St Benedicts Senior Community - St. Cloud Benedict Court

K.L.W.

My father is at St. Benedicts Senior Community. It is very clean. There's a lot of good care. Everyone has been very kind and informative. They're very friendly and professional. I have not tried their lunch, but my father says that the meals are good. They have a calendar of activities. He does not participate, but that's just his personality. They have movie nights. They had a violinist come in. They have bingo. They have a little keyboard set up. They had a guitarist that came through. The place is up-to-date. The rooms are clean. They're better than I've seen at some of the other places I've toured.

Kenna

We never got to see my parents at St. Benedict's Senior Community because they're locked down, no visitors. But they were treated so well. We brought clothes to them but you could only get to the front door and the staff took it from there. They're locked down due to COVID so we weren't able to see them. The place was beautiful, and my other grandma lived there too so I'm very impressed with St. Ben's. The prison is just right down the street from there, they look out the window and they can see that. They weren't allowed to do anything because of the COVID, and they weren't even able to see each other, so there were no activities. It's a whole community, they've got a nursing home, assisted living apartments, independent living apartments, and it has beautiful grounds. The COVID unit that they're in was sub-acute, it's part of the nursing home but it's also a branch of the hospital. So it's like they're getting hospital care. They were so good to them. My mom did not have complaints with the food.

Caring74721250

My dad is at St. Benedict Senior Community at their nursing care facility. The facility is clean and it’s very good. Dad seems to find the food okay and he seems happy there. I talked to other residents too and some of them are singing praises about this facility because they were contrasting it with some of the horrors that they had lived through elsewhere.

Borneman

The facility is very large with many floors and halls. The building was 3 stories with a basement in which residents were also housed. The staff at this facility was very friendly from what I observed. I talked with a few of the residents and they seemed happy with the staff. There was an overtly religious tone to the facility because it was a catholic facility. There were quite a few elderly priests and nuns in the community. Each room you went into was quite spacious, and the tenant had room to store things while still being quite comfortable. On many of the floors there were huge bird cages in the common rooms that held multiple birds for the residents to watch and listen to while they sat. It also seemed that you could not go into a room that did not have a large high definition televisions for the residents to watch. These televisions were well used it seems because there was always a crowd of people around them. I am describing these features for the residents because I have been to facilities that do not have these features for the residents, and they seemed bored without anything to entertain them.

jessica0071

Benedict Court is an open, caring community with friendly and helpful staff. I volunteered and was paired with a resident, and we took advantage of all the facility had to offer, which included bingo, a recital hall, and a garden outside. The rooms are clean and spacious. As a volunteer, I felt rushed from the staff, as we had things to get done in the time allotted, but they were courteous to the residents' needs as well as mine. I also played in a band and at a recital in the facility, which had tons of tables and was well-outfitted for large groups of people to sit and watch performances. The food was average; it was what is to be expected from large-scale food production. They have a church available for prayer and Mass. I never saw a back-up at the resident help desk, and they never seemed to be understaffed. The residents got help when they needed it, but they were left to their own devices if that's what they preferred.

The Cleaner

My grandmother stayed at this facility for approximately two months during the winter of 2011-2012. She was assigned there as she suffered a stroke and had to go through some physical therapy. I was generally impressed by the facility. First of all, the physical therapist did an excellent job in working with her to gain her strength so she could stand up, walk as best as possible and even grasp objects. She would use a hand bike as well as some pressure balls to help her build strength. Additionally, the nursing staff was very good. They took all her vitals and made sure she ate her meals at the appropriate times. One serious issue though came about midway through her stay. She was administered the wrong dose of her medication and became very lethargic and sleepy. We though we had lost her!!! Later we found out what had happened and needless to say we were not happy. In the end, she did not stay there and is back home. Regarding the facility - it was great. It had a gift shop, enough walking space, cafeteria, separate dining, TVs in rooms (with cable), and most importantly a chapel where she could attend mass every weekend. I would have given it a 4 save for the medicine issue.