Scenes from a Nursing Home part 2

[PAUL C]

The second poem in this series is up.

It's very short.

You can find it here. Please comment.

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=24190

 

[curleyann]

Hmmmm...How interesting. What made you write about a nursing home?

 

[PAUL C]

scenes from a nursing home

I used to work as an administrator in a Nursing Home.

I hope you enjoyed it. Parts 1 - 4 are now up.

 

[curleyann]

I'm an Activity Director in a nursing home.

 

[PAUL C]

Nursing home workers

I spent nearly 18 months working in a large home of over 80 beds.

That was a few years ago now but I have very fond memories of my times there.

My Nursing Home was in England. Where is yours?

 

[curleyann]

My nursing home is in the US. Wisconsin to be exact. The nursing home I work at now has 60 beds, we banked 10 beds total over the last couple of years to make them into private rooms. I've been in long term care for 15 years. In all honesty, I would like to get out.

I don't know what your regulations and such are like in England, but they are tough in the US. Did you have to deal with PPS? Or was that just in the US?

If I didn't say before, it's nice to meet you Paul, I liked your poems.

 

[PAUL C]

PPS?

I'm not sure what the initials PPS mean but I'm sure we had something similar.

Thank you for liking my poems. It's nice to meet you too.

 

[curleyann]

PPS=Prospective Payment System. Payment is based on the MDS (Minimun Data Set). Basically it boils down to the more complex a persons care is the more money you get from medicare.

 

[PAUL C]

Different system

Care is funded in a number of ways.

Firstly from private funds until the individual has less than an amount laid down by the Government then the state takes over.

If an individual has no or little money then the State picks up the costs from day one.

As the administrator it was my job to try to get as much per week from the relativly wealthy as I could knowing that once the State took over we would only receive what they decided to pay. The prit margin was low.

The ideal would be to fill the home with privately paying residents but with staff to pay and other overheads at the end of the day the bosses wanted at least 90% occupancy so we took what we could get.

 

[PAUL C]

Prit

For 'prit' read 'profit.'

I need a new keyboard.

 

[curleyann]

If an individual has no or little money then the State picks up the costs from day one.

Sounds like our Medical Assistance program. If an individual meets certain income requirements they are then eligible for Medical Assitantance.

Sounds like you had a tough job. I bet you're glad you got out of it.

What other poems/stories have you written?

 

[PAUL C]

other stories

Thanks for asking.

Here is the batting order. (They begin in 1969).

1. Paul and Jenny.
2. Paul and Jenny's story.
3. The Adventures of Paul and Jenny
4. The further adventures of Paul and jenny
5. The Caribbean cruise of Paul and Jenny
6. Funeral Rights
7. College Days
8. Summer Holes
9. Cruising up the Nile
10. A June Wedding
11. An hour before mass/Birthday Treat (originally one story, but it didn't work).
12. Jamaican Fun
13. Return to Egypt
14. Another June Wedding

A 28 year gap which I hope to fill before I die.



15. Dallas Adventure
16. Full Circle
17. Return to Dallas
18. The Popular Music Show.

I will admit that Dallas Adventure and Return to Dallas have been written at the request of Michelle S, who also writes on eroticstories.com because she wanted to be in some of my stories. (Note Michelle died at the end of July 2001 aged 24 from a reaction to a drug administered to put her out during an operation in America).

The Travelling Folk.

1. Fun Fair Attractions
2. All the Fun of the Fair (With a brief appearance of P & J).
3. Glastonbury games

Gay stories. (Not the Paul from the Paul and Jenny stories)

1. First meeting
2. Second meeting


And a few other one offs. They are all on Lit.

 

[curleyann]

Thanks Paul!

 

[PAUL C]

A pleasure

It's my pleasure.

Please let me know what you think of them.

The Paul and Jenny series are essentially love stories. I hope you like them.