Jodi Swanson
Mar 2026
The staff is amazing, the management is not. They are completely out of touch with what is going happening on the floor. The management is comfortable in their jobs and do not have to do the hard stuff, especially when they are sitting in their office or behind the desk all day. My mother transitioned into her final days Thanksgiving week. My sister and I live far away and were calling and calling and no answered or call back to us from Bluffview for 24 hours. They are not supposed to have aggressive patients and in that final week they moved an aggressive man (So aggressive the police had to come at one point) next to my mom's room who we discovered kept going into her room. At one point when I went to take a Facetime to update a family member about my mom, this man approached me from behind and hit me and was yelling at me. He then went in his room and got a fork (not to mention how he was treating floor staff). When I escalated this to Patty and have them move him away from mom, her response was that I should not have been on a video call and that they have another resident that is violent. I would stay with my mom a week at a time for 10 hours a day to learn the staff and understand the real care my mom was getting. One time I came in at night and my mother was in a tank top and underwear shivering with a blanket. I was told they didn't do her laundry that day so she didn't have anything else to wear, even though we were paying for top tier. When Kim (Head Nurse) came on, they had a turnover of 15 staff members. She would come into my mom's room and start checking her without acknowledged me or explaining what she was checking for on our mom. Julia was also not a good manager and so out of touch with what was going on with our mother that she could only give us updates by reading other people's notes. She was very condescending to us and floor staff. I called corporate three times, leaving message (Including to Keith Tompkins around the issue we were seeing) and I never heard back. Like I said, the floor staff is great and I wish management treated them and paid them better. I am so thankful to the floor staff, the ones that truly cared, loved and protected our mother in the midst of trying to navigate terrible leadership.






