Assisted Living Communities in Peoria Heights, IL

"The hallways at Country Comfort Henry were small. The rooms were also a little small, but not bad. The help might be really good workers, but they got tattoos and that kind of stuff. Overall, it looks nice. It's just the spaciousness that would be the difference. There were three residents in the front room and that room was small, kind of tightly compacted. There was another room where they had a big screen TV and there were three people in there. Of course, it's a small facility, so it was kind of a tight situation there, but it was clean. They just updated their kitchen cabinets. They were just waiting for a carpenter to actually show up and do the finishing work around there. For my appointment, they made sure we were going to be there at 2:00 and I got a bunch of texts and phone calls about it. We got there about 15 minutes before the 2:00 appointment, but the lady that was going to give the tour didn't show up until about 5 or 10 minutes after 2:00."

"Lutheran Hillside Village was the one I liked. They had a dinner-type thing. They had advanced care or recuperating care, too. The people were friendly, and it felt very relaxed. They had a swimming pool, a nice outdoor patio, and a chapel. I thought it was excellent. It's good. The staff were very nice. They invited us for lunch, and it was a very nice lunch. They sat with us and visited. The food was excellent, too. I think we had a salmon meal, and it was a generous portion. It's a nice place. It was very, very clean and spacious. They had a piano that people could play games and all kinds of stuff. They had an option of homes apart from the main building, but you could still go in for meals, and then they had really nice apartments."

"My father is still in rehab at Apostolic Christian Skylines. They have other levels of care, and they have assisted living as well. COVID has put everybody in a different situation, but they are trying very hard to accommodate families so they can visit given the safety guidelines. They are very quick to call me if there are any changes in my dad's condition or care, and having frequent care meetings is very helpful. The staff is friendly, helpful, and caring. My dad has to have a puréed diet, so he's not eating exactly regular food, but he has no complaints. He's fine with it. His room is clean but fairly plain. He's very fortunate because the windows in his room overlook a courtyard that has beautiful plants and flowers, and that part is wonderful. We could decorate it, but I'm not going to do that because I don't know if he's going to stay. They just installed all-new carpet in their activity room. I haven't been in it, but I'm sure it's lovely. I hope that they will do a little something with the rooms. There are different wings and different hallways. When you go into the entryway, there is a front desk, and then there are stairs or an elevator to go up to the second floor. The community or activity room is upstairs, the different hallways go off of that, and the dining room is upstairs off of the community room or activity room. They could update the rooms a little bit."

"My overall tour at Serenity Assisted Living and Memory Care is excellent. The staff who gave the tour was also excellent. The facility is relatively new, very modern, and tastefully decorated. It has very attractive living spaces. There was an excellent calendar of activities. There's a bistro with all the refreshments, in addition to their dining room. I saw the menu but did not try the food. It was impressive and restaurant-like. It was sit-down dining with menu options. The location is a little bit out of the mainstream; it's on a dead-end street. It's a little bit remote. Dollar for dollar, they're an excellent value for independent living."

"The Saxony staff that worked with me planning respit care for my elderly mother were extremely caring & professional. Their experience in the elderly care profession gave them key insights to my mother's stay at their facility."

"As a family member of a resident within this facility for several years, I am happy to pass on confirmation of the quality care that residents are given. Response to their needs and my inquiries have been prompt, honest and thorough. "

"Villas of Holly Brook and Reflections East Peoria was the first facility I went to. I think the location was out by Illinois Central College and everything worked out well with the tour, and that's the reason why I ended up visiting the other Villas of Holly Brook locations. They're all very friendly and very welcoming. I didn't make any appointments for my visit. We kind of showed up during working hours during the week and asked if we could go look at the apartments and they made time to visit with us and take us around. They got someone to take a tour within 15 minutes. They showed me everything. They have one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms. We walked around and they showed me the spa, the theater, the library, and the community room. They have two courts. One has a fireside court on one side of the building and on the other side was a garden court for flowers and things like that. So, the residents can go right into those court areas. Right adjacent to the court, you have doorways into them so the residents have two entrances into the court."

"My mother is in the assisted living of St. Francis Woods. They serve three meals a day and she has her own apartment with her own furniture. They have different activities, the place is very nice, and everyone seems really nice there. Mom seems to like it there. The staff is doing just great. She's in a studio apartment, but they also had variety of rooms like a one-bedroom apartment. They have a beauty shop, a little store, a very big TV where they can watch movies or entertainment almost every day, they have music brought in like karaoke or entertainers, and they have parties. It's pretty active there. Sometimes the staff is helpful, and sometimes they're not because they're busy. There's probably never enough staff members for a place like this since they have about a hundred or more residents. They have CNAs there to help, but they can take your food to your room if you don't want to go down to eat, and then at 2:00 they have snacks. I'm not crazy about the food, although they have quite a variety. My mother doesn't like the food too much, but it's not too bad; in my husband's previous community the food was a lot worse."

