Cobalt Rehabilitation Hospital of Surprise

Post Acute Medical: The level of care from the nurses and the therapists were beyond exceptional! Rooms are nice. I am a recent amputee and was at PAM for 10 days of rehab. Stu, Andrea, Sallie, Rachel, Kristi, Estrella, Julie, Damaris, to just name a few we’re just some of the therapists, nursing, and CNAs that went above and beyond. Now going to outpatient rehab there and Ryan is helping strength building and preparing for my upcoming prosthetic leg. He is a wonderful encourager! Highly recommended!

What I remember is very little. And I'm told that wad a good thing. I was ICU on a vent for 29 days then transferred to rehab. I'm sure I would recognize faces but the one name I will never forget was Roxanne the respiratory therapist. My kids called her Elsa!! She was the sweetest woman in the entire world. When ever I had a big step coming up she was there. She was the light to a very dark place I was in.. Thank you Roxanne..I hope you get to see these and may even remember me and my kids waving out the window and my husband washing my hair..

Cobalt was my first rehab experience so I have no others to compare. However, I can not speak highly enough of our experience there. We came to AZ for a vacation and shortly thereafter my wife began to experience loss of her motor skills. A few days later she was recovering from brain surgery at Barrow Neurological Institute. After a week there we were advised to go to Rehab and Cobalt was recommended to us. EVERYTHING was wonderful about this place. Nice, new, clean, relaxed, comfortable, Outstanding food, Rehab set to the level of your needs and the nurses and staff were incredible. It was the perfect place for my wife to rest, heal and recover from her surgery. I could write a book but I won't. I did read a few negative reviews here but we did not see any of that. One of the nurses that we loved was so special to us that we teared up when we left. Hopefully we will never need rehab again but if we do.... I hope it will be Cobalt.

On March of this year my wife Selene was admitted to COBALT Rehabilitation Hospital, after we received an offering from their clinical Liaison Jason Froio. He had followed her case at Abrazo West Hospital (who has a close working partnership with COBALT), and knew about her precarious health situation and our financial difficulties. He told us Cobalt had selected us for a pro bono transfer to their hospital as part of their charity endeavor to give back to our community. We felt blessed and humbled for that opportunity and the chance to further in the healing progress of my wife. She had originally been admitted to Abrazo West Hospital in February 21st of this year with severe symptoms of an allergy which was causing her rashes, hives, nauseas, headaches, and the worst of all; immobility and the lack of swallowing movement on her throat. She could not eat or drink water for 2 weeks. After lots of tests, doctors concluded she had Guillain Barre syndrome and a CIDP. After receiving treatment she was making little progress, and that's when we were transferred to COBALT Rehab. At their state of the art facility my wife made big strides. Their staff on par with their modern accomodations, was exceptional. They truly have a love an care atmosphere. Their rooms are spaceful and private. While being there their group of doctors kept a close evaluations and further testsing at my wife progress finding one of the main causes of here physical deterioration; Adrenal gland insufficiency, which ultimately saved her life. After three weeks there my wife gain mobility of her extremities and was able to swallow food again. They not only built her physical strenght but they also built a family relationship with us.For this and a million reasons we are thankful to COBALT Rehabilitation, their staff, Jason and everyone that helped my wife and consequently my family to get a 2nd chance. God bless you all.

Out of nine days been there I got attention maybe four or five of those. They didn’t give me medication when I got there, I got her figured that as much. The staff were nice, but definitely understaffed and over paid. Nice looking facility if only they would use it correctly.

I’m a registered nurse, and was nervous about sending my mother here after reading all the negative reviews. However, I’m so glad I realized most of them were old, and decided to give them a try-especially since it was one of the few rehab facilities that offered private rooms. It’s exceptionally clean, spacious modern, and praise be, it smells nice. The rehab staff was excellent-Huge thank you to Mike, Hannah and Misty! The kitchen staff was extremely friendly. The food was pretty good, but what was also great was that mom could order off a grill menu if she didn’t like what was being offered. The case manager listened to our needs and met them all. The Medical director, Dr. Bagley was especially attentive and made sure we were comfortable and that all our needs were being met. The Nurse Practitioner, Angel Johnson, was absolutely phenomenal. Even though I’m a nurse, she taught my mother and I so much about post-stroke and hip replacement care. She was so attentive to every need mom had. I noticed her interactions with other patients and she truly is as her name states-an angel. I would absolutely recommend Cobalt Rehabilitation.

DO NOT PUT ANYONE YOU LOVE HERE. I have waited 6 mo this to write this as I wanted to calm down and not make a rash judgement. The care in the nursing part not rehab was the worst I have ever experienced. The nurses didn’t care at all. A nurse told me within an hour of being there that she had no sympathy for my husband as he didn’t have the co is shot. He was left with a soiled diaper and I was told they didn’t have time. At the weekends there are maybe 2 nurses as they were short staffed. The agency nurses were wonderful but a few sia they would never go back as it was horrible, what does that tell you? They put my husbands feeding tube bag up but forgot to hook it up to him. He was never washed or bathed unless I did it or asked a nurse. If you are not with the patient 24/7 then they are left. My husband is 55 and had family to advocate for him. I felt sorry for those that didn’t. It was like a morgue. PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS HERE. The respiratory specialist Roxanne was amazing, the rest there are no words to describe how men they are.

My husband lost pretty much all of his limb mobility before coming here. This facility did and amazing job rehabilitating him. The nurses and doctors all took great care of him and we still continue to use these Drs once he was discharged from Cobalt. Thanks you all so much for your time and dedication. I highly recommend this rehabilitation center. It was hard trying to research centers before he initially left the hospital.. but I hope this review helps out others that are looking for a great center for their loved ones.