Sunnyside Nursing Center

My father was near the end of his life was treated poorly. Thank God we got him out of here so he could die at home.

My grandmother was a patient here for about 2 weeks recently. The staff was very attentive and treated my grandmother very well. She had to stay at the center was on her birthday as well. Sunnyside really opened their doors and welcomed our entire family in to celebrate her birthday. The gave us access to a community room and let us honor my grandmother in celebrating her special day — and my grandmother loved it! We are not a small family — there were easily 35 of us, and no one flinched or complained when we blew our party horns and set off the smoke detectors when blowing out the candles! It was a great place for her!

Unfortunately i had to use at least one star let it be know i feel it is a NEGATIVE 1 star. I would not recommend this place to my enemy. My grandmother was in the hospital, My wife and I are her primary caregivers at home. when she went to the hospital (kaiser) she was doing well just had sepsis from uti, she had no bed sores no other issues, after two days she had bed sores all over her body, she was released and we were told she needed more care than we could give at home, but they couldnt keep her in the hospital so they were sending her to a nursing home. We were told @11am that we had until 1230 to make a decision as to what to do with grandma, so we agreed. They said they were contracted with this facility called sunnyside (more like sunnyville to me) the actual building is nice, but now i know that it is a coverup. I made sure with Kaiser that all of grandmas pills were set up with this place so there were no issues, well sunnyville had problems and did not get her pills for her, she was in pain needed her sleeping pill etc (i went home got her sleeping pill and snuck it to her), they just shrugged it off and said its just one night you will have it tomorrow. I couldnt sleep that night, the next day we went to see her and she was still in bed in the same spot she was the night before, we asked if she had been changed or if PT had been there, PT came for about ten minutes the man was creepy and told grandma he was going to make her his personal patient. no one had changed her, no one had turned her, they did bring her this slop mush lunch that looked like prison food, some kind of lasagna mush with mashed potatoes no veges, you are not allowed to pick your food, you are allowed visitors from 11am to 8pm. you can go home with your family only if you have a release from the doctor. maybe this is jail!!! we decided to take grandma home after two days, we saw that the care we give her at home is way better than this place, they did nothing for her! when my wife told the nurse on friday night that we were taking her home tomorrow the nurse said well we think she needs to stay this is against our policy my wife said i dont care im taking my grandma home tomorrow, will you please get the paperwork ready, when i got there this morning to pick her up they were lost they knew nothing. they tried to fight me, i didnt budge they asked why i said because we were under the impression you would be giving her care that we couldnt at home, that is not the case at all we care for her much better than you do, secondly check your Unilocal reviews, they are bad. i was forced to sign a Against Medical Advise form, i was not given her meds or paperwork, i do not recommend this place to anyone please stay far away your family member deserves more than sunnyvile gives

This was by far the worst hospital I’ve ever been in. The food was horrible — made me nauseous. The treating doctor — Dr. Young — was incompetent. I would never go back there for ANY reason.

My mother was a resident for ten days. And the case manager called me every day on how my mother was doing in rehab. I spoke to the rehab team and the Kaiser Doctor there for treating my mother. And no new I also work in the SNF business too! The place was clean activities going on all the time.
My mother did have a loud resident and they called the family to move her to another room. Nice place really. Thank you!

good home. recommended by doctor. spoke with administrator caring person

What you read about this place is true! Stay away! Where do I start?
1. Treatment and care by the nursing staff: Lack any and all social/​communication skills and cannot relay simple discharge instructions, as well as lack overall experience in the medical field in general. When you have a concern and are directed to the unit manager and RN supervisor, you just want to put your head down in embarrassment for the lack of care, dignity and knowledge these nursing supervisors have. This facility seems to hire any nurse who cannot get hired elsewhere, and obviously lacks diversity amongst its nursing staff, which is quite apparent since the language of choice is not English but Tagalog!
2. Physician care/​attention: If your lucky you will see a doctor once a week who will spend 5 minutes or less with you, and will treat you more as an inconvenience than as a patient.
3. Physical therapy: While the majority of your time will be spent lying in your bed watching television because the physical therapy department will only spend 30 minutes with you every other day if your lucky! The 30 minute therapy session is a sad truth considering your are at the facility to begin with because of the physical therapy which is needed to transition home, hence the name of the wing «transitional medical unit (TMU-​100 & 200).» There are two whole wings de$igned to their «rehabilitation services,» but the majority of the physical therapy you will receive is by walking around yourself, because if you don’t you will just lay in your bed getting worse by the second, ultimately leaving the facility worse than how you arrived.
4. Administration: The real winner of the entire facility! Why? Because it all starts at the top and is reflected all the way down to the bottom. If the administrator, is comfortable with «passing the buck» why should any other employee care. This facility is rated a 1 star by the State of California for a reason. When you look around this place, there are numerous unit managers, RN supervisors, charge nurses, assistant director of nurses, director of nurses, an assistant administrator and finally the administrator, not to mention all the other departments managers. And yet, the administration is running this facility into the ground. No wonder why patients avoid this place like the plague, and go down the street to Heritage and everywhere else besides this place. If you walk the halls, the room/​beds are empty for a reason! Not to mention the nicer rooms, are determined by class, oh I am sorry, your medical insurance provider. Medicare patients will be provided with a comfortable two-​bed per room and will only have to share the restroom amongst 4 people. While the HMO’s are three-​beds to a room and they have to share the restroom amongst 6 people! So if you have a restroom emergency and it is occupied then guess what, you are going to have to hold it! Or as one unit manger said, «go in your diaper and we will clean it up later!»
I agree with the post above, I wish I could give this place less than 1 star. Note, to the Department of Health, investigate this place with a fine tooth comb, especially after hours when the administrator and his department managers go home and leave this place unattended. Hence, their strict visiting hours, they do not want family visiting after hours because they will learn of Sunnyside’s ugly truths!!!
Hope this review will help all families and friends of potential patients who are looking for rehabilitation services.

Wish I could give this place less stars. The people brought here aren’t even put on sheets. To explain better there’s a plastic cover that goes around a mattress so if the person urinated on himself it doesn’t soak into the mattress. Then your suppose to put sheets over that and maybe a chic (a chux (chuck, or chucks) are like puppy pads, think of a tampoon but a large square. The purpose of it is to soak up urine so it doesn’t hit the mattress. They are called chux because you just through them away.) then a blanket to look like a regular bed. Well this is not what sunnyside does. What sunnyside has is the plastic covering around the bed a chux and then the patient laying on top. The chux is so small that the patients lower thigh down to the feet are on and exposed to the plastic. Also the patients mid back all the way up to the head. If it weren’t for pillows the head would’ve laying on plastic as well.
The nursing staff is also horrible. They call 911 for stuff they should know how to do like stop a nose bleed and never know whats going on with the patients when fire department wants a report, their excuse is «its shift change I just got the patient.» The doctors at the facilities are always in the background somewhere tucked away.
Places like this make me wish for an early death so I don’t end up neglected when I can’t speak or do for myself. Don’t be fooled by these fake pictures. Ask any of the local hospitals Torrance mem, Long Beach mem, especially Harbor UCLA they all know sunnysides reputation.