1 Star User Review
My dad was a patient at Shadyside Care Center before he died. There is no way anybody can tell me that a person can go from assisted living to dead in less than three weeks. It's true that my dad had multiple health problems at age 84, including COPD, emphysema, asbestiosis, and leukemia, but even at that, he was still able to live at home with my mother. Then one day he fell and broke two ribs. He was in the hospital for two weeks recuperating from the fall and pneumonia. He was then sent to the Shadyside Care Center to receive physical therapy so that he could get strong enough to go home again. The neglect was horrible. The staff would make him wait half and hour after he would ring the buzzer for the bathroom, they let him lie in his bed with no sheets or blankets and NO oxygen, they wouldn't change his oxygen tank out until it was completely empty, and last but not least, they did nothing about the sepsis that finally killed him three weeks after he was admitted there. I wouldn't let my dog be a patient there and I had no say over where my mother chose.
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Sounds exactly like what happened to my father. He was there for six days, contracted pneumonia, sent to the hospital and passed away the next day. He was sent there for physical therapy as per his physician's recommendations. He never should have left the hospital but you know how hospitals treat Medicare patients. I was not even told until the day he was diagnosed with pneumonia that he was evaluated four days prior to as being too sick for physical therapy. Unfortunately I thought he was being evaluated by a trained staff. His condition deteriorated on a daily basis. In four days he could not even speak with me. I work in the day and visited every evening. I thought he was too tired from the physical therapy and was just sleeping. This all started with a fall at home with negative x ray results. He was admitted to the hospital for low oxygen absorption. He was there for two nights, sent to the nursing home and was gone one week later.