Charter Senior Living

My father was here for a short time and was taken care of by a great staff. We found the community to be taken care of. Activities were offered, but he was not there long enough to participate. I would recommend for others needing care for a loved one.

This place attaches many additional fees to your monthly bill. The building is dirty and needs repair. Veterans are forced to pay an additional fee if they do not choose the residence's medication plan which is higher in cost. If your love one has dementia and does not understand well, stay away.

Unfortunately our experience with Brookdale Genesee Valley has not been a good one. The staff need better training, and better supervision. It feels like a lot of the time he is just left alone instead of receiving the care that we are paying for. He isn't bathed as often as he should be, he doesn't receive assistance getting dressed, and his sheets are changed only very rarely. The place looks nice enough, and the food seems good, so maybe it would be a good place for someone who needs less help, but it hasn't been a good solution for us.

First of all I will say that the food at Morningside is absolutely awful. When my mom was there 2 months ago I would go and sit with her at dinner or lunch and I could not believe the meals: pale, tasteless, gray, unimaginative. The picture above of fruit and greens is fraudulant. The lettuce is white and the fruit canned much of the time. There is a huge turnover of staff and that is concerning. They would have a time each month when the patients could voice their opinion of the food. When they heard complaints, nothing changed. Food is frozen for the most part and heated up. The place is disorganized. The crafts infantile. Overall, I would warn you in thinking the pictures represent the place.

Visited....did all paperwork (which they cannot locate) Had TB skin test....do not have a good feeling about them as they appear quite disorganized. $125/night

Visited this facility but was not impressed. I didn't like the fact that it consisted of smaller individual units apart from the main building. Residents must go outside to go to the main building.

The staff are genuinely caring but 3 caregivers to cook, clean, bath, & interact with 26 residents (including wheel chair bound & incontinent) is not enough. The livingroom/dining room was so congested with walkers & wheelchairs that I called the fire marshall to complain. The square footage is NOT zoned for that many residents in wheel chairs. My parent with memory impairment was placed here against her will by her self directed POA/daughter/employee of Paradise Park. After 1 year of expressing how depressing the environment was & several (one successful) attempts to scale over 6' fence, the POA that imprisoned her here shipped her 7 hours away, also against her will. Also note if you like doing business with good morals, this is NOT the place...[removed].

My experience with Morningside of Jackson has not been a good one. Without going into specifics I'll just say they made a lot of promises before we moved my loved one in, and did not deliver on any of them. Their performance was just very poor in general. I would not recommend them.

services promised, not rendered. ex: assisted bathing etc. frequent rudeness from most. Two employees were notable for their consistent helpfulness and courtesy. The financial officer and one LPN.

Rude and selfish care associates that do not have any training. This place is a disgrace and a black hole for your life's savings. DO NOT let anyone you care about live here.

We toured this community when we were looking into care options for a loved one, and I was not impressed at all by what I saw here, I didn't even make it all the way through my tour. It seemed very unclean, the staff were not friendly, and it just did not seem like it had a good atmosphere overall.

I removed my Mother from the facility because on 4 separate occasions my Mother was given the wrong medication. As luck would have it I was there and caught it. I approached the front Desk on the first occasion and brought it to the nurses attention as well as the Executive Directors attention. The Head nurse showed no concern and the Executive Director walked off; the wellness nurse was the only one to address it. Another time the medication person was about to give her another residents medication, As usual nothing was done. As for activities 85% of the time they never take place and the residents sit around and watch TV or just stare at each other between meals, The resident turn over is huge as most relatives are not pleased with the services they receive for the amount of money charged. My mother fainted and broke her ankle one evening after dinner and had I not been there she would have stayed on the floor until the next morning as they do not do the required mandatory checks on residents after dinner. One caregiver told me that she did not have time to be bothered. I retired and am now taking care of my Mother who is very mobile and healthy but has early to moderate stage Dementia. The food was terrible and they often ran out of one of the menu items. I was having to spend more time there with my Mom than I was working.

We were disappointed with this community. The building that was designed for memory – but the ones that were of higher acuity didn’t get enough attention. Building smelled like urine. There was a very high turnover of staff. The directory of the facility had only been a few months told us it was best – but to put our mom in the facility and not to tell her where she was going and not have any contact with her for ten days to let her ‘acclimatize’.

Did not like this at all we did not have our tour with Jill we had it with a young man who had just been put in sales. He was very unprepared not price list couldn't answer a lot of our questions it was not as bright and inviting as the other tours. Definitely will not put Mom there. :(

Looking for a place for my mom, this was the second place we visited. Pros: lots of interesting activities, outdoor spaces, transport to mom's private doc, squarely in our budget. Cons: dirty. I couldnt believe how dirty. Poorly maintained. Reminded me of a cheap roadside hotel with chipping paint, dirty light fixtures, etc. The staff showing us around didn't seem genuine, like we were being "sold." With a little elbow grease and paint this place wouldnt be so bad.

With the level of care my mother needed, they were not there when the button was pushed, it took them a long time to get there, my mother felt that they weren't helping her at all but they really put on a show when I was there. Some of the people were nice, others were just going through the motions of doing their job. It was very, very basic and they always were nice when I talked to them but they didn't follow through with the things they said they would do. We left because 1. My mother wasn't happy there because she was very, very upset with the way they were treating her, they didn't do for her what she wanted them to do and 2. She worked really hard to go back home so that's what we did. The people from the outside were better than the ones on the inside, they put on a very good show and that's what happened, I did it quickly and I don't know if the other ones I looked at would have been better.

Larger facility - end of Walther Blvd. Looks very nice - worth checking out.

This assisted living center keeps showing up [on the internet] as a memory care facility, it IS NOT. The building is not secure so as a person with dementia gets worse , starts to wonder or becomes aggressive they are not equipped to handle it. Don't waste your time and money placing any family member with dementia in this facility.

Citidel used to be as wonderful an experience as a senior with mental and physical challenges could expect. My dad has been there a couple of years now. When we came, there was a manager named [name removed] who was excellent and very caring. Since then, management has changed and the staff is significantly reduced. There are seniors walking in and out of random rooms, falling because there is limited help to ensure their safety and my dad has even worsened due to the staff not ensuring that he remembers to drink his water regularly. The workers there have quite a bit to maintain. It is really a challenge to manage a group of seniors who are used to managing their own affairs, but now are forced to rely on the help of others to do simple things like remember to eat or drink. There is added stress on the staff and the resident when there isn't enough help to assist in keeping the seniors safe. My dad is in hospice care now. There have been times when I have come and discovered him in his bed with the lights off, and has not been up all day or has at least eaten because of lack of employees. He has fallen and no one can provide an explanation as to why, when he is supposed to have 24 hour care, except on Sundays. This place has gone from a 4.5 star to a 1.5 star. Don't send your loved ones here.

Cleanliness of rooms very poor. Staff playing on phones, verses conversation with residents was noted in more than one case and of more than one staff member. Observed office staff demeaning staff member in front of other staff members. Excellent activities for residents. We spoke to some residents about food. Quality of food was over all good.