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| - DO NOT - I REPEAT - DO NOT take your loved one here. This facility needs to be shut down. Kindred is no better. I know that Select and Kindred are pretty much the only two Long-Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospitals around, so there are not many choices. I wound up taking my mother home on a ventilator and hiring 24-hour respiratory therapists and CNAs so that she would not have to suffer through Select or Kindred. There is a loophole for doing this. Most hospitals will not discharge a patient home on a ventilator. If possible, sign your loved one out under hospice, which relieves the hospital from liabilities (then simply do not use all the hospice services, such as illegal morphine assisted suicide). Sign up with a hospice provider who will allow you to pay for the ventilator ($1500/mo), vent supplies ($500/mo) and respiratory equipment at home. In some cases you can do the respiratory therapy yourself as a family member after some training. Once you are home, you can switch from hospice to palliative care, if you like. I realize that not everyone can afford to do this, but the state may assist with some of the costs. Bottom line, I would never, ever, ever ever put a loved one in Select or Kindred. The doctors gave my mother just three months to live with stage 4 lung cancer three years ago. This hospital nearly killed her by overdosing her with oxycodone (I have proof of this on a video and the charge nurse admitted to it). My mother would have died in Select had we kept her there much longer, I really think.
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