http://mymotherslife.com Dedicated to the Only Woman I'll Love, My Mother. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:46:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mymotherslife.com/2012/02/the-yellow-book/ http://mymotherslife.com/2012/02/the-yellow-book/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:38:35 +0000 Only Son http://mymotherslife.com/?p=741 Share|Fact is that outsourcing health care to private companies can be beneficial, but in order for it to be effective, the Government must oversee such operations. They cannot rely on Patients to complain, because they are scared of losing that necessary home care. It is essential that any private agency tasked with home support, maintain a free and open line of communication with its patients, and workers. They cannot be arbitrary, or dictatorial in how they take negative feedback. Nor should patients be made to feel they will be penalized for speaking out. Nor should workers. Communications must be maintained, but without fear. Yellow Books are fine, but what is really needed is consistent communication between workers, patients, and Management. VIHA should be overseeing the operation, not waiting for the complaints to roll in.

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]]> http://mymotherslife.com/2012/01/it-just-is-not-fair/feed/ 0 http://mymotherslife.com/2012/01/it-really-borders-on-criminal-elder-abuse/ http://mymotherslife.com/2012/01/it-really-borders-on-criminal-elder-abuse/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:27:28 +0000 Only Son http://mymotherslife.com/?p=724 Share|The more we deal with Beacon Community Services, the more convinced I am that someone at VIHA got paid off, to give this company the contract for home support. Personnel are improperly trained, for the most part. A total lack of common sense exists in most workers, who are provided with out dated information on their duties. Yet VIHA refuses to keep any check and balance over this company, that receives millions in taxpayer money to perform its duties. What is worse, is that the care being provided, borders on criminal abuse of the patients in their care. This is negligence, at best.

]]> http://mymotherslife.com/2012/01/it-really-borders-on-criminal-elder-abuse/feed/ 0 http://mymotherslife.com/2012/01/i-am-tired-of-doing-beacons-job/ http://mymotherslife.com/2012/01/i-am-tired-of-doing-beacons-job/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:18:43 +0000 Only Son http://mymotherslife.com/?p=705 Share|Seems to me that perhaps Beacon Community Services should be paying me to clean up after their workers leave the home. Like it is their job to wash out the commode, used or not. It is their job to dispose of the dirty depends, to put the dirty laundry into the dirty laundry basket, not mine. I am supposed to get 50 minutes break, not wind up doing more work, like insuring they aren't ripping Mom's arm out of her socket, or causing more open sores in her groin. PAY ME BCS and Mom may live to be 95. Keep it up and you'll have her dead and buried before she can turn 95 in May.

]]> http://mymotherslife.com/2012/01/i-am-tired-of-doing-beacons-job/feed/ 0 http://mymotherslife.com/2011/12/rushing-to-next-patient-or-just-added-time-off/ http://mymotherslife.com/2011/12/rushing-to-next-patient-or-just-added-time-off/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:02:41 +0000 Only Son http://mymotherslife.com/?p=700 Share|So many home support workers from Beacon Community Services seem to rush through the job. They are in a hurry to move on, because all they get is 10 minutes traveling time, and 50 minutes to do their assigned tasks. Thing is, some of those 50 minute jobs can be done in 30 minutes, without rushing. So are they simply padding the time, or is it because often they aren't given time for a break, that is mandated by Employment Standards. Rushing is how accidents happen.

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