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I'm thinking you'd have to have documentation from other facilities proving that this SW is engaged in blocking activity, which infers that these other facilities would have such documentation. Have you seen that kind of proof?
I rather doubt that other agencies would surrender it voluntarily, so it might have to be subpoenaed, for which you'd be well advised to hire an attorney so that it's done properly.
And what would be her reasons for interfering with your mother's access to other facilities? I suspect there's a lot of information that needs to be shared to properly evaluate this situation.
From your profile:
"I have reposted this to the state now the nursing home is trying to push us out saying that they can no longer rehab her and we have to pay out of pocket. The social work knows me and my mom and has left that facility you're the one that I want to transfer my mother to. They had room when I spoke to them last and all the sudden now they don't have any room for her and they have also blocked me from moving her to a different facility outside of that."
What is the state doing? And how is the NH trying to "push" you out? If your mother isn't able to benefit from rehab, in my experience a facility will state that and recommend that the family seek help in other ways. They are reimbursed by Medicare and have to report progress, and can't do so if progress can't be achieved. So if a person remains in rehab after that, the family does have to pay out of pocket since Medicare won't pay if the patient is unable to progress.
I'm not clear about what this means:
"The social work knows me and my mom and has left that facility you're the one that I want to transfer my mother to."
"they have also blocked me from moving her to a different facility outside of that."
You can supercede the "blocking" by advising that you're removing your mother AMA. How specifically are they "blocking" you?
The SW I don't think has anything to do with who gets admitted or who doesn't. That is not their job. There is a dept for Admissions. Thats who I worked with. I did not see a SW to much later on and that was a conversation on changing rooms.
NHs profit is based on keeping beds full. Yes, last week they may have had a bed, this week, sorry its been taken. I was up for a job that filling the beds would have been one of my jobs. When one came empty I was suppose to call every hospital in the area telling their discharge person that a bed was available. An empty bed cost money the rehab/NH money.
Are you transferring Mom for rehab? Rehabs need to have a bed to except Mom. Maybe the therapist has called the present NH and found that therapy will no longer help Mom that's why she is being turned away. Medicare will no longer pay. Or are u trying to get her LTC.