Brian Center Health And Rehabilitation Canton

Our 81 year old Dad, who has dementia and orthostatic hypotension was admitted on a Tuesday. Forced to be admitted to this facility because it was one of the only Medicare beds available. This place would have never been our choice. So we hoped and prayed for the best.Spoke to our Dad for the first time 5 days in...shocking and heartbreaking. He couldn’t talk, slurring his words and crying. This was no conversation and not the man we had last spoke with prior to admittance. We started the process to get him out the very next day. In the meantime, the Brian Center had started to open up the face to face visitation so we scheduled a visit for that Thursday, 9 days in. On this day, 2 hrs before scheduled visit, we were told we would not be able to see him. We ordered and set up his discharge for that day! While awaiting the pickup, he passed out and they called 911. Our dad spent the next 5 days at Northside Cherokee recovering from severe dehydration, a UTI, high sodium level, horrific bedsores, cuts and abrasions on his torso and arms. He had lost significant weight and his mouth was covered in a very weird thick brown coating. He was unable to speak to the ER doctor, only groaning noises. An RN from the NEW facility, who had conducted a face to face assessment the night before, was eyewitness to all of this! Including the filthy conditions of his room and the soiled bed sheets he was lying on.Can’t even describe how heartbreaking and shocking it was to see him in this condition. Our worst fears had been confirmed! There is no question, if he had stayed in this facility for the remainder of his “rehabilitation” it would have been a death sentence for him. 9 days at this facility and he ends up in the ER. This was on March, 11th and he is still receiving wound care for the bedsores on his feet/heels.