I use to send my mother to this facility. Horrible. They give you a 30 minute range of when they would pick up my mother, so my son had to change his schedule so that he could be home to see her (my mother) off. Than, if we weren't home during the 30 minute range (earlier than that sometimes) they would call and be extremely about why weren't home and how we were holding them up, etc, (mind you, my mother's last one dropped off).
My mother is 90 years old. The Hearts and Hands vehicle is a normal van with a ramp to access the backseat. They would have my mother walk up the ramp, hunch over and get into the back seat of the van. She'd have a hard time getting out of the seat and her legs were pretty bruised up from that daily escapade.
Not only that, my mother has Alzheimer's, some days she'd be easy going and other days she'd be anxious. So they would send her home on the days she was anxious. LITERALLY, it was, say, 9 AM pick up, 9:40 AM call saying they're going to return her. Over the summer that wasn't as big a problem, as my daughter was home for the summer, but when she (my daughter) wasn't home, and my son and I were, at school or work, respectively, issues rose, as neither of us could really get out of school/work at the drop of dime.
To top it all off, if my mother, even sneezed, they would send her home, "contagious" they said. We would watch her and see if she was sick. Nothing. Not a sneeze. Not a cough. Nothing. Which led me to believe, they just didn't want her there.
And there is so much more.
Not only that, the place is a drab.
Dark. Ugly. Depressing.
The staff does not like their job and you can CLEARLY tell by their facial expressions. If you don't like your job, get a new one.
This place is definitely not a place to send a loved one. Unless you want to depress them.
I would not recommend this place.
The only thing I "liked" was that they would pick her up and drop her off, and they would give her rides to places every now and than. Other than that, I regret sending my mother for as long as I did.
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