Prestige Care

I was appalled by the things I witnessed while my Mother was there! Residents left in dining area for at least half an hour before someone was notified and escorted back to their rooms. If they were lucky to get to meals, which many residents would have missed, was told it is assisted living. we are not responsible to get them to meals. Staff many times all on break together,including Office Manager, Med Techs, both on staff, and Caregivers. I witnessed this personally during one of my visits. I couldn't find a staff member and was told they were in the back smoking.

We hope that when it comes time to put our loved ones in a care facility they will be well taken care of by people who care as much as family. Especially for the price they have to pay. We recently had a situation where my mother had a major surgery scheduled. She is the primary caregiver for my step-father and needed to get some respite care for him. She looked at several facilities and proceeded with Prestige Senior Living High Desert. She was well organized for her husband’s drop off. She had all the items he would need for the time he would be there. She had written down his schedule that included what he liked to do, bed time procedure and medications. She reviewed with the Prestige team the week prior with the head of the facility and again with the intake person. You would think that would be enough. Well she dropped him off and although the room was clean the one thing that was missing was a T.V. Her husband loves to watch TV. It was in the agreement, but they failed to have it hooked up and couldn’t get anyone to do it until Monday. After that, things continued to go downhill. She went back to visit the next day. Her husband was still in the same clothes he was dropped off in, hadn’t been taken to the restroom or bathed. They also hadn’t given him all of his medication. My mother was extremely upset and placed several calls into the manager of the facility. Later that day, I went to see my step-father. I stopped at the front desk and waited for a few minutes before somebody came out to help me. When I asked where my step-father was, they had to text all the workers in the facility to find out what room he was in. My heart sank. Really, this is how these facilities are treating our elders? We put them in places to help us, hoping they love their jobs and will love our family members, but instead I feel many assisted living facilities just to gain high profits of their resident’s money, barely providing basic care. The employees that are hired are just bodies that don’t want to be there. It’s truly heart breaking. My mother pulled him from Prestige and cancelled a major surgery in order to take care of herself to continue to care for her husband. I do not recommend Prestige Senior Living High Desert because of this experience. If they are doing this with respite care members what are they doing with the full time resident?

My loved one leaves and is gone days at a time and he needs to stay there. My loved one is not getting his meds. It's dirty around the bed. It’s not mopped. He smears food on his bed. Allow him to hoard food.

Everyone I’ve talked to is nice. The way rooms are set up and the food is not good. The rooms small and shared. They have never contacted me.

My mom was a resident at Prestige Orchard Heights 2 1/2 months. She became Ill and required hospitalization and, after that, further care in a nursing facility. She was scheduled to discharge back to Orchard Heights but on the day of her discharge, the director there informed us there was no longer room for her. In other words, we were misled and my mother was being discharged with no where to live. This left me scrambling to figure out what to do. The director NEVER contacted me or let me know that this outcome was a possibility. Thankfully, the staff at the nursing facility offered to help with making other arrangements. In my opinion, Orchard Heights is being run by very unprofessional, uncaring people. What other explanation is there when a frail, 90 year old woman is turned away without any notification. My mom is going to be ok-no thanks to the staff at Orchard Heights. Stay away from this place. Their main goal is getting as much money as they can. The residents mean NOTHING to them.

Prestige West Hills had consistently poor staffing. Medication errors were made repeatedly. Housekeeping service was frequently not provided. The care expectations of the service plan were not met. Services were charged but not provided. Generally misleading, inadequate, unsafe, substandard care.

There were concerns. They overestimated their abilities, to take care of memory care. They were just training their people while we were there, to be able to care for memory care. We would find her not changed, and a bowl of oatmeal in front her. They never once cleaned her dentures, even after repeatedly asking them to do so. Eventually a family member found her on the floor with a broken hip. I would not recommend anyone to go here.

Had a confirmed appointment. When I showed up for the tour Beth was not there. The receptionist phoned Beth and she was to call me back. Didn't happen. Poor communication no follow-up. Wouldn't have my mother there.

When mom lived there she never participated in anything. Her room back at the end of the hall and only came out for meals. The rest of the time she was sitting in bed watching TV. My mom lived there for years. She moved in when my dad was still alive and he passed away and so she was there by herself. There seemed to be an extreme amount of turnover in the staff there. When she first went in there I thought it was good but I didn't really have anything to compare it to. It just got to where her room was never clean and she wasn't clean so it was not good at all. I really felt like when I would call about things that they weren't being truthful with me. I really can't say anything good about them.

My mom was at Monticello park in Longview for a very short time less than a month and passed away the end of July a beautiful place but not very happy with her care while she was there

Please do not place your loved one here. My mother was ignored to death. She died due to dehydration. The staff complained about her diarrhea as if she were a naughty child. Instead of trying to resolve this. My mother did not feel thirst so she did not remember to drink. She also was nearly blind and could not tell the difference between water or lotion bottles. The supervising nurse would not let her have more than one soda a day. A soda she would drink for pleasure so my family provided her favorite diet soda for her. We understand soda is not the best but it is better than nothing. Because my mom liked Dr. Pepper the supervising nurse Mary said it was causing her diarrhea because it is just prune juice. There is no prune or any other juice in Dr. Pepper but this woman in my opinion let my mother die because she didn't want to change her ... For a lack of a better term ... Adult diaper. And little activities. I tried to get pet theory for the whole site and they didn't even try to follow up.

