Elmwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In my view, the only thing this place has in its favor is the location. Because of the chaotic, uncommunicative, and rude administration, along with overworked and rushed (but friendly) medical staff, unless you’re there overseeing the care of your loved one, dangerous health issues can be overlooked or not addressed in a timely manner.

Now that my loved one has been transferred out of Elmwood, I can write my final comments.
If you are able to feed yourself, able to walk around but sometimes you just need a little extra help, Elmwood is acceptable. But if your loved one needs someone to watch over them almost constantly, I would seek options elsewhere. There are just too many patients and not enough staff for that much individual attention.
We stopped by Elmwood to pick up his belongings. They brought up a bag from the basement. It’s a good thing we looked inside before we left, because they brought the wrong bag. Then they led us downstairs so we could search for his stuff ourselves.
We found two pairs of his pants and a shirt in the laundry. But we never recovered a few more pairs of pants, or his shoes. We remembered one of the staff commented on how nice his shoes were. I wonder if she has them now?

It is a privilege to be part of Elmwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The facility has 24-​hour Skilled nursing. The Rehabilitation Services has a very good Physical Therapy/​Occupational Therapy or Speech Therapy. The team of rehab is very compose even you will think they work with miracles. Elmwood center is a 5 star rating building that has been reviewed by CMS. This building provides a 2 or 3 bed rooms. Courtyard/​Patio is very alluring. It has a housekeeping/​Laundry Services, Computer Lab w/​Wi-​Fi Access as an amenities. When you think of Rehabilitation Center for Post-​Surgical Recovery Care or Complex Wound Care. Elmwood Care center is the place to be. The facility provides 5 star care and service. Whether you need short-​term rehab or respite care Elmwood Nursing will assist you. They provide a wide-​range of medical services to help you achieve your goals. Again thank you and it is a privilege.

I was here for 10 days following knee replacement surgery. What a horror show – a few kind people on the staff, but not many, and one who was downright abusive. 24 – 7 lights and noise. Long waits in serious pain while they got around to bringing my pain medication. Asthma from the dust festooned over my bed. I could go on and on, but those were a few of the main issues.

My mother spent 2.5 weeks at this rehabilitation facility. The nurses were very skilled and caring.

Such a deplorable «nursing» and «rehab» facility. My grandmother was a «patient» for about a month and a half. Most of the staff, I’d say 98% are so unprofessional, uncaring, and repugnant towards their patients and their families. Makes me realize most of todays nurses and/​or nurse aids only take health care jobs bc of the opportunities to finding a job faster vs other careers not bc of helping and truly caring for the ill. Anyways, my 83 yr old grandmother broke her right femur, after surgery she was transferred to this place for rehab. The doctor had noted NO WEIGHT BEARING on her right leg. When my gmom arrived the nurse attending to her room was rude and unwelcoming. She didn’t even know what was going on with my gmom and what her chart looked like. Bc of the anasthesia my gmom was under, due to her surgery, she had become very delirious (terrible and common side effects on elders) and one of the things my gmom insisted on doing was getting up to use the bathroom every 10 minutes. Of course she couldn’t stand up and walk, so she needed a bed pan. Every time I called an aid (not every 10 mins) to help her they would say they were «busy», busy meant 30 mins or more, while they walked back and forth the hallways ignoring us. Or they would say, ««ill help you walk to the bathroom ma’am» and then I’ll have to remind them she could not bear weight on her right leg and they’d ask why. Really? My gmom’s delirious state wouldn’t make things easier either and she would fight to come down the bed, which she could have done if I or a fam member wouldn’t have been with her. That would had been terrible, my gmom couldn’t and cannot afford another fall. Due to the inattention we asked if someone (1) could stay overnights with her, which they denied. But to our surprise I tried every night and some nurses and aids wouldn’t care. But of course there’s that someone who makes things extra harder and asked the nurse supervisor to tell us not to stay overnights and we weren’t allowed to stay no more. So I asked for a bed alarm, which I had to beg they put on her bed which they finally did and it didn’t work so they angrily brought in another bed with a working bed alarm. My gmom lost almost 20 lbs within a month, her blood pressure skyrocket to dangerous levels ²²⁰⁄₁₃₅ yet they didn’t seem concern at all they just doubled her BP meds which didn’t help. During a fire drill practice I overheard a nurse say he’ll save himself before any patient, while he laugh and so did his coworkers. The way they treat patients is very unhygienic, for example they would change my gmom’s diapers and throw it and the cleaning cloths (with feces) across the room to the garbage can, like they were playing hoops. The commodes were not disinfected, you could see stains. They don’t wipe the damn things. The food? My gmom’s food tray once came with a big fat spider I still regret not taking a picture of that. OSHA should pay a visit. Now i work in the medical field myself so I know it becomes strenuous, but then again I NEVER treat people like they’re nothing, especially elders. I, my family, or even gmom were never rude to these people. A few nursing aids at my gmom’s station would make fun of my mom’s accent and laugh at her– so unprofessional. I really don’t recommend this place for anyone unless you can defend yourself. While I was there I saw a couple of patients passed, heartfelt sorry for them. I really don’t think this place cares for their patients, no respect, no dignity whatsoever, it’s truly scary and such a shame.

DO NOT SEND YOUR FAMILY HERE!!! My mother went in on September 28^th for rehabilitation for knee surgery and for continuous IV antibiotics. She had a stroke during the night of the 29^th/​30^th. When the nurses went in to care for her on the 30^th in the am, she couldn’t say her name or her birth date or what year it was. I didn’t get a call until 9PM that night!!! I told them to take her back to Kaiser and they said the Dr didn’t think she needed to come back. Not listening to my inner self, I agreed. I went in to see her on October 1^st and she didn’t know who I was! After the Dr came in and agreed that she needs a ct scan, it took an additional 3+ hours and me having a complete FIT on the administrator, they finally had her transferred back to Kaiser.
I would not give them any stars, but you have to for reviews.

Horrible. .my Dad was here, he was in so much pain. and there was very little help for him! The smell was really bad, could walk in with no monitoring. …no way for a Senior Citizen. Korean War veteran to be treated! Avoid. research other care facilities in the area