So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it.
I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency.
Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.
Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.
When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as a night light.
When I had my kids, I took a lot of homeopathic things, and I had them both with no painkillers.
When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.
It remains to be seen the extent to which the critical needs of seniors in low income high rises, people with home medical needs and those with disabilities have been adequately planned for and met during widespread power outages. I fear the answers.
I definitely wanna open up some assisted-living facilities around my city.
But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
