Mt. Sinai and Dr. Edelman to the Rescue

After seeing Sam's mental state deteriorate last week and no one at Park Terrace responding, I contacted Sam's Primary Care Physician, for help and advice. Dr. Edelman immediately responded to my inquiries and even had a long conversation with me to determine the best way to proceed in order to help Sam in her current situation. The outcome was Sam being sent to the ER at Mt. Sinai due to a change in her mental state and ultimately being admitted to the hospital last Friday night (actually at @2 am Saturday morning to be exact). Dr. Edelman put Sam's "team" in place and immediately the neurologist changed her medications. They did a number of tests, including a new EEG and determined that Sam does not need any seizure medications. It is now 5 days later and Sam is much, much better. She was just discharged back to Park Terrace this evening. There are still some unresolved questions related to her fainting spell and her heart, but Sam has a Cardiologist appointment on Friday (thanks again to her primary care physician) and so hopefully that too can be resolved. I also told the social worker at Park Terrace today just how disturbed I was by the fact that there has not been a neurologist available at Park Terrace for the past 3 weeks, and the fact that everybody acknowledged that there was a serious problem with Sam but nobody did anything. I received an apology from her and was also told that I would be hearing from their head administrator so that they can assure me that this will never happen again.