Rotech has a LOT of vent patients in some area's!!! They will take anything a Dr wants them to take in fear of loosing the referal.. Whatever the crazy sales rep whines for they will get regardless of the liability!!!!! Heck I saw them take a vent patient once without seeing the patient, without evaluating the home for safety or meeting the patients family to see if they could learn to care for it. OF course this was after 4 other companies refused the patient... LOL These patients are more or less on their own now. Thanks to the good education they got from those laid off RT's they are able to manage. Most of the locations can't get the monthly supplies in order for delivery without the RT. Our vent patients are calling in continuously for things not delivered. AND they try to hide the fact of not having an RT on staff from the referral sources. I don't know about the rest of you but I sure do miss our RT, I knew I could always count on that person to answer clinical questions, and basically the RT would decide what the best plan for the patient was in the home. Our Dr's appreciated the clinical input and it helped our business greatly. Now we just "wing it", not sure thats the best thing for the patient.
YEP, "IT'S THE BLOTECH WAY" "WE CARE ABOUT PATIENT CARE" where's my barf bag