
Yolanda BellManassas, VA, United States
Mar 7, 2017
Thursday of last week Dulles H&R stopped one of my sisters long time medications for no apparent reason. Then Dr. Bahari put her on morphine as a regularly scheduled medication twice a day at 9am and 9pm. Well evidently no one bothered to read the drug interactionsn for morphine sulfate oral solution because it clearly states you should not give to patients who are taking Gabapiten because it causes pain instead of receiving it. When I brought this to the attention of her nurse last night they ignored it and gave her the morphine anyway. A few minutes later my sister began yelling and crying out in pain. Luckily the nurse she had this evening knew how to exercise professional judgment and decided to hold the morphine. However because they took her off her regular medication she now has to go through the night without anything.
My sisters oxygen saturation rate dropped to 83% this evening. This particular nurse decided to put her on oxygen.
Lastly and more importantly I received the results from Medicare regarding our appeal of Inova discharging my sister. The Judge ruled in our favor saying she was still ill enough to need to be hospitalized. This is why Inova was in such a hurry to get her out of the hospital. Because once Medicare came back and disagreed with the hospital on discharging her they could not move her anywhere until she completely recovered.
This begs the question is Kepro the QIO just a rubber stamp for the hospitals, because they had the same information
Now all we need is for the Virginia Supreme Court to stay the guardianship decision and then rule favorably on my appeal.
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