Morotta Hospital
We all know about hallway care in the emergency department of our hospital. I try to be as understanding as I can about this with all the complexities of our community. What I just learned this morning has caught me by surprise…
My loved one has finally been moved out of a cubicle to an upper floor; opening space for others needing emergency care. However, my loved one is now in a HALLWAY on an upper floor!
My question is this: Is this something new? Can anyone explain how this is better? How can this be okay when this individual is incontinent? The care staff want them to be as independent as possible but how does this help? In urgent care there was at least a commode for safety and ease in the cubicle (which had another patient in it and a privacy screen) to take the burden off staff. Now my loved one will have to audibly call for a nurse for help to a bathroom…
I am simply trying to understand a system that I know little to nothing about.