10/27/2024
My mother passed this morning. Adding insult to…read morethat event is the fact that less than 12 hours later, someone was at my daughter's house UNANNOUNCED, to pick up medical equipment. Checking that box off of the white orchid to-do list. Note the recurring theme...UNANNOUNCED.
Notified the owner of yet another two failures (unannounced AND at the wrong address) and he proceeds to blame me for not answering the phone or responding to his text during what would be the latest 72-hours of my mother life.
When corrected about that, he launches into giving me a lesson on how their business is run. I kid you not - mansplaining as only a true business person could...void of any and all compassion for me or the fact that my daughter's family was unnecessarily bothered today. He ends by telling me he has the best people in the industry - as though there is something wrong with us when we were the RECIPIENTS of horrible business practices and absence of communication. (See screenshots if you don't believe me)
********DO NOT RECOMMEND***********PROCEED WITH CAUTION*************
10/24/2024
BASED ONLY ON THIS REVIEW, my daughter received call from owner - who, as a professional entrepreneur, appears to provide copy/paste responses to negative posts that address 'may' have caused, how you 'may' have felt after having been told exactly how we felt. More emotional trauma...
After 42 minutes, he then comes and justifies their actions by stating Welfare Check etc... Still not listening, still not caring about anything other than those ratings and the Medicare payments.
10/23/2024
How to rate negative numbers is something Yelp needs to figure out.
I really agree with the Yelper who said the nice, caring, compassionate person who signs you up is NOT reflective of the experience you get. Heck, he doesn't even respond to my texts now.
Overall, so far, our experience with White Orchid and in-home hospice care has been an emotionally abusive situation. We are losing my mother, which is traumatic enough - but THIS COMPANY takes stress to aWHOLEnother level.
For the second time in 2 months, the chaplain just shows up unannounced and then acts like he's going to force you to let him in the house. Today, he continued to knock despite hearing my dogs go ballistic and me not answering the door because I was in a meeting - AND HE HAD ZERO APPOINTMENT. I told him to leave my property or I would call the cops and his response was "Go ahead! Call them!" FIVE MINUTES LATER he was still sitting in front of my house. I was terrified that he was going to try the door handle and enter on his own...had to brace the door because he would not leave.
Same chaplain did the same thing on Sept 17th at my daughter's house and was CLEARLY told not to show up unannounced, EVERYONE needs an appointment. He even went as far as to say that the company tells them to come on out when the family doesn't answer the phone. They must pay him, by the visit because he certainly puts his personal wishes ahead of those of the family. A bully at best.
One social worker was the same way before we had him removed from our family's case. He just showed up and got belligerent when I would not let him in the house. Had nerve enough to ask "and just who are you?"
The second social worker is more professional, calls ahead of time, schedules, sends texts and asks about OUR needs.
First nurse was the same way.
Thankfully, Lynn (NOW) schedules and understands that we still work etc. and, even though we are at home, we can't just stop our schedules (virtual or otherwise) because they have 8 minutes to make $150 for the half-hour.