Heritage Senior Living

Staff is always short and has attitudes. Nursing never stays. The food is horrible and when management says they are going to take care of something they dont. They dont have a bus to take residents anywhere, activities are always the same. Unfortunately we are looking for new places because we cannot take much more.

Took too long to respond. Care was lacking. Took 6 weeks for a refund but gave only a few days when they wanted more money. Not a good experience. Has me questioning if I want to use A Place for Mom in the future.

My elderly parents moved into Heritage Assisted Living in Middleton a few months ago. I don’t normally write negative reviews, preferring to give feedback privately but in this case I feel obligated to share their extremely negative experience. The place is poorly run with indifferent staff. Food is bad. There were billing discrepancies as well. We have chosen to move them to a different facility because they did not feel safe. We have reported some of the problems my parents encountered to higher authorities. Beware!

I will never have anyone go to Lincoln village for as long as I live! There is no staff there to take care off people! My father passed away there before we could move him to another facility! My sisters have slept in his room because he declined and no one ever came to check on him! We had to pay for extra care when entering Lincoln village and there was no care! They took there check and let him be! He wasn't even there 2 days and he fell and hit his head! He had fallen a couple times there and no staff ever reported or called his family! It is a very bad place!

If someone going in to assisted living needs anything out of the ordinary because of a disability, such as a bidet, schedule requirements, etc, make sure you ask questions. Some is related to differences between assisted living which we can deal with independent living which we can deal with, but some is the facility rules. Make sure food sensitivity issues can be addressed as well. We were told they could be then, in the end, cannot be.

Some of the staff are great, many are not. As someone who formerly worked in a care facility, and as a family member of a current resident here, I find the way the staff communicates with (and fails to communicate with) family members, very unprofessional. The resident’s room is frequently dirty Some staff appear reluctant to help residents with personal care needs, resulting in residents sitting in wet/messy clothes. Laundry seems to be randomly dispersed among residents- despite labeled clothes, our family member often has their own clothing missing, and is dressed in other people’s clothes instead. Oh- and why plastic utensils at mealtimes?? IFyou can visit your loved one daily, and are willing and able to advocate for their needs, this MIGHT be an acceptable choice. Otherwise, keep looking for a place where the administration is willing to acknowledge and correct mistakes, and promotes an atmosphere of excellence among staff.

There are some great individual caregivers in Memory Care, and some not so great ones. Often understaffed. Basic needs not consistently met. Residents often only changed 2-4 times in 24 hours. No one warned us about all the different behaviors: yelling for hours on end, fighting, food stealing, residents roaming into other residents rooms, etc. It's a very chaotic atmosphere and stressful for residents, staff and families. Very little fresh or non processed foods or fruits. I never have a day where I feel my husband is getting the care he requires.

The people who are with the residents are very nice, but admin is disorganized big time. We paid for extra services that were not done. We finally got our money back for these services they didn't do. [names removed] are wonderful. The front desk girl is unfriendly to say the least. I thought there food was good and a variety. Lots of choices for beverages too.

Unfortunately, I could not recommend HERITAGE West Allis Memory Care to other families. While the facility is beautiful (very homey, wide hallways, warm wood-tone doors, charming decor in common areas, lovely outside patio), looks can be deceiving.At a minimum, I would expect that Mom be dressed in the morning; PJs on at night; Depends always dry; showers once a week; apartment smells clean. These things didn't happen. On too many occasions, when I arrived to visit Mom, her room smelled strongly of urine and her Depend was completely saturated and soaking through onto her armchair. The second time this happened I started to do closer surveillance with a Nannycam monitor. On many days, the care she received was very good. However, too frequently for my comfort, this was not the case. My perception was that the Memory Care unit was often short staffed, and while the caretakers intentions were good, there just weren't enough of them to meet the needs of their large Memory Care population. Follow through by senior staff when I expressed my concerns didn't seem to have much impact. I often wondered if the senior staff were just spread too thin, with 3 large communities to manage: Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care. I moved Mom to another community, dedicated to exclusively to dementia/Memory Care, after only two months at Heritage West Allis Memory Care.

