Laguna Honda Hospital & Rehabilitation Center

This is the first time I’ve visited Laguna Honda Hospital since I was a kid and WOW… It sure is different. The new building is state of the art with some of the latest technology in design, architecture, and health care. No more of the eerie, haunted towers of the old building. The new building will definitely have an impact on the quality of life of the patients at Laguna. I was very impressed. 5 stars for LHH, and I wish I had more hands so that I could give this hospital 4 thumbs up!!!

It brings tears to my eyes thinking of how grateful I am to these folks that have saved two lives that I know. I don’t know how to how to thank them, but figure I’d start here. Thank you to the outpatient rehab team as well as the health at home team. Thank you for not focusing solely on actuarial statistics and progress charts, but on hope, hard work, and dedication. This facility does not seem to operate like the others and I hope they never will. Thank you for breaking the mold — may you have the courage and conviction to remain true.

Extra ordinary hospital! Staff are friendly and this place is looks like a little heaven :)

I have been volentereing her since I was a kid. If you have the time. Please help here and the older people are usually lonely and in need of a new face.,

Laguna Honda is coming into its own. The new LHH was unveiled this year, federal oversight of the hospital has ended after fifteen years, and the spirit of the place has been injected with some much needed positivity.
Gone are the endless wards, lack of privacy, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest-​ness. Patients now have their own rooms with actual doors, the decaying towers of yore soon to be demolished, already replaced by a green, spacious campus.
Patients will tell us themselves if the care has improved. Laguna has always been the death knell for many of my clients, many of whom had terrible experiences there in the past.
The hospice has always marched to a different drummer, and with the upgrades at the center their spectacular care has gotten even better. They maintain their collaboration with Zen Hospice Project, another stellar hospice in the city. Patients at the Laguna Hospice receive excellent care, now more comfortable with the improvements to the edifice.
A person close to me for many years stayed here for his final two months before passing away from metastatic prostate cancer. When I visited him here, I was touched by the care from the entirety of the Hospice team, and was aside myself with shock from seeing the old Laguna turned upside down and inside out.
As I was sitting next to him as he lay in bed, I noticed a tattoo etched into his left calf that said ‘Sally’. It looked like a child had drawn it, to be honest. I asked him about it, and he said that he had done it himself, after dancing with a beautiful girl in Seattle when he was a teenager. He said that she was so tall that he had to stand on his tippy-​toes. Never had I occasion to see this unpolished tattoo prior to this, but thanks to the fantastic care that the Hospice provided, we were able to have this discussion. His needs were attended to; he was comfortable and his pain appropriately managed. I have since thought about ‘Sally from Seattle’ more than once. Sometimes it takes something like sickness to unveil parts of ourselves that remain obscured by our present concerns.
Had the conditions at Laguna been what they once were, I doubt that we would have been able to take pause for this conversation to happen. Things need to be just so before we can peer into each others kaleidoscopes and shake them around. At this Hospice, the scene is set perfectly for the dying to be comfortable enough physically to pass peacefully and naturally.