Dodge Park Rest Home

Dodge Park is near my parent’s house. They were able to present very well. They’re very accommodating and the support team was very positive. Every time I visit, the residents are always doing something. They are engaged in some activities. They have art projects, puzzles, movies and beauty care. The staff is very professional and I think they’re doing a good job.

Dodge Park is an outstanding facility. I couldn't believe the attention to detail they give to my husband. The care could not be better. They're affectionate, loving, caring, and professional. I can't say enough wonderful things about their facility. It's beyond my expectation. It's beyond what I ever imagined. The help is unbelievable. The food was delicious and they do not give them sandwiches at lunchtime. They give them a hot, full course meal.

They treat your loved one as one of their own family members. My mom lives at Dodge Park. Over the holidays, my dad was hospitalized. Both owners gave me their cell phones and told me to call them if I needed help. We ended up needing their assistance and they were there for me. Even during holiday time! That is what made such a great impact on me. I would highly recommend them.

My dad was in a hospital and the social worker suggested that I should look at Dodge Park. I told her that I've already been to so many places and I couldn't find the proper place to put dad. When I went there during my first visit, I knew it was perfect.

It all comes down to the staff and the policies of the owners and the way they run the place. It's just great when my dad can have friends come to visit and his friends can eat with him in the dining room with no charge. One time I asked the owner how they do that and he said that we will treat the place as my dad's home and if my dad has friends in his home he would invite him for lunch and he wouldn't expect him to pay. So they don't expect the guests of their residents to pay.

The staff are incredible. I can tell that they're very well trained. My dad is a constant challenge to people there. He has dementia and his behavior can be really unacceptable but yet they never seemed to blame him for it. They just find another way to approach him. They learn a new way that if they go in and become his buddy first and then give him a little time to get used to the idea, like it's time for him to take a shower, he would be more willing to go and take a shower. Sometimes little things can get dad very irritated to a point where he would swing his arms and kick his feet.

The main thing that I found with Dodge Park is that in spite of my dad having dementia, he is not stuck in just one part of the building like a lot of other places where they only deal in one area with people who have memory problems. With Dodge Park, my dad gets to go and roam out of the building safely because of the way the building is set up.

I like the fact that the clients that they have there suited what my mother needed. The facility itself comes with a great reputation of having caring staff as well as a very clean place.

The entertainment that they provide for the residents is wonderful. It gears toward the era that those folks have lived in. So for cognitively impaired adults that's just wonderful. My mother is an example of a quite ballroom dancer and a lot of the entertainment that they provide incorporates bringing in folks who play ballroom music. I can't say enough about the entertainment. My mother is a very social person so it's been a huge help to her.

The aides are very hands on toward the residents. I'm a medical professional myself and the care that the aides provide day in and day out is not phony. They are lovely and good to all of the patients including the tough patients. My mother would be the person to tell me if she was unhappy with something and she is beyond happy.

I never seen anything like Dodge Park Rest Home. I tell people all over the place about them.

The hospital in Clinton that my wife was in made a strong recommendation for Dodge Park. We felt that Dodge Park was best suited for her. My wife has been there for 2 years now. I have no complaints. They treat my wife very well. They're always friendly and cheerful to me when I go in to visit her. They always call her by her name. They watch her medication. Whenever she has a problem, they're right there to solve it. I have no complaints with the whole scenario. I'm very pleased with Dodge Park and I would recommend them to anybody. They're doing the same work today with the same cheerfulness that they did 2 years ago when we first went in there.

My mom just returned back to Dodge Park (yesterday) after a short stay at a local nursing home for rehab due to her recent fall. Prior to moving to Dodge Park Rest Home, I never experienced any other long term care facility, and I can very proudly say that I never ever want to experience any other facility beside Dodge Park. It was a wake up call. I am used to happy faces, activities around the clock, and a vibrant and positive environment. I am able to communicate with the leadership team members and facility owners, and I feel like I am at home. As mom came from the skilled nursing facility, she was immediatly rolled into the hair dresser room for a complete make up. She felt so much better within a hour. Our family was concerned that mom is developing depression due to her stay at that skilled nursing facility and we had a hugh releif to see her happy again. Mike (Dodge Park owner) met with mom and myself immeditaly upon arrival and was trying hard to see what he can do to help mom to get back to base line. We are so glad she is back at home. Thank you very much Dodge Park Rest Home.

My father in law was placed at Dodge Park few weeks a go. He moved to Dodge Park from a local assisted living since my wife and her sister were very unhappy from the overall level of care. In fact, they visited Dodge Park Rest Home prior of placing their father but felt he was not ready yet to their level of care. Oh, we were wrong. Everything possible went wrong with my father in law at the assisted living, and within few weeks we realized we make a big mistake. We contacted the facility owner and requested to consider for admission. They did not have a male bed at this time and we added our name to their waiting list. Few weeks later we got a call that abed open up. We grabbed the opening and move our dad asap. Oh, what a different. Day and night. I will not even start listed all the wonderfull things happening. For the first time in over 6 months our family (especially my wife and her sister) has a piece of mind. Dad settle down extremly weel, enjoying the n on-stop activities from 7:30am to 8:30pm at night and the outing. I called yesterday and he was so excited and describe the outing he had at Wright Chicken Farm in RI. He sound very energetic, positive and having fun. We could not ask for more. Thank you Ben, Micha Carrie and all the wonderfull staff at Dodge Park. A worrld of difference!!! Par above any other long term care facility we have ever experienced.

