Franciscan Home Care Lafayette

This is for the Register Nurse who is caring for me in my home. It is hard to accept her advice when it comes to eating when she smokes. I suspected she smoked when she first visited. But yesterday when she came I got a good glimpse of her face which was so wrinkled and her deep lip wrinkles were obviously from smoking so much. I can smell the cigarette smoke through the house. It's next to impossible to hide cigarette smoke from me.I can tell she has put in many years as a Register Nurse and I hope she can stop smoking, giving her patients a good example. Our hospital should not be hiring smokers as professionals if it expects a healthy environment for them as well... read full review

We used this service in April 2019, for my stepfather, had a really good experience with them. We chose them again in September 2020 for our mother, the biggest mistake we ever made! You only want the best for when someone passes, Franciscan hospice was the worst, we were completely on our own. My mother got released from the hospital on Friday, Saturday morning could not breathe, called the number on the red card they give you to put on your fridge, someone answered said there was no one to talk to at that time. Had to call a family member in Arizona who was in the medical field, we decided on our own what to do. Was told a medicine box would be delivered on Saturday... read full review

I want to start off by saying that our first greeting by the social worker was a great experience, she was very professional, but it went downhill from there fast. We had contracted them to come in and take care of our mother, but thought they were going to provided more services than they do(basic health care only nothing else). We were in the process of setting up more home care when the new RN came in and “demanded” to know what we were doing to give our mom more care. At this point we were in the process of trying to figure it out and could not give an answer at this time. She basically told us “I’m not going to loose my license over this because I have a... read full review