Commonwealth Health and Rehab

In terms of Long Term Care and Rehab facilities, this is one of the better places I’ve seen.
My mother has had to make this place her new home, and everyone has welcomed her with open arms. The entire staff is knowledgeable, friendly, and you can tell they weren’t the bottom feeders during their schooling.
Are they things that bother me sometimes? Sure, but there always is in a medical environment. People need to understand that this is a busy place, and sometimes there may be patients that require a tad more attention than your loved ones… And I understand the frustration on both ends of the spectrum when hearing and thinking about this.
They are currently in the process of building a brand new facility in Dulles, VA that will overtake the current facility in Fairfax. And I am truly excited to have my mother go there and know she will be well cared for.
I would fully trust the staff at this place and wouldn’t second guess ending anyone in my family here.

Nurses lost my father’s medications; when confronted they asked what I expected them to do. Nurses failed to administer IV prescribed at 1:00PM and my Brother and I had to confront the nurses again to get them to act… my Dad stayed dehydrated until 1:30AM the next morning! The place smells of urine and feces. Rooms are musty and dank… i will refuse to let any friend of family EVER spending time at Commonwealth Rehab and Health Center… please fight it if your friends or family are EVER sentenced to spend time there!

OWNERS of Commomwealth you are Responsible. Consumers it is up to us to require Commonwealth to provide fresh health producing fruit vegatables grains and proteins. The meals provided are a scandal and unacceptable. F-​. Start with watching a Dr Oz episode on healthy foods … Public opinion and transparency may be the only recourse. The smell in some of the entry hallways is foul. The visitor furniture closer to rooms needs replacing. Kaiser contracts with them for their patients so require better also. The staff is all kindhearted and doing their best. This is a Money and Management problem with OWNERS — increase food budget and fire the food suppliers. Buy a couple of new pieces of furniture. Clean the carpet. Even if you have sold the beds and are in the process of closing. SHAME ON YOU. I witnessed a week of horrid meals.

Rehabilitation after major surgery. I agree with the other review, avoid this facility at all costs. The care is extremely poor, the nursing staff are arrogant and poorly managed. Slow, lazy and miserable. Office staff have a defensive attitude should you dare to question them. Nursing home residents, some quite senile, congregate around the nursing station, eating their meals on trays in their wheelchairs, blocking the hallway and wandering around barefoot. The food is the most repulsive excuse for food I have ever seen in any hospital or rehab center. Extremely hard to get anyone to explain what they were doing for my spouse, what his treatment plan was or when he would get any therapy. The backrest of the wheelchair he was given was held together with duct tape and the replacement for one of the armrests was a hand towel taped on the arm with duct tape. The area where iced water was available was filthy with broken water faucet and standing water in the tray of the ice machine. Do not let them put your loved ones in this facility!

Commonwealth Health and Rehab Center is a for-​profit nursing home operated by Commonwealth Care of Roanoke. This facility offers long term care and skilled nursing rehab care, and has 143 beds — the facility is frequently understaffed and underfunded, and the patients and residents are also underfed — food portions are extremely small, due to the parent company’s desire for profit. The facility had a top-​notch therapy department at one time but that has changed since the therapy department now uses outside contractor employees — the building itself is an old building and frequently in need of repair. The employees — almost all foreigners — have surly attitudes because of the understaffing and frequently take it out on patients and residents — if you’re in search of a nursing home, look for one that is NOT operated by Commonwealth Care of Roanoke.