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Hospital hearing aid battery policy
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Aug 4 4:54am | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
Just thought of this, we are such strong advocates for hearing loss, what would happen if you did some post-hospital advocacy to address the battery issue? You could write to hospital administration and to the Patient Advocate. You could ask for a visit from the Patient Advocate (all hospitals have them) and put a bug in their ear. For someone like me with severe/profound hearing loss, not having batteries (in case the card of batteries I carry everywhere I go runs out) could have been dangerous to my health.
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I keep 10-12 batteries in the case my Costco aids came in. Always in my pocket. the aids go about 4 days on one batt. Simple, never been a problem.
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Yes, I have in fact been picketing outside the PIH hospital in Downey, Calif., and I have filed an ADA complaint against PIH with the federal Department of Justice. I am thinking about raising money through charitable donations to send free batteries to PIH, since they are apparently too miserly to buy them for the patients who need them, even if the patients pay them back for the staggering cost of $0.25 per battery.