This place is reason you hear so many people fear putting their loved one in a home of any kind.
I have only been twice in the past month to support and be there with my significant other as he visits his great-grandmother who we found out is suffering from what appears to be a rapid onset, and now decline, of Dementia. If not for a phone call one night he made to her, we would never have known at all. (I am a certified LNA and have worked with many patients within LTC facilities and assisted living homes. Alzheimer's/Dementia being what I am most passionate about and thus an area I have always specialized in. Allowing for me to then bring this to the attention of my fiance, and in turn in family. BEFORE any measure or interventions on the facilities behalf were taken.)
They blatantly disregard their legal and assumed duties as nurses and staff caring for the elderly who are unable to do so by themselves.
Their staff is minimal to the point where you need to sometimes wander the halls before finding someone at all, and then hope they are able and willing to even assist you in what it is you or your loved one needs.
They show no concern for the safety or wellbeing of their patients who's health is rapidly declining. Leaving them unable to preform the ADLs they once used too, such as going to the bathroom when they say they need too.
Unable to find a staff member who is willing to help assist you in getting your loved one to the bathroom due to their inability to stand up and walk by themselves (after already having fallen while unattended not even a week prior), and then being told there's a call button in the room to press to get the service staff over to help.... Only to go back into the room, ask your loved one where the button is, have them not know what that even is, and then end up finding it behind a curtain over by the window behind a bunch of obstacles to reach and get too.... Only to have someone come in and half ass their job and assist in a manner which is dangerous, illegal, and pathetic...
Is just one instance that you should never have to find taking place in a facility that claims to pride itself on such excellent services.
There is no apparent intervention on behalf of those who no longer are able to assist and care for themselves safely and in turn have suffered falls and injuries due to such neglect.
They leave their patients feeling alone, isolated, confined and stranded in a room already too disgusting to call "home", while continuing to deny their patients the rights they deserve both morally and ethically, as well as legally.
When a patient wants to go outside and looks out the window longingly and "wishes to just sit outside" and when asked if they can they say "oh, I don't know. I just really wish I could sit outside for a minute or two. Oh how I would love to sit outside." And then proceeds to get emotionally upset and cry, there's an apparent issue in neglect and emotional health not being a priority in which they care to fulfill.
-There are flies everytime going in there.
-Greasy bacon left on the floor posing a slip and fall risk to a patient who already had suffered a bad fall days before. (They said they'd call housekeeping to take care of it then left without just grabbing a napkin and removing the hazard itself before housekeeping arrived - which they didn't before leaving.)
-Unchanged and dirty bed sheets
-Poor and dingy lighting/environment
-NEVER anyone at the front desk when you walk in or out
-No staff ever inquires as to who you are as a visitor when they do happen to come in (normally just to take away the food that's been sitting there long after its been finished)
-Not a single staff memebr has ever shown an ounce of concern or care in seeing a wandering visitor who clearly is lost. Which poses the concern for anyone at all to simply walk in and take advantage of anyone at all, and not have to fear the risk of well..anything.
There is SO much more I could say about this place and the disgusting levels of "care" offered. Claims have been filed. More will be. read more