Pegasus Senior Living, LLC

My parent has been at Brookdale Dunwoody during the transition when Brookdale bought the facility. Brookdale Dunwoody has continued to go down in services and my family and I are looking at other facilities. The food has reached a new low since my parent has been living there. The community of residents has had many meetings so management is well aware that residents are not happy with the quality, presentation and variety. My parent has told me that some residents will no longer eat in the dining room. But my family and I are most concerned about the lack of security in the building. Since August there have been many thefts in resident apartments. I was told that three weeks ago, during Sunday lunch, two apartments were entered by thieves - doors left open. There is no security of the building - anyone can enter without identification. Residents do not have electronic keys for outside doors (like other facilities have) so the very old password for outside doors allows lots of people to enter. Management has been aware of the theft problem since August and nothing is being done. I have been told by a new resident that management tells new residents not to bring anything valuable to their apartment. What a sad situation that a senior citizen has to worry about being robbed in their residence!

My parent has been at Brookdale Dunwoody during the transition when Brookdale bought the facility. Brookdale Dunwoody has continued to go down in services and my family and I are looking at other facilities. The food has reached a new low since my parent has been living there. The community of residents has had many meetings so management is well aware that residents are not happy with the quality, presentation and variety. My parent has told me that some residents will no longer eat in the dining room. But my family and I are most concerned about the lack of security in the building. Since August there have been many thefts in resident apartments. I was told that three weeks ago, during Sunday lunch, two apartments were entered by thieves - doors left open. There is no security of the building - anyone can enter without identification. Residents do not have electronic keys for outside doors (like other facilities have) so the very old password for outside doors allows lots of people to enter. Management has been aware of the theft problem since August and nothing is being done. I have been told by a new resident that management tells new residents not to bring anything valuable to their apartment. What a sad situation that a senior citizen has to worry about being robbed in their residence!

We had a bad experience within 5 days of moving in. They did not do as they said. I found wet undergarments and wet pull ups on the floor and pull ups with feces on top of her closet. No one was there overnight for 24 hour care. When signing her out, my husband had to search for a staff. In the memory care there was papers all over the place and no one was there. They misplaced her glasses and didn't tell us she was out of her medication. It seemed like the greatest place when interviewing but they did not do what we paid for. We are just not happy with them.

The manager was friendly, welcoming, and eager to give a tour. Unfortunately, the building smelled like smoke and must on all three floors. There were several wheelchair residents parked in the hallways that were either asleep or disengaged. It felt like I was at a creepy motel.

I have a relative at Brookdale. When we were given the tour before relative moved in it seemed great. We needed memory care so we had a tour of the cottages. They told us 2 caregivers for 12 residents at all times. They spoke of all the activities and in summer the outside bbq and summer activities. It seemed great . Then my relative was moved in... It went from bad to worse. They had a calendar with activities and NONE of them except once a month singing every happened. Residients just sat in chairs all day. Often there is only 1 caregiver to 12 residents so if the caregiver is busy with a resident the others are out of luck! The staff is not well trained and the situations that occur and dangerous . There is also a lot of neglect of residents!! Many of the safety features do not work such as the pull cords. Staff is also very overworked and at times often doing double shifts resulting in very tired worker. Administrator doesn't return calls. Think long and hard before you put a loved one in this facility. Spend some time there and don't beleive everything they say on your tour. My relative is soon to move out of this facility

Since Brookdale took over, this place has gone downhill. Many long term staff members are leaving and cleanliness is slipping. It concerns me to see this facility rated so highly when clearly the bottom line is not patient care, but the almighty dollar.

No personel for appointment and nasty. Walked in and out of memory after receiving security code from vendor. one star

Staff was unknowledgeable about basic rules and regulations and at one point, staff was seen rolling eyes at a resident. Completely unprofessional. Definite NO.

There was clearly not enough staff here. First thing in the morning there would be 3-4 staff in the building, after 2:30 there would be only two staff for roughly 40+ people. There were a couple of staff members that never stopped, they worked their hearts out. Needless to say the turnover rate was big here. The training wasn't very good here, especially for dementia, most of it was just one page of information. I don't feel it was safe there. The food was awful! It went from being incredible food to being awful. They started reheating the food in another building and then bringing it over. They went through 4 CEO's in the two years we were there. They removed medications my loved one was taking, without any communications with me. There were just a lot of safety issues here.

