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  Sarah Blackman Added August 17, 2017

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  Horrible hospital and negligent palliative care team. When an 89yo lady is on her death bed in the final few days of pancreatic cancer, catatonic, heavily reliant on morphine for excruciating pain and hasn't eaten in 10 days...the hospital then decided she was well enough to be transferred to a nursing home despite saying she would die during the night a week prior. A nursing home was clearly not suitable for someone in this dire condition and yet after 2 weeks in hospital suddenly they deemed this appropriate in order to free the bed and in addition refused to transfer her to a suitable hospice care as the palliative care team decided she would somehow live another 10 weeks and they wont transfer you unless they deem you only have 2 weeks left. Hospice care would have done a much better job at managing her pain than the hospital. You don't have to be a doctor to know that people die very quickly from pancreatic cancer and that the elderly aren't going to live long in this condition. Its just common sense. Shocking lack of care and concern for a dying patient's welfare and comfort in her final days and lack of respect to the family. All that seems to matter is freeing up beds and they will lie and pressure the next of kin to try to free the bed. Disgraceful. After a few days of stalling with the hospital, she passed away as we expected. So much for those 10 weeks the hospital suddenly said she had. To add insult to injury, someone who worked at the hospital stole her mothers engagement ring that she was wearing when she died.

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