I fell at home and had a laceration on my chin. Instead of going to the emergency room in the…read moremiddle of the night, on Saturday, during a pandemic I decided to give this service a try. I left a voice mail with the details and NEVER RECEIVED A CALL BACK. I ended up cleaning and dressing the wound myself and going to urgent care in the morning. Don't waste your time with this.

I tried to reachout to these doctors in my time of need. I reached their voicemail that said…read moresomeone will call back in 1 hour. I am still waiting on that call back.

We called Home Instead when mom needed someone with her daily and soon we needed 24/7 care. The…read moreteam quickly adjusted our care plan. Everyone we worked with was professional and very caring. My husband and I live out of state. We received updates from every shift through the Honor app. It was such a blessing to see that mom was receiving loving care. I highly recommend the Home Instead care team.

AI (and a change of ownership) has not been kind to HI. (Nor has the new "post COVID" economy which…read morehas sharply reduced availability of caregivers as well as administrators - though some have hung in with HI since the organization took excellent care of my Mom in the last years of her life, most of her caregivers have aged out or moved on). more recently (Mom died in 2019), I hired HI to provide in home care to an aging friend recovering from open heart surgery, and spent nearly full time myself trying to find lost caregivers, chase down keys left home by one particularly distracted caregiver, and assure myself that my friend was indeed being cared for. I'm not sure any other agency would have done better but it's just very hard work and worth doing oneself if possible - these days I think Medicare will pay family/friends to caretake ill aged persons, maybe not as much as they'd make doing other jobs but keeping loved ones from running into the street or swallowing poison (by mistake).

JourneyCare was the right choice for my husband's hospice care. The hospital recommended a…read moredifferent company but after much research and several recommendations from close friends/nurses I decided to go with them and I'm really glad I did. I'm truly grateful for the wonderful CNAs, social worker, bearevement therapist, and their whole team. My husband chose home care so I wasn't sure they were the right fit since we're located in Chicago and some of reviews for the city area were not great but went with my gut on this and they've exceeded my expectations. I believe our team was out of the Deerfield office. My husband was in his 50s, had a strong will to live despite battling stage IV cancer for 9 yrs, and a dark sense of humor. It wasn't an easy transition but the whole team worked with us both to address all of our concerns and helped him find comfort and peace. Every time I called the on-call nurse/manager they were able to help out and come up with solutions tailored to his needs. Communication was key here since my husband was reluctant to taking pain meds and anything of the sort. We didn't get to use their facilities so I don't have that experience as others have mentioned but the home hospice care was just what we both needed. I just felt very well supported throughout the entire process and was consistently kept informed.

In August 2024, we received hospice care from JourneyCare during the final weeks of my wife's…read morecancer journey - first at their inpatient facility on the Rush Hospital campus for 5 days, and then at home for 2 weeks. Overall, we found her direct care team (RNs and CNAs) to be fantastic - compassionate, skilled, and present. At home care and support was excellent, The inpatient facilities, operations, and administration, however, fell well short of expectations. Specifically: 1. Handover from the Rush Hospital team to JourneyCare was handled extremely poorly. Our POA paperwork (which had been on file with the hospital for 5 years) was lost twice. A Christian minister (outside of our faith tradition) was sent to help us draft end-of-life wishes after the second loss despite our having taking significant care to prepare these documents with our lawyers. This failure of the basics created significant unneeded stress. 2. The inpatient facilities are an embarrassment - located in old office spaces far away from the primary hospital patient buildings, our room reeked of old cigar smoke, the bathroom was moldy and shower facilities unusable, and the much of the space was being used to store stacks of old furniture. There are no nearby amenities, and the door to the building is locked with no attendant during most hours of the day - making it extremely difficult to go out for food and coffee when staying with loved ones. 3. The attending physician and supervisor team persistently made decisions about our care based upon what is covered by Medicaid and assumptions about willingness to pay -- despite us having to assert repeatedly that these were not constraints. At one point I actually showed the physician the receipt for the $5 copay for a pain management drug that we knew worked well for my wife but that she insisted over and over again wouldn't be covered and had to be convinced to prescribe. 4. While the majority of the care team was excellent, there were notable exceptions. My wife had large, extremely painful lesions in her legs. Despite telling a team that had come to bathe her, they grabbed her leg forcefully to turn her over in bed - resulting in her crying out in extreme pain. On another occasion, we were quietly playing music on her phone next to the bed to try to calm her anxiety. A nurse tech came in and said "if we're going to have a party let's turn it up!", grabbed her phone, and started blasting music next to my dying wife. 5. The ambulance service that they contracted for her transport home was not informed that there were 8 steps to enter our house, and upon arrival at first refused to carry her in the stretcher (because of her leg lesions she couldn't be placed in a chair). Ultimately, one of the drivers agreed to lift her together with me and two friends - a group of middle aged women trying to haul 300+ pounds up a steep flight of stairs. Once we had her home and transitioned to the home care team, it was like night and day. Service and support was excellent and extremely well managed from beginning to end. Overall - JourneyCare needs a major reset of their inpatient facility and operations. I would have never agreed to it had I known how it would be -- and am astonished that Rush, a national cancer institute that is renowned for the quality of its patient care, would allow themselves to be affiliated and to leverage them as their go-to hospice provider.

Water Tower Nursing and Homecare is the place to be they take the guess work out of planning and…read moremanaging care your love one needs care givers are very professional and attentive also very polite and friendly the management team is always ready to accommodate their clients needs and does an excellent job of overseeing care for their clients

Extremely happy with services provided by Water Tower Nursing and Home Care. Mark was so helpful…read moreand pleasant answering questions and guiding me thru the process of what services they provide in regards to having caregiver accompany me after surgery, and home care after surgery. Everything went perfect, I highly recommend them. My caregiver was right on time, took immediate charge from surgical recovery area, getting instructions from surgery nursing staff, to our transpiration back to my home. She was wonderful, very personable and polite and caring, was almost like having a good friend there with you and accompanying you home. Thank you again, and will definitely recommend and use in future should need arise.

This February was my second, and last time at IVme in Old Town. I don't like the intake…read more I get saline, to help with dehydration. I live a few blocks away so I walk to the clinic. Both times, as soon as I arrive and check in, two nurses rush me to the back, they are asking questions, one is putting in the IV and the other is checking my blood pressure. My blood pressure was elevated both times. My most recent visit, she also took my bp over my hoodie sleeve and the first thing she says is, "You're going to need to get on meds." What "nurse" isn't aware of how blood pressure work? I just walked blocks, you didn't let me sit, you're talking to me, the cuff isn't on my arm it's on a sweater and you think my readings wouldn't be elevated? Also, how can 1 or 2 readings determine medication? Giving unsolicited medical advice to a stranger whose medical history you know nothing about is condescending. She could've simply said your reading is high, follow up with your doctor. On another note, the clinic is clean, beautiful, comfortable and the receptionist was very friendly. The first time I felt like the IV helped me a lot. This last time I didn't feel any benefits.

Found out my vitamin D was low. Was excited to learn there was a shot that I could get. Easy…read morescheduling. Clean office. Friendly and respectful care.