Horrible Mom Held Hostage by Doctor! Took mom to ...

Horrible Mom Held Hostage by Doctor! Took mom to the ER this past week because she had flu like symptoms without fever. Mom is almost 80 and has Alzheimer but lives at home with family and still does most of her personal care. Mom was not eating this had been going on for a while and now she was vomiting and had diarrhea. We mostly took her in because we needed her re-hydrated and nourished. The staff in the ER were great other then the long wait in the waiting area. Once we got to the back they were great. All test's came back negative but the decision was made to admit mom for further evaluation and get her eating again.

My sister and I went home only after they got a room for mom and she was safely in her room. Being at the hospital all night we did not go back up until that evening. Mom was on 4C when my sister arrived she asked for a nurse to find out what was going on. After waiting 2 hrs a nurse showed up and said oh ya she's eating great no problems. Did not really tell her anything. The next day was my turn after getting off work at 4:30 I went straight to the hospital right down the street. Arrived about 4:45 and stopped at the nurses station to ask what was going on. They said they would send the nurse in to talk to me and I did hear the clerk at the desk talk to the nurse so I headed into the room to wait. And that's exactly what I did I waited. 3 hours later the nurse finally showed up but it was the night nurse who knew only what she was told about mom at report.

Next day we think mom is coming home they were only waiting on PT eval which had happened. Pt eval said mom MIGHT benefit from rehab however if the family felt they could care for her at home she could be discharged to family. So the nurse called the doctor to discharge. And after that everything completely spiraled down hill. The doctor Dr Premdass was asked to come up and speak with the family and explain why she would not discharge. According to the nursing staff she said she would come up before she left the hospital but she had a lot of other patients and did not know when that would be. We started this process about 4:30 and at about 8:15 the nursing supervisor Stacey shows up and explains that Dr Premdass had left the hospital at 7pm when her shift ended and was not going to return to talk to the family. We were told he could check mom out AMA which we were going to do until the paperwork said specifically Death could occur if we checked her out. That combined with the fact that it was now 8:30pm and mom was sleeping we decided to wait until morning. which meant one of us was going to have to take the day off of work to come and deal with the issue.

I arrived at the hospital about 8am and waiting for Dr Premdass to arrive and the administration. Once the Dr arrived she out and out lied straight to my face. But the biggest thing she said to irritate me was that the family was not present so she had to go to rehab. We were there every day, but somehow this doctor had decided we were not present. She never called us both myself and my sister have out of state numbers but we life in Florida. Dr Premdass said I called the numbers in the chart and the voice mail was full. My voicemail is never full people leave me messages all the time. This doctor never made one attempt to contact me.

I did get mom discharged finally and once home she was up walking around like noting ever happened. She was attempting to wash the dishes that same night she came home. So why would they have sent her to rehab.

Do not take your elderly there. They will leave them sit in a room ignored. They will attempt to keep them from their family member's and place them into a home. If you want them in a home and can't get them there then this is the place to take them. But if your trying to do the right thing don't take them there unless your willing and able to sit at the hospital all day long with them.

Good luck we will never go back there I would die before I went there again.