Greenbrier Senior Living

There have been several appeals for contributions for Christmas bonuses and a food bank for the employees, use of families streaming subscriptions for football games. Plus, during the first Covid outbreak in the facility, they requested family members come sit with their infected resident to prevent falls. I would not be surprised to learn that they are having financial difficulties.

This was a nice place for my short assisted-living requirements. However, I did wind up with Covid while I was there, so I sequestered myself in my room. I requested that the staff bring me my meals (All I really could get down was Rice Krispies). That way, I would not go to the dining room and infect the mostly elderly population with Covid. After a couple of days, I was informed that if I wanted my Rice Krispies brought to my room I would have to pay a delivery fee for each meal - even though I was still testing positive for Covid. Since I only had two days left in my stay, and I had some fruit in my refrigerator, I told them I just didn’t want meals for the next two days. Even though overall Renaissance is a lovely place to stay, I think the policy of charging Covid positive people to deliver meals to their room needs to be reevaluated. It is just encouraging people to go to the dining room and infect other people.

I would say extremely expensive and food is terrible.

Since my father has been at Sodalis there has been a huge amount of staff turnover. I think the constantly changing faces has made it difficult for him to feel at home. There do not seem to be any activities or social events for residents and there seem to be many inconsistencies with things such as meal time and room cleaning. We are hopeful things will improve with a new executive director.

The care, and especially value, I see no issues with. You can do a lot worse for similar price. Communication from administrative staff could be much more proactive.

Let me preface my comments with the fact that this was during covid and they lost a housekeeper and were short handed. The nursing staff was very attentive and kept us informed. I understand it is hard to get good help for any position these days and care facilities even harder.

At the present time the way they are accepting residents, I would not recommend. I'm an optimist and looking forward for improvements. The chairs need to be replaced in the dining room, and the public restrooms are not kept clean. It was built for independent living, but it being used as an Assisted Living/Memory Care. The E-Menu is not always updated and the meals are not "fine dining." They tend to be low quality and often run out of things. There is not enough wait staff for the amount of residents.

It's a lovely facility but it is very understaffed. The staff that is there is wonderful, but overwhelmed. There has been turn over in the management which has lead to a general confusion amongst the staff about what benefits residents have enrolled in. There is no communication from the facility to the families about any events. In fact, no emails at all from the facility about billing, coordinating care, or anything at all. Until they are better staffed, I would not recommend this facility to other families.

My mom was in the memory care area and they definitely didn't have enough nurses to handle the area. They had aides but the aides really didn't do much that I could see. The people were very nice but my mom had issues with her medication so I would say an in-depth meeting with family to go over medication before admission would be #1 on the need to work on list.

We were initially pleased with Renaissance. It had no institutional smell, and appeared very clean. It also offered availability for dogs, which for my mother was a must. We found that they had availability very close to a door, which also pleased her, for walking the dog. Unfortunately, they are quite short on staff, especially on weekends; often, nobody answers the phone when I try to return a call from the nurse. The maintenance person also told us that his staff had been severely reduced. On the plus side, nursing staff appears adequate and well trained. The food is average.

Medication is a serious issue for an elderly person. So if you need that care the no do not pick the oaks. If you don't need medication distribution then it's a nice place. We needed an a place that had an opening and close to our home.

I would recommend it for someone else I think overall, they do a good job of providing activities and engagement with the residence as well as treat them and cater to their specific dietary needs, and they treat them well and definitely foster independence. I picked this place because they offered my mom a shared room price with warm up time minimum a month to be alone and get acclimated to get acclimated before even considering putting a Roomate with her. Having a roommate was the ultimate decision was based on price and proximity to my house.

High turnover in staff, lack of communication as a result. Activities Director is a superstar. Without her, my ratings would be lower.

Crescent Wood is a quiet facility with polite staff. Large Price increases were not expected. I think I would recommend them

Red Cedar Glen is a good place. For us, it is convenient to where I live, so I can remain close.

The Food is terrible I could go on for hours with everything that is wrong with this!

The whole staff is so sweet! They are respectful to the residents. This means the most to us, we totally understand how difficult older folks can be. Love the events that are planned! The daily activities are great to keep the residents busy. Love the fact that they can have pets! The location and grounds are perfect. There is definitely room for improvement on the dining room... I know we filled out dietary needs when our loved one came, but, I don't see that reflected in her meals. We often have to provide her meals.

My mom currently resides at Lark Springs. For the money, it seems to be still quite expensive for what they provide, in my opinion. All categories could use improvement. There's been a couple of times where I visited my mom and her room was not cleaned. The food appears to be sub par, but edible. There seems to be no activities that I've seen thus far. Friendliness for the most part, the staff has been okay but there have been times where the staff appear to be grumpy or upset, and I've also noticed a high turnover rate of employees. I am still in the dark about the level of care that they provide. To be fair, it does appear that my mom is comfortable and enjoys being at the facility, so that's a plus and that's why she's still there.

Our family had an in person tour with Red Cedar Glen and it is housed in an older building that has the feeling of being run down. They were in the middle of renovation, however, the sections that were completed did nothing to improve our perception of the facility. The courtyard also looked run down. We met with [name removed]. She was so nice, she even baked my mom a loaf of bread! The woman at the front desk was incredibly rude. We also met the activities director and the bus driver. Very nice people. The apartments were tiny, and felt institutional. They offered a variety of activities. The bus driver even takes residents on scenic drives! I thought that was fun. Their menu looked decent. They were the only place to include 3 meals a day in their price. All that being said, their price was way to high. My mom thought the residence looked more like a nursing home than an independent living facility.

The sitters don't always show up when they're scheduled. And they don't want to be there. They tell my mom all the time - "you have to hurry up because we have to go." The food has been AWFUL. It's served cold. The potatoes are never cooked. My dad was served raw chicken breast. And when he sent it back, he was told he would have to wait until all of the other diners were served - and then if they had any left they could bring him some. The manager listens to the residents, but he just tells them what they want to hear. He doesn't do anything about any of the issues that they have, which is mainly the food.