I debated on writing this letter but I felt like I needed to tell you how deeply disappointed I am with your facility and your company.
Three years ago in March 2018 was one of the worst months of my life. My mother had three strokes. My sister found her in our family home lying on the floor with her blood sugar so dangerously low that we almost lost her. After a call to 911 and several nights in the Clearfield hospital she was transported to Mountain Laurel where they did rehabilitation therapy. After only three days of therapies, they informed us that there was nothing more that they could do for her and that we needed to either take her home or find a personal care home for her. We had only one day to make a decision. After all these years of my mother taking care of us, suddenly we were forced to take care of her and try to make the best decisions we could for her.
We came to your facility, Clearfield Colonial Courtyard, and we talked with Sandy English. She talked with us, she sympathized with us, we were shown rooms, and we were given options, and on that very day we were told about a program called "the spend down program." This really great program that your facility had.
That the biggest stipulation was that you needed to have lived in the community of Colonial Courtyard for three years. After those three years they would except what my mother received in Social Security as payment for a living there. This wasn't just something that was talked about on that first day. There had been several occasions where I had questions and concerns about what was going to happen when Mom ran out of money.
Several times I went to Sandy and asked, what about mom's medications?, how does that work? I was told that the medication's would come out first and the Courtyard would get what was left over.
On several occasions we talked about the retirement that my parents saved and that my dad left for my mother and it was with a financial advisor and we knew that it was slowly dwindling down to nothing and I would again ask when we get her to these three years we're going to be OK, right?
So after taking my parents hard earned money from their financial advisor down to nothing it was at that point we had to sell the entire contents of our childhood home and then proceed to sell the house.
Again telling Sandy English, I'm gonna get her to those three years.
Now you have all of the money from my parents financial advisor, now you have all of the money from the contents of selling the house, now you have all of the money from selling the house.
Unfortunately, we weren't to those three years so my brother-in-law and sister decided to kick in money that they had set aside for their two children because, we thought, after three years of living in your community, that it would be able to be her "Forever Home!"
We were wrong!!!!!
Fast forward to this year 2021. We were given a one sided piece of paper to fill out so that we could get mom into this fantastic "spend down program." We turned it in with her February rent. In the middle of February we heard nothing. At the end of February I called Miranda Coulter. She stated that she had not heard anything about mom's application and that she would let us know as soon as she heard from the home office. We waited.
One week into March I couldn't wait any longer, we had to make a decision if she was not going to be able to stay there. I called the home office. The home-office is no better than Colonial Courtyard of Clearfield. They had no answers, no decisions. To me it was very simple it was yes or no.
Finally after several calls to Clearfield Courtyard and to the home office, Miranda Coulter finally informed us that they would not be able to keep mom at Clearfield Colonial Courtyard and that we would need to find her a new home.
At the beginning of this letter I stated that I was disappointed, that is actually a gross understatement. I have told several people what happened to my mother and have heard story after story of this not being the first time that you've done this to someone. It's not fair to tell someone about a program that you have no intention of being available when the time comes. The betrayal that my family feels is beyond anything I have ever had to deal with in my whole entire life. I felt such peace when we finally had Mom in your facility. She was being taken care of. Her medications were under control. We had our Mom back. She was so happy. Only to have this peace ripped away, yet again, by your administrations lack of empathy!
One of the only reasons I am writing this letter is so that you know how I feel and I will also put this letter everywhere that I can. People need to be aware of what you are doing and telling people. I find it very disheartening its all about the bottom line. read more