PruittHealth - Fort Oglethorpe

Susie

My husband was there for what was supposed to be 5 days of respite care. The second day he was there he fell and they said he scraped his arm but was otherwise ok. They called the next day and said they thought he fractured his hip and they would get X-rays to confirm. That was Sunday. When I called they said he was resting peacefully so I thought it couldn't be very bad. When I called Monday morning to tell them we were coming there, they claimed he was riding the halls in a wheelchair. When we arrived, he was in his room in bed in excruciating pain. His arm was battered covered in gouges and dried blood. They had left him like that with a broken hip and did not even offer to take him to the hospital,! How could they treat him like that? Then we had him moved to hospital and he had hip replacement surgery. We stayed in the hospital until the next Sunday when we had to hire an ambulance to bring him home to Calhoun Ga. The next Sunday he died. When he left our home he could walk, take his shower shave and feed himself.. When he returned he was a total invalid. My husband had Alzheimer's and he had to suffer all this at the hands of people who didn't care one thing about a poor confused human in that condition. How cruel! I was guaranteed he would be taken care of. It was all just one big lie. This isn't libel or hate speech. This is the absolute truth.

Sheila

PruittHealth-Fort Oglethorpe was very small. It looked OK from the outside, but when they gave me a small tour of the place, they wouldn't show me any rooms, and now I know why. They had three people in a small room and that didn't work out at all. You're supposed to be able to press a button and tell somebody that you need to go to the bathroom, but nobody would come. So it was hard to get somebody to come when my husband would call for help. They had a lot of activities going on, but my husband couldn't do it because he couldn't walk, and they wouldn't get him in a wheelchair. They just let him lay in the bed. I think they wanted me to do it, and I couldn't. He had no control over the up and down of his bed. The control was at the foot of the bed and so they put him in one position, and that's where he laid. It just wasn't a good experience at all. The place was only good for the people that could get around, but for the people that couldn't, that needed help getting around and going to the bathroom, it's not. The staff during the day were very friendly, but the night staff, they were short of people.

Caring112761950

PruittHealth was good, but the therapy department was the best. Half of the nursing staff was not good at all. Some of the food was not great. Some you wouldn't think go together. They would put anything randomly together. They only had one dining room, and only 60 patients could go into it out of 120 people. They had an activities department, which were good too. They had bingo, coloring, spa days, movie day, and dancing. They try to get the residents to have fun.