Select Specialty Hospital

I am writing about Select Specialty. Frankly this place was and is my worst nightmare. My mother was sent here from St. Ann’s ICU to try to ween her from a ventilator. I realized at her age, and her condition, that her prognosis was poor from the start. She didn’t make it.
But…my issues with this place are many! She had a colostomy bag, and almost EVERY time I went in, which was once or twice a day, it was full and disgusting! Then I’d wait forever to get someone to empty it and clean her up.
Then she tried to get out of her bed (or so they claimed) and fell. They placed her in another room closer to the nurse’s station. That is understandable, but… no one informed me until I went to visit, and you can imagine my horror when I went to the room she WAS in, and it was VACANT! When I did go to her room, it had something smeared on a far wall, that looked like poop. They claimed it was… betadine! Whatever… that is unacceptable in a place claiming to be a hospital!
I could go on and on… but this place is so unsanitary, and the staff for the most part, somewhere between apathetic and just plain rude. I still want to cry knowing that my mother spent almost 4 weeks in this hell hole. I had no other choices due to her insurance and lack of anywhere else close enough and any better.

I expected better from Ohio Health. You can’t ever find a nurse on the floor. The biggest problem with is place is communication. You can call the nurses station over and over again just to be put on hold for 25+ minutes, to be told that they will call you back. However they will not call. You will have to call them back until they finally just tell you enough to make you quit calling. Very unprofessional staff. Please don’t trust your family members to these people. Happy to have my family member home and will make sure they never have to go back there. There has to be better options in Columbus. I have heard great things about Mount Carmel’s program.

This is the second time we’ve been to the Ohio Health Rehabilitation Hospital partnered with Select Medical in the past month. The rehab teams here are fabulous! Each patient gets their own private room and bathroom. As a visitor I can tell that the person I am visiting is well taken care of! I would suggest to anyone looking for an inpatient rehabilitation facility in Columbus.