Atlas Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Maywood

If I could give this place negative stars, I would. I am writing this review a day after my 84-year-old father was released from the Maywood Center for Health and Rehabilitation. I needed to calm down before I sat down to write this. DO NOT put your loved on into this center. My father was placed there to receive physical therapy for his back after a stay in the hospital. In his time there my family called at least 3 to 6 times a day to get updates. He was on the 2nd floor and we were put through to the 2nd floor nurses station. Not one time did someone answer the phone at the nurses’ station. NOT ONE TIME in the week that he was there and calling several times a day. My sister was able to get updates from the head nurse because she was given his direct number. If it wasn’t for this, we would not have know anything that was going on with him. His social worker would leave messages that he was fine. He was depressed because “who wouldn’t be in a place like this”. The messages were not a clinical assessment of his condition, physical or mental. It was her opinion based on limited contact. When asked about his eating habits or physical therapy her reply was “how should I know?”. The last evening he was there they moved his room. They put him in wheelchair and left him in a room with another resident who was extremely ill, moaning and soiling himself. He was not fed. The bed in the room for him was not made. No sheets or bedding. He had to sleep on an unmade bed. On his return home he was traumatized. Saying over and over how the place “hated people”. I was shaking and in tears to see his condition, which was WORSE than when he went in. Please do not put your loved ones in this place. The only bright spot was the one head nurse. His health paid the greatest price for having been placed in the Maywood Center for Health and Rehabilitation.

Share review Embed review Write an update Edit review 4/16/2020 The food at this place is inedible and not even good for you.. so if the virus doesn't get the residents the food will certainly play a role in limiting life span. My mother is a resident and goes to bed hungry ( almost every day) as the food disgusting. The place was bearable when we could deliver, now they have banned all deliveries, even if the food is prepackaged heat and eat. Description of items: Whole wheat bread, is actually colored white bread check ingredients, processed cheese is vegetable oil based not the real at all, thick white dough pizza disc with a few sprinkles of mozzarella (should be banned).. meat disgusting, canned fruit only (fresh banana available only on request). I can go on and on item by item. Yet the hypocrisy of the place.. in these trying times they have forbidden any nutritious GMO free, natural prepackaged deliveries from Whole Foods or Costco to supplement poor nutritional quality, even though we're paying for it!! One would think the vendors supply the "Four Seasons" when in reality what they supply is a low grade institutional menu. There are Nursing Homes in Bergen county with a more conscientious management that knows the path to good health is good nutrition. Stay away!

The rooms were comfortable. The staff was kind and helpful. I was unware of activities that I could take part in. As far as I know, I am unaware of community amenities.

Warm,caring staff, excellent rehab and clean facility....no bad smells whatsoever...a truly pleasant experience and head over heels above other area rehabs. We've been to several others with our aging relatives and Maywood Center is by far, the best. Front desk reception is pleasant, visiting hours are extensive and they have been very accommodating. The rehab dept is top shelf. Highly recommended! Hallways are wider than others, rooms are larger as it is a newer building. Located in a neighborhood setting with Maywood Senior Center next door.

Our mom was placed in the subacute section recently of The Maywood Center after having surgery. The nursing staff provided excellent care for her and were very caring and attentive. The rehab staff also did an excellent job getting her back to her independent routine. She was happy with the daily food choices and the meals. She got a good book from the library and was happy reading away for some of her time there. Overall very good stay and came home a day early.

My mom rehabbed at Maywood after a hip replacement. The staff is caring and friendly. The center is bright and airy and has no bad smells like other nursing centers. The rooms were large and clean. The physical therapy department got my mom back to where she was before her fall. I truly appreciate all the love and support for my mom and myself. I highly recommend Maywood Center.

Please do not send your loved ones to the facility. My dad has been there three weeks has bone cancer and has fallen three times. They are understaffed and inadequately trained. There are only a handful of nurses and aides who actually care. Majority of the workers and administrators could care less about their patients and/or the families of their patients.

As a resident of Maywood for 30 years I chose this facility to be close to my mom because they present themselves as a subacute center. The choice to put my mother in this facility was the biggest mistake of my life. This facility is under staffed, under qualified, and under equipped to be a subacute center. Recently when my mother was at the facility, I went there find her there in respiratory distress with no staff with her. Then I tried to help my mother and I had to call 911 myself at the facility! It wasn’t until the police and EMT’s came that a staff member came into the room. My mother was transferred to Hackensack Hospital. I went a week later to speak to the director of nursing and she had know knowledge of this incident, nor did she know that my mother was not in her facility! I would strongly suggest, that if you are looking for subacute center do not choose this one. My beloved mother has passed and I’m truly heartbroken. Vivian V. Maywood, NJ