South County Nursing Home

Judy1

I've been in South County Nursing Home for four years now. In the last four months, we've been going through a drastic change because the nursing home has been sold to Reliant. The staff has changed, but from what I have experienced in the past four months, everybody is awesome. We've got anywhere from a different cook all the way down to the CNAs. I can't say anything bad about the experience I personally have gone through. I've been treated very well. I have a roommate, and it's set up just like in a hospital. It is a semi-private room. We have very limited space for clothes and closet space, and things like that. We share a bathroom with another resident in the next room. It'll be about 45, 50 years old. It's not modern at all. We've had a new chef in the last couple of weeks, and he's trying. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a 5. We don't get any fresh fruit, bananas, or oranges. All our fruit comes out of a can or something like that. That's my biggest complaint, and a lot of carbs. We eat a lot of potatoes with gravy, or everything has gravy on it. We have a residential council, and I'm the president of all the residents here. We have a social council meeting once a month, and I speak up in the meeting for all of the residents. If they have a complaint about the shower rooms or the laundry service or whatever, instead of everybody trying to put in their two cents, I am elected to speak for them. We have an activity department that two ladies run, and basically, all they really do for us is bingo. They have a Bible study one hour out of the week, and very few residents take any part in that. They have exercise, and very few residents take any part in that as well, but the bingo is what really pulls everybody together. Up until four months ago, pretty much everybody was 50 and over. Now we even have three or four residents here who are totally blind. They were very careful about who they let come here to live, but now they pretty much take anybody off the street. We even have one man who is on house arrest in which four months ago wouldn't have been considered. They have two dining areas, one for one-half of the building. They call it the front dining room and the back dining room. As a resident here, the State requires them to pay us like anywhere from $30 to $50 spending money. In the last four months, it's been very difficult getting our pay. We were promised the last three days that we would be paid again today. Our pay comes in on the third and fourth of every month, and it is the seventh or eighth today, and we still haven't been paid.