Barathaven Memory Care

Jan Hendrik van der Merwe

Aug 2026

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The way loved ones are treated and cared for is just beyond any words spoken. From Housekeeping,Laundry, Care Staff all the way to Management. Welldone

Barb

Dec 2025

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wasn’t expecting to see the staff member passing out meds wearing political propaganda to work. Very unprofessional. Red hair with “liberal tears” hoodie.

Joyce Evans

Nov 2025

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Pass this place<br>Please please pass this place by!!! Please don’t ask for a star! Barathaven has so many flags. They have bed 🐜 bugs. If you look back at past reviews they have had bedbugs for 4 years.. They need to fire the Administrator and Director of nursing. She told me a decoration on the door was racist because it had cotton balls. I wanted to say you have more problems. But I apologized and removed it. The administrator called me in his office because I ask for ice cream for my sister. My sister said they didn’t like her. He told me I wasn’t a staff member. They give a great sales pitch that they provide anything the residents want. My sister wanted chicken fingers when they brought it to her she couldn’t chew them they were so hard. Administrator called my niece and I troublemakers in front of staff and other residents. So unprofessional! I witnessed them putting two ladies in the back for over a hour. When I ask they said they were back there for baths. I witnessed them putting a lady that made mouth noises during bible study placed in the craft room along. My brother in law had to sign several times a form for me to have information on my sister. I live out of state. Administrator’s kept losing form. We feel my sister wasn’t given medication correctly. When her anxiety was so bad she fell and they sent her out. They fired there best nurse because she was honest with families. The kitchen staff didn’t wear mask preparing food during pandemic when I ask the kitchen cook he said give him a month he would have them trained. He called himself the chef! Lol<br>I witnessed a nursing assistant scream to a resident to shut up because he needed help. She said she would get to him when she had time. She wore a blue Jean jacket. My sister is now at Glenfield they are a caring team of professionals. They love and care for our aging family. Pass Barathaven by please. If other families have had similar issues please report and say something please! Our loved ones deserve the best of care when they can’t speak up and take care of themselves!!!<br>Pass this place by 🙏

Caroline Cattinari

May 2025

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Beautiful place, specializes in memory care, no smells, smaller and cozy community with large, secured outdoor areas.

Regina Jaeger

Feb 2025

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My dad has resided in Barathaven for nearly 2 1/2 years. During this time, I can say that many staff took as good of care as they could based on high turnover and constant understaffing which falls solely on the Administration. I would spend up to 8 hrs a day for up to 6 days at a time when I came in without disruption or incident. This week, I had the misfortune of meeting with Brenda, LPN.<br><br>Unfortunately, the winter/spring illness swept through the facility and my dad came down with a fever and pneumonia. Because of his age, it took some time but he was finally eating. I live out of state but was getting daily updates from my brother and also spent over 8 hrs with him at Barathaven on the weekend of 5/4 & 5. I saw him eat an entire plate of food with no help swallowing fine and regaining his appetite. He also drank a 8oz beverage in it’s entirety. He was joking and laughing this weekend. However he was still weak from days in bed. Unfortunately, on 5/10, he fell getting up from a chair at lunch and had to have an hip replacement. He returned to Barathaven on 5/15. Because Barathaven is not a skilled care facility, has only LPN and not RN staff, he could not return with his feeding tube.<br><br>I drove in over 400 miles from out of state to visit. I was not understanding his wife’s decision to not place him into an interim facility where he could still have an IV and feeding tube until he regained strength, could rehab, and regained his appetite for solid food. Not forever, just to recover. I know my dad has always hated going under anesthesia because he states if affects him for days. This would have been exasperated because of his weakened state. I entered his room to find my sister already pleading with his wife to give him a chance and to try to let him eat/drink. I probably should not have entered but it is hard not to after a 7 1/2 hr drive.<br><br>Brenda did not allow my sister to continue to speak to my mother. It was an emotionally charged situation between family members. Although I got my mom to calm down after Brenda and a 3rd sister left the room, and the situation was de-escalated, Brenda kept inserting herself into a family matter and speaking on items that she is not qualified. Brenda did not remain neutral, was a pot stirrer and could not put her ego and meddling ways aside. When pleading for my dad, Brenda would yell from the door that my dad can not leave Barathaven “he is not going anywhere”. THAT is plain crazy. He literally was just transported to Barathaven the day before. He could just as easily be transported to an interim skilled care facility where he could have the IV and feeding tube. It is not Brenda’s place to interject. Every time my dad would start to become lucid, instead of allowing him to communicate....Brenda would encourage more sedation and Morphine. Brenda told me that my dad had not been lucid the entire time he had been in Barathaven. That is plain false. My dad regularly joked with me and the staff. Come to find out, Brenda had only worked there since 5/1- 2 wks and my dad had been recovering from pneumonia before he broke his hip. Barathaven failed my father by providing him the most heartless LPN who meddles in family matters, does not have any people skills, and aids in the separation of a resident from his children. A POA separating elderly from family members is a classic form of elder abuse and is often done for personal gain. It is so sad that during my dad’s final days Nurse Brenda is more for euthanasia than trying to get a resident to recover and facilitated this separation. It is also horrific that a son and 2 daughters, who my dad loved so much, can no longer visit their father during his final days due to the careless and not thought through decision of a 2 wk nurse; especially since I was present when my dad told the admin that he would have not appointed the POA if he could have predicted the actions. I am so sad for my dad and how his care facility has failed him in his final days. Because of this, I can not recommend Barathaven.