Rick
October 2021
The Memory care department at Barrington of Oakley lacks confidence and fails to deliver leadership / communication / accountability / professionalism / compassion / proper training! The following is our brief experience at the Barrington. - First of all, you will have to be fully involved everyday to ensure your loved one is receiving proper care! - The gross lack of leadership ensures that the daily care plan does not exist! There is no set schedule, each improperly trained aide seems to ignore the policy set fourth and tends to be on their own program, at the expense of the residents! - Most Aides are very aggressive in tone and body language especially when waking residents in the morning. Often times no toileting upon waking. - Meal time is rushed and loud some of the residents often seem agitated. - Most residents will Sit in their chair watching TV (LMN) all day long. - Observed Aides sitting down playing on their cell phones while residents were in need of assistance. When asked why they ignore the residents, the aides respond with, “they are having a moment.” However, a properly trained aide would realize there is a problem, and they are not just having a moment! - Accountability leaves much to be desired. The night shift is understaffed. Most aides avoid policy and do not check on residents every two hours during the night as promised, lucky if it is every 6 hours. Sometimes not at all! When we would be leaving for the night, a couple of aides would say to us “I didn’t know anyone was still here.” - Apartment not cleaned daily, bed not made, sheets not cleaned, dirty dishes accumulate in the sink, trash piles up for days. - Dirty clothes in hamper for days, damp clothes folded and put back into dresser. Clean sheets were put on bed over a soiled mattress pad. - Mom’s fall changed from, “I woke her up in the morning, needed to get gloves came back and found her on the floor to,” “I didn’t see anything.” Policy states that the Dr. is notified when a fall occurs. That did not happen. - Our Dad was on a liquid diet. No solid food. His meals consisted of a burrito and a sandwich. We provided the protein shakes, however, he never got them. He couldn’t walk, yet his solid food meals were placed on the kitchen table while he was across the room in his recliner. - Documents are full of mistakes! Shower log annotates showers given on days when our mom was not in the building and on a day when she was sick. - Management is too tolerant of serious errors! Several times medication had not been administered in the evening hours. One nurse “forgot” to give medication two evenings in a row! As well as signing for medication administered daily, when it is only to be giving once every six months. No attention to detail! - Highly recommend installing cameras inside the apartment! Often times the aides would block or unplug the cameras. This behavior naturally begs the question, what are you doing or not doing that you don’t want the family members to see? - Lack of compassion, Day after our dad died, we were there comforting our mom and the nurse demanded that we leave. She RUDELY escorted us out of the building on the orders of the Memory Care Director. This is the same nurse that forgot to give our mom her pain medication two days in a row! - To resolve any problems you must complain, complain, complain! We had three meetings with the Executive Director and the Memory Care Director all to no avail! - Clearly the Barrington’s memory care staff is more concerned about their own well-being and not the residents! Lack of leadership and improperly trained aides have produced a very caustic and corrosive environment for the residents. What a shame!
