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HI..My mom is really sick with a terminal neurological disease: MSA (Mulitple Systems Atrophy). She is in the hospital with a UTI, bed sore, pneumonia and can not speak and move her hands. Doubt she will regain these abilities. Prognosis is not good.
We need to seek Long-term care for her ASAP as she can no longer live in her apartment.
The 3 facilities that we are looking into are in Voorhees, NJ (where my sister lives) They are :
Manor Care of Voorhees
Lakewood of Voorhees
Kressonview.
Can anyone give feedback on any of these places? I looked on Medicare.gov website and see ratings but would really love some personal feedback from peopple that have been there and have family there!
Please advise!
We are running out of time as doctor may discharge her soon!
Well I know someone who volunteers at Manor Care and she seems to really like it. I couldn't give you any advice beyond that, though.
Thanks..if you happen to ask her and get her feedback, I would love to know. I am desperate and this is so important to me and my sister. Our mother is only 64 and this is so sad and such a hard thing to be doing.
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Thanks..if you happen to ask her and get her feedback, I would love to know. I am desperate and this is so important to me and my sister. Our mother is only 64 and this is so sad and such a hard thing to be doing.
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Why? Do you know a good place in Cherry Hill that takes Medicaid too?
My parents both died at home. My father was 90. However, over the years, some of their friends ended up in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. Several went to a place called Silver Care, or something like that. It's at Brace & Kresson. I know nothing about the finances.
It just makes sense to also look at Cherry Hill. It would widen your choices.
Please, avoid Manor Care! I would not put a relative there. I am a nurse and their staffing ratios scared me so much that I turned a job down. Too many patients for too few nurses. And their nurse turnover rate is very high. HCR ManorCare is a for-profit company. I'm just going to leave it at that. I don't know anything about the other 2 facilities. Have you checked Pitman Manor or Collingswood Manor, both of which are run by United Methodist Homes? They have good reputations. Also Kennedy Hospital's Kennedy Health Care Center is a long-term facility/rehab combo, although I don't know if they have any beds open. Best of luck. I have been through this with my Mom in North Jersey and I know how tough the situation is.
I get the feeling that you think that it's going to be your choice of where to have your mother admitted.
You may be disappointed. Facilities all have choices as well. And put yourself in the place of a nursing home owner: what type of patients do you want in your facility? Patients with lots of special needs? Family members bringing potential lawsuits? Fall risk patients?
If a particular facility has only one empty bed, and they have to choose between your mother, or someone who's still somewhat ambulatory with minimal needs, who will get admitted? The one that's going to be less taxing on the staff. It's a no-brainer.
A while back, on a South Carolina forum, a husband was searching in vain to admit his wife with any number of special needs, and every facility he approached, it was the same line: Sorry, we're full! And are they full?
No! They just don't want the additional risk, when there's other choices to consider.
I work in one these facilities. Even tho' we've had empty beds, rather than risk having someone with special needs be admitted, we've used the same line: Sorry! We're full!
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I get the feeling that you think that it's going to be your choice of where to have your mother admitted.
You may be disappointed. Facilities all have choices as well. And put yourself in the place of a nursing home owner: what type of patients do you want in your facility? Patients with lots of special needs? Family members bringing potential lawsuits? Fall risk patients?
If a particular facility has only one empty bed, and they have to choose between your mother, or someone who's still somewhat ambulatory with minimal needs, who will get admitted? The one that's going to be less taxing on the staff. It's a no-brainer.
A while back, on a South Carolina forum, a husband was searching in vain to admit his wife with any number of special needs, and every facility he approached, it was the same line: Sorry, we're full! And are they full?
No! They just don't want the additional risk, when there's other choices to consider.
I work in one these facilities. Even tho' we've had empty beds, rather than risk having someone with special needs be admitted, we've used the same line: Sorry! We're full!
That was the Charlotte, NC board, & that mess continues. The facility is trying to throw her out.
That woman in SC may have been on Medicaid by the time he tried to find a place. Every facility has a certain number of beds dedicated to Medicare, Medicaid, etc, and per law they can't just make a medicare bed a medicaid one, or vice versa. If a facility has 15 medicaid beds and they are full, then they ARE all full to medicaid admissions, even if there are 100 other beds empty in the facility. Money talks, and makes much more of a difference in who they accept then how much care the person needs.
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