2 Star User Review
My mother was there for a rehab stay for several months.
Most of the staff members at Neshaminy are good, some of them are outstanding and go above and beyond to communicate with and help patients and family members.
There are activities including music and crafts provided for the residents. The facility is modern, clean and as cheerful as these places can be.
Like many people suffering from dementia and pain, my mother is a difficult patient. Neshaminy's solution for this was to tranquilize her with Haldol. Once I realized what was going on, I noted that many of the residents there appeared to be heavily tranquilized, to the point of being unable to communicate.
The staff justified this as preventing the residents from hurting themselves. And perhaps they have a point. However other area facilities manage to care for patients, including 'difficult' ones, without keeping them in a drug induced fog.
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Hi, I had a similar situation at the Langhorne Gardens. The in house doctor put my 87 year old Mother on both Xanax and Zoloft. She has never taken any of these drugs before and did not react well. The family was not notified about the drug prescription nor was my Moms primary family doctor notified. We thought that she was dying because of the way that she was acting but by the grace of God, a nurse with a conscience told us what was going on. We got her off these drugs immediately and she looks much better. This kind of treatment is disgusting. Abuse is abuse. How do these people look at them selves in the mirror?