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"My grandmother has moved into the Grande Regency of Peoria. It's a very good facility. They have nice apartments. They've got a 24-hour on-call nurse. They have maintenance staff that can do quite a bit of stuff for you, and they have a bistro-style lunch, dinner, and breakfast that my grandmother's been loving. She's kind of in between assisted living and independent living. She needs some assistance, but she doesn't need a lot yet. We picked this one because they have those different levels of care and the on-call nurse thing. Their nurses can assist with any of the normal daily activities that you need help with. It works out well. They can assist with putting shoes on. My grandmother doesn't need that, but she does need assistance with cleaning and things, and they have housekeeping and they do laundry. They come in and do laundry once a week. They take your trash out for you every day, and they come in once a week to do cleaning for you as well. We were able to see quite a bit of what they have there, as well as what they have in the way of amenities there without intruding on other people's care and time, and personal information. We were able to see the lunchroom area. They have nutritionists and chefs on staff. They have housekeeping, laundry, a spa room, and they have a podiatrist every once a month to do foot care and nails if you can't do your toenails. They have a lot of stuff in the building. However, they do have to use elevators to get to the different levels for things, which is understandable. They took an older building and renovated it and turned it into an assisted living facility. It used to be a German restaurant at one point and a hotel. It's all got the original woodwork from that, too. They worked with my grandmother a lot to get her in there as quickly as they could. She likes their cooking, so I would say their food is good. She has not participated in activities yet because they do have a two-week quarantine period if you haven't had the vaccine. They work with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. They have a program where if you can get qualified through Medicaid, with it, your income dictates how much you pay in rent. They take most of your Social Security money. They leave you with $90 of spending money a month. We're not paying out-of-pocket for her to be living there, and she still has the money to be able to spend on herself. They had some residents on the level that she was on, which had oxygen in the room. Because they have nurses on staff, they do quite a bit in the way of care and they can handle quite a bit. I'm thinking that once it gets to the point where you're bedridden and you can't get up and do some of the things, then it's where they would probably have to have you move into a nursing home. If you can still do some things for yourself, then they work with you."

"My brother is at Liberty Village of Peoria. It has a basic layout for the skilled nursing facility. It has long hallways with individual rooms, which look like you're in a hotel. The rooms are quite big. In the skilled nursing area, there are 2 people in a room, but each room is 32 feet long by 16 feet wide. So, it gives each resident a little bit of space on his own. Their rehab facility seems very well educated and most of the people there are kind and caring. They seem to have fun with the residents. Those who need help feeding themselves seem to be taken care of. I've been going out there almost every day and I go out at lunchtime, so the food looks pretty good. I haven't sampled it, but I watch most of the residents eat and they seem to be enjoying themselves. The desserts look especially good. My brother mingles with the people who can go down to the lounge, and they have little activities there like games, but there was not a lot to do on the skilled nursing side."

"My tour at Supportive Living of Washington was good, but they have a waiting list at the moment. The people looked very happy. All the areas were very clean. I was quite impressed. I liked the bathroom situation, the fact that it was not a tub with a shower, it was an actual shower. You could walk in and not have to worry about tripping, which is important to us old people. They have a beauty salon. They showed the mailboxes and the outgoing mail slot, and that's important to communicate with people. They had some rooms where there was seating and TV, like if you want to have a movie night. The laundry area was closed. I was impressed with the cleanliness. There were residents that you could see, and they looked happy, and that's important. The staff during the tour was very kind and explained everything."

"I took my mother to Washington Villas of Hollybrook to tour it and she liked it the best. It had the fifties diner and that was one thing different that was added. Plus they had two ponds there so mom could fish or relatives of hers could come there and go fishing. The director and everybody was very friendly. Everybody we walked by, greeted you every time, even if it was just a hello or a compliment or something like that. They just don't walk past you and ignore you. So, it's not like walking down a street."

"Morton Villas of Holly Brook had a separate 50s dining room. The staff was friendly. Everybody that walked by greeted you. We went around with the assistant director. We looked in a couple of rooms and then they showed us around for all the different activities where you would go. They're all on one floor. They have one-bedroom apartments and two-bedroom apartments. They do not have studios. They have the schedule on a wall. You can look at the schedule each day and see what they're doing that day and where all the residents are."