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  • Infection Lapses Rampant in Nursing Homes

    But Punishment Is Rare

    Basic steps to prevent infections — such as washing hands, isolating contagious patients and keeping ill nurses and aides from coming to work — are routinely ignored in the nation’s nursing homes, endangering residents and spreading hazardous germs…Continue Reading Here

    In McDonald’s and Burger King I often (not always) see a sign indicating that the employees are reminded to wash their hands by a sign posted in the restroom.  Children’s elementary schools are covered with hand sanitizer and I’ve noticed in the high school not only is there a LARGE bottle of hand sanitizer but also an inexpensive bottle of lotion/moisturizer (you know they are two different products??) next to each other.

    Ludlowe Center for Health and Rehabilitation is an affiliate of National Health Care Associates, a leader in short-term rehabilitation and skilled nursing care services throughout the Northeast. National Health Care’s signature “Passport Rehabilitation” program was specifically designed to meet the needs of individuals requiring a short-term rehabilitative stay following a surgical procedure or an acute medical episode. While on your short-term “trip” with us, please take full advantage of the amenities and services our center offers.

     What our patients and their families are saying

    “I would give you 5 Stars!!! My 95+ year young Mom has considered Sands Point Center her home for many years now. She has made many friends there of both residents and staff. The highly competent staff treats my Mom with dignity, and is welcoming and appreciative of family input. We could not have made a better choice for her ongoing care.”

    Now I’m wondering where is the Ludlow Center for Health and Rehabilitation information for Bridgeport, CT?  So I click on “Locations – Connecticut” and this is what I see:

    Ludlow is an affiliate of National Health Care Associates, a leader in short-term rehabilitation and skilled nursing care services throughout the Northeast. National Health Care’s signature “Passport Rehabilitation” program was specifically designed to meet the needs of individuals requiring a short-term rehabilitative stay following a surgical procedure or an acute medical episode. While on your short-term “trip” with us, please take full advantage of the amenities and services our center offers.

    What’s SNF care?

    Skilled care is health care given when you need skilled nursing or therapy staff to treat, manage, observe, and evaluate your care.  Examples of SNF care include intravenous injections and physical therapy. Care that can be given by non‑professional staff isn’t considered skilled care. People don’t usually stay in a SNF until they’re completely recovered because Medicare only covers certain SNF care services that are needed daily on a short ‑term basis (up to 100 days).

    What Are Some of Your Rights?

    Freedom from abuse and neglect —You have the right to be free from verbal, sexual, physical, and mental abuse, involuntary seclusion, and misappropriation of your property by anyone. This includes, but isn’t limited to: SNF staff, other residents, consultants, volunteers, staff from other agencies, family members or legal guardians, friends, or other individuals.

    If you feel you’ve been abused or neglected (your needs were not met), report this to the SNF, your family, your local Long Term Care Ombudsman, or your State Survey Agency. It may be appropriate to report the incident of abuse to local law enforcement or the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (their phone number should be posted in the SNF.)

    Occupational Therapy —Treatment that helps you return to your usual activities (like bathing, preparing meals, and housekeeping) after illness.

    Medicare doesn’t cover custodial care if it’s the only kind of care you need. Custodial care is care that helps you with usual daily activities like getting in and out of bed, eating, bathing, dressing, and using the bathroom. It may also include care that most people do themselves, like using eye drops, oxygen, and taking care of colostomy or bladder catheters.

    Then I looked to my right and I see this post from the staff who may or may not be giving the patients a bath daily.

    Question:  If a patient of a healthy size is in a SNF and is required to perform physical activities after a fall – wouldn’t it be necessary to allow –  if not give that patient a bath/shower daily?

    Happy Holidays!!

     

     

     

     

    Source: Medicare Coverage of Skilled Nursing Facilities
    Ludlow Rehab

     

  • Why Didn’t The Frog Jump

    We all know too well why the #ChickenCrossedTheRoad to get to the other side right; however lets look at the stage of development.

