The unexpected problems all started in the spring of 2014 when my parents received approval for residency at WindsorMeade, and their medical information was received in May 2014. However, on a holiday, Memorial Day, we received a call from WindsorMeade staff telling us not only that there were questions about my mother's physical condition but also that it was uncertain that they would be able to move into WindsorMeade even though their house had been sold, their belongings were packed, the moving trucks were on the way, and it was only a few days before the move to WindsorMeade.
In my opinion, the executive director, Marilyn Gray, lacks the compassion needed to be an effective and compassionate care facility manager because she made the most difficult transition of my elderly parents' lives so much worse than it had to be. Moving my parents out of their one and only home of a large metropolitan area after 80+ years was traumatic enough, but then to face all of those questions and the uncertainty of the location of their next home at the last minute was horrible.
The day after that Memorial Day phone call, my husband and I actually did the impossible - we drove around to my mother's doctors offices without appointments to gain clarifications from her doctors, which we accomplished within a few hours. Despite all of our efforts, Marilyn Gray still forced my mother to take a memory test with a WindsorMeade nurse on the day of her arrival even though she was exhausted from a sleepless night before (which she mentioned) and a long drive on the interstate highway. My mother was upset and humiliated to be forced to take the test, but she passed it with flying colors.
The next day my husband shared our disappointment with Marilyn Gray. She indicated that she'd been on vacation and did not complete the medical review process for my parents. She did NOT apologize for the oversight, and she had the audacity to ask my husband to ask me to stop complaining about her to others.
I feel that the initial experience with Marilyn Grey pretty much ruined our time at WindsorMeade for my entire family. Seven months later my father passed away. As soon as my husband's and my new house was built in 2015, my mother moved out of WindsorMeade and into our house with us.
Although there are some wonderful staff and residents in WindsorMeade, I truly believe that the executive director, Marilyn Gray, lacks the compassion and kindness you would expect and hope to find in an expensive senior community. read more