Families are often told they should have noticed the warning signs sooner. That is easy to say from the outside. It is much harder when you are standing in a hospital hallway, trying to choose a nursing home for someone you love while a discharge planner tells you the...
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How Nursing Homes Hide Neglect Behind Staffing Shortages and Polished Marketing
The sales pitch and the reality are often two different things. Families usually encounter a nursing home for the first time in a moment of stress. A parent has been discharged from the hospital. A grandparent can no longer live alone. Someone needs wound care,...
Why Some Nursing Home Owners Keep Hurting Families—and Why the Same Names Show Up Again and Again
When a family places someone they love in a nursing home, they are usually doing it at one of the worst moments of their lives. Maybe their mother fell and broke a hip. Maybe their father’s dementia reached the point where he could no longer be left alone. Maybe a...
Aurora Health and Rehab: Review Photos You Can’t Miss
A shocking set of images published by a "Jensescapadestravel" about 6 months ago...this customer claims her aunt was a resident of Aurora Health and Rehab in Rolla, MO. If you have family in the Aurora Health and Rehab in Rolla, you better just check on them. My great...
A Safety Guide to Nursing Homes: Are my parents being served rotten food?
Choosing a nursing home for a parent or grandparent is stressful in a way that is hard to explain until you are living it. You are trying to evaluate medical care, safety, staffing, and the general “feel” of the place, often in a short tour where everyone is on their...
Shocking review from Lee’s Summit Place
A recent review posted on Google from a Courtney Hargrove, claims some serious issues only 6 months ago while her father father was a resident of Lee's Summit Place at 1501 SW 3rd Street in Missouri. I wouldn't recommend Lee's Summit Place based on my father's...
When a Nursing Home Is Not Doing Its Job: Signs Your Parent or Grandparent May Be Abused or Neglected
Most people do not move a parent or grandparent into a nursing home lightly. Even when the decision is clearly the safest option, families often carry a constant worry in the background. You are trusting strangers with the basics that make life dignified: comfort,...