    Infants

    9-month-olds an interpret the behaviour of an abstract computer-animated object as being goal-directed and can infer its novel action in a changed situation. Infants
    were habituated to an event in which a small circle repeatedly approached a large circle by ‘jumping over’ a rectangle. During the test phase, when the rectangle is removed, infants look longer if the small circle repeats its familiar jumping approach than when it takes a novel but shorter (straight line) approach route.
    Infants must establish a specific explanatory relation among three elements: the action, the goal state, and the constraints of physical reality.
    Adults tend to describe the jumping event in mentalistic terms such as ‘it wants to go to the other circle and thinks the obstacle is impenetrable…
     Bioling Frog

    A Frog However…

    A frog Fell into a pot on a stove ….
    As the temperature of the water begins to rise, the frog adjusts its body temperature accordingly.  The frog keeps adjusting its body temperature with the increasing temperature of the water.  Just when the water is about to reach boiling point, the frog cannot adjust anymore. At this point the frog decides to jump out.  The frog tries to jump but it is unable to do so because it has lost all its strength in adjusting with the rising water temperature.  Very soon the frog dies.

    What Killed the Frog?

    Think about it!  I know many of us will say the boiling water. But the truth about what killed the frog was its own inability to decide when to jump out.

    We all need to adjust with people & situations, but we need to be sure when we need to adjust & when we need to move on. There are times when we need to face the situation and take appropriate actions.  If we allow people to exploit us physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually or mentally they will continue to do so.

    You and Me

    Is he to painful for our relationship?

    Does she hurt me when she calls?

    Do I lose more working at this place than my paycheck can cover?

    Do really love him or am I in Love with being in a relationship?

    Has the pain of letting go grown more than the pain of holding on…

    Let us decide when to move on to the next #Bus!
    Let’s jump while we still have the strength.

  • Who Benefits From the New #TAXBILL ?

    As they pushed their sweeping tax bill through Congress, Republicans made two central promises. First, that the bill would simplify the U.S. tax code, allowing citizens to file their taxes “on the back of a postcard.” And second, that the overhaul would primarily benefit working Americans and the middle class. The first claim proved false.…

    via The GOP Tax Bill Isn’t for the Middle Class. And It Was Never Meant to Be — TIME

  • Homes For The Brave – Veterans

    Have you ever been so tired you couldn’t pray?

    Have you ever been so cold a little  heat didn’t help?

    Have you ever lost all that you owned?

    Has your pride ever got in the way of healing?

    Have you ever looked for healing for your emotional pain in a bottle?

    Have you ever looked for your physical pain in a wax paper bag?

    Did you hide from your family by golfing?

    Did you disappear at the dinner table by being on your phone?

    Do you have extra work to do every weekend you’re supposed to pick up your children from your ex’s house?

    Do you forget to send the child support payment every time she pulls up  with her new beau?

    We’ve all had a moment where life’s issues became so overwhelming that we took the shortcut route to “a” solution – well there are some folk who found themselves on the streets after they had given all they had after serving their time in the #ArmedForces.

    Help a #Veterans get to the dinner table; to the mall; to the dentist; to a doctor appointment; to therapy; or to the front door of an apartment or home.

    Visit Homes For The Brave  and make a small donation by purchasing an item or 2 or 3.

    Female Soldiers Forgotten Heroes

    Happy Holidays!!

  • CTE

    Perkins Funding

    CT Perkins Funding Distribution
    Distribution of Funding
    Their Mission

    The mission of Career and Technical Education (CTE) in Connecticut is to provide educational opportunities for all students for academic and skill attainment and career development, as life-long learners, leading to postsecondary education and/or employment in a dynamic, technological, and global economy.

    CTE Fact Sheet For 2017

    Great program, so why wasn’t Connecticut on the list of states to participate in the Development of a Statewide Model Program of Study?

    We have at UCON:Innovation

    Matt Nemeth is Connecticut’s 2017 America’s Small Business Development Center (ASBDC) State Star recipient. The award is given annually to an outstanding SBDC advisor from each state. Criteria include showing a strong commitment to small business success; making significant contributions to the state SBDC program; and being an exemplary performer.

    Third Bridge Grant Receives Additional $120K to Fund Student Startups The School of Engineering has been awarded an additional $120K in funding from CTNext for the Third Bridge Grant Program.

    An Act Concerning Innovation reads:

    This bill establishes a number of mechanisms to stimulate and support innovation and entrepreneurship in Connecticut.

