Assisted Living Communities in Fairview Heights, IL

"Garden Place Senior Living Millstadt looked older and so much more like a nursing home than the other places I've been to. They didn't seem to have as many activities as the other places we've seen. What they had was music, some entertainment, bingo, and movies. I also didn't think they had quite enough staff. Other than that, it's a very clean place. The dining room was very pleasant looking. It was a large room and it was open on both ends to the common rooms in the lobby and then the kitchen on another side. It had a lot of windows."

"We chose Cedar Trails Senior Living Community because they were very welcoming, very sweet, and very kind. It was clean. The people were very nice. They have a lot of activities. It is enough to keep my parents busy. Their apartments were very nice, very clean, and very spacious for two people. Their dining room was very nice."

"Garden Place Columbia was smaller and had less flexibility for the residents in what they wanted to do. We wanted to be able to go over there and visit my sister and then eat with her, which was fine there, but they had to have a couple of hours' notice before we could have a meal with her. Their rooms were also much smaller and fairly dark. There weren't a lot of outside windows or anything, but other than that the staff was wonderful and the residents seemed very happy. I wouldn't have had any hesitation to place my sister there. The facilities were very clean and the layout was easy for someone to navigate."

"St. Louis Hills Assisted Living and Memory Care seemed like a nice facility. I liked some of the amenities there. The people there always seemed to be nice. If the person's not on hospice, you have to supply the bed and TV. They had their own small refrigerator and microwave. The staff was very nice and very knowledgeable. The facility was a seven-story tall building. They said it used to be a hotel with elevators. They offered threee meals a day. They had an outdoor space."

"My mom has been in Memory Care at Kingsland Walk for over three years. The facility is well maintained and clean. We are thrilled with the Executive Director, who is organized. professional and easy talk with. She is good with employees and always smiling. The staff is wonderful ..from Maintenance to Housekeeping, Medicine and Caregiving. We adore the MC Director, Tanika, and all the Care, devotion and long hours she puts in caring for my mom and all the residents. She and her staff are the best we have had in all our tenure here and we feel extremely blessed that mom is safe, clean and cared for in every way. These wonderful people are like family to us."

"One of the things that appeals to me very much about Clarendale Clayton is that they have progressive care. In other words, the greater portion of the building is for independent living, they have a section, which is smaller, for assisted living, and then they also have a section for memory care. And I think that it's a very good model to take care of the needs of the residents because if we all live long enough, we naturally require more care the older we get, and you don't have to move out of a facility to be able to access the increased level of care. The staff who gave the tour was very, very helpful and very gracious. We had talked on the phone before I left Virginia to come to Missouri, and it was amazing. She did her homework. She wrote down my name, my two sons' names, my dog's name, and she asked me about all of them. She listened when I told her what was within my budget on a monthly basis, and she was very efficient in showing us what was available for that amount of money per month. The building is a high rise. It's the biggest facility that I looked at in terms of population and space. There are 13 floors. They have some penthouse apartments at the top, which I could not afford. The staff showed us an apartment on the third floor, and it was a nice layout. For the same amount of money that I'm paying now in Manassas, Virginia, they're at the Clarendale Clayton, they have a full-service kitchen including an electric stove, a full-size refrigerator, the storage space and appliances to prepare any of your own meals that you wanted to. They have a point system for how many points you have per month to spend for food and beverage services. Also, they have a washer and dryer in each apartment, so you don't have to be in competition for other people to use the washers and dryers. Another way that the Clarendale Clayton was unique is that the staff said that it would be possible for me to come back to bring my little dog and I could stay there free of charge for up to 2 or 3 weeks just to try it out the atmosphere and everything in order to make a more informed decision."

"I toured Promenade Senior Living. Terry did a good job. She was enthusiastic. The rooms were small. It looked good, and they got a good job keeping it clean. I looked at the dining area, and it looked nice."

"The facility is immaculate and well maintained. The staff is very courteous and attentive to personalize needs. My mother has lived there for over a decade and she loves it there. We value the communication between the management and staff. I would recommend this facility as a crown jewel of Monroe County."

"Sunrise of Webster Groves was very nice. They had lots of amenities and many different rooms to visit. It had a bistro, a great room, activity rooms, and a bowling alley in the basement. I didn't see a whole lot of staff. It was a bigger place, so it seemed a little less hands-on. There were a little more people that are not really needing a whole lot of care, but it was the holidays, so people could have been gone, too. The rooms were nicer than the others that I saw. It was homey and friendly."

"We have just been very happy with what we found at Brentmoor. We're moving in probably the first of December. It was less than a mile from our house, so it was closer to our grocery store, to our drugstore and to our cleaners. They have about less than 100 retired people living there whereas some of the other places have 300 people. We also like that they have been most accommodating. We have a puppy and this place would allow pets. The staff has been wonderful, most accommodating and very outgoing and friendly. They have us over for dinner so that we could sample their food and apparently it had been great. "

"My wife doesn't see very well and The Mary Culver Home is designed only for visually impaired women, and they've been in business for 150 years, so I like it. It's a small home. It only got 27 private rooms, so she gets a lot of one-on-one attention and they're very good. They are very attentive towards her and I would highly recommend anybody if their spouse is visually impaired, because that's the one requirement to get in. I like the fact that the patient to staff ratio was like 7 to 1 and the food's good. My wife seems to enjoy the food and they do activities with them all the time. So, they try to get them involved in various activities and I'm pleased. The rooms are small, but they're all private, and they have a private bathroom in them. It's plenty and big enough to get around. I think the home was built in 1966, I believe, so it is an older home, but it's well-maintained. They have a dining area and they kind of wait on them like it's a restaurant. They'll come up there and take their order, and whatever they want, they'll cook it for them. They have exercise classes. They do tours of different countries and stuff like that. They listen to those kinds of tapes and then discuss them. The other day when I was there, they were doing Martin Luther King's history and life. So, they do something like that all the time for them."

"Friendship Village Sunset Hills is really nice. It's just too big for what we're looking for. But I felt really good about them. I felt like they had a lot of staff. I was really pleased to see so many people floating around. They seemed to know the clients' names, the people they were taking care of. There were things that they said they had available to the clients that I actually saw that they were available, which I thought was good. The fact that you could go from independent to assisted to skilled nursing there. We just didn't like that you had to go to separate buildings for that. That would be a challenge for my aunt to get there to see my dad if he were to start off in that. Their prices were higher than what we wanted to spend. However, it would have been pretty much all inclusive. It looked like they had everything we needed."

"We liked Autumn View Gardens. The facility and rooms were pretty nice. The staff was very accommodating, nice, and helpful. They were very caring people who seemed to be really interested in you."

"Great atmosphere, a lot of entertainment for my mom and good food!"