It is a very nice facility. My mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's 7 years ago and until recently was living with me (I am the youngest daughter). Recently after a fall she ended up in a local nursing home. Each day when I visited mom, I was crying for hours. Mom did not like the food, there was no activity and the whole situation looked hopeless for mom and our family. Then, one a day I met a co-worker that saw me crying at work. I explained the situation and she told me to stop all I am doing and visit a place call Dodge Park Rest Home in Worcester MA. I did this - and this visit change my mom's life forever. I met with the facility owners and the director of nursing. They all offered to help and were able to meet with mother the same day for a screening. At this time they had no bed and I had to wait about 5 weeks until a bed come available. During this time they picked my mom twice a week from the nursing home and mom spent the all day at the facility enjoying all the wonderfull activities programs. I started seeing hope in mom eyes. She came back to life. Once moving in, the change was even more noticable. Mom went to outings, movies, stayed late doing activities, make new friends and become very positive again about the outcome and her golden years to come at Dodge Park. I have to tell you you all - if you have a loved one who needs long term care for any reason, medical, mental, dementia, go directly and visit Dodge Park Rest Home. It is truly one of a kind. The facility is amazingly clean and has a wonderfull fresh smell. There is always a positive vibe. They have activities, cooking (they are making their bread fresh daily), singing, flower arrangements, bible study and rosary, arts and crafts therapy, dog and even monkey therapy!!! It is really a dream come true. Mom has been a resident for 3 months. She is healthier, walking on her own and considers Dodge Park as her HOME. I can not ask for more. Thank you Dodge Park management and staff. I have great admiration for all you are doing.

My mom was around 93 years old, she couldn't live on her own. She came over to my house maybe for 7 or 8 months and then I heard about Dodge Park's wonderful Day Club program. I went and visited since I didn't know much about Dodge Park. I've heard of it but didn't know much about it. They gave me a great tour and they were very welcoming and friendly. They told me about their Day club and their Rest Home too. I went on the tour and I met some staff members and volunteers too. I was very very impressed but of course my mother who had lived on her own for decades wasn't that keen on leaving our house during the day and be back at night. So I brought her down there and she took the same tour and she was very impressed. I did put her in the Day Club. I'd bring her in the morning and pick her up after dinner at night. She was there most of the day. She loved it.

She was with the Day Club for several month and then when she couldn't function well, I talked to her about moving in to Dodge Park Rest Home. She's already comfortable with the staff and the program and so she agreed to move in. She did spend most of the last months of her life living in the rest home. I always found the care to be excellent. All the staff from the the administrator staff, Michael, the nursing staff to the people who cooked the meals and who served them, to the volunteer staff, I was just so impressed with Dodge Park.

The facility is very very clean with no odor. It's very inviting and well-lit. It's well decorated during holidays. They kept the place safe and comfortable. It's a very relaxing place for the residents and for the visitors. The staff everywhere are so caring. You go in and they don't look the other way. They greet you.

When she was in the Day Club, I picked her up after dinner. I sometimes eat with her or sit with her there. The food was very good. She loved the food there. It surprised me because my mother is an old Jewish woman and when she's in a hospital or in the nursing home she didn't like the food. She never complained about the food in Dodge Park. She found most meals there very tasty and delicious. She looks forward to it. She always stayed for dinner and wants to be with her friends.

I went to functions there. They had like 3 functions in a year for a nice holiday and they always invited families. I get to see my mother and see our friends and the staff and spend some time there. The food is always good.

My mom was happier with Dodge Park than she was at home. When she was at home she had me and my wife. It's good but she only interact with two people. She didn't want to go at first but at the end she didn't want to come back here at home. She liked it there. It was her fear of change at first that made her hesitant to be at Dodge Park but she adjusted because they treated her well. They treated her right and took such good care of her. I always appreciate that. They took good care of my mom and they took good care of all the people I met there. I come everyday and stop by, might be 5 minutes or 2 hours. I get to know so many of the residents. I can see that it's a good place for the residents there; for my mother and all her friends. I was really amazed. I didn't know a lot about rest homes and nursing homes at that time, but I do know a lot more now, it's mainly because I got educated at Dodge Park.

