Novellus Living

Brookdale San Diego provides a good value for the services it provides. The caregivers are pleasant and helpful, but often seem rushed and occasionally, especially at night, response time to a call can take awhile. The range of activities is fair but the spaces where they are offered are a bit limited and could benefit from updated furniture. Dining choices and overall food offerings vary from adequate to very good. Overall, all staff are helpful and pleasant.

I have no complaints about my tour of this community, they offer lots of great amenities for there residents and they keep this facility well maintained. All of the residents seem to be happy and enjoying the company of each other as well as participating in the various activities they offer.

The Atria was very nice for my mother's short stay there. I was pleased with everything except the night care she received. I made it very clear that my mother needed to get up at night to go to the bathroom, sometimes frequently. I was told that response time was less than 7 minutes. However, she usually waited 30 to 45 minutes to get help. I was disappointed and upset that this happened more often than not. Otherwise, the facility was exceptional.

This is a nice community. The staff during our tour was nice. They only had studio apartments available for a higher cost than the community we chose. The community seemed clean. I wanted to also thank A Place for Mom for their help in our search.

Atria Kingwood was very clean and neat. It would be nice if they did a little updating to the building. It looks like the walls need a re-touch on the painting. It was a nice little set up and this is good it makes it feel like home. I would recommend a tour of the community it had nice staff and wonderful residents.

The people here seemed nice and the facility was fine. We took a tour, but we did not choose Brookdale.

They have accommodated my aunt in every way possible. She is eating better than she has in the last 2 years. She is very happy there. If I could rate the staff a 10+ I would.

Looking for assisted living for my mother: Atria is a very nice assisted living facility. They have 49 rooms, so they are not HUGE. Everyone I met on staff seemed very cheerful. When the director took me on a tour, she was speaking to residents by name, and they all seemed to know her. One thing I really like about Atria is their activity schedule. They have 6-7 activities scheduled 7 days per week. They also take residents out on "field trips", like going to the library, out to a restaurant for lunch, or even just a "sight seeing" trip where they don't get out of the vehicle. This would be awesome for someone who can still get around fairly well. My only "con" is that there aren't many places to go for a private visit (other than the resident's bedroom); but all in all, I like this place a lot.

I wouldn't put my mom or dad in Brookdale Clairemont. They say they will do certain things and they never get done. The care givers aren't very thorough or caring. The bathroom was disgusting when I came to visit the patient. The bed was dirty also. Any time she needed help and pushed her button necklace and it would take 20 minutes or half an hour for staff to respond. I would have to hunt someone down to get her help. For the price you pay and what you get is ridiculous. The staff is friendly I will say. They do have good activities there also, not that the patient participates in any of them. I really just would not recommend this place to anyone.

Orangeburg Manor is a good community overall. My mother is in this community and seems to be enjoying herself. She states that the food is good and the dining staff is well staffed and organized. The staff is very friendly and the ratio of staff to resident seems to be good. They do have call lights in the rooms to promote safety and security. They could do better as far as the activities available to residents. I have not heard of any outings or trips for the residents.

We looked at a lot of different places. This was one of the ones we toured and considered. I liked all of the communities I visited, the people were all fine, and this was no exception. I just don't think this is the right fit for us, my loved ones don't want to leave their home.

I toured here while I was looking for options. I really liked the smaller environment they had, and liked the people there. It is a better fit for my mom and we will likely place her there if the time comes.

So far things are good. It's clean and the staff are friendly.The elevators are old, and the power goes out once in a while, but that's just the building. They just got a new computer system, and that has been a little bit challenging, but it's nice to see an upgrade, and it's settling down now.

Beautiful community, very warm & welcoming, but unfortunately, a bit too expensive.

We enjoyed our visit to Emeritus and it we were pleasantly surprised. It felt smaller than Oakdale as far as the community, but the rooms were larger and overall the place was bright and easy to get around. There seemed to be a better mix of residents and I wonder if not having memory care on the facility had anything to do with that. Laundry was included in the price where at Oakdale it was not and Cable was not included in the price, where at Oakdale it was. So it about evens out. It is definitely a place I would go back to with mom for a lunch and tour

Very nice, very welcoming. Nice, big rooms. A facility worth considering.

I haven’t heard anything bad about this community. Everything seems to be okay. When I’ve been there everything has been clean and the staff has been very friendly. They have activities and their care services are working for us.

Lacey-good. 44 apts one wing asst. one memory. grassy area front and back. yes dogs. men's club. installing pool table. $2895-$3175 studio+ long term employees. Chef good food. exercise 2x, outings 1X lunch 1x. 1/2 stories horse shoe shape. 30 M 70 F

If she pushes the button for assistance it can take a little bit of time. A comment has been made that it was because they were short staffed. When I first toured, I got the impression that if they buzz to go to the bathroom, they would be right there, it's not exactly like that. The housekeeping is outstanding. They have a lot of activities, and they assign you an ambassador to take you around and get you involved. They do a good job with that. The biggest problem with the menu is that there is so much turkey and chicken. If you have it brought to your room, it might not be the right temperature.

They are clean and friendly. The quality of the food could be better. I liked that it has a good community area, where everyone was gathered. Some of the places we saw the people were dispersed around the community.