THE WORST!!! My Dad, 70 years old, most important person to me, needed rehab for his broken back. This place is beautiful and there are some really nice staff BUT there is not nearly enough staff to accommodate, SO WHY WOULD YOU FILL MORE BEDS IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE STAFF?
My Dad chose to ONLY take Tylenol, it would take 2 hours for him to receive Tylenol, and I was in the room witnessing this! Not only that, anytime you pushed the button for someone to come in, there was NO response for anything for at least that long. We did not push the button very much at all, so it wasn't because we were "constantly needy".
Bathing was an entirely different story. My Dad went 10 days without being bathed even after multiple requests. When my husband went in to confront, someone had documented he had been bathed when he clearly hadn't. The nurse insinuated that he was not being truthful, so they went down to see my Dad together. Meanwhile, my Dad was crying inside yearning to just be clean! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ANYONE TO GET BETTER WHEN THEY FEEL LIKE THEY ARE DISGUSTING AND GROSS? He did get bathed that day, but not again. It was falsified that he "declined" a shower.
Later, reading through his paperwork, he said he was insulted because they had wrote that he was "uncooperative "! Is that them falsifying to cover up the lack of care given? He is the easiest going most compliant person I have ever known, even more so in a medical setting. Or, did they mix up paperwork from a different patient with his? I don't know which is worse!
An appointment was set up for my Dad to be transported to the Spine Doctor by The Center Of Arrowhead, they were notified a week before the appointment, my Dad had to miss the appointment because there was NO TRANSPORT SCHEDULED by The Center At Arrowhead. This was them dropping the ball yet again.
X-rays were ordered for his back, shockingly, yet again, no one knew a thing or who to get a hold of. NOBODY IS TAKING ACCOUNTABILITY, but this is supposed to be acceptable medical care.
My Dad had a wristband that said "Fall Risk", thankfully nothing ever happened but proper precautions were NOT taken by any means. He was left alone in his room with the door closed for hours without anyone ever checking on him. Even when we did press the button for someone to come in, it was hours before anyone ever did. My father could have fallen, hit his head and not have been discovered for hours in a place that he was supposed to be safe and protected, yet was not.
The food really super sucked, but at least the food was delivered regularly every day, sometimes late but it was delivered.
Physical and Occupational Therapy always showed up and he made impressive progress, but that was only a few minutes a day, as it was ordered. They completely did their job and that was the ONLY time I felt my Dad was safe. Not enough to give this place a decent review in the least.
There were a few FANTASTIC people, nurses, therapists, LVN's, that hit us through this experience, but they were not enough to carry the load of this entire establishment. Other nurses who were a bit more serious and fed me a bunch of BS, I don't blame them for being desensitized in this time we are going through and having to work under these conditions that are beyond their control. Puts me back to the F'ing establishment as a whole, the f'ing top dogs of this s*it show, why the hell would you continue to offer beds when you don't have staff to care for them?
I could continue on with more of the awful experience, but I will jump to the end. We brought my father home yesterday, they wanted to keep him longer. I would rather shove a pencil through my eye than have him stay another minute there.
I feel as though this would be a perfect place to send someone if you didn't care about them and just were waiting for them to die. read more