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About: Juniper Riverslea

(as a service user),

We couldn't get through to Riverslea on the phone and I had a message, nothing to do with the resident luckily

But since then we have had many communication problems, my sibling, who is the main contact, has been unavailable for nearly 3 months so the contact was changed to myself at the admin office, but not at the nurses station I believe. So my sibling has had at least 4 messages, not important until my parent was sent to Royal Perth Hospital (RPH). I had spoken to RPH earlier that night and they said call the next morning, but during the night he took a turn for the worse and of course they couldn't get hold of anyone. In the morning when we arrived everything had settled down and we were able to give RPH our contact number, it would have been very bad if Dad had passed away that night.

I am sure this is an IT problem and should be looked at, I don't seem to get across how important this is to Riverslea

We have always found Dad's placement as excellent and have had no other complaints, we see he is always treated with great respect and dignity even when he has caused problems.  I always recommend your Group to anyone who has doubts about aged care.

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Response from Roley Myers, Manager Communications & Public Relations, Public Relations, Juniper 4 years ago
Roley Myers
Manager Communications & Public Relations, Public Relations,
Juniper

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Submitted on 28/05/2019 at 3:22 PM
Published on Care Opinion at 3:30 PM


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Hello Left a message and thank you for taking the time to share your experience.

We sincerely apologise for the confusion surrounding your family’s contact information. We have a policy in which we follow when informed of a change of contact details into our system and a printed transfer summary including contact details are always sent with our residents should they require hospital treatment. It’s very unfortunate Royal Perth Hospital had the wrong contact information and we are deeply sorry this occurred. While we believe your contact details in our system are now correct, we do encourage you to contact the facility’s Residential Manager, Rikke Wallace, directly on 9272 0800 to confirm this.

Thank you for your positive comments on the quality of care your father has received at Juniper Riverslea and once again we thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us.

Warm regards

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