Poplar Springs Nursing Center

My husband was an Alzheimer's patient here for a couple of months. Some of the nurses and aides were really nice and welcomed my help keeing my him calm while they worked with him, but most of them were just there to do a job and they treated me like I was just someone in the way. They ordered me out of the room because they didn't want me to see how they were handling my husband. When he improved and started getting out of bed, they gave him sleeping drugs, and sometimes he didn't wake up until 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon. I stayed all night once to keep him from getting out of bed and hurting himself, and I was sternly told that visiting hours ended at 8:00. One morning when I arrived at 10:15 he had been drugged and put in the lift chair. He obviously hadn't been checked on all night long because his diaper was so full that there was a puddle of pee on the floor under the chair. I decided to get him out of there. He's been home for three weeks now, and he's walking, talking, and eating at the table. He no longer has a feeding tube and is doing great. If I had left him in this place he would still be drugged all the time for their convenience. That's sad.

My husband was an Alzheimer's patient here for a couple of months. Some of the nurses and aides were really nice and welcomed my help keeing my him calm while they worked with him, but most of them were just there to do a job and they treated me like I was just someone in the way. They ordered me out of the room because they didn't want me to see how they were handling my husband. When he improved and started getting out of bed, they gave him sleeping drugs, and sometimes he didn't wake up until 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon. I stayed all night once to keep him from getting out of bed and hurting himself, and I was sternly told that visiting hours ended at 8:00. One morning when I arrived at 10:15 he had been drugged and put in the lift chair. He obviously hadn't been checked on all night long because his diaper was so full that there was a puddle of pee on the floor under the chair. I decided to get him out of there. He's been home for three weeks now, and he's walking, talking, and eating at the table. He no longer has a feeding tube and is doing great. If I had left him in this place he would still be drugged all the time for their convenience. That's sad.

My husband was an Alzheimer's patient here for a couple of months. Some of the nurses and aides were really nice and welcomed my help keeing my him calm while they worked with him, but most of them were just there to do a job and they treated me like I was just someone in the way. They ordered me out of the room because they didn't want me to see how they were handling my husband. When he improved and started getting out of bed, they gave him sleeping drugs, and sometimes he didn't wake up until 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon. I stayed all night once to keep him from getting out of bed and hurting himself, and I was sternly told that visiting hours ended at 8:00. One morning when I arrived at 10:15 he had been drugged and put in the lift chair. He obviously hadn't been checked on all night long because his diaper was so full that there was a puddle of pee on the floor under the chair. I decided to get him out of there. He's been home for three weeks now, and he's walking, talking, and eating at the table. He no longer has a feeding tube and is doing great. If I had left him in this place he would still be drugged all the time for their convenience. That's sad.

My husband was an Alzheimer's patient here for a couple of months. Some of the nurses and aides were really nice and welcomed my help keeing my him calm while they worked with him, but most of them were just there to do a job and they treated me like I was just someone in the way. They ordered me out of the room because they didn't want me to see how they were handling my husband. When he improved and started getting out of bed, they gave him sleeping drugs, and sometimes he didn't wake up until 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon. I stayed all night once to keep him from getting out of bed and hurting himself, and I was sternly told that visiting hours ended at 8:00. One morning when I arrived at 10:15 he had been drugged and put in the lift chair. He obviously hadn't been checked on all night long because his diaper was so full that there was a puddle of pee on the floor under the chair. I decided to get him out of there. He's been home for three weeks now, and he's walking, talking, and eating at the table. He no longer has a feeding tube and is doing great. If I had left him in this place he would still be drugged all the time for their convenience. That's sad.

My husband was an Alzheimer's patient here for a couple of months. Some of the nurses and aides were really nice and welcomed my help keeing my him calm while they worked with him, but most of them were just there to do a job and they treated me like I was just someone in the way. They ordered me out of the room because they didn't want me to see how they were handling my husband. When he improved and started getting out of bed, they gave him sleeping drugs, and sometimes he didn't wake up until 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon. I stayed all night once to keep him from getting out of bed and hurting himself, and I was sternly told that visiting hours ended at 8:00. One morning when I arrived at 10:15 he had been drugged and put in the lift chair. He obviously hadn't been checked on all night long because his diaper was so full that there was a puddle of pee on the floor under the chair. I decided to get him out of there. He's been home for three weeks now, and he's walking, talking, and eating at the table. He no longer has a feeding tube and is doing great. If I had left him in this place he would still be drugged all the time for their convenience. That's sad.