Life Care Centers of America
Below is an email i recieved from an ex-employee of Life Care Centers of America. I have redacted certain personal information to protect her.
Comments: To Whom it May Concern,
I'm a former employee of Life Care Center of Sandpoint located in Sandpoint, Idaho. I ended my employment with Life Care. I found an interesting article on the internet by an Attorney in California on the operations of 13 different Nursing Homes. It had to do with abuse, neglect, fraud and other types of bad business conduct.
I was employee at Life Care for 6+ years and worked in the Marketing & Admissions process for approx 3-4 months. I did not do that job for very long because I felt I was lying to the families about the wonderful care resident's were to receive. I would walked down the halls and find residents not positioned in their wheel chairs properly, uncombed hair, dirty faces, needless to say unshowered for a week at a time! I soon went back to the floor as a C.N.A. to take care of the people.
And yes lots of times the facility were I worked was short staffed, many of the Resident's needs were not being met. Needless to say when it came time for employees to take their vacation they were denied because there was no coverage. So many had to find their own coverage! Which was one of the benefits for working for such a Company is Paid Vacation days. It is a bitter
subject for me being they have not paid me of my Vacation days acquired.
Anyways about Life Care and their Policy. They have an electronic system to record all of the Cares done for the Resident' by the CNA'S. Which it seems to me a big cover up to blame their business practices on the CNA's there. Also they have another system called IDA which records all the incident of residents. It is such a clever thing to have this system . But what it does is steal the Care from the Resident's while you sit and do all your charting at a computer for a 1/2 hr to an Hour. The managers have so many meetings that they can't even get their own work done! And on and on it goes. May main concern is for the resident's in those places. They lose everything they worked for!
