Not a place for a loved one to stay, especially if...

Not a place for a loved one to stay, especially if unfortunate enough to be elderly and on medicare/medicaid. Uncaring and neglectful would be how I characterized this place. Between the RN's and the aids, a patient is SUPPOSE to be checked on once every hour........didn't happen! A patient that is not moving, barely opening her eyes, can't eat or drink without someone helping her, was neglected for hours. If not for friends and family stopping in, who knows how long she would have gone without eating or drinking. Family was told she was being discharged and sent to a nursing home immediately and we had to make an uninformed decision about which one to send her to. When they had to delay discharge due to severe anemia and the need for a transfusion, we had time to research on the government website for ratings for the different nursing homes and realized we had chosen one of the poorest rated. Being the weekend and the following Monday a holiday, we could not reach a social worker at the nursing home to arrange a better rated one. The hospital would not delay discharge, even though she is still severely anemic, doesn't move, can't eat or drink on her own. I told them that she'd be even more neglected at the place they were sending her than she was there at O'Bleness! No one cared, they just wanted rid of her. Heartless and uncaring people. I hope the same treatment befalls them some day.