    It establishes within Connecticut Innovations, Inc. (CI) a new entity called “ImpaCT” to support the entrepreneurship community and new business development in Connecticut (§§ 1-4). It gives ImpaCT a number of broad and innovation-specific powers and duties and creates a board of directors to carry them out. ImpaCT must develop and administer a number of programs to promote, among other things, university-based entrepreneurship, including a technology transfer office and a website to connect entrepreneurs to existing resources in the state. The bill funds ImpaCT and its programs by earmarking $87.75 million in existing Manufacturing Assistance Act (MAA), CI, and Manufacturing Innovation Fund bond authorizations (§§ 10, 16 & 23).

     

     

     

  • The Garbage Can Rolled In Front of #theBus

    The Garbage Can Family

    I won’t be long with this story for the hour is late and I’m not sure where I’m going with this story, I’m so filled with many emotions, fear, guilt, shame, sadness, anger, jealousy and resentment. There once was old lady who live in a shoe she had so many children she didn’t know what to do.  She loved some and disliked others; she would compare her family to other “great” families both near and far.  Her family like most families in the neighborhood had their fair share of problems, cheating husbands, drug addiction, alcoholism, child abuse, lack of education, love and the inability to love.  She wanted something better for herself and I suppose her children – what I think she wanted were trophy’s something tangible that validated who she was and her desire for “something better” that would also give her background meaning and purpose.Garbage at the bus stop

    We all have had moments when we wanted something better, something more, just one more dollar, a better car, a better job or suit/dress to wear to that “better” job.  I ask you to examine yourselves today are you looking for “something better” or “just one more”?  There was a woman who cried out saying, “my husband is dead, and you know the creditor is coming to take my son to be his slave.” So, someone said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Nothing is in the house but a jar of oil.”  He said, “Go, borrow jars from everywhere, from all your neighbors—empty jars; do not gather just a few, and when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons; then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the full ones.”  The woman did as she was told, and she poured, and she poured, and she poured, and jars kept coming from out of nowhere.  Her faith in the person that God used to get her through the tough times was beyond belief.  There will come a time when we must all find the strength not in the comfort of those we know but in that “stranger” that God has sent to help us along the way.

    We must ask ourselves what has God given us to help our family, is it our funding, jars of oil, extra garbage bag linings for what we have deemed as “the trash” of our family because they don’t mirror the folks around the corner or the ones in the next town over or even the family on your favorite sit-com, or perhaps all we have to distribute equally and evenly is our love for each one of our family members and then watch our ROI increase…

  • Military Disability Ratings Help

    Please feel free to follow the links below for assistance in your disability rating.

    Search your condition here

    The DoD Disability Process – When a service member develops a medical condition that may make him/her Unfit for Duty, he/she begins the DoD Process. Think Big Veterans Disability

    VASRD –  The Veteran Affairs Schedule for Rating Disabilities is a federal regulation that lists detailed requirements for assigning Military Disability Ratings to conditions for Military Disability

    Is Your Rating Wrong – If you have carefully reviewed the site and feel that your case was not determined correctly during the DoD Disability Process or the VA Disability Process, or you think you deserve a higher Military Disability Rating, here’s what to do.

    Search your condition here

    Thank you for your service,
    Always Faithful USMC – Semper Fi
    I am a Former US Marine

  • Dark Days in Alabama – #Molestation

    These Trump supporters trying to rationalize CHILD MOLESTATION in order to justify voting for Roy Moore is so sickening, it’s almost scary.

    Alabama legislators passed a law in July 2010 which makes it a felony crime for a school employee to engage in a sex act with a student. The class B felony crime comes with a punishment of two to 20 years in prison, if convicted.

    The history of child protection in America is divisible into three eras.

    1. Colonial Times to 1875;
    2. 1875 to 1962 – when nongovernmental organized child protection agencies began to increase;
    3. 1962 marks the era of government sponsored CPS;

    One of the members of the panel states that 40 years ago in 1977 this type of behavior was typical of children in Alabama!

    In Mobile Alabama on November 14, 2012 jurors listened to the closing arguments in Mobile County on a case of molestation and was unable to reach a moment. Defense attorney Walter Honeycutt reminded jurors during his summation at the girl was vague about when the oral sex occurred but that it was before a fish fry at about 3 p.m. The defendant testified that he could not have molested the child at that time because he regularly volunteered to cook fish fries on Friday afternoons during Lent at his church and would not have been around the girl.