Horrible, charge for services that are not provided. We first moved our love one in and everything seemed fine the major staff changes (upper management) brought the roof down. Poor food senior staff that were untruthful and let me tell you we were charged for services not provided. No toilet paper in the bathroom shower curtain broken and not fixed for a month until we notified staff of the problem. You are paying for sub standard living. Rental Equipment lost and you are stuck with the bill $$$$. Sub Standard food (canned even when in season) filthy dining room (food on table and floors hours after service). We were told that the room was monitored if the door opened well we opened and closed the door for an hour and guess what no one showed up this was done on several occasions with the same result.

At first we felt this was a great place. Light open dining and suites. It didn't take long for everything to change. Our parent was charged for services that were not given, the place had negative vibes and even basics like cleaning etc. went down hill. Management was/is not honest and there was no regard for our parent. They lost her wheelchair, took over a month to fix her broken shower rod holder and I could go on and on. The damage done to our elderly parent because of OH can never be undone. It is SO SAD that people, who are in the business of caring for elderly people in need, DO NOT CARE. This is largely a review of those in charge, not necessarily the one on one care givers. Don't be taken advantage of because your family is in a desperate situation. Your loved one deserves better. And this place is the worst. I'm sorry, but it's true.

If you care for your family at all do not place them here. Nobody gets what they pay for and hidden charges come up. Barely anyone gets a shower because they only have 5 carestaff for all shifts because no one wants to stay. They accept two people transfers when they aren’t even suppose to so all the carestaffs time is spent with them. The food is crap and activities are a joke. Whenever I go in there I just see staff messing around and all of a sudden behave when I walk by. I’m begging you don’t move in!!!

If you care at all about your loved ones, you will keep them as far away from this place as possible!! Our mom was there for 3 years & the only reason she stayed that long is because I didn't have a car and my sister & I lived close to her. Great management would come & go, great care takers would come & go.... the bad ones stayed. We came to visit my mom dozens & dozens of times to find her with soiled pants, bedding and even floor! There was a lot of theft there, (one person went to jail). They did not serve fresh fruits & vegies, it was canned. We constantly had to bring mom food because Orchard Height's Prestige Living was so bad! There isn't enough space here to warn you of all the terrible encounters we had with them. We are VERY thankful though, that mom is now in a NEW facility that cares, attends & respects her the way any elderly person should be treated. (AND, they have really good fresh food!)

My father was in this facility due to a hip fracture. They were supposed to give him physical therapy but didn't help him. The "Doctor" switched his medications without permission, which made my father completely unresponsive and more ill. The nurses didn't come by to check on him for hours at a time, and failed to properly read his charts. They also didn't prop him up in bed correctly, which led to pneumonia. He is now at home peacefully with family under hospice care. I don't not recommend this facility at all. The employees do NOT follow directions!!!!

My significant other was there. My list of negatives could be endless. This happened about a year ago. Food was terrible. If I attended a meeting for residents about the food, I was told by the director it was none of my business and not to say anything although I ate there often and knew what was served. Food was bad and at times they had to send out for meals. My SO was on a sodium free diet. He was told they didn't make allowances for that and that he just shouldn't eat the things with a lot of salt. No alternatives were offered. At one point he did not have his night time insulin for about a week because they said the doctor did not answer their FAX. When I asked the nurse why they did not just call the doctor, she said she would end up on hold. I would think that common sense would tell anyone that the receptionist would have to check with the doctor before giving any advice. They said they could not reach him after 5PM. They never followed the instructions on the recording as to who to call after hours. Just waited about a week. After 5 PM they would just send him to the ER regardless of the problem. They even told him he could not check his glucose more than once a day even when he knew from experience it was high. At one point he asked me to help him change his clothes. His sweat pants were wet and literally soaked. Once off, I saw that his legs were triple their size and beet red and draining. Took him to the doctor the next day and he spent the next week in the hospital due to edema. How would it be that his bath aid did not see this? They would not allow a resident to accompany him outside because he could not get the door to open without help in his wheelchair. They said he could not go out alone if he needed help. [removed] So many lies they had about everything. [removed] I could go on but no need of it. I would suggest that if you have someone there, watch them very carefully. [removed]

Caregivers do a pretty good job but management gave us nothing but problems which does trickle down to caregivers too. It looks like a beautiful facility but I would rather have better care than looking good on the outside.

My father was living there for two years he passed away went to get his stuff from his room. I was very discussed when getting there he lived with one bed a broken down chair and reminded me for a a very rum down hotel room the man running the place very rude wouldn't answer questions the women was nice but her story and the mans story was very different they offered no help. Just for us to get our fathers stuff out. Even though he was still alive at that time. We live out of state was under the idea they were caring and taking care of him. WRONG. That place is only there for the money. Be careful

Took a tour of this building and I do NOT recommend moving your loved ones here. Unprofessional. [removed] The looks on some of the resident's faces as they attempted to eat the food. And the building overall seems poorly ran. I also noticed staff are more concerned about breaks. Unfortunately, dissatisfied and unimpressed.