James Pence

Review of Spring Creek Health Care Cente...

The staff was wonderful from the PT Director, Soci...

The staff was wonderful from the PT Director, Social Worker, Customer Service, PT and OT, Nurses, CNA 's, cooks and cleaning staff. Very warm, friendly, helpful, caring and cheerful.
My father (93 yrs) was in Rehab and improved his strength and endurance to come home. He enjoyed the food, and his time in OT and PT therapy. (His PT and OT were excellent.)
We had a great experience there.

PS. I want to share too, I continued to be my fathers best advocate even though he was in Rehab for 3 weeks. I visited him most days morning before my work and after work even for just 15- 30 min. to keep up to date with his progress.
I spoke with nurses, to establish I would do his laundry, what medications he was taking daily, CNA's for how my father was doing with his self care (going to the restroom by himself) showering days.
I spoke with PT and OT to see how progress with there with self care, dressing himself, and walking. I spoke with activity director on ideas to stimulate his mind and games we could play. She showed me a closet with activities we could use and put a card table in his room so he could write notes to friends. I spoke to Social worker when my father received a bill that medicare was to cover and found when I called the AFMC they just did not have his insurance information attached to his record. So it was taken care of.
There are a lot of people working in a health care facility to assist our Loved ones, but family ( in my opinion) are the ultimate care givers to help coordinate and communicate with every one to help a family member receive the best care. I do think the reason I enjoyed the experience with my father in Rehab is I felt I became part of the team
to help him recover and I had such supportive and wonderful help from
the staff there.
My encouragement is to stay involved with your loved ones care, be willing to learn. If something is not going well take responsibility to learn who there can help solve the problem. Remember progress not perfection.
All of us are human and imperfect, but if we work together we can have a much better outcome.