RCFE Rant

RCFE (Residential Care Facility for the Elderly)

What is an RCFE?

I don’t know the technical definition for it, but after I find it I will add it here. In the meantime it is a very small facility (in most cases) where elderly people go to live. Because they are usually in a home or home-like setting it’s like getting semi-personal care as opposed to a convalescent home where one worker can be made to handle a lot of clients or residents, as the State forced me to say.

Warning! This is dangerous stuff I am revealing. Please keep it to yourself. I am certain there could be a lot of controversy about what is revealed here. I wish I could reveal names and places, but you’ll see why I can’t. I’d be revealing too much.

Imagine, I got chastised for challenging their Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) assessment of some so-called problems they wrote us up for. I used a word they didn’t like in my appeal and they almost hung me up to dry for using that word instead of their word. The word I used was an ordinary word (not derogatory or bad), but one almost anyone with a service business would use.

There are different categories of licenses for RCFEs from a 6-bed like we have to a 15-bed, and many more bed facilities. Actually there can be less than 6-beds since I know of people that have only two beds. We were originally licensed for four beds, but then I decided to give up my room and that added two more beds which we had to have approved and get our license upgraded.

I could rant on and on about this business, but I’ll refrain myself (it’s only been 8 pages so far) somewhat. RCFEs are generally a small business caring for mostly elderly that have some type of problem(s) or another. Some do well in it, while others struggle. Some buy nice cars and have fabulous homes, while others are starving. It depends on a lot of factors which category anyone will be in who runs this type of business. In general it can take a few 6-bed facilities to make it a worthwhile business.

That’s a very quick overview leaving out a lot of minor things and one big major bugaboo. That’s the whole idea behind this business and how it’s run. The idea is to provide a nice setting for those you care for in a setting more personal than a convalescent or an assisted care facility. [...]

Continued in RCFE Rant-2

This page has the following sub-pages

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RCFE (Residential Care Facility for the Elderly)
RCFE Rant Part 2: Whose business is it anyway?
RCFE Rant Part 3: Do rules vary across counties?
RCFE Rant Part 4: Who runs the show, the State or the Counties?
RCFE Rant Part 5: You work for us (The State)!
To be continued

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