the caregivers at Vitas in Stuart FL are absolutely wonderful. They did such a professional job, a…read morevery difficult one with dignity and kindness. I know my mom appreciated all their help and support and I will always be grateful that they were here for us

From the owner: If you or a loved one is facing a life-limiting illness, VITAS Healthcare can help. We focus on…read moreyou, not your disease, to ensure comfort and dignity near the end of life. VITAS provides you and your family with a team of hospice professionals--physician, nurse, hospice aide, social worker, chaplain, volunteer--to meet physical, emotional and spiritual needs. We care for you wherever you call home--a private residence, assisted living community or nursing home. If symptoms become severe, we have Intensive Comfort Care, shifts of 24-hour continuous care until symptoms are under control. For those symptoms that cannot be managed at home, VITAS also provides inpatient hospice beds and units in local hospitals. With VITAS you're never alone. We're available 24/7/365, with support available even on holidays and weekends. In the transition from hospital to home, from curative to palliative care, from chronic to end-stage disease, VITAS is with you every step of the way.

I'm sharing my concerns about Stuart Assisted Living where my mother with dementia was a resident…read morefor over a year. Since the ownership changed within the last 5 months care and the overall environment have noticeably declined. Staffing and care: chronic understaffing, with several instances of missed meals and delayed supervision. My mother didn't have anyone several times to take her to the dining room for lunch and dinner, which I have video recordings of her not leaving her room for those meals. I had a ring camera in her room. Communication not always the best. I wanted her Drs number to talk about her medications and I was denied a few times until I put it in an email. Because of these concerns, I relocated my mom to a facility where she appeared happier within the 2nd day. If your parent needs assistance in a living center do not count on this one. I am posting this review as a warning to others.

Vitas is an amazing company with the most wonderful care givers. They have been taking care of my…read moremom for 2 years. I don't know what we would do without them. Shout out to Latoya from St Lucie!! She has been a God send for our family.

I choose Vitas for hospice care of my dying father, but the service they've provided has been…read morepathetic. He slept in a recliner with metastasized pancreatic cancer for 5 days before his hospital bed arrived, no sheets were provided and they had not made any arrangements for him to be lifted from his recliner into his hospital bed. Further, I was told that they provided 3 visits per week from a nurse's aide to do things like bathing, shaving and so forth, but today marks an entire week since he came home and only after SEVERAL calls and text messages did they finally send someone on Saturday who said she was UNABLE to do all those care items because poor accessibility due to him not being in a hospital bed! She also noted that we should have already received all the supplies for her to use (bed pan, wash pan, etc), yet they have still not arrived after a week with Vitas! Today I asked when I could expect an aide to return since it's been a week and they only showed up once after I had to beg them to send someone, and they told me that nobody was on a schedule for this week!!! His "nurse" called me shortly after I complained and said that while the aide should visit 3 times a week that they'd only bathe him once and that "the family needs to step up and help some"!! He's been home for a week, sleeping in a recliner while Vitas has had a nurse come over twice to check his blood pressure and temperature -- not exactly wonderful care! If you want your loved one to die with dignity and you don't want to have to beg hospice to provide a minimal level of service, avoid Vitas at all costs.

This agency promised the world and barely delivered.. I asked for assistance with my 84 y.o mother…read morewith memory issues...to help transport her back and forth to radiation treatment in Vero Beach. Several times we were sent aides that barely spoke English... sat around on their phones... took my mother to her appointments mostly on time.. But I was informed by the nurses that the aides brought my mother sometimes 1.5 hours late to her appointments... and I was never notified... The nurses also gave aide information... that was never passed on to me.. her daughter.. Two weeks after we stopped using the agency, I'm still finding out things, the aide was given information regarding scheduling a pet scan...and that was never done.. The doctor was upset that the pet scan was never ordered... I never knew about it.. Very incompetent home health aides... Could never get same aides, Buyer Beware... I would not recommend them to anyone.

was very disappointed in this company upon hiring them to help care for my 91 year old grandfather…read more I had to in detail explain my expectations; to which would include making sure he had ice water, taking a walk with him (in his wheelchair) outside to the mailbox everyday. There was absolutely zero consistency to the schedule of the aides, a new one came every day. The very last straw of terminating the relationship with this company was a complete no-show. Myself nor my grandfather was contacted by a supervisor, anyone from the company, or an aide saying that an aide was coming that day. My grandfather went without eating that day. If quality, consistent care is what you want, look elsewhere.....This client was left after doing research and found more claims of same complaints. Be aware when it pertains to your loved ones