Osage Beach Rehab & Health Care Center

    844 Passover Rd, Osage Beach, MO, 65065
    3.5 · 19 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    1.0

    Good atmosphere but dangerous care

    I had a mixed experience. The facility is clean, welcoming, and the activities, therapy and food were top-notch - many staff were compassionate and hardworking. But medical care was inconsistent and ultimately dangerous: missed meds, CPAP not ensured, two falls, weight loss and decline, alarming responses from administration and pressure to move out; after discharge my loved one's condition worsened and later died, so despite the great atmosphere I cannot recommend it.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

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

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    3.53 · 19 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.5
    • Staff

      3.3
    • Meals

      5.0
    • Amenities

      3.5
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Therapy services rated top-notch
    • Robust activities program
    • High-quality food/dining
    • Welcoming, clean environment
    • Compassionate and caring staff
    • Hard-working and helpful employees
    • Administration helpful in some cases
    • Assistance with discharging patients home
    • Overall pleasant atmosphere/facility

    Cons

    • Medication omissions or medications not given
    • Inadequate medical attention and neglect of basic care
    • Weight loss and health decline attributed to care
    • No adjustments to care plans despite worsening condition
    • Pressure on residents to move out or be relocated
    • Unprofessional or alarming statements by leadership
    • Administrator mocking or dismissing requests for help
    • Poor hygiene practices (urine-soaked clothing reported)
    • Falls and inadequate fall-prevention/supervision
    • Failure to ensure required devices (e.g., CPAP) are used
    • Elevated CO2/respiratory issues linked to care failures
    • Reported patient deaths following facility stay
    • Relocation of patients far from family
    • Carelessness and failure to follow doctor's directions
    • Inconsistent service quality and staff issues
    • Value-for-money concerns

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across the review summaries is mixed but leans toward serious concern because of multiple reports alleging significant medical and safety failures alongside many positive comments about nonmedical services. Positive observations consistently center on rehabilitation, activities, food, the facility environment, and many frontline staff members. Negative reports raise red flags about core clinical care, safety, and management behavior; several of those negative reports describe outcomes that would be alarming to prospective residents and families.

    Care quality and clinical safety are the most significant and recurring negative themes. Multiple reviews allege that medications were not administered as prescribed and that medical attention was inadequate. There are reports of neglect of basic personal care (including urine-soaked clothing), weight loss and overall health decline without appropriate adjustments to care plans, and failure to follow physician directions. More serious clinical concerns include two falls, failure to ensure CPAP use (with mention of high CO2 levels), emergency-room involvement to check medications, and at least one report of a patient dying after leaving the facility. These items suggest potential systemic problems with medical oversight, medication administration procedures, staff training on clinical care, and monitoring of vulnerable residents.

    Staff and leadership perceptions are split. Many reviewers praise individual employees as hardworking, compassionate, and effective—especially in therapy and activity departments—and several say staff worked with patients to get them home. Therapy services, activities programming, and food receive repeated positive mention and appear to be strengths. Conversely, several reviews specifically criticize management conduct and professionalism: alarming statements from the director of nursing, an administrator reportedly mocking requests for help, pressure to move residents out, and reported relocations of patients far from family. These management-related complaints, when combined with clinical concerns, point to inconsistent leadership, problematic communication, and possible culture issues affecting clinical accountability.

    Facilities, dining, and enrichment are frequently cited as positives. Multiple reviews call out a welcoming environment, cleanliness, good meals, top-notch therapy, and strong activities offerings. The environment and nonclinical services appear to be maintained to a good standard and are an important reason why some reviewers endorse the facility. However, several reviewers indicate that these strengths do not compensate for poor clinical care or safety failures, producing a strongly negative overall impression in those cases.

    A clear pattern in these summaries is inconsistency: some families experienced attentive, effective care and successful rehabilitation transitions home, while others report lapses that contributed to deterioration and, in extreme cases, death. The contrast suggests variability in either staffing (shift-to-shift or unit-to-unit), training, supervision, or management follow-through. Several reviews also raise value-for-money concerns, implying that the cost of care is not justified when clinical safety and responsiveness are inconsistent.

    For prospective residents and families, the mixed nature of these reviews indicates the importance of targeted due diligence. Specifically, ask about medication administration and reconciliation procedures, staffing levels and turnover, fall-prevention protocols, respiratory device use policies (such as CPAP oversight), incident reporting and investigations, and recent steps management has taken to address any adverse events. When possible, observe direct care interactions, tour during shift changes, request references from recent families, and get written information on care-plan reviews and escalation pathways. In summary, the facility demonstrates clear strengths in therapy, activities, dining, and many frontline staff, but multiple reviews allege serious clinical and management failures that warrant careful inquiry before making decisions.

    Location

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    About Osage Beach Rehab & Health Care Center

    Osage Beach Rehab & Health Care Center sits at 844 Passover Road in Osage Beach, Missouri, and offers 24-hour nursing care with a focus on both short-term and long-term skilled nursing, so folks recovering from things like strokes, joint replacements, or serious illness get help from a team that includes specialized physicians, nurses, and therapists who work together, and the place handles daily needs like bathing, meals, dressing, and getting around, plus special services for diabetes, medication management, and wound care. The facility connects closely with the Center for Behavioral Health - Osage Beach, so residents can also get support for psychological or mental health needs and behavioral health services, which you don't always find everywhere. Rehabilitation here covers lots of ground, with an onsite rehab unit for physical therapy after joint surgeries or accidents, occupational therapy to get people back to daily activities or adapt to changes in vision, and speech therapy for help with swallowing, speech, or voice issues-they even do special tests there, plus therapies for Parkinson's. They manage specialized nutrition plans for anyone who needs them, follow physician-directed protocols, and have respite care options when families need a break. There's a dedicated administrator named Reed Bentzinger, and the place holds 100 beds for post-acute care with 80 set aside as a skilled nursing facility, making room for plenty of patients. Folks can pay with Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, VA benefits, or out of pocket, and they take outpatient rehab cases too, all while maintaining a straightforward focus on compassionate, daily support and community outreach through care visits.

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