Spring Brook Assisted Living

Jim

We visited Spring Brook Assisted Living. It is very nice. I would say the best I've seen out of all of them, facility-wise, was Spring Brook Assisted Living. It was new, well laid out and fresh, clean, and kind of fancier, too. The rooms were top-notch and fancy, but well-laid out. I wouldn't mind living there myself. It was great. I thought that the activities were similar to the rest of them. They had movie nights, and several options for church throughout the week, and they brought in entertainment and things like that for the residents. It was equal to all the rest of them that I visited. I looked at a two-week cycle menu and it looked like it would be good.

Phyllis

My sister-in-law was in the assisted living part of Spring Brook. They did a wonderful job of taking care of her. They would assist her with her laundry. She was supposed to do her own laundry, and she'd walk down the hall to the laundry room. If they saw her she was having trouble, they would assist her with it. They had a little library there, which was nice. She liked the common dining room where they had the meals served, and she liked the friends she met there. She wasn't much of a mixer, so she spent an awful lot of her time in her room. She had a bedroom, a living room kitchen combination, and her refrigerator and stove. She never used the stove, just the refrigerator. They had a nice elevator. The staff was good. They take her down to the common area and they had the music down there. She wasn't much of a game player like cards, games, or anything like that, but she liked jigsaw puzzles. She thought the food was good. The facility needed updating, but they had a swimming pool and she liked that. I thought they were expensive, but she didn't have much choice.

Reviewer RC#0129

I've been in Spring Brook Assisted Living since the 19th of May. We've been kept in our rooms 90% of the time in the last year. We have had not much visitors from our family and that's one of the reasons why I'm leaving. My room is lovely. It's an apartment with a large living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, and a bathroom. The staff is just fine, but not the same ones all the time. They help me get out of bed, wrap my feet and put my socks on, and deliver my meal. When they bring the food and if I cannot eat it, then I fix something that I can or they bring me something special. The facility is excellent, too. We had a swimming pool, but after the disease has started, we don't have anything. The people who have mental problems have activities, but the rest of us, myself, we don't have anything. The living atmosphere was wonderful and a lot of the people were very friendly. We had a lovely dining hall where we could meet each other and have a good time. We had a swimming pool and cards of different kinds, but that was when we checked in. The people that decide what's going to happen are very poor, but the staff that waits on us is excellent. It's expensive here.

Pamela

I took my mom to Spring Brook for a visit about a year ago. It was a very nice facility. We liked that my mom would be on the 1st floor, so she didn't have to take elevators or stairs. We looked at a 1-bedroom apartment, which was very nice. They had a little pool, an exercise room, a nice dining room, a beauty salon, a little church area, and a theater. The amenities were very nice, but at that time, we were not ready. We met with the intake person, and she was very and very kind.

Anonymous1005cp

Spring Brook Assisted Living is a facility for loss of memory also. We're down close to the humane society of Alaska, so we see a lot of wildlife down here too, and we have a pond. We have activities, we have music once a month, but now we don't have anything because of the virus. I have a two-bedroom apartment, it's got two bedrooms, kitchen, living room, and bath. They also have one-bedrooms. Their lost memory section has three floors. The staff is wonderful. We have a really good gal that's really good. I do a lot of the cooking myself, their food is OK, but it's not like home cooking. We had a lot of nice activities and music when we can, though we can't right now.

J.N.

Spring Brook Assisted Living is wonderful, but it's too big, with over a hundred residents. It was an excellent tour. The staff is excellent, the rooms were more of an apartment, with a stove, a refrigerator. The staff was excellent.