not walk except for leaning on things. Then they stopped. Later on while I was in another nursing home I got a medicare bill. Medicare had paid this hospice $5200 for only a few visits. This sounds like a whole lot of cheating to me.

[BunnyTree]

My father is being itimidated into palliative care (stepping stone to hospice) and i can tell cardiology is just tired of working w him. He is older w whole realm of issues but the “sales rep” doctor that came to their home definitely fluffed up his numbers to make it seem he was dying shortly. There is also a great article titled DOCTORS SAY HCA HOSPITALS PUSH PATIENTS INTO HOSPICE CARE TO IMPROVE MORTALITY STATS by NBC. Great article. Big healthcare is trying to rid itself of needy patients to help their own stats.

Thank you for your video!

[robinrosenberg]

In order to qualify for Hospice and be certified as eligible, you must have a terminal condition. Next, the doctor has to prognosticate that the terminal condition is likely to result in death within 6 months. That prognostication is quite tricky, depending on the diagnosis. It is very possible for someone to qualify for Hospice, and to live for another year or two after the certification of eligibility, although that is uncommon. In fact, about 1/3 of patients are only on Hospice for one week or less. Hospice is actually most beneficial for patients who are able to utilize it for 6 months. Having had a father, mother-in-law and close family friend who lived one month or less once Hospice was in place, I wish we had realized how close to death they were at that time and put Hospice into place much sooner than we did. Many familieis feel that way. I now work for a non-profit Hospice and I am extremely proud of the service we provide to our patients and their families.

[shananarocks]

One of my colleague is being scammed into staying at hospice because he is NOT dying and easy to maintain. This maximise the profit for the hospice while getting government funds.

[annfieger]

Dear Lord I'm in hospice & this is scary.

[ceb]

They are trying to push my mom on hospice…… a company owned by united healthcare……she is not even terminal

[laetitia]

I like how the hospice nurses always and repetitively ask the patient /family : " Is he in pain ? " they are so
" kind, helpful quick " to come, but only to help you die faster ....and not help you live and enjoy whatever its left of person's life"...
Pushing opioids into someone who is NOT screaming / moaning of pain is in my opinion euthanasia...I call it " glorified euthanasia" .

[profbell]

Thank you so much for this video! I really needed it. I take care of my 86 year (young) dad. It’s been 6 weeks since I brought him home. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, enlarged prostrate, anemia, congestive heart failure, and he has a urine (foli catheter) for 2-years.

My kids think my dad should be in a nursing home or Hospice. He is bedridden and cannot feed himself or use the bathroom on his own. He is vision impaired. He is on a puréed diet. He cannot eat solid foods. I have to feed him and give him meditation 6 times a day. I clean him and change his diapers and empty his urine every day. I also turn him from side-to-side to prevent bed sores. The kids help sometimes. I feel so sorry for my dad!

The only thing my dad can do is tell me what he wants and listen to Minister Jimmy Swagger on the tv. My dad believes he will be healed. He is holding to life by a thread. I stand with him until he tells me he is ready. I WANT MY DAD TO MAKE HIS OWN DECISION ABOUT DEATH AND DYING, BUT WE ARE GETTING TIRED.

Do you think me and the kids should make the decision to put my dad in hospice or wait until my dad is ready?

[ldmdkuz]

9 years ago my high school sweetheart died of colon cancer at the age of 57. In home hospice lied to me. At the time of crisis death trajectory the nearest nurse was 2 hours away. For 2 months their doctor was scheduled but never showed up. I could rant more. After their big mishandling of my wife they fired the nurse. I found out later that they closed shop. However, they started another hospice under a new name. Central Iowa. Dismal regulation. My sweet wife of 38 years deserved better. Had to get an ambulance for pain relief. At least I was there as we said goodbye to each other.

[caneprints]

My mom is 93 and has pneumonia. She was discharged from the hospital to the hospice floor, which is not owned by the hospital, at the urging of someone who came to talk to our family about the benefits of the sixth floor hospice program. It sounded great to us and sounded terrific for my mom because we wanted comfort care for her because she had multiple illnesses and was very sick, almost dying several times in the past week. She has been in hospice on that floor for 24 hours and we get a surprise call from their social work staff saying they wanted to Basically boot my mom out of their facility and put her in a nursing home where they would provide hospice care. The social worker wanted to know how much my mom could put up as collateral for the nursing home. Our understanding was that my mom would stay there in her final moments and be cared for, but they said no, that was not the case. They claim my mom is doing better, but she is not. They gave her morphine because she was in pain, which I thought meant that she was dying. Essentially, I feel like we were scanned and now the family is reeling because we don’t know where to put Mom. She is extremely weak and her breathing is very irregular and shallow, then we’ll get fast. She has Medicare and we signed papers for her to have hospice there and she was excepted into the hospice program, but then we get this totally unexpected call saying she was getting the boot and we have no idea what to do now. my brother and I live here and we both have disabilities, but since the house will have to probably be put up as collateral, we will be looking for a place to live. I don’t understand any of this. We will be meeting with the social worker tomorrow. we cannot care for Mom without lots of help, but we would be willing to have her at home if we had that help. But they wanted to know about my mom‘s assets for the nursing home transfer, which was never discussed with us at all when we signed up for this program. please keep us in your prayers. I never thought I would be homeless because of this situation. We love my mom so much and would do anything for her, but without help at home, especially at night, we cannot care for her.

[laetitia]

People should die with dignity, at their own time, not be pushed into a drugged state, gurgling and rattling and gasping for air...thats not dignity or comfort care AT ALL!!!!

[gretchenmiller]

Where I live in Ohio we have an inpatient hospice facility available. They are wonderful. We have used them both in home and inpatient and they were amazing.

[erikak]

I believe that. Same with the medical industry as a whole.

[jrrj-vfjb]

In home patient care. Why does hospice want to keep all the equipment that was assigned to my husband from “The Veterans Administration “, now deceased. Doesn’t the patient family keep the equipment for future family use.Thank you

[keithfrank]

I have a 16 bedroom 10 bath house with cooking areas meeting room and movie theater room. Just wondering if you guys need extra space to lease for Hospice services, im just trying to put this house to use. We also have our cat, , , most hugged cat in the world , ,, to help comfort people.

[Zrunawaybride]

I noticed that at the top of my chart, my primary care doctor wrote continuity of care. I am 72 years old and in very good athletic shape. I don't know what's going on. But I have some concerns. Does anybody have any answers about this about this term continuity of care?