Very bad experience at Hearthside with my mother. She fell in the bathroom, cracking her skull, in the middle of the night. They called me to come see her and make the decision whether or not to call an ambulance. When I go there she was in bed, no one was with her and her pillow was covered in blood. I called 911, they told me to put compression on it. I had to go find someone to let the EMT's in so that I could go back and keep compression on her wound. I spoke to the Administrator afterwards, she told me she would look into it and get back to me. She never did. I have since been told that the way it was handled was against the laws of assisted living facilities. They MUST call 911, and then the family, when a head wound is involved. Several weeks later, she developed a UTI, and I think it's because they did not bath her on schedule. Again she went to the ER, and spent a week in the hospital and a month in rehab. She's now in a different facility and I pray things will be different. read more