St Catherines Home Care

GM Hanel _{on Google}

Aug 22nd, 2021

We highly recommend St. Catherine’s Home Care in Bakersfield, CA.
Even with the very best services, there are sometimes family members who have difficulty understanding the progression of dementia and the illnesses associated with advanced aging, so we thought it appropriate to post what we have experienced with St. Catherine’s Home Care over the past 3, almost 4 years.
Three and a half years ago our mother’s increasing dementia became too much for us, both working full time, to continue trying to care for her in our home. After a lengthy search, including several long-term elderly care facilities and private 6-bed homes, we settled on St. Catherine’s. The reasons for us were clear: staff was exceptional in their empathy for the residents, the home and residents looked and smelled immaculate, the meals were prepared from scratch every day, they were welcoming to outside visitors at any time and did not prompt us to have our mother medicated to keep her quiet (as had other facilities we had visited previously).
Since that time our mother came close to dying of pneumonia, an unfortunate all too often occurrence with those suffering from dementia; however, because of the very careful and patient care by St. Catherine’s staff, she fully recovered and has, without a doubt, remained in excellent physical health because of their continued attentiveness. All this time, St. Catherine’s owner and staff have always been most gracious and welcoming to our family members at all times and, when we visit usually unannounced, the staff both gives us time to privately meet with our mother and gives us full updates as to her condition and needs. Even more telling is, as our mother is now on hospice, the hospice nurses all tell us that St. Catherine’s is an absolute favorite of theirs, saying all the residents are kept in excellent condition and staff do not seek to overmedicate.
We absolutely recommend and give our deepest gratitude to all the staff and owner of St. Catherine’s. Their constant attention, caring, and frankly love toward their residents is without doubt the reason our mother remains in such good physical health. We are truly grateful and highly recommend St. Catherine’s Home Care.
Greg and Mary Hanel

Janie Garcia _{on Google}

May 25th, 2021

I would not recommend Saint Catherine’s elderly home for your mom. My mom was there for a year and they can only handle bed ridden elderly residents. The owner needs to train her aids with helping the elderly people that are able to walk and talk and eat to get along with the other elderly. My mom was in there and got bullied by the other resident and the aids encouraged it. I give them a zero. The only reason why there’s a one star is because there’s not a star for zero. They also ask you to bring in recliners, all hygiene products, and have medication mailed to her house for an additional fee. So you spend about $500 more than the $2500 your monthly rate. They also call you if they can’t get your mom to do what they want them to do so you can drop everything and run over to their house and get your mom to take a shower, take their pills, talk to her when she has an anxiety attack. What do you pay them for. And the aids are always in the bedrooms sleeping or on their phone when we are there to visit.