My very elderly mom has been at Hamlet since 2021. Like others on here, her meds have been a fairly constant problem--physician orders changed, meds not being given, etc....Paperwork/physician orders is almost constantly
"not received", even though the sender has confirmations of of successful transmission. Until recently, Mom has been pretty healthy, so even though she pays for "all inclusive" care she hasn't needed anything but meds until after she came back from rehab for a fall injury. We have private care companions with her, and the owner of the company reviewed all the companion records and said, Mom had no showers for approximately the first three weeks she was back. Certainly, she got a raging UTI (E coli), and it certainly is possible that lack of bathing either caused it or contributed to it. Reporting to nursing staff did nothing because as of March 5 (over 2 weeks later) her care companions state that Mom had no shower for that time period either. The care companions state that mom was showered once, the day of the first complaint. This was again reported to nursing who of course denied it and this time responded by an aid forcing Mom to have a sponge bath in cold water despite mom's loud protests that she was so very cold. (Apparently her hot water heater was malfunctioning which they would have known if they had been bathing her in the first place.) Fortunately the care companion walked in and stopped it. She reported what she witnessed to nursing management. After it was reported nursing management never followed up with the family to report that mom had been given the proper care-- a warm shower she very much needed and they are contractually obligated to provide-- probably because it didn't happen. I sent a very critical email the next day registering a complaint that no follow up was done to see that mom was cared for and then communicated back to us.
That said, transportation is great at Hamlet--a wonderful group of guys. The activity people are also really good. But when the resident needs basic care, it's pretty awful. Lots of other issues I didn't even get into. They have a new memory unit, and while I can't attest to it personally, word on the street is that the memory care unit is even worse. read more