The fact is, these places run the minimum they can afford legally. A union would come in and help in this regard. Very important given it is our grandma and grandpa sitting in these places. I worked for a few years in nursing homes - never again. Too many patients to care for, not enough time, very little money, management problems are rampant...etc etc

A huge misperception in Nurse staffing ratios is that they count any licensed staff on the property. Less then half do direct patient care. That is why you see things like catheters not being put in and missed medications. In reality you will have like a med nurse for 20-40 patients and a charge nurse for the same amount. But they count the Care manage, assistant Director, the wound nurse and infection control nurse ect. for the ratio. All having little contact with the resident.

i just finished my intern hours for nurisng school at laurelhurst and i don't feel this is accurate at least from my accounts there. I worked in both buildings and i can say laurelhurst is one of the cleanest facilities i've been at. After working agency as a CNA i can say i've seen WAY bad places and laurelhurst is actually one of the better facilities i have seen. EVERY place like laurelhurst has problems-- almost all of the residents there are well taken care of. Any place like this is going to have complaints. If you want the best care for your loved ones then take them home and care for them yourself and don't complain about one of the better facilities in the area- all are staffed pretty much the same-- the ones being the best are the non-profit homes-- if you don't have choice do your homework on the place before send your loved ones there. like i said every place has problems and compared to what i have seen elsewhere laurelhurst is pretty darn good.

Laurelhurst village is a really nice looking place to send a loved one, but with all the employees being overworked makes Laurelhurst Village a bad place! Our family sent a relative there to the health and rehabilitation center and 2 nights ago was a very bad experience for our relative. She had to go to the bathroom and so she pressed her call light. She waited a while and really couldn't hold it anymore (also cannot tranfer independently at this time) so she had no choice but to go in her bed. After about a half an hour (and her calling 911 to try for some help) a registered nurse came in and said to her "We don't have time to be changing linens all night". This is neglet and is unacceptable. I heard that Marquis Mt. Tabor is an excellent place to place loved ones :) Just please, don't send your loved ones here unless you plan on being there 24/7 and providing care because obviously these employees are not capable of doing their job.