What a horrific and horrible place this is! Sent my loved one there who had a breathing tube in is neck and a compromised immune system. After a long hospital stay he was sent here awake mouthing words and interacting some with the family. He was then immediately placed in a contact (infectious) room with pneumonia. Family stopped this and it took a while to be placed in a more appropriate room.. When it did happen, he was then snowed, placed in a deep sleep for 4 days; not even painful stimulation would produce a reaction. It took two days before they started him on his antibiotics and tube feedings the doctors from the hospital had him on. Family had to keep asking to have him turned every two hours and give him other care. When the family asked what was keeping him so sedated, the nurses would given a "I don't know answer." They did ask each nurse the saw the same question, one was brave enough to say he had been given Oxycodone by the "night nurse". The family asked that all pain meds be stopped but would go in the next day and he was still sedated. He would try to open his eyes but still not interacting after the 5th day. Since this place does not allow family in after 8pm, its hard to say what happened at night. Scary thoughts for sure. The 6th day, the tube feeding was not attached to the feeding tube and his gown and the floor was full of feeding liquid. As family left, they asked the staff to PLEASE clean him up. The next day, day 6, he had appointment at an outside facility and family went in early to help him get escorted, only to find him in the same dirty gown and him choking. He was spitting up the tube feed through his mouth and breathing tube.
The family each day would ask to speak to the doctor so changes in his sedation could be made and their questions could be answered. No doctor ever came to talk to family during this horrific stay. We did see doctors walking around the facility and Nursing supervisors but no one would help the family. On his 5th day, the family used the call light to talk to his nurse, after two hours of waiting a tech came in to "turn off" the call light and the family asked him not to but he did anyway. They reminded him they wanted to talk to the nurse, no nurse ever showed up after a 4 hour total wait time. It was time for the family to leave and as the family was leaving much of the staff was sitting at the desk laughing and carrying on, the also witnessed much of the patient's room lights flashing and no one moving or attempting to answer any of the patients requests.
Our family member had to be returned back to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). It took him a few days to awaken. I would NOT recommend this place to my worst enemy. read more