North Central Care Center

Did my NAC clinicals there. Only about 10% of the staff seems to actually care about the residents. I was appalled to witness aides changing briefs with no gloves and then going to the dining room to feed patients with no hand washing what so ever. I also witnessed aides verbally abusing patients who obviously already struggled with the devisation of Dementia.It caused the patient to be fearful and upset.( I was able to calmly kindly work with the patient and there was no combatitive response, in fact the patient smiled and let me help him.) One aide would taunt and tease the patient he was supposed to be feeding in the dining room. He would hold an empty spoon up to the man's lips and pretending to feed him would laugh as the patient struggled to work his tongue to gain the non existent food. It was so disrespectful and wrong. Also the activities department in this center is a joke. The activities consisted of having even high functioning patients do toddler puzzles. There was no music, no real interaction, or laughter. No wonder the patients did not want to attend. I reported what I saw to my instructor. I was not convinced that anything was done to change it. The whole atmosphere was depressing. Would not place my dog there.I would never work there as it is the opposite of quality care.

by Beth Allen, Jul 2015