Lake Worth Manor

Lake Worth Manor located at 12 Avenue South and directly across from S F Street, is in the news—defrauding Medicare and Medicaid and preying on the elderly.

It's bad enough to be old, but old, sick and abused is even worse. Nothing surprises me when it comes to nursing homes. I worked for a man years ago in Palm Beach who owned a string of nursing homes. I always suspected it was just a cash cow type of business with the government picking up the “padded” bills.

Lake Worth Manor was where JFK sent my Mom right after a stroke. She was there for a few months where she got worse, never to recover. It, of course, may be all coincidental but I have ill feelings for this nursing home as well as nursing homes in general. Don’t ever send a loved one to a nursing home if you can have any other alternative. They, for the most part, are nasty places. Also, don't take a hospital's recommendation. Check out the facility for yourself. For the elderly, you are ignored and in some cases, abused. You are there to die. You are a dollar sign only. If you don’t have a family member looking after you day and night, chances of death are quicker.

This particular facility is one of the worst around having a 1 star rating. It is in the bottom 20% of all nursing homes in the area. On the outside, it looks great. Even the interior is nice. The rooms are spacious and the food was good back in 2004. The problem I had was that there was never anyone around or concerned enough to do the basics for the patients. Ringing that little buzzer on the bed was totally ignored.

Read about Lake Worth Manor, its unsavory staff and the racketeering charge.