Shawnee Gardens Healthcare & Rehab Center

Lily

I'm not particularly happy here at Shawnee Gardens. We have a couple of really good activities directors and they come up with interesting things to do. However, the staff generally seems to be more interested in their cell phones. It takes a while to get a meal. The advertisement says breakfasts are served at 8:00 a.m. and we don't get served until later than that. There are some staff members that are great and are very concerned about our welfare, but there are others who aren't particularly positive. I've been here since October and I've made my own bed and changed linens, and doing this hurts my back. It's a 50/50 kind of thing. There are people in my unit who aren't able to control their bladders and it smells right now. It's very uncomfortable. The bus driver is wonderful, fun, and makes things interesting. The lunch and dinner were wonderful yesterday, but today the menu doesn't reflect that it's going be a good meal. The housekeepers do a good job. They've replaced the flooring upstairs and they're getting ready to put down new carpet here.

Lex1004

The facility is friendly and warm when I walked in, loved seeing all the other residents up and around doing activities.Staff was friendly when walked in and wanted to tour. My grandma is now on one of the wings and she likes the food, she receives the help when it is needed. Overall I would recommend this facility to other family members.

RN77

My soon to be father-in-law currently resides in this facility, and the staff takes very good care of him. I am an RN, and my fiancé will soon graduate from medical school. We met as CNAs at an Alzheimers facility. By our standards, Shawnee Gardens is a very good facility, and we are very happy with the care he receives. He is given a choice of what to eat at meal time. The food is brought into the dining room and is kept warm in a portable buffet table. The units do not smell of urine, which was one of my concerns. We put a television in my FIL's room, and staff will turn it to channels we have requested. His behavior is monitored closely and concerns are communicated. The staff is very helpful and on top of things. They made transition from a rehab a smooth one. With the current Medicaid crisis in Kansas we were just grateful a nursing home took him in. We were exremely lucky he ended up here. Close to us, nice grounds in a nice neighborhood, and a former RN I spoke to said she loved working there. Place your loved one here and you can be assured they will be well taken care of.

marymay

Filthy, absolutely the worst facility I have ever been in! The feeling of dread followed me the entire time I was there and to top it off, it reminded me of an old and creepy sanitarium

meJane1

We visited this location and considered it as an option for our loved one. The location is good - in a nice neighborhood and close to Shawnee Mission Parkway. It is really important you have them show you all the different units when you take a tour. While the first floor is fairly nice, the second floor is not. The second floor really needed a lot of upgrades and smelled of urine. I don't have any information on quality of care because we ultimately decided to go someplace else.

Kelsey532

This place was absolutely horrible!! We placed my grandfather, who has Alzheimer's, here for a 5-day stay while my grandmother, who is his primary caretaker, had heart surgery. During his time there they only changed his clothes 1 time, never took him out of his wheel chair so he could walk, yelled at him (my grandmother walked into the caretaker yelling at him), didn't provide him access to the toys that we left for him to play with, we went to visit him twice and we couldn't find any staff members to assist us (we looked all over the wing that he was on there was no one to be found), all of this among other things. I would HIGHLY discourage anyone from placing their loved one in the care of this facility. We did notify the social worker of all of this information and she was apologetic but, in my opinion, with the amount of money that we were paying they should be more attentive to the patient.

#1ANGIE

I was very unhappy with the care our loved one received. We soon moved my mother inlaw to a different facility. There was never the same people caring for our mother. The staff on the week-ends did not know what was going on. They were either PRN nurses or floated nurses who did not usually work on that floor. After several falls and a hospital visit, we wanted better supervision. This was disreguarded. My mother fell again and had several compression factures to go with her broken hip now. They were not responsive to the patients needs. No alarms were used to assure that mom would not try to get out of bed on her own. The staff does not seem happy or appreciated. There seems to be much turn over in staff as well. Our loved ones teeth we lost and she also lost her glasses. Her winter coat disappeared and many of her clothes. She was allowed to go to bed in her street clothes without changing her depends. ITU's are an issue with the facility also. Don't take your loved one here. Very bad idea.

Caring77812350

I moved to Shawnee Gardens just end of last year. The facility is clean. The rooms are not really huge. They have every activity that makes me happy.

Roxanne3

I had my mother stay at Shawnee Gardens Healthcare and Rehab Ctr. It was my choice because of the location and the way they took care of the residents. There were several staff, so there was always someone watching over the residents. The size of the rooms were just right for my Mom, and it was kept clean. In the gathering room, they played music at all times. I would strongly suggest this place.