I can not recommend Pioneer Specialty Hospital highly enough. I was transferred to Pioneer Specialty Hospital on Sunday evening June 4th from Beaumont Royal Oak for a blood infection and enterococcus bacteremia in my kidney. I am a simultaneous transplant recipient both liver and kidney. I had been in and out of Beaumont for the better part of the month of April to deal with the enterococcus bacteremia. I would have been in a very serious condition if my transplanted kidney failed. After Beaumont stabilized me and I simply needed the longer term acute care they transferred me to Pioneer. I had a lot of trepidations regarding going to Pioneer and did research on them. In the end I decided to be transferred to Pioneer.

Now, five weeks later I am so very glad I did. The professionalism of the staff is very high. Their attitude is very friendly and caring. I never had any issues regarding my treatment or concern about my medication. I was ambulatory, needing to be attached to my IV medications, on a pole, that had to be changed every four hours (and were). I also have multiple oral medications that I have to take at numerous times during the day due to the dual transplant and received them on time.

I walked the hospital numerous times each day and was quite impressed with the staff. I would hear the “beep” of the call light, see someone sitting at the nurse’s station immediately stand up check “the light” and respond. Now I am not a medical professional however, I have been business manager for thirty years and ten years owning my own financial services business with multiple offices. I believe I know how to recognize good management and staff after all these years and I believe Pioneer has it. Did things run perfectly every day all the time? Of course not. However, the staff were professionals. If anyone should find themselves in need of a long term acute care facility Pioneer is excellent.

Roy Watson