Please for the love of whatever you believe in DO NOT put your loved one in this facility for long term care. It isn't that the staff is shady at all. It is that whoever owns this facility and the top level administrators are bilking not only the system but people who are privately paying out of tons of money while they sit behind their expensive desks, drive their cars from Lakewood, and that gas and car $$$ must be on our dime bc it is a business expense, and then try to tell you with a straight face,condescending tone that they have the amount of staffing that they have because medicaid only pays, "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,BLAH!". No, not acceptable response! It matters not what medicaid reimburses them to me when your fanciness is handing me a business card from a beautiful expensive wooden BOX (not one of those cheap plastic holders)...another business expense. However, more importantly, it matters not one iota what medicaid reimburses or how expensive you look or that my father is paying out of pocket private pay $$$ for a 5 star hotel room rate to get a cheap off the highway sketchy motel kind of room. It doesn't matter what medicaid reimburses because when there is only one nurse's aid for a boat load of people and 2 nurses (maybe), well you know that they cannot give any person the kind of attention and care that he or she deserves. These staff members (mostly) seem to really care but how much can they do? They are great to my dad and they do the best that they can for my mom but how much can they do for her with that kind of staffing? These owners/administrators come from Lakewood, do your research on those who mainly live in Lakewood. Let's just say that they are not available fully and don't visit from sundown Friday night to sundown Saturday night....probably not even on Sunday, either. Let's just say that they are supposedly The Chosen People and they are choosing to mistreat other people and their loved ones by making a conscious decision to get around legalities or they do the very, very minimum so that they can put more and more $$$ into their pockets only to treat other human beings in an immoral manner. They are on notice with me because I have a nice video to show the amount of staffing they have and what happens when there is not enough people to staff a nursing home with high risk elderly people.
When I went to put my mom to bed, her diaper was so soaking wet that she had to be sitting in that for many, many hours. I mean, I have taken care of babies who's parents didn't change their diaper overnight and it was....it was this kind of soaking wet. Leaked right through her pants, urine on her bed because I had no idea what condition her diaper was in. Bed alarm buzzing for at least 20 minutes before anyone came (because there is only one Nurse's aid for maybe 20-30 ppl)...My mom could have really fallen out of bed, hit her head, and have been found dead, worst case scenario, as a result of LOW STAFFING APPROVED BY ADMINISTRATION!!!! Well, you know what, I am going to make sure that if anything bad happens to my mom or anyone else living there that these Lakewood owners pay through the roof for what they are continuing to do to our loved ones!!! (monetarily and by outing them in the media!!! read more