If you want your loved one to be treated with respect, dignity, and appropriate care this is NOT the place. Fact, I visit my loved one at least every 3-4 days. Each time I am emptying and cleaning the bedside commode filled with urine and feces, table tops, bed anything my loved one is touching in the room. My love one bed covers and clothes smell of urine, why because she does not have the disposable underpants available in the room. They accuse her of not asking however, I have asked on a Thursday and have gone back on Sunday and still none where available in the room. I asked again and waited for them; this time I was given the correct size. My loved one stores her soiled clothes hidden in drawers and stuffed behind her bed. She attempts to wash her clothes in the sink because it's embarrassing for her when she soils her clothes or bedding because she has no supplies, I have had to ask for toilet paper. This place ignores patients calls for help for long periods of time. My loved room partner called for help several times; the help light was flashing above the door. An outside health worker (that was visiting my loved one) went seeking help down the hall at the nurse's station, however no one was around, in the meantime the patient began to get up (wheelchair dependent). After a while I went to seek help, no one was in the hall. After some time, I saw a staff member walk passed the room I went out to tell her, and she said I'll be in in a minute. I had told her the patient had got out of the bed. She enters the room telling the patient she should not be out of bed on her own. This was very concerning to me because the patient had time to pull herself up out of bed and was holding on to her dining tray. 15-20 may not sound like much time but she could have fallen and hurt herself seriously. Not addressing or forgetting to assist patients' needs is unacceptable. I have had to ask for OTC pain medicine (topical) for my loved one and have applied it myself because my loved one was forgotten or staff had not had the time to address the request, my longest wait was an hour and a half, too long. This is just a few of the reason why patients' well-beings are being compromised. You have to be an on-site advocate for your loved one to get any help. I feel sorry for patients who have no one to advocate for them while they are in this place.
THINK TWICE BEFORE PUTTING YOUR LOVED ONE IN THIS INSTITUTION. Treating every person with respect, compassion, and empathy, recognizing their inherent worth, autonomy, and individuality, regardless of health status, age, or dependency level is NOT happening with my loved one and other patients at the institution. read more