Vantage Senior Care

Your first hand experiences really help others. Thanks! My aunt has been at Autumn Green for about 4 years. Within the last year (2016-2017) money has been stolen from her apartment more than once. I've notified the Director but nothing has been done to curb this behavior. Recently, I've had to file a police report about money stolen from her. I'm trying to get her out of there to another living arrangement. If you are choosing this place for your loved one, make sure they DO NOT CARRY MONEY ON THEM in their apartment.

I wish I would've had the foresight to see that this facility was not the right fit for my dad. They claim to serve people with dementia but we feel that they did not have the skill set to properly care for someone with dementia. There are certain techniques which should have been employed but they did not seem to understand that. We feel that it takes a special person to care for the elderly and we did not feel that some staff Members had what it takes . The caring attitude needs to start from the top and work its way down. We are giving two stars for the attractiveness of the facility and the good food they served.

I recently toured this place with my mom. As we walked in a very strong odor of urine smacked us in the face. Not a good sign for us. We left within 10 minutes.

High point is not good. Employees are over worked, I can never reach anyone, when I call sometimes no one answers. I go in and it's happened lots mom is slumped over so much her head is almost touching her lap in her wheelchair. She needs better care and unfortunately I don't believe there is such a place

I was very disappointed with my visit. The moment you walk in, there’s a noticeable odor, and the place isn’t clean. Staff are hard to find when you need them—most seem to gather outside, either smoking or on their phones. The food was poorly prepared, and even the cups were unclean. Overall, this location falls far below expectations.

Do not bring your family member here! Terrible experiences! A very disrespectful place. The facility lacked the skill level to take care of a total care resident. I would not recommend this place. Nightmare!

Poor quality of care. Lack of supervision for the residents. Would not recommend at all.

There’s a strawberry blondeish older woman who works the front desk at night always visibly intoxicated, face red as a tomato, and always looking lost, is never a help to even herself. I would never trust my loved ones here with the literal door staff not even being able to control their addictions.

On a March evening of this year, my mother got up to close her window, but fell instead. She had no call bell or necklace alert and laid in front of an open window on a cold floor all night, calling for help that did not arrive until 8 am. In the ER, she was assessed to have suffered a broken hip and was hypothermic to 95 degrees. She is almost 90.

At High Point Germantown South, my mother was placed into Covid isolation, without symptoms, on [date removed]. She had a long-standing untreated UTI made much worse when almost no one came in to bring her food, water, or medications. She was bedridden after three days from leg pain. My sisters and I were not allowed by the healthcare director to visit or even talk to her on the phone but assured daily by staff she was up and about and doing well. In the ER on [date removed], my mother thought she would die from the dehydration and the leg pain and she was hospitalized for this. From this ordeal, she basically lost the ability to walk.

At [facility removed] now High Point. Our mother was placed into Covid isolation, without symptoms, on [date removed]. She had a long-standing untreated UTI made much worse when almost no one came in to bring food, water, or medications. She was bedridden after three days from leg pain. Family was not allowed by the health-care director to visit or even talk with her on the phone, but assured daily by staff she was up and about and doing well. In the ER on Dec 30 she thought she would die from the dehydration and leg pain and was hospitalized for this. She essentially lost the ability to walk because her legs were weakened from this ordeal. [name removed]

Having my mom move into a senior living facility to ensure her safety, happiness, daily cares, daily socialization and activities, healthy meals, medication management, & a clean, cheerful living environment is the upmost importance for my sister & I, while also providing us a huge weight off our shoulders as it was constant worry and stress while she was living alone at home, needing more & more assistance through the day to take care of herself. This facility has made us feel as if our mom is not receiving the care expected & promised for how much she is paying each month. We spend more time having to help her and tidy up her room appropriately than we do being able to visit with her. During the day, activities continue to provide the bare minimum activities that are the same every week, every month. The food more often than not isn’t easily editable for my mother, who has dentures. It’s also often bare minimum lacking quality daily nutrients that are so important for the elderly.

I am disappointed in the care my good friend received while here. They are short staffed and simply can’t provide the care that residents deserve . They also started and spread false rumors which caused division between loved ones during an already very emotional time.

My mother and father in law moved to Ellen's Home South in 2021 and there have been issues from day one. The tour is great and the director promises many things but the place just doesn't deliver. The nurse/director supposedly trains the pca/cnas/and medication aides but when 4 aides didn't know how to use a hoyer lift, which the facility provides, that's an issue. Expect long call wait times: my loved one was on the floor after falling for over an hour before the light was answered. Infection control: what's that:? CDC c-diff guidelines are gown, glove: they just wear gloves. Activities: movies. The staff act like it's an inconvenience to ask them for anything: 4 staff and 2 residents were watching TV how dare I interrupt them to put my loved one on the toilet. Both loved ones got butt ulcers. The staff don't wear name tags or introduce themselves so when there is a problem t's hard to find out who was involved. LOOK ELSEWHERE!!! I could go on but am limited to 1000 words.

