Legacy Health and Rehab LLC

J.R.

My sister is at a place called Legacy Health and Rehab LLC. It used to be a hospital back in the 1960s, and it's been converted into a skilled care facility. She has been there for two months now. The nursing home itself is a ragged-looking place. It makes me think of a group home or something. It's just old, it's not very clean and she has been very unhappy. She went through a period of delusions which made it hard for everybody there and made it hard for her family. She's about through with her delusions, but she cries a lot. She hates the food. I can't say much good about it. As with the staff, I've never really met one long enough to talk to them. My sister doesn't complain about them. However, when COVID came, most of them quit to go home and care for their family who had COVID. As for my sister's room there, my dormitory room looked better. It was like decorated ny Goodwill or one of those places. It's all old, used, and ragged, something like that. My brother is just absolutely furious at where she is. He wants to just walk in there and take her out. That might have been something we could have done before COVID struck the facility, and now it's a lockdown, and there won't be any getting her out any time soon. My sister hates the food. Lots of people like the food, but she doesn't like turnip greens and pinto beans. Old-fashioned country cooking is not something she likes, and she won't eat it. I don't think that they're well informed about older people. My sister gets left alone a lot, and I guess that's just fine, but she gets left alone to the point that she misses supper or she'll miss rehab. It's just 'Forget about her!' And that's not part of the deal from my point of view. I'm not fond of this place. My sister was losing weight because she wouldn't eat what they put out there. Then they started giving her two desserts so that she'd put on some calories. When I talked to her the other day, she was having chicken stew and she was okay with that.