"My mom is staying at Fairfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She's in an individual room, which is what she wanted, it's large, and has a nice window with a nice view. The staffing is good, but we had a little issue earlier about her follow up rehabilitation. When she first went in there, she didn't get any further rehabilitation after she was transferred to the private room that we got for her, which I thought, "Something's wrong." She digressed, and she wound up having to go back into the hospital. When she came back into Fairfield, they went through 14 days of rehabilitation and quarantine, and I told the front desk, her social worker, and the administration, that I felt that they should have continued on with her rehabilitation, because we don't want her to regress again. She's 99 years old, but her mind is sharp, it's just her body is starting to give out. She got a bad hip and a bad knee, and I wanted more follow up from the tests and everything that was done to her when she was in the hospital, and they have done that. This is the first week that she had rehab, and being back in her room, and she's now getting further rehab on her legs and her hip. She's very pleased with it, but she has always been pleased with the level of service that she has been getting there.
The activities are limited because of COVID, but she's actually going down to the gym, and working out for an hour. There are some residents down there at the same time, and she likes that she's getting exposed to other people. They have a big rec room, small meeting rooms, a library, and a large dining area, but none of that is used right now because of COVID.
The food is excellent. My mother is a true entrepreneur as far as food goes, and she's always been a fantastic cook. She doesn't mind telling you that you're doing it wrong, and she's very pleased with the quality and the quantity of food they have.
I have never been there actually, and I am just going by what she tells me, and according to her, her living atmosphere is fine. She got a big nice room with a nice table, and it's facing east, so she gets the morning sun, and she loves that. It's adequate, and she can sit there and read her paper or books. It's expensive to be there, but they're taking care of her."