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littlemissmartypants

(22,722 posts) Sat Feb 24, 2024, 09:34 AM Feb 24

A hospital is suing to move a quadriplegic 18-year-old to a nursing home. She says no

FEBRUARY 22, 20245:06 AM ET
Joseph Shapiro

From her hospital bed, Alexis Ratcliff asks a question: "What 18-year-old gets sued?"

Ratcliff is that 18-year-old, sued by the hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., that wants her to leave.

Ratcliff, a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator, has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13. She wants to leave, too. But not to the nursing home the hospital found for her in another state.

She wants to live in a home nearby, close to her family and school.

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A hospital is suing to move a quadriplegic 18-year-old to a nursing home. She says no (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Feb 24 OP

I hope they can grant her wish. Haggard Celine Feb 24 #1

Amurkin Helth Kare Roolz! CurtEastPoint Feb 24 #2

Real Christian employees. Fake Christian management and lawyers. Wonder Why Feb 24 #3

It could be that she needs specialized care that not all nursing homes have. jimfields33 Feb 24 #4

Not exactly. By law, the state is required to set her up and pay for everything. littlemissmartypants Feb 24 #6

Should they use the republican death panel and just kill her? keithbvadu2 Feb 24 #5

Haggard Celine

(16,847 posts)

1. I hope they can grant her wish.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2024, 09:44 AM

Feb 24

It would be bad enough to be quadriplegic, but to be taken away from your family and friends is unbearable. She probably won't live long without her loved ones.

CurtEastPoint

(18,655 posts)

2. Amurkin Helth Kare Roolz!

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2024, 10:24 AM

Feb 24

Wonder Why

(3,231 posts)

3. Real Christian employees. Fake Christian management and lawyers.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2024, 10:29 AM

Feb 24

jimfields33

(15,905 posts)

4. It could be that she needs specialized care that not all nursing homes have.

Reply to Wonder Why (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 24, 2024, 10:42 AM

Feb 24

littlemissmartypants

(22,722 posts)

6. Not exactly. By law, the state is required to set her up and pay for everything.

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 24, 2024, 05:14 PM

Feb 24

It's explained in the article. If they move her out of state she loses her health care status in North Carolina. The hospital was trying to pull a fast one because they need her bed and will likely get better reimbursement from paying customers who have private insurance and not the Medicaid she has.

They most likely get a flat rate from Medicaid. They can make more money by using that bed for frequent turnover of complex patients who require a higher level of care and therfore make more money for the hospital and its shareholders.

keithbvadu2

(36,865 posts)

5. Should they use the republican death panel and just kill her?

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2024, 12:44 PM

Feb 24

???

'Pro-life' to conservatives/republicans is a myth.

Republicans are in favor of killing living babies and have done so.

The supposed pro-lifers cared naught when the state of Texas (republican gov, republican Prez) deliberately killed living baby Sun Hudson against the mother's wishes because he was an inconvenience to the state.

It is not a matter of life to the supposed pro-lifers.

It is a matter of control.

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