AnonymousLoved one of resident
    1.0

    Neglected dirty understaffed negligent care

    I'm deeply disappointed and would not recommend this place. It's clearly understaffed-call bells ignored, rounds infrequent, help and wake-ups delayed-and my mom was left wet while the weakest patients received poor care. Rooms and linens were dirty (soiled, even with blood), repairs take forever, and feeding/medication care was negligent (unresponsive doctors, improper/out-of-date tube feeding). Management ignored complaints, the administrator was unresponsive, therapy was ineffective, food was poor, and for the high cost the quality was unacceptable.

    Pricing

    Schedule a Tour

    Amenities

    1.25 · 4 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      1.0
    • Staff

      1.0
    • Meals

      1.0
    • Amenities

      1.5
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Attractive, beautiful facility appearance
    • Well-appointed / nice-looking beds

    Cons

    • Poor overall care quality
    • Unresponsive administrator
    • Unresponsive or uncaring staff
    • Lazy staff behavior
    • Understaffing of CNAs
    • Ignored call bells
    • Infrequent staff rounds
    • Neglect of the weakest patients
    • Improper feeding tube management
    • Out-of-date food given via feeding tube
    • Miscommunication about meals
    • Rooms not cleaned regularly
    • Soiled linens, including blood on linens
    • Hygiene lapses (residents left wet)
    • Resident injuries reported
    • Privacy breaches
    • Doctors not providing medications / lack of timely medical updates
    • Ineffective therapy staff
    • Delayed room repairs / slow maintenance
    • Poor food quality
    • Long wait times for assistance / delayed wake-ups
    • High cost for care
    • Poor management / administrator unable to manage
    • Complaints neglected / lack of responsiveness to family concerns

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment: The reviews paint a largely negative picture of care and management at this PruittHealth location despite an attractive physical environment. Reviewers consistently note that the facility looks nice — with a pleasant appearance and well-appointed beds — but that the outward appearance does not reflect the quality of care being provided. Most of the recurring comments focus on safety, hygiene, staffing, communication, and managerial responsiveness.

    Care quality and clinical concerns: A central and troubling theme is poor clinical care and neglect, especially for the most vulnerable residents. Multiple reviews report improper feeding tube management, including feeding residents outdated food through a tube, which is a serious clinical and safety concern. There are repeated complaints about doctors failing to provide medications or timely updates, and at least one report that a doctor indicated they were "learning," which families read as insufficient clinical competence. Therapy staff are described as ineffective by reviewers. Taken together, these items suggest systemic gaps in clinical oversight, care protocols, and professional accountability.

    Staffing, responsiveness, and daily care: Staffing issues appear to be a persistent and cross-cutting problem. Reviewers describe understaffing of CNAs, long wait times for assistance, ignored call bells, infrequent rounds, and delayed wake-ups. Several accounts describe basic hygiene lapses — residents left wet, soiled linens (including blood), and rooms not cleaned — and explicit allegations of neglect of the weakest patients. These patterns indicate that routine care needs and basic dignity are not being consistently met, likely tied to inadequate staffing levels, poor staff training, or low supervision.

    Safety, injuries, and privacy: Reports of resident injuries, privacy breaches, and soiled linens with blood are particularly serious. Families described incidents that suggest failures in safety monitoring and infection control. Privacy violations and neglect of complaints compound the impression of a facility where resident rights and safety are not being reliably protected.

    Facilities and maintenance: While reviewers praise the facility’s appearance and beds, maintenance responsiveness is criticized. Room repairs reportedly take a long time. This contrast — attractive common areas but slow-to-address room-level issues — suggests a mismatch between investment in aesthetics and attention to operational upkeep and resident-centered maintenance.

    Dining and nutrition: Dining is another area of concern. Reviewers mention poor food quality and miscommunication about meals, in addition to the alarming reports of inappropriate feeding tube practices. Long waits for assistance at mealtimes further exacerbate nutrition and dignity issues for residents who need help eating.

    Management and communication: Management and administrative responsiveness receive consistent negative mentions. The administrator is described as unresponsive or unable to manage; families report that complaints are neglected and that communication from leadership and clinicians is insufficient. Several reviews explicitly describe families organizing or threatening higher-level action (including a threat of shutdown by families), reflecting significant breakdowns in trust between families and facility leadership.

    Costs and expectations: Reviewers note that care is high-cost, which heightens frustration given the reported quality deficits and long waits for help. When families pay a premium, expectations for safe, timely, and respectful care are understandably higher, and the gap between cost and perceived value contributes to stronger negative sentiment.

    Patterns and risk assessment: The combination of understaffing, clinical lapses (feeding tube errors, medication issues), hygiene and safety incidents, and poor management responsiveness constitutes a pattern with real risk implications for resident well-being. The most frequent and consequential problems are: (1) neglect and inadequate day-to-day care (missed rounds, ignored call bells, hygiene failures); (2) clinical care failures (feeding-tube mismanagement, medication/delivery problems, ineffective therapy); and (3) administrative breakdowns (unresponsive administration, slow complaint resolution, slow maintenance). These are not isolated complaints but recurring themes across multiple reviews.

