Update

Hi guys. I'm not sure if any one is still checking my little blog since it has been so long since I posted. Real life takes up all my time and I have tons of overtime every week. When I do have a day off, I take care of my husband and try to catch up on chores.

At work, our census (how many residents we have) is the lowest I have ever seen and the referrals we get are for people that have complex medical and behavioral problems that far exceed our facilities capabilities to care for them.

I am in charge of the scheduling for the nursing department. I had four nurses decide to quit in April, although two of them ended up coming back. The grass is not always greener on the other side, although it apparently pays better. No matter how hard I try I can't seem to get any CNAs to show up for their first day of work. They go through the hiring process, come in to watch the training videos and get on the schedule, but for whatever reason, they are a no call, no show. I've literally had 4 CNAs and 1 RN do that to me. I hear it is like that everywhere. Even the hospital can't get nurses and aides. Tell your kids to go into nursing because I'm pretty sure it's one of the few jobs that won't be replaced by robots anytime soon.

I see the pending AI takeover at work. I get little demonic entities popping up on my screen telling me they have ideas on how to improve my daily scheduling sheets. Well, unless you can find some bodies to fill all these open shifts, stay away from me. Of course you can't delete the little suckers. They just sit in the corner of your document waiting to say, “Hello! What can I help you with today?” Ugh.

Captcha has become a nightmare. Instead of picking all the bicycles and crosswalks, which is annoying enough, now they want you to scan a QR code to prove you are human. How does scanning something on your stupid phone prove that you are human? The beast system is slowly being built around us. They have plans to eventually tie your health records, banking and internet access to your genetic code, thus the reason to have huge data centers popping up around the country, stealing your water and land right out from underneath you.

I'm not afraid of the future and the tech billionaires evil plans for us. My trust is in the Lord Almighty. Jesus told us to give no thought for tomorrow because the evil of the day is sufficient. So true. Very dark days are coming but we dwell with the Most High and He will fight for us and protect us.

Love you all. Take care out there.

Ice Age Farmer: Synthetic Biology

 

From Truthstream Media

Insurance and Nursing Homes

 

Hi everyone. I'm sure you probably thought I dropped off the face of the earth. Nope, just working crazy amounts of hours out here in the middle of nowhere Kansas.

At the beginning of January our social services director quit. Despite the fact that I made it clear I did not want that job (way too much interaction with other people) they dumped all the responsibilities of the job in my lap. So in addition to medical records, central supply and doing all the scheduling for the nursing department, I was now in charge of new admissions, discharges and jumping through all the government hoops of insurance companies. It's been quite the nightmare because I got very little training and mostly had to figure things out. Which, unfortunately, I'm actually good at. Needless to say, I'm exhausted.

I've learned some very important things during this time. (They did hire a new girl, who seems like she will be very good. I told her I wouldn't just dump everything on her like they did to me, but next week will probably be the last week I'll be involved. Thank God.)

Humana and Aetna are the absolute worst insurance you can have if you need to do a stint in a skilled nursing facility. They will only approve 2 to 5 days to start and you are lucky if they will give you two weeks of Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy before they kick you out on the street.

Let's say you fall and break something or you go into the hospital for general weakness and confusion. The hospital recommends that you go into a Skilled Nursing Facility for PT/OT for strengthening before you go home. If you have Medicare as your primary insurance and have a secondary insurance this is the ideal situation, even though there is no truly ideal situation. Medicare will pay for 100 days in a rehab center. But, they only pay 100% for the first 20 days. After that, Medicare will pay 80% for the rest of the time and the secondary insurance will pick up the 20% that is left.

Should you need to go into long term care – Medicare won't pay for that. That is where you need Medicaid. But Medicaid is very difficult to get on and you can not have more than $2000 in assets or you won't qualify. Plus, if you are considered “Medicaid pending” meaning, you have applied to be on Medicaid but you haven't been approved, most nursing facilities will not accept you because should you be declined you are now responsible for paying for the time you have been residing there and most places just end up eating the cost because the average cost of staying at a skilled nursing facility is around $10,000 a month.

Don't even get me started on hospice. We have three different hospice companies that come to our facility. I got dragged into a meeting that I didn't even want to go to by one of the hospice representatives. It literally turned into a pseudo flowery sales pitch, trying to see who in our facility was the most likely next target, I mean resident, to go on hospice. Perfectly healthy residents who walk around with their walkers but might not remember who you are even though you meet them every day. I was mortified. Then I find out in that meeting that the one who WAS on hospice with that company had literally just passed away not ten minutes before. The body wasn't even cold yet and you dragged us in here to see who is next?!!!

I left that meeting and just cried. Because no matter what you may think, it is only about the money. All about the money. It is a sick, sick world we live in. I'm ready to go home.

Other than that, things have been good. We did have a cold snap, which I believe was completely manufactured but who knows. We went 3 weeks without water – but that is just normal winter for us. I'm used to that. My husband is doing well. He shakes pretty bad these days but for the most part he is hanging in there.

Hope you all are doing well. Take care out there.

Black Sheep

 

that was not what I meant to post

sorry. that was not the video I meant to post. here is the one I meant to post. I tried deleting the other post but couldn't.

Forbidden Bloodline

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