Briarwood Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center

Google reviews

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  athena vagenas 2 weeks ago

  I have been contemplating writing this review but I think it’s time. My mom was a patient there for about 3 months. She never really got any better while she was there. Don’t get me wrong the nurses that work there are great but they don’t get the help they deserve and need. In any case my mom was a cancer patient she was a massively immunocompromised. I don’t know what happened but they had flu and Covid going around. They barely followed isolation protocols. They had my mom in a room with someone who had Covid and probably had her around people who also had flu. Her roommate was walking around the room with her mask half down while my mom was in the same room. Again as a reminder my mom was immunocompromised as a cancer patient who had been doing chemotherapy. Long story short my mom caught the flu, Covid and pneumonia there. We tried really hard to get her out of there as soon as we heard what was happening and when they wouldn’t isolate her. She had been having some breathing trouble the morning we tired to get her home. Finally we were able to take her home that night. But it was too late. She wound up in the hospital after catching whatever she caught there. She ended up never recovering from what she caught at briarwood and ultimately passed away. I think they don't really sanitize the place like they should. I have a friend of mine who didn’t realize my mom was there who is heavily involved In the rehabilitation field and he told me that if he had known he would have advised me against sending my mom there. I wish I had checked with him. I truly do. My mom may still be here today if I had. Please don’t send your loved ones here. Try to rehab them at home if you can.

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  Richard Alfred 3 months ago

  While there are good nurses and caring support staff at Briarwood, my wife's overall experience was very bad. Overall, the place is dirty; trash is rarely picked up in the rooms. The staff rarely answers patients' call buttons in anything approaching a reasonable time, so the beeping from patients who have pressed tte calm button continues unabated. The staff most often was unfamiliar with my wife's chart, including all of the medications she needed pre-op to prevent Mercer, and the proper dosage of at least one of her medications. The food was often not recognizable, tasteless, over gravied, and just plain bad. My wife was a serious fall risk while there before her surgery. Despite that, the staff often ignored her, didn't proved anything close to the supervision she required (I hired a 12-hour night sitter that I paid for privately to be with my wife in her room from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am at great expense), and when I or another family member asked someone for help, their response showed annoyance at having been ask to do their job. Finally, the PT offered was inadequate and provided often in the late afternoon, when my wife was tired and not fully able to take in the direction she was receiving. That said, a male therapist did his best with the constraints of the Supervisor of PT. That Supervisor had an obvious prejudice against my wife because she has early stage Alzheimer's Disease. The Supervisor told me to my face, while handing me Medicare's notice of benefit termination, that my wife wasn't able to learn from the PT she had received, so of course she should be discharged. That statement shows a clear lack of understanding, compassion, and knowledge about the disease. My wife is fully capable of learning, admittedly sometimes with a bit more patience and repetition than other patients not suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. But writing her off as this Supervisor did was wrong and contrary to Medicare's own regulations and guidelines. I regret that

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