It's Time To Move

As reported, a couple of weeks ago, the management at the assisted living facility where Kris’s dad is living told us that they could no longer care for him.  Well, today we finally received the written notice from them.  Kris had a meeting a little over a week ago, and in the interim while we were looking for a new facility to move him to, someone mentioned to check with the Ombudsman for the county and see if they could help.  She did, and this ombudsman person told us that they can’t just boot him out, and the whole procedure that they went thru to inform us about her dad and how he would have to move was not proper.  It sort of reminds me how they told us last year that he was going to need to pre-pay a couple of months in advance if we were going to transition him to Family Care.

I wonder what this person, the Ombudsman, actually does because it sounds like she knows all these laws with respect to eldercare and nursing homes, etc. very well.  Almost as if she may have been a lawyer at one point?  Maybe she is currently.  Whatever the situation, she asked Kris for copies of what they gave her at her dad’s meeting, and she contacted The Arboretum to inform them that they needed to follow the law, and provide all this documentation to us before anything was going to be done.

Well, we have it now.  So I guess the search for a new home for her dad is officially underway now.  The good news that we found out is that they can’t just boot him out on the street.  We have to have something lined up for him before anything can be done.  So at least we know that we’ll be able to make sure he is moving to a good care facility instead of some rotten hole in the wall where people with no loved ones go to die.