Before sending your loved one to this hellscape educate yourself on hospital red flags and warning signs then show up and see for yourself what kind of facility this is. The building is old, dated and not well supplied with equipment to take care of the level of care patients in their long-term acute hospital Nursing staff are often short handed and frequently there is not a single nursing assistant on the unit my son is locked away on. I have met a dozen nurses from agencies that I thought were great only to never see them again. The constant flow of new faces and poor staffing make it so no one ever really gets to know your family member. Even the few who are truely dedicated and compassionate can only do so much. When you are constaly short handed corners will be cut and care will be neglected no matter how hard they may try to keep up. It may be fatigue but Nurses have abrasive attitudes with no respect for privacy or dignity of the patient. They do not introduce themselves to visitors or the patient. Nursing and Respiratory therapist frequently walk in and do not tell my son what they are going to do before they start doing the task. Staff do not have time to offer urinals forcing my son to wear a condom catheter that he will not leave on resulting in him setting in a soaking wet bed to the point everything on and under him is dripping wet with dark rings around the edges. My son has developed a bed sore, internally rotated leg with drop foot that will make walking difficult and painful in his future. He is only 24 and the care he received at the first hospital was wonderful. We were making progress and then he was transferred to Kindred Aurora when the case manager and website make this hospital seem like a place that it will never live up to. They put lipstick on a pig here then by the time you see what is really happening it is to late and your options more limited. My son still has a stitch in his head he is constantly itching. I have asked to have it removed and have been told they would but they say that and then don't follow through more often that should ever be considered reasonable. My son is constantly itchy they have him in a restraint mitten 24 hours a day so he can not utilize his good hand. He can not exercise his hand, he can not spread his fingers out, he can not use his call light. His other arm and hand is becoming contracture to the point where i have to massage his arm for several minutes before he will let me help him do range of motion exercises. They absolutely will not do anything about any issues you may be having and if you complain one time to many watch yourself. The DON and her sidekick like to play good cop, bad cop to try and manipulate you. They will deny, deflect and look you dead in the eye emotionlessly telling you what you are seeing with your own two eyes is not accurate, not there or otherwise not what you perceive it to be. The DON and other administrative staff will lie, about you and to you, plant objects in your loved ones room to accuse you of breaking hospital policy. They have stolen my sons cell phone and wireless speaker denied him any rights in any respect because they see him as a cash cow invalid who can't speak so there is no need to treat him kindly or considerately. They discriminate and make up rules as they go along. They will tell you the hospital policies say things that they do not despite you reading verbatim from the copy of their own policy. Any grievance is treated like an offence against staff and is met with a how dare you want your loved one to be cared for attitude. My son has been secluded with no TV, no radio, no sensory objects, no phone, no audio books and no mother to go in and perform care that they just flat out do not or can not do. They are treating my son like their little prisoner who has no human rights and is just a pawn in their sick twisted institution. Can you imagine being stuck in a bed day in and day out with nothing but your own thoughts? They deliberate are trying to break him down emotional and physically so they can snare another victim into their long term care area undefinedly. I strongly encourage you to take pictures of any neglect. Always have an automatic voice recorder for in person and phone calls. Take daily notes about your interactions and prey for the best if you get stuck here before reading these negative reviews like I did. Never trust a hospital case worker to do what is best for your loved one. That is like trusting the police to police themselves and we all see how that turn's out. This is the most unsanitary healthcare setting I have ever seen. I have yet to see a single person wash their hands. They glove up, sanitize after they finish the task, sanitize their hands and go on to the very next room. Make sure you Google how tracheostomies are supposed to be suctioned, how gastro feeding tubes should be cared for. How often and how patients should be turned and keep a log. Avoid at all cost. read more