Kiowa Hospital District Manor

    1020 Main St, Kiowa, KS, 67070
    3.8 · 5 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    AnonymousCurrent/former resident
    2.0

    Caring staff, poor management, mistreatment

    I'm grateful for the dedicated floor caregivers - they give excellent, compassionate care and I'm very attached to my room. But management is poor and in flux (interim DON/administrator), I've experienced mistreatment and Brandi has been awful to me. They advertise as a PEAK facility but don't follow PEAK guidelines.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    3.80 · 5 reviews

    Overall rating

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    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      5.0
    • Staff

      3.3
    • Meals

      3.8
    • Amenities

      3.8
    • Value

      3.8

    Pros

    • Compassionate floor staff
    • Excellent direct care from caregivers
    • Dedicated caregiving team
    • Strong emotional attachment to residents' rooms
    • Positive sentiment toward frontline staff

    Cons

    • False advertising as a PEAK facility
    • Management instability (interim DON and administrator)
    • Shift away from PEAK guidelines/policies
    • Reports of staff mistreatment
    • Poor management
    • Named staff member 'Brandi' cited negatively

    Summary review

    The reviews present a mixed but clear pattern: direct caregiving and floor staff are consistently praised for the quality of hands‑on care and the relationships they build with residents, while administrative and management issues are a major source of concern. Multiple comments emphasize that floor staff are good with residents and that caregivers provide excellent, dedicated care. There is strong positive sentiment about the personal attention residents receive and emotional attachments to living spaces (for example, a resident expressing that their room feels like home). These observations indicate that the facility's frontline personnel are a real strength and are delivering compassionate, daily support to residents.

    Despite the favorable comments about direct care, reviewers repeatedly raise significant concerns about management and organizational direction. The facility is reported to be advertising itself as a PEAK facility but reviewers indicate it is not a PEAK facility in practice. Additionally, management is portrayed as being in flux, with an interim Director of Nursing (DON) and an administrator in transition. Reviewers note an active shift away from PEAK guidelines, suggesting changes in policy or standards that are noticeable to families and residents. This combination of misleading advertising and leadership turnover creates a credibility issue and contributes to anxiety about consistency of care and oversight.

    There are also direct complaints about staff mistreatment and poor management practices. While frontline caregivers are praised, separate comments allege mistreatment by staff and characterize management as poor. One staff member is named specifically—Brandi—and is described very negatively by at least one reviewer. These remarks point to uneven staff behavior or isolated negative interactions that contrast with the otherwise positive reports about caregivers. The presence of both strong praise for many caregivers and explicit reports of mistreatment indicates variability in staff performance and potentially inadequate management response or personnel oversight.

    Because most positive comments concern the immediate caregiving experience and most negatives concern administration and policy, a key theme is a division between quality of direct care and organizational leadership. Frontline staff appear motivated and effective at resident-facing tasks, but systemic issues—misleading program claims (PEAK), interim leadership, departure from previously advertised guidelines, and reported mistreatment incidents—undermine overall confidence. The reviews suggest that residents and families appreciate the day-to-day care but are concerned about long-term stability, transparency, and accountability at the administrative level.

    In summary, the facility's main strengths are its floor staff and direct caregivers, who are repeatedly described as compassionate, dedicated, and providing excellent care that fosters strong emotional bonds with residents. The primary weaknesses are managerial: advertising that does not match reality regarding PEAK status, leadership turnover with interim roles, an explicit shift away from stated guidelines, and isolated but notable reports of staff mistreatment including negative mention of a staff member named 'Brandi.' These patterns point to a facility that can deliver good resident care at the bedside but needs clearer communication, stable leadership, and stronger management oversight to address inconsistent staff behavior and restore trust in its advertised standards.

    Location

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    About Kiowa Hospital District Manor

    Kiowa Hospital District Manor sits in a small, quiet town called Kiowa, Kansas, and folks have said it's known for giving high-quality, compassionate care to older residents who might need different kinds of help as they get older, and walking around you'll see that supportive environment is a big focus here because residents with different needs, like long-term care and short-term rehab, memory care for folks with cognitive troubles, or even hospice and palliative care, all get attention from skilled nurses who know what they're doing, and the Manor itself is actually owned by the Kiowa District Hospital, so residents benefit from having a full range of healthcare services like emergency care that's open day and night, surgeries, lab and radiology services, physical therapy, specialty clinics, swing bed service, and even a rural health clinic on the same campus. The Manor has a set of communal programs and outdoor areas where people can meet each other, spend time relaxing, and enjoy a calm rural setting, which helps folks feel less lonely and gives them something to look forward to. The main address for the Manor is 1020 Main Street, while the hospital and clinic are over at 1002 South 4th Street in Kiowa, and both places work together with providers like Dr. Wilhelm, M.D., K.C. Wetta, APRN, FNP-C, Melissa Stroh, PA-C, Corgan Stuke, APRN NP-C, and Dedra Rathgeber, APRN NP-C, who all look after residents and patients in a patient-centered way, always aiming to meet the community's healthcare needs with skill and respect, and you can tell by watching the staff go about their work that they've put together a dedicated team that's used to looking after people with many different needs, whether that's emergencies, ongoing care, or rehabilitation, and that approach seems to carry across everything they do.

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