TABLE OF CONTENTS
Designation of Patient Advocate
What Is and Is Not a Nursing Home?
How to Get Good Care in a Nursing Home
How Care Planning Works in Practice
Advocate’s Tip: Have the Patient Sign the Admission Contract
Required Financial Disclosure.
Financial Admission Discrimination
Illegal Admission Requirements
A Patient Advocate May Not Be Required
A Guardian May Not be Required
No Minimum Payment before Applying for Medicaid
The Rights of Nursing Home Residents
The Right to Achieve and Maintain the Highest Practicable Level of Functioning
The Right to Make Health Care Decisions
The Right to Be Free of Unnecessary Restraints
The Right to Be Free From Abuse
The Right to Accommodation of Individual Needs and Preferences
The Right to Independence, Dignity and Participation in All Activities
The Six and Only Reasons for Discharge
Transfer to Hospital is NotDischarge
The Rights of the Medicare Patient
The Right of the Hospital Patient to Appropriate Placement on Discharge
The Right to Skilled Nursing Care in the Nursing Home
Special Note: Big 3 Auto Employees or Spouses – Two Year Skilled Care Benefit
Appeal Premature Termination of Medicare Coverage
How to Appeal Premature Termination
How to Pay for the Nursing Home Without Going Broke
Do I lose my other insurance if I receive Medicaid Assistance?
Medicaid Tip: Purchase Additional Insurance
Exempt Assets and Countable Assets
Medicaid Rules for Married Couples
Case Study No. 1
Medicaid Planning for Married People
Case Study No. 2
Medicaid Planning for Married People
Case Study No. 3
Medicaid Planning for Single People
Case Study No. 4
A Trust for a Disabled Child
“I heard I can give away $10,000 per year. Can’t I?”
Case Study No. 5
Financial Gifts to Children
Case Study No. 6
The $160,000 Mistake?
Listing of Nursing Homes in Southeast Michigan
Nursing Homes in the Tri-county Area
Nursing Homes Outside Metro-Detroit Area
Nursing Home Evaluation Checklists