Meadowbrook Care Center

I stayed at Meadowbrook care Center for 2 weeks after a hospital visit and then back to the hospital and Meadowbrook for about 5 weeks. I was on the 2nd floor the second time. Michael, the head nurse was fabulous. He listened, was kind, knowledgeable and very helpful with many things. He got involved with patient care. He was very busy but made time for you if you asked to see him. The other nurses and aids were by and large also kind and helpful. There are always a few that make you wait too long and then are not nice when they come to help you. That happens everywhere. I would like to recognize those nurses and aids who were very helpful, they know who they are. I would also like to recognize Occupational and Physical Therapy for their help. While there were a number of therapists that helped me, Andrea, Liz and Chris were the ones who worked with me the most and they were really wonderful and patient with me. Another thing of note is the food. Surprisingly most of it was pretty good.Not gourmet level, you wouldn’t expect it, but certainly pretty good with many choices. I have been in other places where the food was horrible. Here I enjoyed most of my meals. The cleaning crew works to clean the place daily. Beds not too comfortable but by and large a good place to rehab. If I had to I would go there again and try to have Michael as my head nurse and Andrea and Liz as my therapists. Chris was very good and I would work with him again , buy I worked with the others for a longer period of time.

Overall I was very happy with my stay. . The staff was helpful and friendly. However there are a few staff members who went above and beyond and deserve to be recognized for their excellence, they are Jean and Alicia in PT and OC (Scott has developed a terrific staff) Bird was outstanding as an aide and Antoinette the conceriege was very helpful . In my opinion these four employees deserve to be recognized for their excellence.

PLEASE DO NOT allow your loved one to go here My mother is a stage 4 lung cancer patient and needed rehab and we read the good reviews and decided on here…. After weeks, my mother was obviously regressing, not able to move her whole left side of her body and when we brought our concerns to the medical directors they brushed it off and said that was her “baseline” Thank god we pulled her and brought her to the ER, she had swelling in the brain and needed steroids. Moral of the story- Go with your gut, you know your loved one more than anyone, and never let anyone tell you otherwise no matter what level of education they have. AVOID this place at all costs!