Caring for seriously obese residents requires an increased staff and specialized equipment.  These factors affect a nursing homes’ bottom line.  As a result, only a small number of facilities will accept these type of residents.  Read about this growing problem in The Brownsville Herald.

Many area facilities don’t have the resources to take on morbidly obese patients and others just don’t want to, said Ted Disque, nursing director at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg.

“These patients aren’t worth the money,” Disque said. “They don’t generate any money for the nursing home.”

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