Harbor Retirement Associates LLC

Assisted living is understaffed. Rooms are too small and have problems. Food quality and choices need to be improved! Memory care is also very understaffed!

They tour giving you an idea that there is one memory floor, but there are two. People on the second floor of memory care, staff is low, lazy, not many memory activities. Only music, food, art activities on the first floor, and they often do not post activities for the first floor or communicate about them. Executive director is weak, no true bed or wall, cell communication if movement in the room. Went from two months of respite to five months and not what I expected. Nursing staff is on the first floor. Med techs, 2, food preparers, 2/3 on second floor, one occasional activity person weak. No nursing staff on the second floor, must be called even though they are more intensive memory occupants. Caught doubling diapers, lost glasses twice, no communication between family and the place. I put her in there for better care than I could do and activities. Disappointed more worried over money than the people living there! They need a system to tell staff if they wet the bed, get up at night, fall at night, page staff. Also needs first floor activities like music, art, cooking demonstrations, etc posted. Family needs to know if their loved one goes out for any activities

Cadence was not staffed or prepared for the residents from [name removed] They just hired an activities director but hadn't started yet...no activities...residents only watch TV.

Like: Hostess at front desk is always polite and accommodating. Memory Care supervisor takes time to talk to me. My drive to visit Mom is only 25 minutes. Dislikes: Not enough caregivers. Because of this I feel Mom doesn't take full advantage of the offering of activities.

I would encourage advocates for family members to be vocal and stay involved!This community is local. At the time, ownership was different. It has now been taken over and hopefully things will improve. My loved one is used to living here and has friends. Moving her would create more of a disruption. For someone who is more able-bodied and required less direct care, I think it would be fine.

Upon arrival, my mom's meds were not logged correctly, and she didn't have her insulin right for several days. Upon departure to nursing home (she was only at Harbor Chase ~6 weeks), the nursing home owner found many errors on her med records (changes/notes were on a nurses phone/not logged, etc.). The director did not return important emails concerning mom's care in a timely matter, we had to drop in on her in person after multiple email attempts. With the care services, they did their best, but her needed level of care was high. The meals are hard to rate as mom rarely ate and said she didn't like the food. She did like when they brought her cold things like milk, ice cream, smoothies. Activities are also hard to rate as she did not participate in any

Rating is largely based before the acquisition. Since the acquisition, food is better and staffing level and responsiveness is very uneven. Impossible to know how it will turn out. Given the level of chaos, I can not currently recommend the facility.

Cleanliness of the facility is great, the cleaning services to the rooms not so much. Staff are friendly in person but when I call since I live out of state many times do not get return call back this includes nursing department and business department. I would give customer service a "1". It took a while for my loved one to be assessed when she got to ALF. She struggled with getting the help she needed. There are still times she does not get PM care that is part of her plan. Breakfast is good but the other meals are premade and not great quality.

Newer facility with good food but lacking in quality care personnel. The price we are paying and the services we thought we would be receiving are far apart. The communication between the facility and the family needs to be improved drastically.

HarborChase of Naperville has some improvements that need to be made.

HarborChase of Naperville was very hotel like and similar to another experience my mom had.

My mother has been a resident at HarborChase for 18 months. They have consistently not been able to provide services they advertise providing as part of their care. She’s gone at least a month without her apartment being cleaned, Her bed is frequently not made, it took at least 10 months to get them to fix the thermostat in her room. When it is windy out you can hear the wind whistling through her bathroom vent, and her curtains blowing in because of the poor building construction. They call the med techs “care partners” but they really do little more than pass out meds. They have not established a “ relationship” with her after being a resident for 18 months, That being said, the activity director is Fabulous! the “ beautification specialist” is also fabulous! I get more feedback from them than I do the “care partners.” Good variety of activities, but for the size of community, not much participation.

