Thompson Care Center

A couple of random facts before I weigh in as a former resident: This place at one time was a mafia hotel. As such, it had hidden wall safes. For the sake of anonymity, I won't reveal any names. From Firsthand experience, I can tell you that Times were interesting when it was under it's final phase of it's rough life as a Residential Care Facility; Believe me when I say the place was badly dilapidated, falling apart, and had been truly on its last legs. A Social worker from the state had walked in one day and was thoroughly repulsed with the absolute state of This facility, and as one could imagine, there were contributing factors as to why it had been closed down. These factors are, The whole third floor was sealed shut by way of doors being screwed shut, largely due to it having been fire damaged some years ago, barely stable as a storage area for items belonging to the maintenance guy who had been there since the building was amity boarding care. The porch had a gaping hole in the floor covered by an unfastened piece of plywood, there were floorboards cracking and coming loose, expired food was cooked and served. I can't imagine Division of Health and Senior Services taking too kindly to this. And then of course the laundry machines were often broken down due to residents overloading them and mistreating them. Management also knew well how to cut corners at every possible turn, sans the massive electric bills. However, they did have Alcoholics Anonymous come in and this had been helpful to the residents willing to work the program and battle their alcoholism. Nevertheless, It has been demolished, and every last piece of rubble has been hauled off. The Mafia hotel/Amity Boarding Care/Thompson Care Center is now just a memory.
Jan 19th, 2024

I worked there when it was called Amity boarding care Mr lara was owner operator It a residential care level 1 We had a Rn consultant By law facity over 30 beds must have adequate staffing I work 8 yrs first evening chrg CMT plus nurse-patient care tech and cook and med aide We worked as a team Then i moved to day shift med room supervisor CMT along with med aide and 2 nuse aide and cook laundry aide And partime actvity person By law we had to have a nurse 8 hours week we had an Rn I did admissions , transfers , discharge Passed meds monitored glucose blood sugars adminster insulin set up b12 injection schduale with Rn I did care plans and obtained divison of mental health care plans , monthly summaries, called dr if patient status changed took verbal and telephone orders check MAR for accuracy did rounds with attending physician transcribe physcian orders supevised med aides , nurse aides We always made sure residents were clean got proper care and we always had myself, l1ma and 2 nuse aides on days Evening CMT 2 nurse aides Nights l1ma nuse aide When i left mr lara lost dept of mental hlth patients he sold facilty Now Thompson care Understaffed they want cmt,l1ma or nurse aide to do everything pass meds clean Patient care cook for 7.50 hour I now live in another state and graduated from lpn school While visting thru kcmo i stopped by to say hi to mr lara the new owner info me he owned faclity i have a friend who applied there that how i know some of this information I dont know why division of aging has closed this facilty down
Nov 12th, 2017