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What makes you think they don't? While they won't admit children for obvious reasons, I have had professional and personal reasons to be in many nursing homes and am aware of no restricti...

have your mother start the process of applying for Medicaid for your father. Any nursing home will accept him as a resident as long as he has Medicare/Medicaid. I believe she will need to contact ...

I am CNA in a nursing home and the answer is no nursing home will ever be good enough for your family member because they deserve the best in care. In my home the corp. only allows so much staffin...

Unfortunately, MRSA seems to be everywhere. My daughter caught it in hospital; my dad got it in his nursing home. I think something needs to be done to find a cure or vaccine for this nasty, antibi...

Staph infection can be caught from anywhere. Now there is a condition in medicine called Hospital accquired diseases. This is due to Hygiene problems in hospitals and nurses. Very common hospital a...

This is a very interesting question. The answer is yes and no. In some types of care settings where there is a younger population you may see a fast spread of some types of STD's. Howev...

Your state health department should be able to provide you with the info. BTW - I'm sure such studies have been done a number of times. For profit will always have better stats than not fo...

Because only the bad incidents are covered in the media. The good things aren't newsworthy. oh Peachy, they are wanabees. They want to be of service to the people who live there, it takes comm...

Most old people are this way..just put her in bed and let her watch TV..Just having it on sometimes helps older people sleep. In nursing homes, they give out sleeping pills a lot. Is your Mom taki...

Statistics show that only about five percent of the senior population (over age 65) is getting care at a nursing facility at any one time nation wide. Statistics also show that about 85 percent ...

Call your state's Ombudsman's office. They help with the elderly and disabled. Also contact Medicare. The Doctor should also help you in who to contact. Local hospice if the situation cal...

Please keep this question open my grandmother was in a nurseing home in Chapel Hill,I can't remember the name ill have to call my mom,but it was the nicest place I had ever seen and the staff ...

Because it is all about money. The owners make more money when they us less staff. I think this is one of the biggest problems in our society. People live all their lives and at the end of their...

I don't know about nursing homes ,but i do know the Dept of human services will pay for some one to care for handicapped and elderly. You also might try in home health care agency. The hospi...