Oceanbreeze Personal Care Home

Pros

• The team collaborates well to take care of their residents.
• Management and staff are caring and thoughtful.
• The staff's competency is great.
• The physical plant is older but clean.
• The facility is right on the beach and is a great place to live.
• Some staff members handle tough situations with commendable dedication.
• The reviewers express gratitude toward staff who do what they can.

Cons

• The facility allegedly failed to provide proper care for a stroke patient, leading to aspiration, pneumonia, and death.
• Dolphin Hall Room 109 reportedly smelled of urine and sickness, indicating unsanitary conditions.
• The facility was described as dirty, run down, and dirty, with a pervasive odor.
• The food was described as mushy and served on paper plates wrapped in plastic.
• Residents reportedly did not receive nighttime assistance, with calls for help going unanswered.
• The organization was described as predatory and preying on the less fortunate.
• An incident was reported where a resident wore a dirty diaper all night because no one showed up for the shift, described as a nightmare.
• There were ants, brown marks on walls, nonfunctional bathrooms and sinks, and theft of clothes.
• The reviewer would not recommend placing loved ones there and urged investigation or shutdown.

Review

Grief has a way of sharpening memories, and in these accounts the most painful memory centers on a father named James J. Styron. His family says he was admitted on September 3 and, after a rude disruption in his care during a feeding-tube change, aspirated and developed fluid in the lungs and pneumonia. They believe these events contributed to his decline and eventual passing at Candler Hospital on September 8, just days after his birthday. The family's narrative centers on a care environment they feel failed to protect him at a vulnerable moment, casting a long shadow over the time he spent there.

On the visit that began this difficult recollection, September 7, the family found Dolphin Hall, Room 109, to be a troubling first impression. They describe the hall as smelling the worst - an olfactory memory that stays with them and feeds a larger worry about cleanliness in a facility housing terminally ill residents. The family expected a place that would be spotless and disinfected at all times, but the conditions they encountered felt inconsistent with that standard, and the odor amplified their distress about the care environment.

Beyond the specifics of this one case, another series of voices paints a harsher portrait of the facility. One reviewer calls the place "absolutely despicable" and warns others not to leave their loved ones there if it can be helped. They describe a pervasive sense of neglect: a facility that looks and feels run-down, with a smell that never seems to leave, where staff are rarely seen and hardly ever uplifting in mood. The food is described as "mush," served on paper plates and wrapped in plastic, while call bells and requests for help during the night go unanswered. The reviewer characterizes the operation as predatory, preying on the less fortunate, and ends with a stark admonition: do not leave your loved one here, and beware of a facility that seems to operate without the support ailing residents require.

Yet, interwoven with these grim assessments, other voices acknowledge real strengths. A different perspective praises a "great team that collaborates well to take care of their residents." In that view, management and staff are described as caring and thoughtful, and while the center isn't perfect, the competency of the staff is commended. The physical plant is characterized as older but clean, and the location by the beach is noted as a positive backdrop for those who do stay there. This more hopeful thread suggests that, even within a facility with serious shortcomings, there are individuals who strive to provide meaningful, compassionate care.

Another recounting emphasizes the contradiction that often accompanies long-term care settings: a mix of compassion and crisis. The writer stresses the seriousness of the problems - requests ignored at night, a sense of being short-staffed, and moments when residents' basic needs go unmet - but also acknowledges the existence of workers who, for whatever reason, do what they can under very difficult circumstances. Acknowledgment is given to those few staff members who handle the hardest situations with diligence and respect, even as the system around them appears to fail at times.

The final impression offered is a scathing one: the facility is described as awful in nearly every practical dimension. A pervasive, unacceptable odor, an ant infestation, brown stains on walls, and bathrooms that require a key, with sinks that don't work. Allegations extend to theft of clothes and a chronic failure to provide basic daily care, with a blunt admonition not to send a parent or grandparent there. Taken together, these scenes reflect a place where structural problems, staffing gaps, and maintenance failures intersect with moments of genuine care from some employees, producing experiences that range from deeply troubling to cautiously hopeful.

What remains clear across these accounts is a complex picture: emotions run high, the realities of care in a crowded facility are painful and messy, and the quality of experience varies dramatically from one instance to the next. Some families describe the environment as unsafe and unsanitary, with alarming gaps in response and care that led to devastating consequences. Others recount dedicated staff who strive to provide compassionate attention within an older building and a challenging operations landscape. In the middle lie many everyday moments - some where care shines, others where it falls short - leaving future families with important questions about safety, oversight, and the human costs of care in this setting.

Restaurants

• Huc-a-Poos (0.8 miles)
• Bubba Gumbo’s (2.3 miles)
• The Salty Dog Cafe (6.7 miles)
• Fraser's Tavern (8.1 miles)
• Harbour Town Bakery & Cafe (8.5 miles)
• The Crazy Crab - Harbour Town (8.5 miles)
• Paula Deen’s Creek House Seafood & Grill (8.6 miles)

Cafes

• Starbucks (7.8 miles)
• Carolina Coffee & Crum (10.1 miles)
• Watusi (10.2 miles)
• Java Burrito Co. (11 miles)
• Palmetto Bay Sun Rise Cafe (11.6 miles)
• Starbucks (13 miles)

Pharmacies

• CVS Pharmacy (8.4 miles)
• Walgreens (8.4 miles)
• CVS Pharmacy (10.4 miles)
• Walgreens (10.6 miles)
• Walgreens (13 miles)
• CVS Pharmacy (13 miles)
• CVS Pharmacy (13.3 miles)

Parks

• Sea Pines Forest Preserve (9.2 miles)
• Lowcountry Celebration Park (10.1 miles)
• Daffin Park (14 miles)
• Lake Mayer Park (14.4 miles)

Places of Worship

• Holy Family Catholic Church (10.3 miles)
• St Andrew by-the-Sea United Methodist Church (10.3 miles)
• Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church (14.2 miles)

Physicians

• Sea Pines Circle Urgent Care (10.5 miles)
• Joseph T Hickey (10.8 miles)
• Doctor's Care (12.4 miles)
• Georgia Eye Institute (14.3 miles)
• Atlantic Radiology Associates (14.3 miles)
• Savannah Center For Respiratory and Criticl Cre Mdcne (14.3 miles)
• Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at MUMC (14.4 miles)

Hospitals

• Dva Renal Healthcare (13.7 miles)
• Georgia Regional Hospital (14 miles)
• Memorial Heart and Vascular (14.3 miles)
• Memorial Health University Medical Center Answerone/Nurseone/Switchboard (14.3 miles)
• Memorial Neuro ICU (14.3 miles)
• Memorial University Medical Center - Pediatric ICU (14.4 miles)