By: Gloria

Gloria — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:25:53 +0000

My mother was in their facility in Shelton WA from May 19, 2004 till she passed away at age 95 on March 19, 2005, I would be with her after work and on weekends, I put her to bed I observed a lot of neclect due to the understaffed and overworked employees, the residents sat in their wheelchairs for hours at a time and my mother passed away suddenly of CHF under suspicious circumstances, they failed t o call me at work during a terrible episode just a day before her passing., when I did get up there after work, I found her all morphined up with a chunk of meat in her mouth and her mouth wide open breathing heavily in a coma, this was on May 18, 2005 and she passed away the next morning, I never did get a straight answer as to what really happened while I was at work on the 18th and why they never called me like they were instructed to do, also I observed another elderly resident die just before my mom passed away due to another very active male resident falling on her prior a couple days before her death, I remember seeing her face black and blue, as she was in the next room to my mother. The residents would ring their bells and no one would come especially at night as there would be no one on the floor. I still get chills from the memories of Evergreen Nursing home under the name of Shelton Health and Rehab. Thank you for letting me vent.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:30:43 +0000

my 83 yr.ld mpther was put in a nursing home and was there only 20 mins, when she atempted to go to the bathroom and fell and broke her nose. we were just finishing the paper work when i walked into her room and she was on her way down to the floor. there was blood everywhere and the staff came running in when they heard me yell out. a least 10 people came in but did nothing but stand there. i as ked for a doctor and there was none, so i asked for 911 to come. in the process of all this my paper work and my will that was in a leather boound case disappeared and noone would answer me when i said where are my papers. my husband fininally foun d them at the nurses dest with a nurse going through them all.i don’t know how the papers got up and walked to the desk in the hall, but apparently that is what the nursing facility says happened. that they didn’t take anything out of the room, and that i am making an alligation, that they say is not true. my mother suffered a broken nose, and needed another cat scan at the hospital. they did not do anything for her but scan and clean her up. her mouth was caked with blood. it was hard to get it cleaned out. she had sever cuts in her mouth to which she now has bad scar tissues that bothers her a lot. prior to her gettin into the facility, the doctor at one of the hospitals said she had 3-10 days to live and that we would not be able to take care of her needs. so they brought in hospice and they both made the diagonises that she needs to go to a home to be cared for. then this is what happened to he. she had been on a feeding tube, and drugged so heavily that she was non responsive to anything or any one. when she fell she was talking and walking again. i called the health dept of San Diego, and they say they can’t prove anything there for they have no case on the hospital or the nursing home, which was Life Care Center, in Escondido, Ca they did say that the hospitals #(2) just warehoused her the whole time, from 20-23rd.at #2 hospital. she was in the hospital from 5-12-08 to 5-23-08. she was transfered to hospital# 2 because of her insurance coverage was not contracted for the first one. i have seen the bills and have had to pay the co-payments for all of these incidents, that were not necessary. she walked into the emergency room on the 12th, and was then declared dying anyday afterwards. she is now living with me and is doing as well as expected for someone with a stroke. does this sound to you like a normal occurence? if we had not walked inot her room she probably would have dide in her own blood.

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By: Gloria

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