Puʻuwai ʻO Makaha provides respite care, rehabilitation including inpatient physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and long-term nursing care with an interdisciplinary team approach. Specialized services include advanced wound care, diabetes support, IV therapy, enteral nutrition, and pain management.
Puʻuwai ʻO Makaha is a 93 bed skilled nursing facility offering an array of short-term and long-term services since 1979.
Today marks one year since my brother passed away while in the care of the staff at Puuwai O Makaha. He was admitted to Kaiser on a Wednesday and died that Sunday. By the time the staff at POM felt like he needed medical attention, it was too late. They talk a good game, but they really don’t provide the care your loved ones deserve. I often felt like I was asking too much for them to brush his teeth, or even wash his legs and feet. On my weekly visits I would do it myself. It was a promise to my Mom that I would take care of my brother. I placed him here thinking it would be better then a foster care home. He had almost no short term memory so he couldn’t tell me if anyone was harming him, if he took his medication, or even what he had for lunch. It worried me to leave him with anybody especially with him not being able to defend himself or tell me if anything was going on. I thought here, he would have other residents to talk to, other residents to watch over him, more staff to care for him and it was 10 minutes away from where I lived. When Covid happened I wasn’t allowed in the facility. When I finally was able to visit “outdoors” I couldn’t get close enough or examine his body for sores, bruises, etc., I could only check his oral health which was awful. The plaque was so thick on his teeth, tongue, and gums it was heartbreaking. I could brush off the dead skin on his legs it was so flakey. I really don’t see how the State, Medicare, Medicaid and other health insurances allow this facility to operate. I guess the ratio of how many survive and how many fall through the cracks justify their continued operation.
It’s so sad…
My mother died no one told me. Marybeth didn’t care about my mother’s life! I wouldn’t leave my loved ones here.
Staff does not respond to call bell and place smells of soiled diapers all day and night.