Rosewood Healthcare & Rehab at The Groves

Rebekah

I got to tour Rosewood Healthcare & Rehab at The Groves yesterday. The Groves is like a campus. They have anywhere from minimal assisted living to long-term care, and then to a memory ward. We were just amazed by what we saw there. In their memory ward, they were doing a whole, complete remodel on a couple of the floors. They have a chapel on-site. They have a couple of residential doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, and nurses' aides. It is like a little city inside a big city. It was crazy. We were looking at it for long-term care because my mother is not quite at the level of assisted living; she needs a little bit more than that. They encourage social interaction. If it is private pay, they will more than likely have their own room, but if it's Medicaid pay, then they will more than likely have a roommate. They have a personality test, and they have social workers to see who would be a good fit with each other. There are all walks of life of people there. There are those who are on a completely fixed income and those who made six figures a year. There's no discrimination whatsoever. The number of people that we saw was just dipped from different cultures and different races. It was just amazing. I really enjoyed seeing all that. We met two of the weekend directors, and they were extremely knowledgeable. You could tell they had been doing this for a really long time. They answered every question, and they were honest when they said, "Hey, that's not something that we're familiar with," on a couple of questions that we asked. They were forthcoming and honest. One thing that we are looking for is how honest the staff is with us. The nurse we met was busy taking care of three floors. She was charting, but she introduced herself and talked about the floor a little bit, so that was pretty good. We saw the cafeteria, and there were quite a few residents eating. It smelled really good. The director said, "There are times when I'll eat four out of five days that I'm here." He says the food is so good here. We didn't see any of the activities that were going on. It's the weekend, so people were taking their family members out and taking them out to lunch. They don't do physical therapy on the weekends, but we get to peek into the room, and it looks like any state-of-the-art physical therapy room at any hospital.