Nursing Homes Can Refuse To Accept Drug Addicts That Need Care
My daughter is waiting for a facility to accept her
This is what my daughter has in her arm. It’s called a PICC (Peripherally inserted central catheter)line. She needs this to receive intravenous (IV) antibiotics for the next 6 weeks. She has MRSA(Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). It’s a very virulent type of staph infection that resists many of the usual antibiotics that fight staph. She got it from using a dirty needle to shoot heroin.
According to Medlineplus.org, once the staph germ enters the body, it can spread to bones, joints, the blood, or any organ, such as the lungs, heart, or brain.
She has had MRSA for 4 years so her heart is already damaged. She just had surgery and there is a drain in the incision in her low back where the infection manifested in her lower spine. She can’t walk because of nerve damage. She stands and falls down. Less than a month ago she was walking just fine.
She needs to go to a nursing home for continued antibiotics and physical therapy to help her walk again.
Due to her history of drug addiction, only certain locked facilities can accept her. Out of a choice of 12 that take her insurance only one is considering taking her.