When we first moved my aunt into Horizon Bay (1 1/2 yrs. ago), we were pleased with the apartment, food, and personnel, although we did feel the fees for some of the optional services were a bit expensive compared to other facilities. The facility, however, was close to our home. After 6 mos., the food went so downhill and continued to do so until we had to move her out. She became anemic and would bearly eat their meals, with the exception of breakfast and an occassional lunch. The admininistrative staff changed and the nurse is a joke. When we spoke with the staff, they promised changes, but nothing happened or things got worse. I understand they have upgraded some of the apartment's kitchenette's and carpeting as clients moved out. I imagine that is a good thing since the dining room food is terrible. Residents we know who are still there are trying to find other facilities, many have friends/relatives take them food shopping for microwavable food. Others we knew have moved out. In addition, they raised the rent to the max and increased the all-ready high assistance fees even more. I would NOT recommend this facility to anyone.

My mother was there for a month before they checked her sugar levels! And they were giving her insulin daily! Nurses don't seem to care and rarely answer the call button in less than 10 or 15 minutes. I would hate to have an emergency and have to wait for them to walk down the hall to my room. Also, she had her [removed] while there along with several other elderly patients. Very expensive. I was told that once insurance ran out that it was going to be $250 a day. Way not worth the price.

Too close to noisey traffic and the railroad.

Independent Living only

It cost me a lot of money to move here and nothing they told me came to pass. The food is nasty, you can't hardly eat it, and you either eat it, and they will cut you off at the 300 dollar mark at ten dollars a piece, or don't eat at all. I have tried to give it to other people who have visited, and they won't eat it either. It's cooked in an entirely different building, and they bring it out on big carts and wake me up every morning at 7:30, and not all the food is covered when they transport it. The dinning room is only open from 8-1, and the bistro is even nastier, what you get is a combination of all the vegetables they won't eat in the dinning room. I have lost my deposit they won't refund it. There is nothing going on here, no activities. there are apartments on all four sides of a courtyard three stories tall, nobody comes out. The laundry room has tile built up around the washing machine and it is uneven, and unsafe. Everyday has been something different. It's too big to even know what goes on. I hear that they have recently changed hands. Once I got here nobody came to tell me where anything was or help with anything at all. Everything you need is a different price and a seperate charge. Nobody has been friendly, I just don't have anything good to say about them.

This place is a disaster. They haven't had a manager in 18 months. No chef for months. No activities director at all, and nothing but a LVN was nothing but trouble. They do not have the people or ability to assist the elderly that live there. I have moved Mother out and brought her home with me for Christmas and then I am looking for a Nursing home. She need more help than Merrill Gardens can provide. Just to give her 3 pills a day 3 am and 2 pm they were charging Mother $610.00 per month. Her Doctor said he had never had such a unorganized and unco-operative home for the elderly.

My loved one was admitted and immediately fell. There were times the staff forgot to bring food for my loved one. The door was heavy and my loved one couldn't open the door to the hallway. There was an appointment that was scheduled, and the the staff didn't assist with the call for my loved one, while I was out of town. They allowed both drivers off on the same day my loved one had an appointment. The community told me that if I paid more, I would get better care for my loved one. I feel they lied about everything. They promised me they would help with the special needs of my loved one and they never did. The staff kept telling us that they were short staffed.

My loved one was there 8 weeks and she lost 20 pounds. I don't feel like my loved one was taken care of. Communication was not good and we were not kept updated with what was going on with my loved one. I would not recommend this community to others.

During the time our loved one was there, they fell numerous times from bed and had cuts and bruises. One fall the community called us to let us know it was nothing serious, but a week later our loved one went to the hospital, they took an x-ray and their hand had been fractured for a week. They were not administering the medication correctly, everyday something was wrong. They were supposed to get a medication patch everyday, and sometimes he would have multiple patched on, old patches or no patches on. They called us early in the morning saying our loved one was threatening anyone who came into the room, but after talking to the psychiatrist they believed it was because they were defending themselves. Dementia can change your whole personality, however our loved one is the kindest person and has never been in a fight their entire life.

There has been such a high turnover of staff. I'm having to make requests over and over again. I feel all the good people have left. Whispering Winds of Apple Valley just raised the rent on us. The fees will be removed daily and not monthly like it used to be. The food is horrible and the food is cold when it is delivered to the residents. I have nothing good to say about Whispering Winds of Apple Valley.

I would want others to know that all the advisories they give are false. They food is not what they say it is going to be and they do not do what they say they are going to do. I would not move my dog into this place. The equipment in the bathrooms to pull if something goes wrong, I accidentally pulled it and ran to tell them it was an accident and it turns out it was not even hooked up which I find very alarming. I even left things on the floor purposefully to see if they had come in to clean and they did not. I have nothing good to say about this facility.