Pennington Gardens

Mary214

I have moved into Pennington Gardens. They have a wonderful sitting and garden area with a gazebo. There are several courtyards throughout the community. When you walk in, the lobby area looks like a Hilton. There is a food service of three meals a day. Laundry is provided as well as some light housekeeping. There is a nursing staff, CNAs, or patient care techs 24/7, including the weekends. They have a movie theater. There is a library with several staging areas of books. There is a Wii game for bowling. There is bingo. Sometimes they do painting, and sometimes they decorate desserts that are going to be passed at dinner. The food is OK. I have a renal diet, and so mine is very bland and repetitive, but as I see the others being served, it looks appetizing. I sit at a table with six very pleasant people with different backgrounds and everything, so it's a great conversation. They have Happy Hour on Thursday afternoons at 4:00, and they have an ice cream social on Saturday afternoon.

LF116

I toured Pennington Gardens. I went to their assisted living, but they also have memory care. We went up the elevator and then we walked past a balcony that looked down into an activity room and everybody was looking at us. I leaned over the rail and I said, "Anybody down there play Bridge?" They said, "No, none of us play Bridge, but you can teach us." As we walked down farther, the woman said, "A lot of those people are from the memory care unit, so they may not know if they play Bridge," but it was very nice. The room was bigger and it was a little unusual. The closet was in the living room and there was a kitchen, more or less, instead of just a refrigerator with a microwave on top of it. There was no stove, but I liked that place. I think I like that place better than I liked the other one. The residents were having coffee in the activity room. I saw one man in the elevator, but I didn't see anything going on in any of the other rooms. There was no one in the library. There was no one in the game room or the puzzle room.

Nancy

Pennington Gardens Assisted Living & Memory Care is a very nice, clean facility. Instead of a la carte they offer different levels of care, which makes it more affordable, and actually budgetable compared to other facilities who nickel and dime you for different things. My parents moved in there. They have very limited activities right now due to COVID, and they just opened up dining. The staff is very friendly and very knowledgeable.

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Sharon

My mother-in-law moved to Pennington Gardens. Her room is just the right size for her. They have several activities like Bingo and music. The staff was great, really nice, and helpful. I've eaten there once, and it was good.

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Brando4

My relative has lived here for 4 years. She lived in other assisted living facilities, but the food or care was always lacking. This place is heaven on earth. The staff is attentive, turn-over is very low and the management is responsive and extremely competent. The owners are very sensitive to residents needs and the facility is well maintained. There are abundant activities, a movie theater easy and secure access for after hours visits. Most of all they CARE. The last place she lived in, which was in Tempe, had horrible food and the care was extremely sub-par. This place has a trained chef on staff. Can't say enough. Have recommended this place to 3 people who put there name on a waiting list. The room layouts are fine. What you want is excellent care by staff who care...

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Caring82991650

I really didn't like Pennington Gardens. I really thought that their website was deceptive. Looking on the website at the floor plans, it looked like they had cute little apartments. But they were hospital rooms, basically, with a partition in the middle. I thought online seemed much nicer than it really was. I'd say that you'd definitely need to go and look there in person. Don't go by the website, because if you look at the floor plans on the website, you think what you're going to get is totally different because it's more of a nursing home. I would not call what they call their independent living apartment. It was just like one room with a bathroom, and they put a little refrigerator and sink in the room, and in the middle it had this awkward partition. If you look on their website, it looks like it's an apartment with a living room and bedroom. It's not. They were nice, but I couldn't help but notice that there was a woman sitting in the lobby who definitely needed her diaper changed. They were polite, but I just really felt like I didn't trust things there. I think they should be more honest on their website about how the apartments are, instead of showing a floor plan that looks like it's really an apartment. I think they should show actual photographs of what they actually provide.

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