Gardens Care Senior Living - Coyote Creek

Unjustly evicted

Toxic, lived there 2yrs Majority of caregivers are awesome but held back by management and ownership.

Kerwin

My father is in Gardens Care Senior Living - Coyote Creek. I was told by the manager that my father could stay because they're getting TRU PACE starting July 1st, so he will switch from Medicaid and Medicare to TRU PACE starting July 1st. My dad wants to stay there because they remodeled it. They painted the outside and fixed it up. They fixed up the inside. They did everything from painting to replacing appliances, replacing the floors, replacing the kitchen countertops, putting up pictures and artwork, and buying a new TV. Plus he lives right across the street from me, that's why he wants to stay there. They do barbecues every once in a while. They do activities for the residents. They do painting projects for the residents. I ate with the seniors over there in their home with my dad on Thanksgiving and Christmas. On Thanksgiving, they had turkey dinner and ham, just like you would at any other household. They had a couple of different pies for the residents to eat. They have two homes there. One home is for the people that are a little more mobile, can communicate, and can walk around, either with canes, stroller, or whatever. Then they have another home for people with a little more Alzheimer's and dementia or who need more care. Another thing that's nice about it is if the weather's bad outside if it's snowing and it's wintery and it's cold, the residents inside the home can still get a lot of exercises. The home is made so that in the middle, you have the kitchen and the laundry room and some other stuff, but you have a hallway that walks around all that. Their rooms are around the outer part of the home, so the residents inside the facility could walk a circle. They can walk as many circles as they want to get exercise. My dad is in assisted living and the other house is memory care and he's been in both. They stuck him into memory care first. As time went on, they assessed him and they eventually moved him to assisted living. On the memory side, they lock the doors for safety for the residents so that they don't wander out into the streets or get lost. They have secured doors over there on the memory side. They work well with the residents. They have treats in between meals for the residents, popcorn, a fruit bowl, bars, or ice cream sandwiches. They mix it up all the time. They give plenty of food. They're always making way over the amount of food per resident over there. If they want seconds or thirds or whatever, they can have it with no problem. When the residents do well like paintings of different things, they'll hang them on the wall. The staff has changed over the two years, but I haven't run across anybody that is doing something that they weren't supposed to be doing. I always thought they did a good job and they cared about the residents. They took good care of them and try to treat them like their own family. The only bad thing is the turnover, but you probably have that in every place. That's not an easy job and there are quite a few young workers. They don't have a little van or a little truck to take them to the centers. What you get is what's there. They don't have extra doctors and extracurricular activities. My dad had his eyes done and they had to put drops in his eyes and all that over there. They've always done a spectacular job doing it. They followed the doctor's directions to the tee.