Belaire of Gaston county is the sorriest Nursing facility I have ever witnessed. Please do not allow your loved ones to be admitted at this place. The administration is biased and have only their best interest at hand. Patients are dying needlessly here because of under-staffing, under orientation,etc. I know several patients who are now dead due to negligence on the staff's part. This is the worst facility that exist in Gaston County. The administration at the Gaston County Facility does not follow protocol and covers up mistakes made to hide the fact that this facility needs to close. Medicare and Medicaid need to investigate as soon as possible. If you have someone you love in this facility please remove them before they are allowed to expire needlessly. I beg you, remove them now. In kind, A nurse who actually cares.

My father has been a patient for the last 3 weeks. Had we known the kind of facility this was, we would NEVER have sent him here. He had surgery on his intestines and his doctor had him on no food or drink, he was getting nutrients through IV. He has progressively become weaker and weaker. First, the nurses and staff are the rudest and uncaring bunch of people I have ever met in my life. They must all be really miserable. Second, since my dad was not allowed food and drink, he was brought food on a continuous basis, as well as ice water instead of just ice chips. Did no one read his chart? Or did they just not care? Last Friday, the nurse practitioner started him on Iron pills, which should be taken with food. HE CAN'T EAT!!! He therefore, began vomiting for 2 nights straight. The doctor for the facility then took him off the iron pills, but decided to put him on oral antibiotics instead of intravenous antibiotics....seriously, stupid lately??? He went to see his doctor today and the doctor basically said he had another day or two in there and he would have probably passed away. He has now returned to the hospital to fix everything the rehab has destroyed, and he is still not healed from his surgery, which was the entire purpose of going to rehab. If you have loved ones, DO NOT send them here....they may not return home with you. It was miserable going to visit him. The older people are left in wheelchairs in the hallway all day long, while the nurses, cna's etc stand around the nursing station running there mouths!!!! This is inexcusable and frankly this place should be shut down!!!

My 85-y-o mother was a patient at Belaire for 3 1/2 weeks to recuperate from 2 major surgeries. She'd never been in a rehab-type facility before so we were unaware of what was to come. My family's two major complaints about Belaire was the lack of actual physical therapy she received. She needed to build back the strength in her legs, due to the fluid retention in them. What I saw was no more than 35 mins per day with a physical therapist passing a ball back/forth with her and telling her to get up and down from her wheelchair. That was it. Nothing was done to strengthen the muscles in her thighs or anything. As a result, when she was "released" after 3 1/2 weeks, she could not even lift her leg to come up the front steps of our house and definitely could not be left alone. I took a 4 week leave of absence from my job to help her get back on her feet and work on the "proper" exercises for her with her excellent home health care physical therapist. The second complaint is the food. So she would get proper nutrition during her stay there, we divided up the evening meals among my family and each of us took her dinner each night. The food smelled horrible, was cooked improperly and looked like it came out of a garbage can I cannot and will not ever recommend to anyone I care about to stay at Belaire. Never again!

My mother spent four weeks rehabilitating from a broken hip here, then returned to spend the last eight days of her life. The staff at Belaire is loving, attentative, professional, and sensitive to both the patient and loved ones' needs. I thank them from the bottom of my heart for going "above and beyond" the call of duty for my mother and me.