Novellus Living

I was most impressed with this facility.

Very nice facility!

Looked at Memory Care unit when I was looking for Assisted Living for Mom. Was clean, bright and secure. I only looked at one private room there. It was a small room but would be adequate. Staff was friendly.

Very nice. Loved it, but too expensive.

My brother is getting out of his shell a little bit and actually participating in some of the activities they provide. For example they have parties, music, happy hours, walking etc. He is absolutely crazy about the food that they serve and thinks it is fabulous. The staff is very responsive, helpful and seem to be compassionate and really care about their residents. At the price point, I think it is a great value for the money. His room is very comfortable, bright and airy. It is about triple the size of the last place that he was at. I would recommend Brookdale Clairemont to others.

We toured the Atria Cypresswood and it is a great community. They gave a nice presentation and some preserves to take home with us. The staff was super nice. It was a clean and well-kept community. We chose another community that was more in-line with our budget.

This has been difficult to write because our experience is limited with Camlu. A couple of days after moving in, Camlu informed us that our mother needed more assistance than they thought when they interviewed her. This new level of care would add an additional $800 per month to her rent. This has created a hardship for us. On day four after my mother moved in, she fell and broke her hip. This happened about 4:30 am. The hospital "examined" her and said she was fine. Two days later, still in a lot of pain, she insisted that Camlu call 911 again. This time the hospital diagnosed a broken hip. We have no idea why the fracture was not found on the first trip to the ER. So mom lived at Camlu for six days. She has spent several weeks at a rehab facility and is scheduled to return to Camlu in a few days.

This place was very nice. The staff were excellent and they were very kind and helpful. They assisted us with any questions that we had. The only thing that we did not like was the price it was just way to expensive.

This seemed like a clean community when I visited. I did not get a warm and fuzzy feeling from this community. They did not have an one bedroom available at the time of our tour. The people I met during the tour were knowledgeable.

They serve food between 4:30 and 6:00. If you go down after 5:00 they seem to always be out of food. The food is not good. The caregivers that work with my mom are very good. They know her by name and are personable. I am not happy with the administrative staff. They have a reasonable amount of activities, however I think they could do a little more. They do have nice music activities.

My first thing my wife said when she came in was that it doesn't smell and it's very clean, which is a big deal. The staff is very friendly, nice and accommodating!

My mom has been at Orangeburg Manor for only a week. While the ambience of this establishment is not quite as ornate or swanky as many others, it does promote a clean and healthy living environment for it's residents. The staff seems truly dedicated to providing quality care to all. I felt nervous when leaving Orangeburg Manor on the day I brought my mom there. However, when I arrived the very next day to find my mom playing Bingo (with a smile on her face), I knew I had made a fine choice. And while the rooms are certainly on the small size, my mom and I have nothing else to complain about.

It is a nice homey feeling that you get from this place. It is a great location from restaurants and shopping.

We ended up moving our loved one out [dates removed] and is now at [community name removed]. There was definitely room for them to improve on things, and the rates got raised on us twice without warning.

My sister is currently a resident at Novellus Clairemont and overall the experience has been just okay. However, they are very short staffed for care givers and office staff. Also, the parking is terrible. I do not recommend this facility to others.

I would recommend everything about Orangeburg Memory Care except for the food. Extreme poor quality and variety. Nothing to excite the palate.

I would say if they are going into memory care don't go there. I would say only go there if it's for assisted living. I picked it because the memory care was a small wing and felt they would attend my husband's needs which they did not. When you go in your first day in a wheelchair and less than a week you are restricted to a bed it's a bad situation for the person and the family

Our family had an in person tour with Brookdale Clairemont and we found the facility to be old and as well as the units we saw. Also the showers were not wheelchair accessible which is why we did not pick this community for our loved one.

I toured this community and based on that I would not recommend it. The price was lower than a lot of others. But the entire facility smelled like urine and we were just not impressed.

When we first moved my mother into the community, she was living in the assisted living but then moved to the memory care. At that time, it was a very nice place, but when we moved her out we found her lying in feces and in very poor condition. The caregivers that were there at one point were very good. The last executive director was very rude to our family.