Valley Center

phillipsrenea

This facility is like most others of its ilk. High cost for low quality. The nursing staff of this and all nursing/post hospital care facilities are very much under-educated. The "nursing staff" are really just LPNs-9 month trained individuals with limited education. An LPN is a person who has gone to a technical school to learn HOW to do something but not why or what. LPNs have been entrusted to jobs that other healthcare staff are forced to have degrees for. The respiratory therapy services are practically non-exhistent, the therapist shows up in high heels, mini skirts, covered in cologne while she spends here time at the nurses desk socializing and telling tales of her "drinking" escapades. She is quite baldy in her speech. IF she shows up in your room it is to do nothing or to share infection. The doctors rarely show, patients are at the mercy of limited educated PAs. The staff have no quelms about telling you how wrong you are or just basically treating you like you do not exist. A call light is an indication for staff to run the other way. One of 20 people on the floor may have sympathy enough to answer a call light. LPNs have been turned loose to give medications, work with artificial airways, suction people, etc. I would never put a family member in any of these horrid facilities. I was there to visit a friend, his family is trying desperately to get him out. Many in the facilities are practically held hostage by the healthcare system and insurances.

caring3974

I was in a bad car wreck and had to have surgery. I was sent to Valley Nursing Home for therapy and for the swelling to go down before I had to have further surgery. The therapy department was fantastic. However, I would not send anybody to that nursing home. I'm a lung transplant patient and I have ANA rejection drugs. For two weeks, they were trying to get my correct ANA reaction there. They're understaffed and the people they have are not well-trained. A couple of the nurses I have were rude and even argued with me on medication I've taken for nine years. I would not go back there.

DJ daughter

My father was in this facility for 6 weeks. He was unable to walk, only has the use of one hand due to a stroke. Although we saw plenty of staff standing in the halls or running around looking busy, if it had not been for family feeding him he would have gone hungry. On more that a couple of occasions we came and found him laying in sheets and bed clothes wet from urine. And multiple times he was left in a wheelchair with no way to move himself. We could not get him out of there fast enough.