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  • Kingston of Miamisburg Miamisburg, Ohio 45342

    This review may be lengthy, but I assure you, if you have a loved one that is seeking long-term placement or a short rehab stay, you will want to take the time to read it. I have worked full time at Kingston of Miamisburg for 6+ years. I have worked both night shift and day shift.

    First of all, this facility claims to "specialize" in respiratory therapy. This itself is laughable. "We have a respiratory therapist on staff 24/7" is what is marketed to the public. ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE!! After 11p (and most of the time much earlier, say 930p) and before 7-8a the nurse is the one left to deal with respiratory issues that a lot of times, he/she isn't even qualified to do! And good luck if their nurse is trying to reach someone on the phone for an emergency during these off hours! It seldom happens, but if you ARE lucky enough to get an answer or return call, it's about an hour before anyone reaches the facility. And with an attitude. Trachs get dislodged/pulled out/coughed out all the time. People often times get weaned from their trachs too early. Which just sets up more problems for the patient. This is not to even mention how lazy these respiratory therapists are. Oh my God! You would think someone making $30 per hour would be happy to have such a job. Not all are lazy, but seriously, most are.

    Working short staffed is a common problem anywhere you work. Any field. But in this type of facility, adequate staffing is a MUST! But not at Kingston! Expect the facility to be short staffed nearly every.single.day. Mildly to severely. DAY SHIFT AND NIGHT SHIFT! And please don't expect anyone to come out of their comfy little office to help out. The last I heard someone in the office be asked to come to the dining room and help feed patients? "I'm getting really tired of this!!" No joke folks.

    You also have here at Kingston some great nurses and some really really bad/incompetent/lazy nurses. The latter, I'll go with them. Does your family member have a bed or chair alarm for safety? Better keep an eye on that! Your nurse doesn't want the aggravation of an annoying alarm sounding frequently. Does your loved one have a treatment? Doesn't matter how bad/infected/draining it is. Those don't get changed for days at a time! Don't believe me? Start checking! You need their nurse? Excellent chance they can be found in the smoking area. Doesn't matter if it's an emergency, or the Dr calling, or a pharmacist checking on their medications. Doesn't matter. Not one bit!! At least once an hour around the clock for about 15 minutes per cig. Smokers 24/7. And as far as having an RN on staff at all time? That is also laughable. DOES NOT HAPPEN!

    Let's talk about those friendly and not so friendly nursing assistants. Pretty much the same as the nurses. Some great and some absolutely not. Day shift throws responsibilities off to night shift and night shift reciprocates. So who is getting left out of the equation? Your loved one! Their supposed to get a shower twice per week or more often? Most likely doesn't happen. Bed alarms? Same thing. I've seen many many falls/falls with injuries happen because someone didn't answer a call light soon enough for the patients liking. Some justified, some not. Some folks are just too impatient and refuse to wait for help or doesn't call for help at all.

    But some nursing assistants like to sit and chit chat with other staff/play on their phone/smoke too much to be bothered with that call light. And most of the staff, and I mean MOST, are big time buddies or sleeping with each other so they dare not tell on each other. I really don't think they care enough to anyway. It's all covered up by the buddy system. And by all, I mean all.

    Those little white badges they make us wear? The Versus badge? When the smokers need to light up they just take those off and toss them to the side, usually their desk to make it appear as though they've been hard at work. Management knows all about this too but nothing is ever done, because, u see, it happens on both shifts. And management smokes, also.

    I'll just put his here as a short comment: folks in the admissions office will accept ANYONE into this facility. Appropriate placement or not. Especially if their census is down. Some of these folks that are not appropriate and require one-on-one care (such as Alzheimer's patients/combative/high fall risk, etc) do just that. Take a nurse or nursing assistant off the floor to personally sit with you to keep you safe and off the floor from a fall. Leaving the other residents at risk due to short staffing. But keep that census up $$$.

