My grandma lived here for a little over 2 years. Emerald Crest seemed like a decent place at first, it didn't have those gross smells, the staff were nice, it always appeared clean, the rooms are spacious & have private half bathrooms. My grandma has dementia and started to decline rapidly over her time span here to the point she couldn't walk anymore or feed herself.
Our family would visit often enough to where the day staff got to know us pretty well. My grandma would often have bruises and cuts and would cry and say that the male staff at night were hitting her and handling her rough. We would pop up from time to time and find the male staff "hiding" or sleeping in the visiting room. When confronted why my grandma would still be sitting at the dinner table hours past dinner, not changed or properly helped for bedtime routine they would brush it off because they always assumed we would come do it. We ended up putting a camera in her room which captured her falling due to her being left in her room for hours a day and needing assistance going to the bathroom and they wouldn't check for hours. Also found that they would often remove her from her room at random hours to "go to the bathroom" which was odd because she had a bathroom in her room. We even offered a commode that they could roll right up to her bed so she wouldn't have to travel far. We often had to clean her room (which is fine) because we wanted it to be properly cleaned & for her to be comfortable.
We knew someone else's mother who was placed here while my grandma was here. She was very early in her dementia diagnosis and more aware. She also sustained bruises and said it was a male staff at night mishandling her. The staff member was moved to another house which is disheartening & terrifying.
After my grandma had a sustained multiple injuries to the point we felt the decline in her health was due to lack of care the nursing home suggested we move her to the "hospice house" because they generally have more staff (but the flip side to that is everyone in that house needed A LOT more care and there was never enough staff). While in the hospice house they did push for my grandma to actually go into hospice because of the level of care she would need they obviously could not handle. My grandma had to wear diapers but she could still tell you when she needed to use the bathroom. We've caught them telling her to go in her diaper vs doing the work to put her on the toilet. She didn't like the feel of using the diaper and when she would use it they wouldn't change her for hrs which caused more issues. We'd often show up and she would almost always need to be changed.
I feel like my review is getting a bit long and I've only covered 1/2 of the issues here. My grandma is no longer at Emerald Crest due to one too many preventable falls under their care where they tried to blame us when in fact that the staff neglected to care for my grandma while she was in their care. read more
