I wish zero stars was an option. This place will kill your loved one, especially if they need memory care and cannot advocate or assist themselves in living.
My sister arrived on a Tuesday. On Thursday she took a fall and fractured her elbow. They did not inform us of her fall. When i arrived at 9am, there was a CNA sitting in her room for 1:1 with her. The CNA informed me of her fall that morning, and my sister had a horrible wound on her right elbow. I asked what protocol was, and was told, very rudely, by the LPN on duty that the Dr was notified and would be there to see her. I spoke to the charge nurse to ask why the family had not been notified of her fall. She said that we should have been, but she didn't know why we weren't. (I don't know is every single employees favorite phrase BTW) I then told her that i wanted my sister to receive xray of her arm, as her elbow wound looked very concerning. She said that she would notify the Dr of my request. My sister has lewy body/ frontal temporal dementia, and was having mass confusion and delirium. She didn't understand what was going on around her, or where she was. Imagine putting a toddler in an unsecured position where no one was watching them.. ever!!
They put her in the rehab area, not the memory care unit, even though they were fully aware of what was going on and what her challenges were. We chose this facility for its location to our home, as well as it having a memory care. Many rehabs do not have a memory care.
My sister did not receive xray until 9pm that night. My niece was called by the LPN on duty the next morning and told that my sister had a neck fracture!! When questioning what she just heard, the LPN then stated it was not her neck, but her collar bone. We immediately went in and spoke to the director, Tracy about the chaos and lack of care in the facility. My sister was no longer receiving 1:1 to ensure that she could not wonder, and we were unsure of her actual condition based on being told one thing and then another. When we came in, another rehab patient who was NOT memory care, informed us that when my sister had fallen, he was outside her door in the common area and heard her yelling for help. He said that she laid on the floor for 25-45 minutes screaming for help, while he told the nurses that she needed assistance. Of course they felt we should not believe him, but based on our experience so far, we could not believe THEM about anything. pretty safe bet he was the truth teller.
Tracy in administration read my sister's xray report and said that it was a fracture in her radial neck. (According to her expertise lol) that was "the top of the radius where is the bone connects to the shoulder.. so it was close to the collar bone." *huge eye roll.* at this point i demanded she be transferred to the ER for further evaluation. The radial neck is the elbow btw, Tracy.
Because we didn't know what else to do, we let her be transferred back to TLC after her ER visit showed no other injury. Tracy had made us feel heard and had my sister transferred to the memory care side of the facility, so we felt some relief. Little did we know, it just went from bad to worse.
The memory care side of this facility is the place people go to be forgotten. My sister went from assisted walking to the bathroom, to laying in bed and pissing herself all day! Far worse confusion and Within 3 days, she began complaining of her butt hurting. Me, her daughter, her granddaughter and grandson had been taking turns sitting with her throughout every day to ensure care. On this particular day, the cna changed her wet pants while she lay on her back in the bed. I asked her to roll her, so that i could check her bottom, and my sister had developed a stage 3 bed sore! It was open and very red and painful looking. This CNA had her on her back and pulled her drenched brief straight out from between her legs, only wiping her front. Had i not been there to check, she would not have checked or cleaned the urine from her backside.
When we would come, my sister would be in bed with pants drenched. With no water or fluids in sight. Often, she would have food on her tray sitting across the room, even though she was a walk/ transfer assist. Our family felt like we could not leave her and was missing work, running back and forth between home and work and did not know how to get her the appropriate care. Every time we spoke to ANYONE, the answer was "i don't know." We never saw that worthless Tracy again. We tried to speak to the in house social worker, also no help! I texted with Tracy once and asked her if the facility meets the 6-1 state ratio for memory care patients, and she informed me there was no state mandated ratio. GUESS WHAT TRACY! I spoke to Nevada elder advocates, and you are incorrect. That goes for rehab, but memory care does require a 6-1. You should be hearing from them soon! Your 3-28 and typical 2-28, based on your staffing issues, isn't legal in this state!
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