    The turnover rate? Beyond laughable. I've literally seen hundreds of nursing staff come and go. No joke folks. Nurses, nursing assistants, DON's, Team Lead/Supervisors. And when the State of Ohio comes to the facility for their annual survey? Everything is in tiptop shape. Until they're gone.

    Now, I'm sure as you read this your thinking, if you've been there 6+ years. Why haven't you reported these things? Why do you still work there? Or various other questions I may have riled up in you. 1) I have reported all the above mentioned. AND MORE! Numerous times. Doesn't matter. 2) I love the residents.

    Needless to say, I would seriously think about having a loved one stay at Kingston. I don't even refer people to this facility. That's sad.

  • Kingston of Miamisburg Miamisburg, Ohio 45342

    I was in this facility for almost 9 months. Before I entered as a resident, they took me on a tour. Very impressive as they take you through the new part of the building. Both halls had private, semi-private, and rooms that housed 2 patients. They showed me their indoor heated swimming pool and the physical therapy room. Nurses would come up to me with big smiles and say, "Hope you come visit us a while." After the tour and the interview, I called them 2 days later with my decision to accept their offer. When I arrived a liaison met me and guided me to a part of the facility that was not included on the tour. I passed room after room in the new section that had several rooms that were unoccupied. Surely I waited to be led into one of those rooms but we kept going. They took me all the way back to the old section of the facility. As soon as we got in the hallway wing, the stink of feces and urine permeated the hallway and my eyes began to water from the overtaking odors. They led me into a room with an 88 year old man that was deaf as a doorknob and had his television cranked up high. They took me to the bed by the window. They showed me the closet I had to share and the bathroom. By 20 minutes after being there the smell was nauseating me and I was having gag reflexes from the odor. I asked them about the rooms in the new section and they told me those were reserved for short term patients. I was having regrets about moving there. 2 weeks into the stay the man I had to share the room with started waking me up all hours of the night cussing me out and telling me I had to get out of his room. After begging and pleading in tears, they finally moved me to another hall. It wasn't any better. I noticed the aids setting around in the lounge discussing health issues about other patients in front of other patients who were in the room. They bitched about how bad they hated their jobs and how they hated cleaning patients who were incontinent. Come to find out some patients hadn't been cleaned for several hours. Dementia patients were left roaming the halls and going in and out of other patients rooms completely ignored and un-attended. I had one female patient that kept coming in my room all hours of the night waking me up trying to get in my bed. I would hit the call button and sometimes it would take them 1/2 hour to 45 minutes to answer the call. In the meantime I had a female patient in my room, pulling the covers on my bed with me in it. It seemed like I had to put out one fire after another. I never got my meds on time. Many times I had to get up and chase the nurse down who was usually setting in the lounge or outside smoking a cigarette. Let me for warn anyone thinking about putting an elderly loved one in Kingston facility. They only show you the shiny part of the facility but 98% of the time they were put in what I called "The Concentration Camp Halls". One time they put a man in the room with me that had open MRSA. He was suppose to be in an isolated room. They tried to convince me that I was safe. I went online to the CDC website and read what was suppose to be done with a person who had Open Contact MRSA. When I confronted the Nursing Director they told me that was an old practice and was not done anymore. I called the Ombudsman's Office and they sent a person down to see the situation. The facility was definitely in violation of CDC practices for MRSA patients. After that I got put on the dark brown smelly stuff list. Needless to say, I got out of there as quick as I could.

  • Sycamore Glen Health Center Miamisburg, Ohio 45342

    This place is scary. You can call the nursing staff at 937-384-4300 and get no answer. I called several times and decided to just let it ring for as long as I could to see if it was ever answered. It rang 300 times and not answer. Also they dont do well with making sure rehab patients to normal hygiene like getting them up too brush their teeth. My dad was only given a shower once a week. god forbid your loved one push their nursing button if they need help our just simply need to get to the bathroom. I have been there over the last two months with a family member and the call buttons go off and no one shows up. If have gone out to nurses station several times when this happens and there is always two or three of them sitting around playing on iPhones while the noise tone is going off for patients that need help. This is not an exaggeration. Go see for yourself.