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  • Home
  • About Us & Our Services
    • Colleen Beard, BCPA
    • Senior Care Management & Patient/Resident Advocacy Services
    • "Beyond Driving with Dignity" Self-Assessment Program
    • Our GoFundMe Directory Campaign
    • CareSpotlight In the News >
      • Heights Observer June 2018
      • GoFundMe Campaign Featured
      • "Beyond Driving with Dignity" Professional
      • Heights Observer Dec 2017
    • Contact Us
  • Resources
    • Resources of the Week
    • Aging & Elderly
    • Living with Disabilities
    • Living with Disease & Illness
    • Resources for All
    • Prescription Drug Resources
  • List of Supporters
  • National Issues of Note
    • Sheltered Workshops Closing
    • The "Community Living" Crisis for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
    • Direct Care Professionals Need Pay Increase
    • Involuntary Discharges from Nursing Homes
    • Revised Federal Nursing Home Regulations
  • Testimonials
  • Spotlight Products
    • Mobility
    • Telephones and Accessories
    • Emergency & Caregiver Alert Devices
  • SHINE ON! Inspiring News & Stories

ABOUT OUR ONLINE DIRECTORY:

With the help of generous families, sponsors, and potential investors, we hope to add a comprehensive care and service directory with consumer reviews to our website. We have raised close to $9k to date and still have our GoFundMe campaign up and running. Every dollar helps! Thank  you!

​To watch our video about the motivation behind CareSpotlight.com, please visit our home page.


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CareSpotlight Will Provide:
  • A comprehensive care and service provider directory with consumer reviews based on a 5-heart system that is thorough yet easy to use.
  • Ways to connect with people in similar situations.
  • User-submitted event listings for various needs, interests and abilities.
  • Featured companies that market mobility, adaptive, safety, health, and wellness products that meet CareSpotlight’s criteria.
  • Advocacy and health news.
  • More...
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CareSpotlight is Different Because We:
  • Focus on care and services for:
    • Seniors
    • Individuals of all ages nationwide living with: 
      • disabilities (physical/intellectual/developmental)
      • physical disease & illness
      • mental illness
      • serious injuries
  • Provide a transparent and thorough review platform for both consumers and care/service providers.
  • Won’t charge you to become a member.
  • Won't display paid listings first in searches.
  • Won’t filter reviews in favor of advertisers,
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Care & Service Provider Categories for Review:
  • Short- and Long-Term Residential Facilities 
  • ​Residential Care Providers
  • Transportation (elder & wheelchair-friendly)
  • Home Health & Companion Care
  • Hospice
  • Day Activity Programs
  • Supported Employment & Workshops
  • Rehabilitation Facilities & Services (Physical, Occupational, Speech Therapy)
  • Cancer & Dialysis Centers
  • Respite & Recreation
  • Licensed Advisors (Legal, Financial, Care)
  • and more

Colleen Beard is the founder of CareSpotlight.com. Over the last 20 years, she has been the primary advocate for several immediate family members living with chronic and terminal illness, physical and developmental disabilities and age-related disease. She has had to make difficult decisions regarding an array of care and service providers, including: independent, assisted, and group home residential facilities; home healthcare; hospice; physical rehabilitation facilities post surgery; physical and aquatic therapy; day activity centers and workshops; transportation; recreation and respite; and legal and financial advisors. She has witnessed both negligent and quality care and believes that we need to be more informed as a society in order to make crucial care decisions - especially for our loved ones that are vulnerable and unable to advocate for themselves. 

Colleen's love for family and overwhelming desire to access necessary information in order to make well-informed and confident decisions regarding their health, safety and overall well-being has been the primary inspiration for CareSpotlight.com.  However, she has continued working towards this goal because she knows that she isn't alone in this quest for quality information and priceless advice. 

In addition to being a passionate advocate and entrepreneur, Colleen is a Board Certified Patient Advocate through the Patient Advocate Certification Board and a Certified "Beyond Driving with Dignity" Professional through Keeping Us Safe. 
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Why We Need YOUR Help:

It's true! We need YOUR support to build this resource! 
This website has the potential to be a valuable tool, even life-changing, for millions of Americans. 
Click here to read more about why we have chosen to try crowd funding.

We are also always looking for potential partners, sponsors and advertisers.

Please contact Colleen Beard: 
216-659-5519 or [email protected] to discuss your interest in being a part of this national resource.

FEDERAL WATCH LIST of NURSING HOMES:

Click here to access the list



CareSpotlight LIST
​DANGER
: IN THE SPOTLIGHT 

Care Providers in the News
(Click on link to view news story)


WGRZ
June 4, 2018
Emerald South Nursing Home, Buffalo, NY

"87-year-old man dies, after fall from nursing home window
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Emerald South Nursing Home is being investigated by both Buffalo Police and New York State Department of Health after 87 year-old resident died while trying to climb out of his third floor window."

The Greenville Sun
March 26, 2018

Nursing Home's Admissions Suspended Limestone, TN
"Admissions to John M. Reed Center in Limestone have been suspended by the Tennessee Department of Health. The nursing home is owned and operated by the Greene County-based Free Will Baptist Family Ministries. The admissions suspension was effective March 22, according to a news release issued by the Tennessee Department of Health." 

Chicago Tribune
February 25, 2018

The Mother's House & Value Care Centers, Dixmoor, IL
"Staff locked residents with disabilities in 'filthy,' bedbug-ridden facility and left": Dixmoor police


CNN
December 28, 2017

The Good Samaritan Retirement Home in Williston, FL is OFFICIALLY CLOSED! 
Retirement home shut down months after attack on 86-year-old
"The facility had a history of violations, and more sanctions in the past five years than any other assisted living facility in Florida. In December, two administrators were arrested in connection with separate incidents on charges of neglect of the elderly."
Click here to read the full story/watch video


The San Francisco Chronicle
October 11, 2017

LICENSE REVOKED:
Woodland Terrace at the Oaks (nursing home), Allentown, PA

The Coeur d'Alene Press
September 16. 2017
Southwest Idaho Treatment Center, Nampa, ID


USA TODAY
September 14, 2017
Rehabilitation Center in Hollywood Hills, Hollywood, FL

click here for more of this list


CareSpotlight is working on launching a national directory of care and service providers for seniors and individuals of all ages living with disabilities, illness and serious injuries.

Users will be able to post and read reviews, connect with others and access additional information.

We have put together many resources for your convenience that we hope you will find helpful.

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Keep scrolling below to watch our GoFundMe Campaign video.
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Please take a few minutes to watch our GoFundMe video we made to raise money and awareness to help build a national online directory with consumer reviews.

​There are additional ways you can help if you are unable to make a financial contribution!
Thank you so much for your support! 

Colleen Beard & the CareSpotlight Team
If viewing on phone, turn it sideways.​

WEBSITE

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Please take a few minutes to watch our video.

LOCAL ADVOCACY SERVICES:
In addition, CareSpotlight Advocacy Services can help you ensure that your loved one's care needs are being met and rights are not being violated. Whether they are at home or in a short- or long-term care setting, we can help. We also offer "Beyond Driving  with Dignity" Self-Assessments for Older Drivers. 
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Phone: 216-659-5519
Email: [email protected]


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