I am my Grandma's caregiver and Durable POA
What happens after I have filed a complaint with the patient advocate for not feeding your Alzheimer's Grandparent, and not keeping in touch with the Power of Attorney before changing medication? The bill has gone to collections they have been in touch. After stating the reasons why I do not want to pay the hospital in lack of improper care that was given. what happens next.
Any change in her existing medication requires Power Of Attorney permission. Because if it were to hurt her alzheimer's who would bear responsibility?
While that may not matter to you, they may come after you as legally responsible person.
The same thing will happen here as would happen with any unpaid bill.
You need to see an attorney now.
Who told you that your Grandmother wasn't being fed? Was it Grandmother telling you that? Or were you visiting during those meals times, and if so, you could have helped with the feeding.
I was Power of Attorney for my parents. At no time did I expect the hospital to contact me in order to change medicines.
and not consulting me before lowering her medication dosage
You aren't behaving responsibly as her POA. You may find someone else put in charge of her affairs and you left out of it entirely.
and left it covered. when I told them she requires help eating, they replied they don't have time too many patients to work with.
She was there during a national medical emergency; if you had the option not to have her admitted, I think one would consider that very carefully during an emergency situation when you were informed they were short staffed.
Once my mother was dxed with dementia, we realized that she was probably not safe in a hospital by herself. You need to be able to do some level of self-care and self-advocacy while in a hospital unless you are in ICU.
It was at that point that we requested no more hospitalizations for mom and did palliative care only.
As far as med changes in hospital, POA has no clout unless you have guardnship or she gave permission....POA pays the bills. Period.
Hospital doctors have a right to change meds to treat her. You are not a doctor and you have no rights to treat. Conditions change while hospitalized and specialists ofer great help
But first, you'll have to pay the bill. If you don't want to give the money to the hospital, then contact a lawyer and ask about setting up an escrow account and put the money for the bill in there. Otherwise, it just looks like you're trying to duck out of paying the bill.
It's the same advice I've seen in tenant/landlord disputes; if the tenant decides to go on a rent strike, the advice is to put the rent money into an escrow account, to show the tenant has the means and the willingness to pay the rent except for whatever issues are the cause of the dispute.
1. He was properly taken care of
2. He was fed and medicated properly
3. He wasn't scared & had a family member nearby if/when he woke up disoriented.
Pay the bill & stop carrying on that things weren't done to your specifications while grandma was in the hospital. You weren't there with her to make SURE things were done to your specifications, so what do you expect?
What 'comes next' is the collections agency calls and calls and calls and sends letters to the point where you either pay the bills, with interest, or your credit rating gets ruined.
Same deal here. You have a right to be dissatisfied, but you don’t have the right to not pay because you’re unhappy.
Your only recourse would be legal action. Which will cost you way more than the hospital bill. And you’ll still owe that too. Because no way would you win a case.