    Again – MOBILE, Alabama    – A hung jury has led to a mistrial in the case of a midtown Mobile man accused of sexually abusing two young girls in their bedroom on Mother’s Day night 2013.

    Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s Alabama special election, is credibly accused of sexually preying upon a 14-year-old girl and forcing himself upon a 16-year-old girl as a thirtysomething prosecutor.

    He is uniquely disqualified from public office separate and apart from those terrible misdeeds.

    He was twice removed as chief justice of his state’s highest court for disrespecting the rule of law: in 2003, for disobeying an order to remove a monument of the 10 Commandments; in 2016, for directing probate judges to ignore a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

    All I have to say is:

    3The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. 4A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. 5Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. 6Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers. 7Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. 8A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth. 9He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

    View the Trump Supporters Video Here

    Sources: Facebook, Family Law Quarterly, Vol 42, Mobile Jurors; 

    McKinley Report  Daily News

    The best deterrent to heartache in the life of a child is the presence of a well-informed parent. BE INFORMED~ Donna Funderburke McKinley

     

     

     

     

  • My Father

    Someone very dear to me sent the story below just a few minutes ago…as I continue to weep regularly about the loss of my (natural) father – this message was very comforting. You see not only was he the best father I ever knew but he was my friend (#shonuff).  I would call him when I was in trouble, I would call him to share in my joy and happiness, I would call him for advice and I would call him for no reason at all. Haven’t had a friend like that in a long time – I’m weeping now – it’s such an overwhelming loss without some type of pain medication.  I’m going to be alright for I know where my strength in times of sorrow comes from.

    The road to this #bus stop was by far one of the worst.   The hills and valleys I had to climb in and out of and try to navigate in the dark was just dreadful.  I kept looking for my father to save me and he was gone from this earth.  I could not believe he had left me here in this place with all this pain – there were so many ripped wounds all over my heart, mind, body and soul.  ER and trauma like blood was oozing out every orifice up and down my body from my scalp to under my toes (metaphorically) I couldn’t manage the pain no matter what I did.  Seemed like all the pain I had ever experienced was now multiplied and wide-open again with the passing of my father.  Robet WilliamsonYou see we were like friends, sister and brother, daughter and father.  We had the same thoughts, I could make him shriek in heart felt laughter and I would equally find his statements ridiculously funny.  We could talk for 8 hours straight – ask my mother!  Then one day he was in the hospital and his life was hanging on by minutes he opened his mouth with that breathing apparatus covering his mouth and I couldn’t find one word to say.  I’m so selfish I don’t care that his lungs were gone.  The pain he must have been in, Lord I thank you for taking him and now this war is over for him. #GoodNight Robert Williamson. He’s resting I know that with all my heart

    Today I’m determined to remember the man I’ve known as my father all the days of my life with a smile and joy in my heart let the tears fall and let the joy reign again.  With that said here’s the message I received this evening.

    Recently I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure.

    Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the father said, ‘I love you, and I wish you enough.’

    The daughter replied, ‘Dad, our life together has been more than enough.  Your love is all I ever needed.  I wish you enough, too, Dad.’

    They kissed and the daughter left.  The Father walked over to the window where I was seated.  Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry.  I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking, ‘Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?’

    ‘Yes, I have,’ I replied.  ‘Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?’..

    ‘I am old, and she lives so far away.  I have challenges ahead and the reality is – the next trip back will be for my funeral,’ he said.

    ‘When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough..’  May I ask what that means?’

    He began to smile.  ‘That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations.  My parents used to say it to everyone…’  He paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and he smiled even more. ‘When we said, ‘I wish you enough,’ we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them.’  Then turning toward me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory.

    I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.

    I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.

    I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.

    I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.

    I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.

    I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

    I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

    He then began to cry and walked away.

    They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them; but then an entire life to forget them.

    * Only if you wish, send this to the people you will never forget. If you don’t send it to anyone it may mean that you are in such a hurry that you have forgotten your friends.

    TAKE TIME TO LIVE….

    To all my friends and loved ones, I WISH YOU ENOUGH.

     

  • Thank You

    Just want to say ThankYou to my followers and those that liked a story…

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