South Bay Keiro Nursing Home

My grammy stays here, and all the staff treat her fantastically. She’s always so happy (although she punched one of the nurses. oops), and smiling and dancing.
They have fun little activities that they always do with everyone, and they actually have exercising time as well. They taught her how to walk on the walker again :]
Gotta love this place! Thank you.

This place is TERRIBLE. My grandmother was here for 5 years because she had a massive stroke which paralyzed most of her body to the point where she cannot speak or walk. Recently my grandmother’s kidneys started to fail and my family had to investigate why they were. Finally we found out the nurses were neglecting my grandmother’s needs, they put a pot of water on her bedtable only twice a week and THEY KNEW my grandmother could not feed herself. They failed to change her bed sheets which were covered in urine and fecal matter all the time, and we have to ASK to get her changed which took forever. Not only that, for my grandmother’s birthday, my mom bought her an outfit set (sweater shirt and sweat pants) which were stolen by the staff! I am so upset with this place. It should be closed down and these lazy, careless people should lose their jobs! Most of the staff are snobby filipinos. IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR JOB, GET A NEW ONE!

Some of you may remember that my now-​102 year-​old Grandmother had found a nice place to land at the Keiro Intermediate Care Facility in Boyle Heights. We’d found a sort of surrogate family there ourselves, making friends with some of the truly beautiful souls who staff this warm and pleasant facility. But my grandmother’s health took a left turn while I was in Chicago and she ended up in a hell hole called Kaiser (is it any wonder its name sounds like a German dictator bent on taking over the world?)
Fortunately, my wife rescued her and now, Grandma’s at the South Bay Keiro Nursing Home. There are far more skilled nurses there and it’s a more appropriate place for this remarkable woman who has outlived almost her entire generation, and luckily for us, it’s another nice place. The physical plant is a little bit older and a lot more institutional, but it’s a bustling, busy place, with lots of nurses and volunteers, and senior citizens scooting around in wheelchairs.
Staff and community volunteers have various things going on all day, including exercises, calligraphy, flower arranging, bingo, and hana fuda, the card game that get wake my Grandma from a dead sleep into instant shark-​like focus. She shows no mercy to grandchildren or great-​grandchildren as she regularly trounces us.
Community activists and visionary community leaders made this and the other Keiro facilities possible. Community volunteers keep them pumped up with love and good humor. We are all of us blessed that these places are there for our loving elders.