    Implications and recommended priorities for follow-up: Based on the reviews, priority areas for facility leadership or oversight bodies to investigate include staffing levels and scheduling, feeding-tube and medication protocols, infection control and laundry/linen practices, call-bell response times and monitoring, and complaint-resolution processes. Families and oversight agencies should request documentation of staff-to-resident ratios, feeding-tube care policies, training records for clinical and nursing staff, incident reports for injuries and privacy breaches, and evidence of corrective actions for maintenance and hygiene issues.

    Conclusion: While the facility’s physical environment receives positive notes, the overall customer experience described in these reviews is predominantly negative and centers on safety, basic care, and managerial failures. The most pressing concerns are clinical safety (feeding tube and medication issues), neglect of basic needs due to staffing and responsiveness failures, and an apparent lack of effective management or communication to resolve these problems. Addressing these areas would be essential to restoring trust and ensuring resident safety and dignity.

    Location

    Map showing location of Pruitthealth

    About Pruitthealth

    Pruitthealth sits in Monroe, North Carolina, and offers many care options for seniors who need help, and while the place uses some special words like "Skilled Nursing," "Rehabilitation Therapy," and "Hospice Care," they do have long-term, respite, and palliative care for people with all kinds of health needs, including folks with dementia or Alzheimer's who might get confused or have trouble wandering, and they try to keep it safe for everyone. You'll find services for assisted living, independent living, and nursing homes, plus memory care, home care, and even adult day care, which means some people come for a short time and others stay longer. There are specialized programs for meals, with chefs who plan balanced dishes, and places where there's help for bathing, dressing, and taking medicine every day, as well as trips, outings, and sometimes a full-time activity director who keeps things lively and social. There are pet-friendly spots, handicap high-access areas, Wi-Fi, and even beauty salons or enclosed courtyards for quiet time, and some of the assisted living and memory care places like Woodridge Assisted Living or Brookdale Monroe Square Memory Care try to make daily life feel safe and less stressful. The building sits close to local restaurants, pharmacies, and doctors, so residents have what they need, and while the environment aims for peaceful living, the staff focuses on day-to-day comfort and gives support for everything from high acuity skilled nursing to regular memory help. There isn't any big mention of awards, but some families have reported a 1.0 review score with an average rating of 0.9 out of 5 from four reviews, and the average price runs around $4,000, though prices aren't publicly listed. Services stretch from home care with trained aides for basic needs at home to independent living for active seniors, and there are care homes, nursing homes, and senior apartments to cover most levels of care, and families can get details from senior living advisors if they want to know more about what Pruitthealth has in Monroe.

    People often ask...

    Nearby Communities

    • Front exterior view of Julian Woods Retirement Community, a large three-story building with a covered entrance, multiple windows, and a parking lot with several parked cars in front. The sky is clear and blue.
      $5,112 – $6,645+4.7 (38)
      Semi-private • 1 Bedroom • Studio
      independent living, assisted living

      Julian Woods Retirement Community

      421 Overlook Rd Ext, Arden, NC, 28704
    • Exterior view of Renaissance on Peachtree, a multi-story building with large windows and a covered entrance. The building is surrounded by trees and greenery under a partly cloudy blue sky.
      $5,300+4.3 (118)
      2 Bedroom
      independent living, assisted living

      Renaissance on Peachtree

      3755 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA, 30319
    • Aerial view of a three-story senior living facility with a front entrance, parking lot, and surrounding trees.
      $4,000+3.9 (15)
      1 Bedroom
      independent, assisted living, memory care

      The Barclay at Midlothian

      11210 Robious Road, Richmond, VA, 23235
    • Exterior view of a senior living facility named The Ashton on Dorsey, featuring a large covered entrance with stone pillars, multiple windows, and three flagpoles with flags in front of the building under a clear blue sky.
      $4,100 – $6,900+4.7 (76)
      Studio • 1 Bedroom • 2 Bedroom
      independent, assisted living, memory care

      The Ashton on Dorsey

      1105 Dorsey Ln, Louisville, KY, 40223
    • Aerial view of a senior living facility named Montage Mason surrounded by green lawns, trees, parking lots, and nearby buildings under a clear sky.
      $4,395 – $5,274+4.5 (75)
      Semi-private
      assisted living, memory care

      Montage Mason

      5373 Merten Dr, Mason, OH, 45040
    • Front entrance of a brick multi-story building with a covered porte-cochère and a 'Brookdale' sign above the doors.
      $3,448 – $4,482+4.7 (112)
      Semi-private • Studio
      independent living, assisted living

      Brookdale Mt. Lebanon

      1050 McNeilly Rd, Pittsburgh, PA, 15226

    Assisted Living in Nearby Cities

    1. 11 facilities$6,203/mo
    2. 14 facilities$4,557/mo
    3. 32 facilities$5,084/mo
    4. 32 facilities$5,084/mo
    5. 31 facilities$5,013/mo
    6. 17 facilities$4,313/mo
    7. 6 facilities$5,115/mo
    8. 37 facilities$5,246/mo
    9. 3 facilities$4,588/mo
    10. 3 facilities$3,805/mo
    11. 26 facilities$4,369/mo
    12. 76 facilities$4,720/mo
    © 2025 Mirador Living