Gardant Management Solutions

Our family had an in person tour with Carriage Court and it was very clean and quite, but the rooms were too small and didn't feel like an apartment. Definitely too small for 2 people and no separation for the bedrooms.

Not enough help. Cleaning their own place and mostly cold water and mediocre food variety. They need help. We picked this community because my loved one liked it.

Overall the facility is nice. The Activities Coordinator is amazing! She makes the place better. The housekeeping isn't great and they are not willing to help when it's not your cleaning day. The food isn't great and they make you think that you can order off of a menu if you don't want the specials. Not really true. Very limited fresh food (fruit) and not good at supporting any special diets or restrictions. I'm sure all of these places are struggling with staffing and quality staff, but I feel it has declined and prices only increase when I think others in the area may be more worth the high cost.

They moved a pool table into the community room. Most residents are in wheel chairs or use a can. They can not play pool. Now we have no place to play bingo, the price is right, exercise, crafts, music. Its been taken over by the pool table. It was stunning when it was first built but now all the furniture is put in other areas and it is a mess. Activity each day is vital to our health but now we have a giant pool table

We toured with Cedar Grove and the sales lady [name removed] is outstanding, but she needs a better product to sell. It was old and depressing. It was more money than [facility name removed] and dad would have had no bathroom in his room.

I like the staff. The staff is nice and they listen and try! The staff work hard but they are understaffed and things and people get missed. Too much is expected for the amount of staff, that they have. And I don't think they are properly trained for some things expected of them. Nurses have to bring trays to residents instead of the dining staff. They have terrible food. And they are no help for food allergies.

The Fountains is a very nice place for a family member who needs extra care. The staff is always friendly and helpful. Updating the building has been taking a while, and sometimes there is a strong urine odor in the hallways.

This was a very nice community. The community was a little more open than what I felt would be good for my loved one with memory care needs.

Residents are very friendly and many are high functioning. It is easy for residents to make friends. Administration is approachable and willing to please and generally very friendly and kind. As of now there is an aid shortage. My mom likes the food some day and complains on a minimal basis. Food is hard to tell, I haven't eaten there. The facility is airy , large and lovely. The rooms are large and vey nice with many having a terrace. The price for the room and overall price I think is less than some. It's in a quiet area tucked in a residential area. The grounds are lovely and they are building a garden. The recreation director is new and great, she tries to involve all residents. There has been a turnover of administrators lately. I like them and they are very approachable and try hard to solve problems. Berlin MD is a great town! Quaint downtown, close to Ocean City, close to outlets and National and state park at Assatinque. It is where wild ponies live. It's 40-45 min to Lewes / Rehoboth Beach where I live. I wish it was closer but it's an easy ride. Hope they resolve their staffing issues , but it seems to be an issue nation wide.

Gull Creek's facility is extremely limited - it's not set up well / doesn’t flow well / is very disjointed. The Executive Director seems really good, and she personally has reached out to me multiple times to follow up. She seems very motivated. My concerns came from the facility itself. It feels like house that has awkward additions on it. I found it confusing to navigate, so I can only imagine how confusing that would be for my loved one with dementia.

Our family had an in person tour and it was a nice community, it was just not what we were looking for at that point in time

This was an average experience for us. My loved ones were there during the pandemic. This caused my loved ones to receive their meals in their room. The community had staffing issues during the time that my loved ones were there.

This was a nice community and very pleasant staff. They had remodeled rooms; however, the common areas weren't as updated.

This community is more of a hotel atmosphere, multi story and they took Medicaid but we felt it was too much of a hotel atmosphere as opposed to a home atmosphere.

Our family had an in person tour and it was a moderate place. There was nothing wrong with it, the apartments were nice, everything was clean but if our loved one did not need memory care they probably would gone here.

We did a virtual tour with this community during Covid. The staff was very friendly and they answered all of our questions. The commuinity just didn't fit our needs at the time.

The one thing that would have changed everything for us is communication. We tried to be very clear about what kind of care my mom needed because of her dementia. And they assured us they could take care of her. But in the end, they couldn't. We were just not very knowledgeable about the level of her dementia, and I just wish at some point somebody would have said to us she needs more care than we can give. And instead, she fell 10 or 11 times while she was there. Those falls were a bad thing, but it's not like she was left alone and unattended for long periods of time. I just don't feel like they were clear with us on what they could handle and what they couldn't. I feel like it was half our fault and half their fault. I don't blame them completely. They kept saying everything is great, its great, it's fine. And it wasn't. I just wish they had told us sooner that this was not going to be a workable situation. We ended up bringing her home and acquiring 24-hour care. And there's no way they could have provided that for her. Some of the staff were so nice, and some were not. But most we dealt with were nice. The activities director was fabulous. She was just so up and happy and just the kind of person you would want to see around old people. She just had such a great vibe. The RNs on the other hand, had really bad communication. And it was during Covid so we couldn't go inside, so communication was more important than ever. They had the whole wrong med list, which was a mess. The community does have a cool communication tool like a portal where all four of us sisters could log into it and ask questions, and they would text back. The CNAs and and activities director were on the portal and responded back, but the medical side was where it was lacking. I think they were spread very thin. I wanted to like the place a lot. It was a cool set-up, and it had such great potential. But I think they were just very understaffed, which I'm sure is an industry-wide problem. I think given a different situation, if you have a parent who doesn't require so much care, its' a cool place and I would recommend it. It just wasn't the right fit for our mom.

We toured this community and the tour was average. The community seemed older and did not fit our needs.