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Review of Shipley Manor

My father went here for short term rehab after a m...

My father went here for short term rehab after a month hospital stay in 2011. The neglect was reprehensible. The staff were usually socializing in the filthy hallways. The place smelled of urine and feces. My father got C-diff in there and went downhill in less than a week
They would bring his food tray in and not bother to sit him up to even give him water. There were no doctors on staff..maybe come in once or twice a week and there was usually only one RN.
I came in one evening he was unconscious and breathing badly. I ran to get a "nurse". One of the aides slowly meandered down the hallway and then took his blood pressure. She turned to leave the room and I asked her what it was. She mumbled something and I thought she said 70 over 40. I asked her to repeat it and thats what it was. I told her I was calling 911 and she said, "no, I have to call the doctor." I told her I wasn't going to wait for a doctor to come in there..this was an emergency. When the paramedics got there they told me he would have died that night. He had to get 6 bags of fluid on the ride to Christiana. They almost killed my father. I don't know if it's changed since then, but I wouldn't send a rat there unless I checked the out thoughly.