I borrowed Douglas Chan threats in the cycling post and upon consideration perhaps should share the experience with my senior friends, when and if having to warded in a rehabilitation community hospital. This experience also taught me to have better knowledge of rehabilitation community hospital rather than just naively listened to doctors’ ardent recommendation. I sincerely urge everyone please reconsider seriously in choosing rehab community hospital as we had very bad experience
As a result of a fall, my mum had internal bleeding in the head and was warded in SGH on September 29 and upon discharged was transferred to Bright Vision Hospital for rehab on Friday Oct 11 and was admitted at about 1030 hr. The standard of patient care was atrocious beyond words. In fact, the neighboring patients too had loads of grievances.
On Saturday Oct 12 at about 1500 hr she had high temperature and was gasping for breath…..momentarily she appeared on the journey GOING HOME. The On-Call Doctor attended and IMMEDIATELY recommended she be transferred back to SGH. As usual we went through the A & E procedure and was warded for infection in the chest now this is in additional to the neuro situation ……….. please pray for her and the wisdom of the doctors to administer care for her recovery. Thanks
Anyway, at an appropriate time I am considering to share the experience in Bright Vision Hospital in greater details in the social media. Meantime, perhaps you may also like to contribute your comments and suggestion.
Hi Malcolm
Sorry to hear of your mum’s fall. Hope she is much better now.
My dad, a widower is 90 years old. He has been in and out of hospital very frequently for a string of medical conditions. Last year, he was hospitalised in a restructured hospital and was fit to go home after about 3 weeks. The only hurdle that blocked his discharge was, the hospital felt that we didn’t have a proper full-time caregiver to provide the best care for him. So, he was temporary housed in a community hospital which is in the hospital building until alternative care arrangements are made.
The staff at this centre were very experienced, understanding and caring. Although some are foreign nurses, their level of care was above satisfactory. We were updated very often on my dad’s progress, behaviour, rehabiltation programme, etc. We were happy with the temporary arrangement and wished that he could just stay there for a little longer.
We were put in touch with a hospital care co-ordinator, also a very empathetic staff, who would call us at regular intervals to check the progress of our search for a caregiver.
All good things must come to an end. My dad had stayed there for the maximum period allowed in the Community Hospital and he has to go home.
All the best to your mum’s recovery!
Regards, may woo