Amberwood Health And Rehabilitation

Jennifer

My dad went to rehab at Amberwood. It was a nice facility as far as look, but I do not care for the people there. I felt like the communication between the employees and the family was very lacking. My dad was in rehab, and they were supposed to have a meeting with the family every two weeks to update us on how well he was doing. They did not set up those meetings. I think I went to one meeting, and he was there three months. Then the biggest issue I had was whenever they said he had progressed to the most he could progress in his rehab, they gave me very, very short notice. I know that your insurance will stop at a certain point too. They tell me on a Friday that he needed to be checked out, and he needed 24-hour care. He lives alone, so when am I going to get that before Monday. In the rehab wing, the rooms are very nice. They are big and you have a room by yourself. They have a nice television, a couch, and a closet for your belongings. Their rooms were very, very nice. The facility was beautiful. My dad did not go very much to the dining area because he was in the rehab area. He had an injury, so he pretty much stayed in his room. They did bring him the food to his room. They have like a big dining area that the nursing home people will go into. They have a very nice gym area for people that were there for rehab (like a rehabilitation area) with all kinds of exercise mats and equipment. They definitely have the nicest one. This was my third one, and they had the nicest facility as far as rehab. He couldn't do a whole lot because he was kind of sick in bed because of his injury, but they had lots of activities. I saw them playing games. They had lots of church services, where a pastor would come on the weekends. They had a beauty salon and a hair place where men get their haircut too. They had a movie night as well. They had one person that was specifically there for activities. They had a good library for people who wanted to read. I tried to put him in assisted living after he left there, and when they called Amberwood they said some ugly things about him. They said he was making comments to some of the nurses. A couple of the other places turned me down because they said they cannot take him in. They made it sound like he was an abuser or a sexual pervert, and that was not true. My dad was a retired policeman. I did have a problem when they were constantly trying to get him to give up his room several times and move over to the nursing home area. I was against that because in the nursing home area you have to share a room. You don't have a room of your own, and you share a room with somebody when you're going to Medicaid or whatever. He was in a lot of pain, and I felt like he needed to be on the rehab part because that was where the gym was. Actually when we first got there, they thought he was going to need nursing home care. They were going to put him in a nursing home, but the hospital had set him up for rehab because they thought he wasn't going to get good enough. Other than that, they are good. They started their day and got out early and did their rehab early.