LifeCare Hospitals of Dayton

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After my father had a heart attack & was on the vent for 17 days at hospital he was at sent him here for rehabilitation & theorpy. Mind you... He was doing so good & was in great spirits before showing up at Life Care. My father was put in isolation for 72 hrs (not sure why) so we was not able to visit him. He was sent here on a Wednesday. Me & my sister went to see him on Saturday. We showed up at his room that morning. Our first sight was my father almost in a coma state shaking like he was having seizures. Would not open his eyes. We asked him why he was shaking, he said he didnt know why but said he was hurting all over his body. He was not given any meds he was suppose to be on. At a closer look of him condition he was having trouble talking & moving his mouth funny. We asked him to open his mouth. His mouth & tongue had a green & yellow substance all in his mouth with blisters on his tongue were they had not cleaned his mouth or moistened it at all. He was pulling at his catheter scratching really bad so we looked to see what was going on. It was beat red, infected & swollen so bad. We was there 9½ hrs that day. The only times the nurse came in was when I called her to come in the room. I asked her why my fathers mouth looked like that. She looked at me like I was stupid, said "his mouth is just dry.... Its gonna look like that after him being on the vent as long as he was." with an attitude... I looked at her & let her know I know all about a dry mouth, its funny that my fathers mouth has NEVER looked like this before. This is from his mouth not being properly cleaned & moistened with the mouth conditioner like the nurses was doing at the hospital prior to coming here. She got an attitude, left us with cotton swabs to clean his mouth out ourselves & left the room. Called her back in about his catheter. She had no explanation for that & why it was swollen red & had dried blood all over it. Said it was like that when he arrived. Again just left the room. We got warm rags & cleaned it off ourselves. We came to realize he was so dirty where he had not been bathed. The room was so dirty with garbage thrown on the floor. His room was so hot bc cooling system didnt work so he had a floor fan blowing on him. The sheets that was on his bed was also dirty & had not been changed. Not once was he flipped to a different position but said on the board he was to be flipped ever 2 hrs.(He had a very small bed sore on his bottom.) They had him on a diaper & soiled so bad. The doctor that was caring for my father came in about 2hrs before we left. He acted like he had know clue or idea about my father and why he was even there. We was asking him questions about our father & the plans they had to start his rehabilitation so he could come home. Doctor just told us he was gonna go look over my fathers chart & come back in to talk with us but never came back to his room. My father was was getting such poor care we was afraid he was gonna die in there. We was there for a very long 8 days but finally pulled strings to get him out of that facility & sent to the Daniel-Drake center in Cincinnati. He is now doing amazing & getting stronger thanks to Drake Hospital. If you care about your loved ones, you will not send them to this horrible place. LifeCare of Dayton is a damn joke & the day shift nurses are the most lazy, incompetent, unprofessional care team I have ever seen. I had also left a poor review on LifeCare FB page along with many other ppl that had loved ones there for simple & minor things but they wasnt as lucky bc they passed away in this facility. Another issue that other ppl was having with LifeCare was they are charging for procedures and test that was not done on the patients. We are also disputing charges now with Medicare bc they was charged for a months worth of care but my father was only there 8 days so how is that possible? But now you cant read them any longer bc LifeCare removed all the comments & reviews off of the page. PLEASE BEWARE OF THIS PLACE IF YOU WANT YOUR LOVED ONES TO LIVE.

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Chelsie Campbell

This place is a joke. I honestly wouldnt even give it one star if I didnt have to. Dont send your family members here. My father in law was here for 2 weeks and the nursing staff was awful. We were here every day checking on him and every nurse we tried to get information out of about him always gave us the same answer, "I dont know." When asked if he had seen physical therapy or the doctor that day the nursing staff would reply, "Not sure, theres been so many people in and out and its hard to keep track." Isnt that your job?! Only one nurse brought his chart in WHICH WAS LOCATED RIGHT OUTISIDE OF HIS ROOM to give us all the information we were seeking. How hard was that?! Only took a few minutes. They never cleaned him and the few times we sought out personal care items to do it ourselves was ridiculous. The first time the nurse let me enter the supply room and get the items myself which was full of needles that I easily could have stolen and the next time I asked if I could get some no rinse shampoo and before I even could finish my question the nurse interrupted me and told me they didnt have any. Apparently she didnt want to be interrupted as she was in the middle of a story about her weekend. Thankfully one kind nurse retrieved everything I needed. I am so disappointed in this place and just want to make everyone aware of the problems we had. They rarely checked on my father in law and constantly left trash scattered throughout the room which we had to clean up. We even took Sani wipes and wiped down the entire floor because we couldnt take the filth anymore. I would also like to add another incident we just walked into. His day nurse came in and asked if we had heard what had happened? Apparently his nurse from last night was supposed to call us. She took his wrist restraints off and put the boards down on his bed and didnt put him on a bed alarm. She walked in after God knows how long and found him on the floor because he had tried to get up. Are you kidding me?! Didnt even have to balls to call us. Also he had urine in his blood for 2 days, told us it had been that way since he got here. I dont think so, weve been here every day and it wasnt like that. The nurse he has today who is the only good one weve had told us they secured his cath too tight and every time he moved it was irritating him.

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supergrace07

When I read the reviews, after agreeing to allow my mother a transfer there from Kettering, I panicked. I walked in ready to yell at people if need be. I was ready to make a stink if I felt the care was as subpar as some people have made it out to be. I walked in with a bad attitude and fear that I had just sent my sick mother into the purgatory of all hospitals. However, I was quickly proven wrong. As of today I think my mother has been there 2 weeks if not a little longer. Time melts together lately into one lump of stress and sadness, but its been a while. I can tell you right off the back, coming from weeks of an ICU stay, to a step down within Kettering, and now to Lifecare (because she was still too medically complicated to be transferred to a rehab facility.) that I could not be more happy with her care. She rings for a nurse, within a few minutes there one is. It is a quiet unit, so despite having 4-5 patients much like Kettering, the care comes more often, quicker and is much more personal. I LOVE the fact that the nurses work in I would assume 3-4 day blocks and they have the same patients each time. My mother has had Danielle 3-4 times I think? She is an amazing nurse as is everyone I have come in contact with, proactive, caring and good at her job. They have addressed every concern, entertained every question and thought, tried to find solutions no matter how large or small and given more in the few weeks shes been there than what I felt she was getting even on an ICU unit. Mind you, in ICU she was medicated into sedation so she wasnt very needy, which she is now. Please do not let the reviews scare you, I am happier with my mothers care here than I was at Kettering, and its not to say Kettering is a horrible place, its saying Lifecare is very good in itself. Thank you to all the nurses and doctors who have cared, and continue to care for my Mom! You are appreciated.