Several years
ago our director of admissions noted that we were receiving a lot of
calls from area hospitals asking if we could help with the
rehabilitation of patients that they just couldn't handle. As many
nursing facilities know, residents and patients weighing 350 to 750
pounds pose special challenges that most facilities are unequipped
to manage. Certainly, when we investigated other facilities in our
area, we determined that very little was offered in the way of
special accommodations for these individuals. We decided to do
something about it.
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We hired an
architect to determine which of our 220 rooms might be adaptable for
special beds and other modifications for extra-heavy patients. It
turned out that our facility, which had been constructed in 1972,
had several three-bed rooms that could easily accommodate two
54-inch queen-size beds each, with room left over for a more
normal-sized resident, if necessary.
We chose rooms
spread out over five floors of the facility, two rooms to each
floor. We did this to minimize the extra effort for staff, because
we hired no new staff for this. We did, however, provide staff with
special training on appropriately managing these patients, who are
often subject to social bias of various kinds. (Some extra training
was needed, too, on appropriate patient maneuvering and lift
techniques, but this facility has been responsive to OSHA
requirements for years.)
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