Home Health Abandonment, Kentucky
Location: Kentucky
I am a quadriplegic. My home health company is expected to provide 24 hour skilled nursing care. I think, to pad their inability to do so, they’ve written in the contract that they are to provide 5-7 days a week of care. They regularly leave several open shifts each month for me to figure out my own care. If somebody calls in, it is incredibly rare that they cover it.
This past weekend, eight of my nine regular nurses would not travel through the snowstorm to cover their previously scheduled shift or fill in for others that called in. It was a state of emergency. This left one nurse covering five consecutive shifts. 10.5 hours into her last 12 hour shift, she left me at home without guarantee that the next nurse would arrive a 1.5 hours later. Luckily, the next nurse did show up on time.
I don’t have the means to hire back up care or personal help outside of a sibling that is two hours away and cannot be here as often as they expect considering they have their own job and family and live two hours away. This company does not respond to my pleas for proper coverage and I’m not sure how much we have to do this before they cover like they are expected to cover.
Is this considered abandonment and is it something that I can pursue legally?
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