Alaska Gardens Health and Rehabilitation

My grandmother who suffered a massive seizure back in February was a patient here for about 2 months. Per my Grammy the food was god awful but she had a few nurses that she really liked. When she was admitted she couldn’t walk or talk. Her prognosis was not good at all. She had therapy PT and speech and with her hard work and dedication she able to learn to talk and walk again with a walker. As well as use the bathroom on her own. My family and I are truly thankful to the staff that helped her through all of this. I will add that the facility was well kept and all the patients are very pleasant. The staff can be a hit or miss but overall I really liked all the people that took care of my granny from the nurses to administration. They kept us informed about everything that was going on and also facilitated her care for when she returned home. She is truly a miracle.

Not to satisfied with this place at all and has already left a bad impression on me and my family. My brother has only been there a day maybe a little over 24 hours and had issues with everything imaginable so far. He has an extensive amount of medical issues and had just gone through surgary 3 days befor getting transferd here for physical therapy and rehabilitation. Im a medical professional myself of 10 plus years and I am my brothers medical POA and pretty much everything that could go wrong went wrong. Apon arrival he was supose to have meds that got transported with him with his medical transport they did not give him his meds pretty much at all the first night he was there and he arrived around 1:30pm to that facility I think they finaly gave him partial doses of his meds after my brother called the paramedics cause he was in so much pain and they had refused to give him any medication cause they said they needed prior approval from the facilities pharmacist. He also dident eat dinner that night and when he asked they said it was to late. Mind you he had just been transfered that dsy so he dident know all their routines rules or regulations yet and expected him to know and dident check or ask him if he wanted dinner according to my brother. Anyways there's alot more to it but I have already wrote a book so far but later after finding all this out and my brother was not answering my calls the facility was not answering my calls either and I was worried about neglect and lack of care after he haven't even been there for 24 hours yet. I had to call the non emergency line to request a wellness check up cause I was extreamly conserned I couldn't get ahold of anyone and I live in centralia. After the police checked on him I then went myself to make my presence known and to address all the issues I was informed about. Some where nice and understanding others gave major attitude and acted like they couldn't care less. So if these issues continue I will be documenting

I was there for 2 1/2 years. I had a stroke. I could not walk, stand or step, my stroke caused "drop foot". In the 2 1/2y yrs I was there, I was giving the wrong medication, when I would question it, I was told to take my medicine. I wouldn't because it wasn't mine. It made me wonder what would have happened to me if I had and what about the person who the medicine belonged to? 1 night, I had pooped in my diaper, turned on my light and waited, for almost a hour until my room mate went to the nurse station and asked them to help me, we waited another 15 minutes and she went down there again and asked for help for me. This went on for almost 2 hours. I was absolutely pissed and there was nothing I could do. I actually broke down and called my mom at home, told her what was going on. I don't know if she called the place or not, I just don't. Finally a nurse did come in a change me, she was nice and apologized for me having to wait. I thanked her and when I asked why it happened to begin with, she told me that they were short staffed. My roommate then asked why there 4 nurses at the station doing nothing, the nurse didn't answer she just left. I was skipped for showers several times, at one point I had not received a shower in 3 weeks. I went to the laundry shelf and got my own wash clothes and towel, went back to my room and clean myself up as best as I could in the bathroom, in my wheelchair. I couldn't wash my hair at all but I was able to get it wet, if I had used shampoo or soap I would not have been able to rinse. The food is absolutely horrible, I asked one of the nurses how she could give the food to a person if she wasn't willing to eat it herself. She said sorry that it was something she can't control? I learned real quick to substitute the menu to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I could go on and on about my experience with the place. I strongly recommend not to let your loved ones live there, there has to be better because it really can't be worse. What