Spring 2021
My mother has been at this facility for three years. In that time, I was active in the Walk for Alz, 1/2 Marathon Heroes fundraising, hosting facility cookouts for staff and residents, singing Karaoke and playing guitar for the residents.
JEA Senior Living took over the property in 2020. Within the last few months there has been an alarming rate of staff turn over. We are down to only a few people who were there this time last year. A group of families reached out to Executive Management expressing our concern that the people caring for our loved ones were leaving in droves. We were told that they would investigate with anonymous input from staff (current and recently departed) and make changes to halt the exodus of valued staff.
I logged on to LinkedIn last night to see that the CEO was congratulating himself on the results of the "Great Place to Work" survey and immediately started seeing red. These guys lied to us about how they would handle the situation, did not follow up with the families as agreed, and then started taking victory laps on social media with their stupid survey. Meanwhile the people who care for our loved ones during a time when we cannot see them due to COVID keep dropping off the staff roster. Now there just a few people in the building left to trust as everyone else is new and don't seem to grasp the gravity of the situation. What the jokers at Corporate did (especially the COO) is that they had HR send out a "Great Places to Work" survey which made no space to collect thoughts and opinions about what was happening specifically at our community. Additionally, the staff had their employee ID tied to the survey. It is a dereliction of duty for executive management to take charge of this kind of issue which is core to their business and treat it with such blatant disregard. On what planet does the COO live if he thinks employees will give honest feedback when their name is attached? He told us in email it would be anonymous and assured us they took this very seriously. He lied. He failed us and our families.
Let's be clear, every community will be different. If you have a good experience with another location owned by JEA Senior Living, I am very happy for you. It is what we all want for our loved ones suffering through this cruel disease. I have my own thoughts as to why everyone quit, but this is not the place to air those grievances as I have only anecdotal proof. As a group of families, we went to the COO to ask for help in sorting this out for us. We didn't even ask for them to disclose their findings. It doesn't matter. Find what is broken and fix it because this is his business and we trust him to do his job. He didn't. The questionnaire sent was generic and made no space for specific feedback while having responses directly linked to employees. I guess anyone can be COO at JEA Senior Living.
I would simply say that this used to be a great place. Not anymore. The executive team overseeing this facility are not serious, they do not care about the residents or the families, and you'd be better off looking somewhere else because they are not to be trusted. I looked at 20+ facilities. The thought of having to do that again with an Alz patient bearing the brunt of the effects of change is infuriating, especially because we came to them in good faith and left it to them to sort out. They have betrayed our trust. Do not give them yours. Keep looking. You have plenty of options in this area.
JEA Senior Living management team should be ashamed of themselves for this paltry effort to make it look like they did something. Disgusting. Shameful. read more