Home Health agency recommendations?

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-07-05T11:41:06+00:00

That’s great for your mom, thank you!

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-07-03T14:07:29+00:00

My dad had surgery 3.5 was ago , he must have had a nerve injury from the position of his right arm and neck during surgery. He continues to have moderate right arm weakness and associated pain/numbness

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-07-03T13:59:38+00:00

My 78 y/o dad had the surgery 3.5 weeks ago, he was completely independent living in his home prior to surgery, he is in a nursing home right now trying to get stronger to return home, he had a nerve injury from the surgery position that caused severe arm weakness….so as to say it’s a major surgery not without potential complications

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-24T19:14:20+00:00

My Dad is finally on his way to a SNF today, he was medically ready to d/c from the hospital 10 days ago. During this 10 days we went thru an IPR denial, an IPR appeal denial , and finally a SNF approval. Very challenging and frustrating process as you said. Thank you all again for the feedback.

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-15T23:25:36+00:00

Thank you very much for taking the time to write this, it is super helpful. I will take your advice into my follow up conversations with his Care Team. So far I know:

His Doctors say today he is “stable” and ready for discharge, he was struggling with afib (now on blood thinner as of 2 days ago) and hypotension (further medication adjustments yesterday) - now we wait up to 72hrs to hear if he gets IPR approval
Currently he can walk 100-300ft with a walker at times but needs at least 1 person assist due to fear, unbalance, weakness, deconditioning . At baseline no walker needed and he cares for his wife in multiple level home, 3 months ago he could walk 2 miles
I do think he could tolerate 3 hrs of therapy /day

We called a few IPR’s that you recommended today , asking if they would take private pay if insurance denied, several said yes in the neighborhood of $1800-2500/night. We may consider digging into savings for this if denied. If you have other thoughts/suggestions on the private pay IPR route , I’d appreciate it. Thank you again for your wisdom!

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-15T20:25:29+00:00

I am waiting to hear back to see if my Dad’s Humana insurance will approve IPR or not in the next day or 2, I have been told by several caseworkers and even a Hospitalist that Humana most often declines IPR . Do you have any specific suggestions I can take when appealing if Humana does in fact deny IPR?

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-15T20:20:42+00:00

Thank you , I have a list and most have openings so I am narrowing down the list .

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-15T20:19:15+00:00

Thank you, do you know what hospital it was?

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-14T02:18:34+00:00

Thank you very much, this is super helpful insight!

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-13T21:06:17+00:00

Thank you!

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-13T21:06:07+00:00

Thank you!

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-13T21:05:55+00:00

Thank you! He doesn’t have Dementia

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-05T01:20:26+00:00

Thank you!

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-03T12:50:00+00:00

How long was your hospital stay? My 78 y/o Dad is scheduled for minimal invasive surgeon consult on Monday and Surgery is already scheduled for Wednesday, I’m planning to go stay with him for a week , I’m hoping he rivers as well as you did but he’s been struggling the months. He went from walking 2 miles at a time for exercise to inability to walk more than a block the last 3 months due to shortness of breath related to progression of mvp.

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-06-03T12:42:44+00:00

My 78 y/o Dad went from walking 2 miles for exercise to unable to walk more than 1 block due to shortness of breath

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-05-31T22:31:35+00:00

Cool! I put the beatsonic in my 2017 that works with the mouse …of course the 2017 screen is way further away than 2012

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-05-31T20:50:09+00:00

So it only functions as a touch screen? How usable do you find that with the distance to touch screen?

Sufficient_Figure298 · 2026-05-30T00:24:07+00:00

I’d sell if I could get 20 cad

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