The Fountains Managed By Rideout Health

If you love the elderly person in your life, do not send them to this facility. On the surface, it seems well run, clean, beautiful grounds and all of that. But beware. The doctor in charge, Dr. Bahl, is only required to visit the people in the nursing facility once a month and apparently he will not bend that rule even if a patient is sick and needs attention. I placed my 85 year old dad in this facility after a quadruple bypass. He was in very delicate condition. He left the hospital looking and feeling pretty good all things considered but within one week, his health went down dramatically. He quit eating. He lost weight. He looked horrible. I became worried.
I asked the nurses to have the doctor visit him. They said he only comes around once a month. I then asked them to have the doctor call me. He never did. I spoke to the physical therapist and told her I was deeply concerned and wanted him discharged. She spoke to this Dr. Bahl and then told me he denied my request for my dad’s release!!! Can you believe it? Without even speaking to me or visiting my father. It was like living a nightmare. My dad fell! He fell TWO NIGHTS in a row waiting for someone to take him to the bathroom. No one would answer the call light so he tried to go to the bathroom on his own and fell. Twice. He injured himself and was bleeding from his catheter. The nurses were extremely rude to me when I complained. They still did not get the doctor over there to see my dad even though he was bleeding.
Horrified and afraid, I set up appointments for my father with doctors outside the facility and took him to his regular physician even though the head nurse told me that Medi-​Care would not pay for his seeing any other physician than this absent Dr. Bahl and that I should just wait until he made his rounds. I asked her when that would be, she said she did not know. WTF??? So I took him anyway and thank god I did.
Check this out. My dad’s regular physician ran a blood test on him «stat» because he looked so sick and out of it. Turned out my dad’s sodium level had dropped to a dangerous 107. He was admitted to the hospital on an emergency basis.
My dad could have had a stroke. He could have died. He was so delirious he didn’t know where he was. It was heartbreaking. This «skilled» nurses at the facility didn’t even notice.
Do not ever send your loved one to this place. I am still contemplating whether I should sue their asses for this. I am so angry. But I’m dealing with my dad’s fragile health right now and will have to think about it later. He is doing much better being cared for by inexperienced family members than the «skilled nursing» he received at The Fountains. He’s gained weight and is well again after being re-​hospitalized for 4 days.
While I was there visiting my poor dad, I personally witnessed the people who run this place leaving the residents parked in the lobby sleeping in their wheelchairs with no supervision. Nothing. Just abandoned there. Poor things.
I would never send anyone I loved to this house of horrors.