Just because the décor may be impressive, doesn't mean the care will be. Always take another person with you and visit multiple times before deciding. Look around and see if you see loved ones visiting or if it's just all staff. Watch the staff interact with the residents in line of sight. Listen to the interaction if you are close enough to do so. Pay attention to the little things. As they will often give away what is really going on.
I used to be appalled because our nursing staff would give the residents shots and dab the blood with their clothes instead of a tissue or cotton ball. One poor woman wasn't finished with her meal and they hauled her out of the dining room backwards in her wheelchair screaming all the way. Yet other residents would sit there for an hr before someone remembered to come get them.
Sometimes you'll overhear them making fun of certain residents or you may hear them being rude to a resident. However, I don't feel like any nursing home will ever be entirely free of such behaviors because the staff is overwhelmed and overworked. 12 hr shifts sometimes turn into doubles if someone doesn't show so then you have exhausted staff who may be caring for more residents at one time than the law says they are supposed to because most homes work short staffed all the time to cut costs.
Part of the blame lies with not being able to collect the medicare payments on time in order to make ends meet. My advice, look the places over thoroughly and try to pick the least of all the evils.
I used to be appalled because our nursing staff would give the residents shots and dab the blood with their clothes instead of a tissue or cotton ball. One poor woman wasn't finished with her meal and they hauled her out of the dining room backwards in her wheelchair screaming all the way. Yet other residents would sit there for an hr before someone remembered to come get them.
Sometimes you'll overhear them making fun of certain residents or you may hear them being rude to a resident. However, I don't feel like any nursing home will ever be entirely free of such behaviors because the staff is overwhelmed and overworked. 12 hr shifts sometimes turn into doubles if someone doesn't show so then you have exhausted staff who may be caring for more residents at one time than the law says they are supposed to because most homes work short staffed all the time to cut costs.
Part of the blame lies with not being able to collect the medicare payments on time in order to make ends meet. My advice, look the places over thoroughly and try to pick the least of all the evils.