People have asked me about Dodge Park and I always told them that it's a safe place to put a family member because they take care of them and treat them right. They introduce them to others and have good activities going on which was great for my mother. She was the never the type to get involved with activities on the different apartment complexes that she lived in but with Dodge Park they really encourage them to get involved with activities to use their brain. I always appreciate that. My mother liked the book club and the reading that they did. It was great! She surprised me that she liked the activities. Dodge Park surprised me by the way they took care of their residents.

I looked at a lot of facilities and to be honest, they frightened me. They just looked like a hospital and they were impersonal but Dodge Park is like being in a home. It has a home-like atmosphere. It's like a group living situation in a home instead of in a hospital. I've learned that their objective is to keep as active as possible. At that time, my mother was coming out of a rehab and was in a wheelchair. Their objective was to get rid of her wheelchair which they did. Whereas my fear was seeing other people that I'd known and visited in nursing homes. Basically they just put them in wheelchairs to prevent liability and to protect the person. It wasn't their objective to get better, it was to protect them. I feel that with Dodge Park, their objective is help people get better. The thing that I find so incredible is that every single staff person knows my name, knows my mother, and knows where she is all the time. They genuinely care about her. Each one has a personal relationship with everyone of the residents. Say if I take my mom out for the day, when we come back someone always greets her at the door, takes her by the hand, takes her coat, ask her how her day was, knows specifically what she's doing and can ask her about that. Every single staff member cares and they treat my mother like a family member.

My mother shares a room now. She was in a room by herself originally. They very carefully selected a roommate for her and I think being together in that room has been an improvement for both of them. My mom is very happy there. She was in a hospital for a while and all she wanted was to get back to Dodge Park.

Again, the facility is very home-like with all the decor. They have photographs and very personal touches everywhere there. Not just in the rooms but in hall and in the dining room. It looks like you're going into somebody's house. I have eaten there also and I think the food is very good and my mom enjoyed it too.

We chose Dodge Park Rest Home because they had the social model. The whole platform is to really fill the needs of the patients. Not to have patients fit in to what they have. They have such a genuine interest in who my mother was as a human being and what all her needs were with the most enormous amount of compassion. It was so good when we met them and we really wondered if it's going to be true, and it had been.

My mother had dementia. She had been in a continuing care place and she was not able to stay there. She was having sundowning at night. She was not able to live independently. They helped us transition her to Dodge Park. She had so much attention and so many people there for her. Every single person who is part of the staff really knows and cares about the patients. I can call anytime of day and whoever answers the phone is completely tuned in to exactly how things were going with my mother. They're so caring and such a heart level of professionalism. I think that my family would have been fallen apart if we have not found Dodge Park. She needed some medication adjustment and they have a fantastic psychiatrist who has a ward that would stabilize her, with just people with dementia. Dodge Park staff visited her while she was there. They were in touch with her and us at all time. I don't think there's another place like it. It's the real deal. Everything they say they are doing, and more.

The facility itself is immaculate. There's no odor. They were constantly improving the facility and they were putting carpets around the hall. The food is really excellent and healthy. I've had meals there with my mother. They have a lovely sitting area outside with the canopy on top with wonderful comfortable chairs for residents to be outside and get some fresh air. The have nice classrooms. There they have arts and sculptures. Their dining room is very attractive. They have a phenomenal computer system, and they have one downstairs that the residents can use. Sometimes they help my mother Skype with my sister in California.

I can't even imagine what my mother's life would be like if she were not at this place.

My mom moved recently from a dementia unit in another assisted living facility in Worcester, since we were very unhappy with the overall care. Prior to the admission we met with facility owners (which is very rare to meet with an owner of long term care facility in our area. Most facilities are part of big chains and you are dealing with people that will not be there a year from now). We were very impressed with their hands-on approach and the overall philosophy of care. Mom is a resident for 6 weeks now. She is very happy and has adjusted very well to life at Dodge Park. I have to say that she is doing so much better on so many levels that it is hard to compare my mom today to how she was a month and half ago at the other facility. She was very depressed, stopped eating and seemed completely out of control. Many thanks to Ben and Micha (facility owners) who delivered on all their promises to me and my family. Now I can say that I have piece of mind after 14 months of running around.

My mother was moved recently to Dodge Park Rest Home from another local long term care facility. This facility (Dodge Park Rest Home) is one of a kind. Due to my mother Alzheimer's disease we experienced in the past 3 years few admissions to assisted living facilities, rehab as well as long term care for a short period of time. Nothing that we experienced is coming close to the positive experience myself and all our family experienced at Dodge Park. Staff always attending residents. DON available to talk all day long and the owners on site, helping the floor and one of the owner even drove my mother and other residents for a lunch and ice cream at Meola. I am very happy to say that I found a home for my mother. finally.

It was clean and friendly. When you walk in, you don't have that feeling that you are in a typical old folks home but rather in a nice community where the staff truly cares about the residents. I enjoyed my visit, and would definitely visit again if I had the chance.

This is a wonderfull facility. The care outstanding. The staff always friendly and smiling. The owners are on site at all time and provide attention to all details. A great place to be if you lucky enough.