St Ann’s Home For the Aged

If i can leave this review with no stars at all I would be satisfied, instead i will pour it all to my review. This place is a non profit organization. As a previous employee who resigned, i barely got my overtime pay when i signed the overtime book. The whole place was understaffed at all times. Unit managers are stuck going to meetings and doing MDS’s, nurses are stuck with 20 patients to 1 nurse during the week and 40 patients to 1 nurse on weekends. When i complained about the weekend situation they only allowed to provide a nurse on weekends for Medication administration only. That only lasted until after the annual State survey. Each floor has 40 beds and should equally be divided amongst 5 – 6 CNAs depending on the acuity. What ends up happening is each floor is always short by 1 or 2… Which some floors end with only 3 or 4 CNAs. Patients have appointments, need to be washed, fed, changed, floor ambulation, meal monitoring, etc. Places of business like this dont look at the big picture of the needs of the patient. Instead they look for problems with the staff instead of looking for resolution. One floor has a unit manager that has no manners, no compassion, no communication skills, and no leadership with her floor staff. Add to this the number of in-​services that are mandatory, the fact that each floor has no unit secretary, and include the number of patients you have to give medicine to (according to the state survey regulations), feed each patient, and monitor the fall risk patients. Its nice if we can see some administrative staff every day to help feed the patients but this only lasts about 1 month before and after the state comes. Why i left this place has a lot to do with the above, but there are more that i can say but wont. At the end of the day it is the patients who suffer. The whole building has a lot of potential to be a better place. But it has to start from the top from people who are in charge. The patients were great, some co workers were great, but the only people who suffer are the patients. I learned a lot from places like this. And a negative experience always leaves a lasting impression more than a positive one.