- Just Fifty Minutes
- Coping
- What Is That Across the Street?
- Son with Mother
- Know How Parents Feel When
- Screw Off Beacon Community Services
- When Patients Don’t Count, Just Profits
- God How I Hate Beacon Community Services
- Using Fear to Keep Seniors In Line
- Befuddle, Intimidate, Dominate, Bully
- Changing Schedule and Notification
- Piss Off Beacon Community Services
- Who Will It Be Ten Minutes From Now?
- BCS and VIHA ARE Slowly Killing My Mother
- Health Insurance Premiums Go Up
- There Has To Be A Better Way
- The Body Grows Tired
- Despite Beacon Community Service Mom Will Turn 94 in May
- Caregiving a Target in Federal Election Planks
- This Is Not An Easy Job
- Pharmacare Decides What Is Covered, What Isn’t
- How Quickly Things Can Change
- Tough Call To Make, Thanks BCS
- Do NO Harm
Health Care is really a minefield. Step the wrong way, and it can blow up in your face. Thing is, when you want to clear a path through a minefield, you have a couple of choices. One choice is simply send the people through, and when they get blown up, you just send more people through, until they too, get blown up, or reach safety at the other end.
WHICH IS HOW BEACON COMMUNITY SERVICES DEALS WITH THINGS.
Assume that you have 10 patients, being serviced by 10 workers. One of those workers fails to show up for work (for whatever reason). Do you start shifting those 9 workers around, or do you call in a reserve worker, a floater, who is hired just for those eventualities?
BEACON COMMUNITY SERVICES BRINGS IN A FLOATER PLUS SHIFTS ALL OTHER WORKERS AROUND.
- The disruption of a routine, for someone 93 is not easy to handle. They become nervous, stressed out, which only acerbates any other medical condition. Something any HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL SHOULD KNOW.
While we don’t live in a perfect world, the role of Health Care is not to make money for a company, nor is it to balance a budget for a Government. IT IS ABOUT PROVIDING HEALTH CARE TO THOSE IN NEED.
Yes, it is costly, and one does have to watch expenses. That does not mean we abandon the needs of those receiving Health Care. Yet today, we OUTSOURCE IT ALL, to the point where the Patients no longer matter, only how much profit can be squeezed out from each Client.
We don’t even call them Patients anymore, but Clients, because then it is easier to ignore the abuse we are heaping on them. This is especially true with our Elderly.
TODAY’S HOME SUPPORT WORKER, TODAY’S WORK FORCE, IS TOMORROW’S ELDERLY.
Too bad, that Government ( VIHA ) and Private Companies ( Beacon Community Services ) forget that. Too bad they think they will have sufficient money / income, to pay for PRIVATE CARE, when they get older.