I would rate this place a -5 if I could. This is the worst Assisted Living Facility in Wisconsin. The residents there are treated VERY Horrible !!! If anyone is considering sending their loved one to this place, I would STRONGLY URGE You Not To. YOU WILL ABSOLUTELY REGRET YOUR DECISION!! Management is very disorganized unprofessional have 0 ounce of empathy and compassion for the residents and caregivers. There caregivers are extremely overworked and unappreciated. The residents are not getting the proper care they need at all. This facility need to be SHUT DOWN FOR GOOD!!! “ THEY ARE TRULY A DISGRACE!! ELLEN’S HOME is a “EMBARRASSMENT” they give Assisted Living a BAD REPUTATION!! There main focus is MONEY MONEY & MORE MONEY!!

This place is horrible. Management is horrible. Residents get treated horrible. This place needs to be shut down. They only care about the money.

Dirty rooms, old building, cna's standing around on phones ignoring residents. Office management never available or never have any idea of what you're talking about. Food used to be good but lately is very disgusting. ALL kinds of people mixed in here. Crazy, street people, lots of stealing. Dont put a loved one in here unless you hate them!

I wish I could leave half a star.. Rude staff members, dirty facility, and expensive. The staff is very hateful. Especially any higher ups, like in HR. You pay so much for very little things to do. Don't waste your time, this is not a safe or kind place to have your loved ones trapped in!

the management staff there is not respectful. All management cares about it money.They do not care for there the elderly. they can not do Alzheimer care. they are a nursing home not for Alzheimer care. to anyone thinking about putting your loved ones in there DON'T I REPEAT DON'T.

My mother was here for several months, with many MANY scares occurring. One thing I observed more than once was her unsupervised, eating 2 and 3 slices of pie with her fingers even though she’s on a 1500 calorie a day diet. Also, almost every time I came to visit, my mother didn’t have her cane (ultimately falling a couple weeks ago) and they never called an ambulance or asked the doctor for an X-ray of any kind. The nurse on duty didn’t even know which one of my mothers knees was fake, and didn’t bother to inspect the injury before calling me. She simply stated Your mother fell and I think her knee is possibly out of place. I can tell through her jeans that it looks lop sided but I’m not sure. She then asked which knee had been replaced. Just wow. How do you not know? My mother LIVES THERE. Another tragedy. My mother has vascular dementia and MUST wear her Cpap at night because without it, the next day her mind is that of a small child that has outbursts. Her cpap averaged 3-4 hours a night which was PROOF that she wasn’t getting enough oxygen to her brain and PROOF that they weren’t placing it properly or checking on it regularly. Instead of fixing this very simple problem, the facility went behind the family’s back and asked the doctor for my mother to be given a sedative for her “behaviors” (medication that we as a family already declined a month prior to this). So rather than do their job and make sure she wears her mask properly at night, they wanted to drug her. Also, they lost her prosthetic breast more than once, several pairs of glasses, and countless amounts of clothes and jewelry. Yet every time we would ask about these items or ask why my mom didn’t have her cane, workers (particularly [name removed]) would blame my mother for losing or forgetting things, which is completely ludicrous since my mother can’t be held responsible for these items hence the reason YOU as a facility are getting paid $4000 a month to care for her. Another major issue is they contract their nurses for a few days at a time, so the nurses aren’t employed by life’s journey. For this reason the nurses never get to know the patients, and this came straight from a nurses mouth. Also, most of the staff here are not CNA’s, they are “resident specialists” who have NOT had the proper training at all (and again, this information came from a nurse). The day we moved my mother out last week, one of the cna’s actually apologized to me on behalf of life’s journey and on behalf of [name removed], who was more than rude every time she blamed my mother for something and showed no bedside manner. To top it all off I found out that their DON walked out as well because of the mess that is going on. The straw that broke the camels back for us was that last week my mother swallowed finger nail polish remover, and rather than call poison control they called her doctor (who was already on a log to call back for something else and was extremely busy). Well 45 minutes after I got the call that she swallowed the remover, while I was on my way there (because I live an hour away), I called to speak to [name removed] (director) to see if the doctor called back. He was very flat and almost irritated, and stated that they were still waiting on a call back. I said “Well in a situation like this you should call poison control”. He simply said he’d look into it, and got off of the phone. We moved my mom out of that place that night. During that time I heard 4 stories about what supposedly happened with the finger nail polish remover, but I do know she drank it because someone finally came clean and said they saw her drink it, and that my mom was saying that her throat burned. This is a long post but it is truly just a few of many MANY incidents that happened at Life’s Journey. Please, PLEASE do not bring your loved ones here. The good news is that my mother has not had ONE “behavior” since she left! My mother is one of the lucky ones that made it out. I feel sorry for anyone that is still stuck there and their family who mistakenly (just like us) trusted these people.