Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital The Vintage

I was almost killed by this so called "hospital". I was there to recover my very serious surgery and then found out that they only have one program. That is to exercise 3 to 6 hours a day. I was not able to exercise at all, so they gave me shots of morphine and had me exercise anyway. After about 4 days I had a heart attack while the attendant was taking my vitals. I told her I was having a heart attack and she asked me what I wanted her to do about it. I answered you are the nurse, at which point she told me she was not a nurse. In complete shock because I thought I was in a hospital being treated by professionals, I passed out. This happened somewhere around 10PM and the "attendant" did not bother to tell anyone what I had told her. My daughter in law had spoken with Dr. Poindexter about the medications I was not being given that Methodist Hospital had ordered for my stay at Reliant Rehab Hospital. She also discussed with him how down hill I had gone since I had been there. It made Dr. Poindexter angry so about 6:50 AM I was awaken with the Dr. standing over me screaming at the top of his lungs telling me they had one program, and was I going to do it or not, I answered that I was going to try and he screamed this was not a try question, it was Yes or No. I then replied well if you mean down to the letter than probably not. At which point he said good, and I knew immediately knew I had been drugged. I tried to fight off going under, and the last thing I remember is him smearing something all over my body. When I awoke in Methodist emergency room I found out I had been smeared with feces all over my incisions, and the feces was even put into the pick in my arm that went straight to my heart. Fortunately Methodist hospital did realize that and did not use that method of injecting medications until they had put in a new one. Because Reliant Rehab had not taken me to a proper hospital immediately after I had the heart attack my kidneys had started shutting down. At one point my family was told I had 2 hours to live.
I don't know where Dr. Poindexter had gotten the feces, because the surgery I had was removing my stomach from my esophagus, and I had eaten so little since then that getting out a pea size feces nugget took about 20 minutes.
While I was doing the exercises I watched them force an 80 year old woman lift 40 pound weights, one on each arm. She was crying and telling the staff she could not do it. Then the poor lady had projectile vomiting, and they still forced her to continue lifting the weights. Another exercise they did with her was to try to get her to catch a large ball. The staff would throw it at her as hard as they could and it would hit her in the face as her reflexes were not able to catch it. They just kept hitting her in the face with the ball over and over. This is the worst place for medical care that I have ever seen. I agree with James G, if you want your love ones to live do not under any circumstances take them to reliant rehab hospital. It is a very dangerous place.

This is the worst hospital I have ever seen. They got me mixed up with another patient. I woke up in restraints. This was a nightmare.

If you want your loved one to live don't bring them to this place they are beyond HORRIBLE!!!! The staff is terrible. Rude is an understatement. They need to be investigated and will be sooner than later. Please hide a camera in the room so you can see the truth about this place. All about money and they can care less about your love one. Beware!!!