They're understaffed. My biggest issue is that they don't get back to me. For the past three months, I've been trying to get a medication changed for my loved one. Even all the way up to the Vice President, they have not gotten back to me. They act like if you put a person in a memory care unit, you're not going to take them out, and then they take advantage of that. The nurse is rude and completely ignores my requests. She has ghosted me multiple times. They change staff consistently which makes it hard for the residents to receive consistent care. They have carpet in the main areas, and it smells like pee because people pee on it all the time. They clean it constantly, but the pee smell never leaves. I've talked to them about it, and they refuse to put in different flooring or replace the carpet. The cleaning of my loved one's room is inconsistent. I feel like they don't try hard enough to get him to shower or do activities . The only time either of those things happen is when I'm there and my husband helps me do it. The one good thing is the food. They serve a consistent three meals a day. Perhaps they could add in some snacks, because my loved one gets hungry outside of those meals. Things go missing, which I understand occurs in most homes. But when his glasses were lost, which is important, they didn't seem to care. I feel like they sell you this great place, but after you sign the contact and pay the money, they don't give a crap. During the time we've been there, they've also changed leadership. It has been an unfortunate experience. My loved one has improved with the routine of being there, but they could do a lot better. And my concerns and feedback have gone unaddressed. Imagine speaking to everyone in a company and having them ghost you. That speaks for itself. Communication is not their forte. With activities, I understand that it's hard to get memory care residents to participate, but they shouldn't just give up. If what they're doing isn't working, they should keep trying to find things the residents are able to do and excited to participate in.

I would tell others to shop around; make sure that your loved ones physical and medical needs are going to be met. We just didn't have the best experience. I work in a nursing home, but this was my first personal experience dealing with assisted living. In a nursing home, when someone comes in and is new we assume that they can't do anything for themselves. With this assisted living, it seemed like they assumed that newcomers knew how to do everything for themselves. I don't think that assumption fit a lot of people in there. Like my loved one, he needed more initial support when he first got there.

It's very difficult to find people to help here at HarborChase. When you do, they have to find someone else or you have to go to the front desk and ask them to call someone; and they may or may not come. It just seems like there's no one to do anything. I'll bring my loved one flowers and want to get rid of them after they've died and it's hard finding someone or somewhere to throw them out - things like that. It's a very inconvenient place right now and that's all stemming from their lack of staff. The communication between administration and myself or my family is fine, but I rarely hear from the people who actually work there. Aside from that, the facility is very well decorated. It's pretty and I think that it's an acceptable place. When I've had issues, I've reported them and they've been dealt with.

Our family had an in person tour and it did not really stand out enough to remember everything we saw, but we do remember that it just did not give us the feeling that this was the place for our loved one.

I thought Harborchase of Dr. Phillips was very nice. But it was almost too nice, to the point that my mom would not fit in there. It was also very pricey.

It is nice the residents are able to walk around the community. The meals seem to be the same each time and the food isn't good on taste. They seem to be bringing powdered eggs to my loved one after being told my loved one didn't like them. It is the same options on the menu each day.

I think the value for the cost is overly expensive. The facility is needing some development. There's no pool or outdoor gardens. Everything is just flat and uninspiring. They don't make the residents' beds early on in the day, and the service is inconsistent. I think I was overly optimistic at first and realized that a couple of months in. Some of the staff are great, and some are not. I think their biggest problem is understaffing. And the food is not very good at all. This is an expensive place, so I'm a little disappointed in that. The medical doctor also lacks follow-up and execution. But I think the staff there are friendly and mean to do well, and they seem to do the best they can despite being short-staffed.

I would tell others that the administrative staff was not timely in responding to concerns that we had. They did not respond when she would pull the cord, it could be 20-30 minutes before they would come to check on her. She had been left in her bed sometimes until 1030 in the morning until someone figured out no one had helped her get up. They were also not paying close attention to her taking her medications, until the family started going they were just not taking it seriously. We are still waiting on a refund check from them on the time that she was not there. If your loved one is more independent and needs less assistance, it would probably work out better for them. For the care she needed, it was just not a good fit for us.