My mother has now been moved from Alverado Medical Center in San Diego
to a small group home solely for Alzheimer's patients -- six residents,
with two caregivers round-the-clock, a gerontologist on call who does
housecalls, so no need for going out to doctors, and a hospice license,
so if Mom's comfortable there she can stay for the rest of her life.
It's a private home with a fenced backyard, apparently with a lovely
canyon view. We're very much hoping she does well there.

However, by the time Mom's 10 weeks in the Alverado Medical Center
system were done (starting at Collwood Terrace, then at Alverado Parkway
Institute, and finally at Alverado Medical Center,) she'd been drugged
heavily enough that she'd fallen and bruised her face, and she also had
bruises all up and down her arms.  They'd "lost" (or, who knows, maybe
stolen) a half a dozen items of her clothing.  They'd mislaid her
glasses, completely losing track of the fact that Mom wears glasses at
all. (It took them a couple of hours to track down her glasses.)  They
have balked at writing a simple letter for the new facility, detailing
what drugs Mom has been on, with the dosages and the dosing schedule,
and also at providing at least short-term scrips for those drugs.

In short, we're appalled and angry, and I thought I should let the folks
here know how bad the quality of care they've provided was, in case any
of you are in San Diego.

Dana