Review of Oakland Healthcare & Wellness Center

2 Star User Review

I stayed there four days after abdominal surgery to regain enough strength to handle the many stairs to and in my home. I found it clean (no smells, frequent mopping of floors), but the food was terrible. I am a vegetarian, bad the kitchen acted as if they had never heard of such a thing. One dinner entree was one whole wheat hamburger bun with a 3/8" slab of peanut butter. That was it. And their staff only got my medications to me correctly and on time twice out of 20+ times. I have a complicated schedule of medications that I must take at 5 different times each day. If I didn't know that by heart and look at the pills they gave me and question them, I would have gotten the wrong meds almost every time. Their physical and occupational therapists were good and I had myself wheeled down to their room twice a day, once for a session and once just to work out on the equipment. I'm glad I did. That's what enabled me to leave after only four days. I couldn't handle the "food" any more. The CNAs were very nice, in general, and a few were real gems, kind and caring. Some of the RNs had an attitude problem, but others were nice and competent. I survived and got strong enough to get home pretty quickly, but that was my doing more than theirs.