Stuck on transfer from skilled care and need advice
I'm stuck and need help on these two items, can anyone offer some guidance? He was at a different skilled care facility that didnt treat him well which destroyed his kidney and the toxins caused a severe mental decline. He was rehospitalized and then sent to a different facility but with his current condition insurance cut off skilled care for his room and we have switched to hospice.
His living will says no artificial nutrition long-term, but he currently has a tube going into his stomach feeding him liquid nutrition—should this be stopped now that he is transitioning to hospice? I get that it would speed things up but I'm stuck if long term means more like if he was in a coma. They did stop his dialysis for kidney failure so i dont know if I should stop this as well.
As the skilled care insurance was cut off it is a $15,000/month private pay bill (though he does have the funds to last over a year there if needed). I'm trying to decide if it's better to keep him here or move him given his kidney failure and severe mental decline. Recently he has had combative behavior (he choked a nurse, though they now have him on different meds) will impact our ability to transfer him.