Review of Burke Health and Rehabilitation Center

The one star is for the only good thing about Burke Rehab: its physical and occupational therapists. Otherwise, it's a hellhole that I wouldn't send my dog to. My mom was sent there in 2013 after recovering from surgery. Let's see: the charge nurse tried to get her to take what my mom knew to be an overdose of one of her known medications; the same nurse ran into the bathroom when my brother, who happens to be a police officer and in uniform at the time, showed up to visit my mom for the first time; my mom failed to see an attending physician within the required 48 hours despite the fact that I was frantically calling to obtain medical care for her because she had swollen to the size of a Macy's Day float and was severely nauseous (it was later determined that she had a blood clot); upon speaking to the Center's Director 72 hours later, it was clear she had no idea who my mom was and proceeded to lie to me that a physician had seen her within 48 hours when I knew for a fact that he had not; and on one visit, I found four wheelchair bound elderly people placed at various spots around the nursing floor, one of whom had vomit all over her chin and shirt, and the nursing staff just walked by her as if she were a piece of furniture. A very sorry place, in my opinion.