They have listened to our complaints. Looks good from outside but beware staff are not as friendly as outside looks. Picked because moms moms term care insure for sure covered it.

Overall mediocre to sub-par experience. Lovely facilities nice individual rooms a nice selection of activities. Large emphasis on resident independence only very little assistance and very understaffed. High rate of turnover. I would only recommend for someone looking for very, very minimal care.

I would tell other's, don't go here. We've had several bad experiences here. One time I went to visit my loved one, who has dementia, and they were sitting in the dining room with a plate of long spaghetti. It was not cut up and it was served with a spoon. My loved one has dementia and they tend to walk around. We saw that their toilet was leaking and it took them weeks to get back to us about it. We found out that the toilet was not leaking, but my loved one was urinating on the floor; they were missing the toilet due to issues with their vision. It still took them weeks to check on it, because their maintenance guy was out. They should have checked to see if the toilet was leaking right away. There was a puddle being tracked throughout the community. Not only is that a slip hazard, but it's also unhealthy. They're also supposed to do their laundry, including the bedding every week. I was sitting there when someone came to take the laundry and they only took the basket, but did not take linens, towels, or the sheets off the bed. They didn't do that right in front of me. Most of the staff were mostly on their cell phones as well. They responded to these issues with a brief email and nothing else. One time my loved one wasn't getting the medication(s) they were supposed to be getting. It wasn't a medication error, it was a missing medication. There was a person doing the pill/medication pass, they stopped the director as she was walking by and informed her. She acknowledged it and walked on. She didn't apologize and she didn't show a genuine interest in resolving our problems. After we told her we were going to leave, she just sent an email. She didn't ask if we could sit down and talk about it. She just said, "I know you've had some complaints recently about the toilet, is there anything else?" She didn't reach out any further than that. To receive that kind of response, for the cost we paid, was shocking.

They would not allow, my loved one to use the indoor pool. There was terrible communication with the doctors office. They increased care services costs unexpectedly, and without any notice, they attempted to take out additional funds from my bank account. I removed my loved one from this facility and would not recommend this place to anyone.

Our loved one is very unhappy there - all of the activities they were interested in were cancelled. Also they have continued to come into our loved ones room at a certain time after we have repeatedly told them if nothing is wrong to please come at a different time and it has not happened

Expensive and continually cutting corners to save $ at the expense of residents. Concerned about their convenience not the happiness of the residents. We have no complaints about 1 &2 shift nurses and cnas on 2nd floor. Other problems exist.

It has been a terrible experience for us. The main point is the community didn't assess my loved one correctly. They wouldn't take the long term insurance and they wouldn't take any claims because the community put her in independent living. My loved one never left their room. The staff seemed annoyed by the call button requests There is a lot of turnover. It is a new build for the community.

I would recommend speaking to multiple people to see if this is what your loved one needs. The community doesn't always follow instructions and at times the care was lacking.

I would want others to know when looking into Heritage Lake Country to not move your loved one in here at this time. They have a high turn over in staff, including the executive director. They had 2 changes this past year. Some of the CNAS were wonderful, some were horrible. There were a lot of problems with getting paperwork sorted out, they lost my moms paperwork for weeks. They were also out of a lot of over the counter medication, so my mom would be out of stuff for days. I am hoping the new director can turn it around, but we are not waiting around.

It's not too bad of a place if your loved one is fairly self-sufficient. But, when their health declines and they really need the assistance, good luck! Residents wait for up to 40 minutes for help after pressing their call button. I come and find my loved one still in pajamas with a soaked Depends at 11 AM in the morning, bed unmade and laundry undone. All of which we are paying dearly for. There appears to be a revolving door on the front of the building when it comes to staff. I have lost count of how many executive directors they have had in the last couple of years, not to mention other management positions. They have replaced the carpeting though, it looks great!

Mgmt tries to convince you they care but do NOT follow thru on the things they say they will do to correct issues!!!