My mom entered John Knox's memory care III over a week ago. It is a beautiful facility, and everyone, including the other residents were so nice. Sadly, my mom walked out the front door during the day and the center never even knew it! It was in January and very cold outside. To remedy the situation they suggested we hire a full time aide (on top of all that money!) to watch her. We are working with them now and hope they respond with something a little better than that. Imagine a lock down facility letting a resident elope and then putting the problem on the patient/family's back.
After my mom escaped from John Knox Memory III, they sent her to the emergency room so she could be admitted to the geriatric psyche unit at a local hospital to "adjust her medications". The ER told us that she did not meet their criteria of combative, hostile, destructive, etc. She is just a normal little old lady trying to get back to her husband of 60 years and life. OK. Bad call John Knox, trying to ship out your problem. Well, she escaped again, in broad daylight, through the open front door! 2 escapes in less than a week. John Knox this time used an emergency transport to send her back to the ER, who again refused to admit her to the geri psyche unit as unsuitable. Same thing, different day. We had even cooperated fully and told them the criteria and procedure for admissions to this unit. This has been difficult, expensive and hard on my mom. John Knox desperately needs to get control of their lock down unit so that residents don't continually escape. read more