Regents Park At Aventura

Admission staff are great until you arrive & then they disappear. I needed a SNF for rehab after a fall. I was the youngest person there, & the ground floor looks nice until arriving upstairs. Getting water alone was a heavy task. I was appreciative of the staff; nurses and CNA''s which helped other...

Admission staff are great until you arrive & then they disappear. I needed a SNF for rehab after a fall. I was the youngest person there, & the ground floor looks nice until arriving upstairs. Getting water alone was a heavy task. I was appreciative of the staff; nurses and CNA''s which helped otherwise you have to wait & can lay in feces & urine until someone finally gets up. The staff hate their jobs & are extremely understaffed. You barely get food, even if on a regular cardiac meal. Food shows up when the kitchen can get to it. The PT & OT staff are amazing. I would hang out in the gym just to get off the 2nd floor. I had to be moved to another room as the other person in their made it quite clear I was unwelcome. He also claimed he had pneumonia, I have a compromised immune system, & expressed I wanted to be moved. My roommate spoke no English; only Russian so I would use Google translate so he had someone to talk to. It''s a give & get environment. When you give (nicely) you get things you need. The nurse practitioner took me off almost all my meds, and I was lucky to see him for more than 1 minute after my 1st in which he just reviewed & removed my meds including blood pressure meds. Your blood pressure or sugar are never checked, and I found 2 elderly residents having sex in a room. There is a beautiful pond with turtles in it and one of those residents pulled down his pants and urinated in the pond with no repercussion. I had to ask for a mask at times due to the smell of feces and urine not cleaned up. The only good part was PT and OT, and using my wheelchair to roll around the parking lot. I had to order food from an app because there was barely any food or snacks. I had a doctor''s appt, and they claimed I needed an aide which you are charged $15/hr for. I wasn''t even gone for a hour, and was charged for 2 1/2 hours which came out of a business account they make you setup for things like that. The aide told me she worked there for 16 years, & only got 3 raises each of $0.35, & how bad it was there. The driver is super cool, but unless I was dying, would never go again. I plan on visiting some residents who I became friendly with, if they let me on the property. There is nothing to do all day but vegetate in your bed. With the help of OT and PT, I begged for help to get me out of there as quickly as possible, and was able to be discharged within 2-3 days. They have some activities such as bingo, but I was the only man in there, and it was sad. If I had to wait longer, it would have been bad mentally & physically. Because I was alert & oriented, I was able to get out fast. I''d look around for other facilities as employees are 2 faced, & completely rude unless you kill them with kindness. Sam, Dana, & Blossom had great personalities, but you didn''t want to be on their bad sides. I think everyone is just overworked, underpaid, and overwhelmed.

I rather die than be in this nursing home! So glad I took my Dad away from this horrible place!