The Blossoms at Berryville Rehab & Nursing Center - Berryville, Arkansas

Preston Mitchell

5-Stars for Blossoms’ Staff, Not for the Corporation
This review gives 5-Stars to the Staff of Blossoms in Berryville. If this post were a review of the greedy Corporation that owns Blossoms, I would give it a 1-Star. I offer my review to inform you of what to expect if your loved one should end up in Blossoms.

The first thing to understand is that Blossoms is a ‘Medicaid’ nursing home. Blossoms is not a nursing home for the wealthy who can afford one that looks and operates like a 5-Star hotel. No, Blossoms is for low-income elderly at the end of their life who cannot afford a better place. As such, Blossoms depends on Medicaid to pay for their destitute patients’ care. And Medicaid is as stingy as a miser, paying as little as possible. Thus, Blossoms has very limited resources to provide proper care. That is not the fault of Blossoms’ staff. One must realize that before condemning the Blossoms’ short-handed staff for struggling to provide a high-level of care.

On the other hand, Blossoms is owned by a Corporation that puts profits before the well-being of its patients. In order to squeeze out every penny of profit, the Corporation hires the bare minimum of employees to keep the nursing home operational. The short-handed staff is sorely challenged to care for a large population of patients. Additionally, the Corporation pays starvation wages in exchange for extremely hard, dirty work. Imagine getting paid barely enough to survive for changing soiled adult diapers and etc. So, yes, the heartless Corporation deserves 1-Star.

Thank God for Blossoms’ patients that the Staff genuinely cares about their patients and does its absolute best to provide the best care possible. Again, the Staff is working under the restraints imposed by limited resources and the demands of the Corporation to put profits first. It is a tough balancing act for the Staff. But they manage to pull it off … though not always perfectly through no fault of theirs. So, the Staff deserve 5-Stars.

I must offer special thanks to Blossoms Administrator Jason Ketcher for putting compassion for the patients and their relatives above corporate demands for profits. He will do everything possible for his patients short of breaking the Corporation’s greedy policies. (And you cannot blame him for not risking his job by breaking the Corporation’s ‘speed limits.’) Jason is a man of honor and integrity. He is the unsung hero of Blossoms of Berryville (as well as some other Staff members).

In Conclusion, Blossoms is not the best place for the reasons explained above, but it is the best place for low-income elderly patients … because other ‘Medicaid’ nursing homes are far worse. (I know because I investigated other low-income nursing homes before choosing Blossoms for my uncle.)

Dana Beegle

Horrible!!! Kicked my 86 year old father-in-law out…. Because he has dementia and wanders And he hasn’t got out of bed at home since he left there… what did they do to help him; isn’t that what nursing homes are for? Elderly people, confused people, and people who just need help? Thank God he has family, what about the people that don’t I’ve been in nursing homes since I was a kid, cause my mom worked there, and then I became a nurse to help these type of people… I am disgusted at this place!!! What has happened with the nursing homes? And sent him a huge bill for a week…something needs to change, what if that was y’all’s dad or grandpa? This nursing home needs help, and obviously a new DON and administrator, and whole care team! One day we will all be elderly and fragile and maybe have dementia plus other health problems… does that mean put you out? No that means they need a visit from state asap!! Had to click on one star to be able to post it, y’all don’t need stars… y’all need to be investigated!

Carlee Rhoads

This place is horrible! My husband’s grandmother was just there for over a month. Wasn’t ask to get out of bed, wasnt ask to reposition herself NOTHING. They wouldn’t feed her when she needed to be fed! This poor woman was sent to the hospital yesterday. It was so bad her skin was breaking down and ate perfectly fine when my mother in law fed her. Poor thing had massive bed sores from not being rolled over at all! Never bathed because she always had the same night gown on when my mother in law would go see her. She would have to change it herself. She even brought all this up to the nurses and obviously NOTHING was done. We now have her in the hospital and will be transferred to a much better place! I’ve been a CNA for 4 years and you hear the stories about places like this but when it actually is your family it’s messed up. They will be reported to the board.

Colleen Sharp

My mom was in Autumn Hill. They took excellent care of her and everything was always the way it should be, when I would show up. I work a very crazy schedule and showed up at odd hours on different days, and the staff was always cooperative with me and let me see my mom at any given hour. She was always clean, fed, and in good spirits.

Tanya Smith

This place is HORRIBLE!!! We brought my father in for 20 days of rehab. He looked worse coming out then when he went in. He had deathly allergic reactions to his meds, EVERYDAY, and all they done was give him a Benedryl for it. No calling a doctor or taking him to a doctor. I will NEVER send either of my parents there for rehab again!!!

Bethany Conner

Residents are treated horribly here. I cant even begin to count on both hands how many times ive came in on 3rd shift and had to do complete bed changes on residents cause the CNAS arent doing their jobs correctly.. Also there are very disrespectful people here and i hope you never get sick cause they dont care they will fire you.. Worst place ive EVER worked in my life!!!

Joseph Choppell

It's very clean & nice for a nursing home. The administrator and nurses are nice. My dad lives there & loves it there. He is happy with there services.

Kalyn Graves