Beware of Bad Nursing Homes
"The Last Place There Should Be Trouble"
One of the toughest decisions you will ever have to make is sending a loved one to a nursing home. Sometimes it’s the only decision left. A loved one may need twenty four hour support and care. They may need someone to do the little everyday tasks that we take for granted. You may feel like you’re abandoning them but no matter how much you want to, you can’t be there twenty four hours to watch over them and do all the things necessary to support them in their time of continual need.
Joe from just south of Vermont had to make this type of decision with his wife who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and needed all day supervision and care. When trying to find the right nursing home for his wife, the one question Joe asked each manager of the home is if they did background checks on their employees. Most did but a few he came across did not.
Joe found just the right place to put his wife. It was a beautiful complex with a vast array of flowers surrounding the building. His wife’s room had a window that overlooked the backyard that had two giant oak trees. She loved watching the birds and the backyard was full of life.
A couple of weeks later Joe saw one of the other nursing homes that he visited on his search on the news. A couple of the employees had been arrested and charged with taking money from the home. They had also been treating the people living there badly calling them names when no one was around and being rough with many. They were caught after questions circulated about the various bruises and cuts showing up on the people living there.
Needless to say, the home suffered financially for a while because of the bad publicity. They changed their policy and from then on did background checks on all current and future employees.
The best way they could have avoided this was to do the background checks
first before something bad happened. All it takes is a few clicks and
a couple minutes of your time. Click here and save yourself the possible
embarrassment of one bad employee giving your company a bruised reputation.
