The Best Assisted Living Communities in Reno County, KS

"I'm living in Pleasant Hills. It doesn't look anything like a nursing home. It has a very open atmosphere. They're just more comfortable. It's going to be my third week being here. The staff is hardworking, professional and nice. The food is great. They have art craft projects. There's a courtyard."

"We visited Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community. It was a very wonderful place. It was bright, clean, a wonderful place, and it smelled good. They had this lovely café area, an eating/dining room, they had kind of an indoor courtyard with live plants. The place looks like you're outdoors, but you're inside. It was very nice, they were all very kind, and thoughtful. They served us refreshments, cookies, and juice for the schoolchildren that went there."

"My cousin moved into Haven House. It's a very nice place, and they have 7 clients. He seemed to like it there. Everybody is very attentive and they're right there all the time. It's like a house-type thing. The cost is very high. It's a nice, little place, it's from the edge of town, so you got a lot of open land around it. The lady I dealt with was very accommodating."

"Pleasant View Home is more than a nursing home. It's a living center, so there are duplexes. This is apartment living in a complex. There is also a nursing home and a Harvest House that's an assisted-living center, so there are several different areas that they can move around into when needed, and the prices are much more reasonable. I'm working on getting my parents moved in to Pleasant View Estates. At first, we had picked a duplex. It's a quadriplex actually, a standalone right by the living center. It was a very beautiful home, very well kept, and the finances were spectacular. It had a two-bedroom, two-bath floor plan, a living room, a kitchen, and a dining room. Both bedrooms and both bathrooms had pull cords for emergency use, and it's all one level and handicap accessible. It had an attached garage and a tornado shelter that was in between the two duplexes that were attached. They both share one shelter. As we were looking into this quadriplex and actually measuring where furniture and things would go, an apartment opened up inside the living center, and it was just as big as the quadriplex that we were looking at and had decided on. It was a two-bedroom, two-bathroom floor plan, a living room, a kitchen, and all of that, and it had much more counter space. They had a garage, a backdoor patio, and two French doors in both bedrooms that opened up into a backyard patio. They're within the living-center unit, and it's the first part that was built, so it's all on the main floor. When you open the door and you walk out, you're right there at the main part of the living center, which was the huge family part of it. They're right beside the library, the coffee shop, and the kitchen. They don't have laundry within their apartment. The laundry room is right down from them, which is not very far. It is very big, and you don't pay for the laundry. The garage is just right down from there, and a door takes you right directly into the garage. The beauty and barber shops are right there. There is a chapel and a gaming center that has pool tables. It has everything. They have all kinds of social activities, Bible studies, and ice-cream socials every Friday night. They do all kinds of things within this big area. They have family rooms for your family to come and visit you. The rooms are free for them to stay in, and it's just like a motel room; they're very pretty. Because of COVID, it's on lockdown, but because they have a patio and a backdoor, I can still go in and see them. The staff there is absolutely incredible to work with, accommodating, and so friendly. It just was an amazing answer to prayer. If someone needed the nursing home, it just is right there and very close. It's easy for them to just be transferred over to the nursing home, and if they only need it for a short period of time, then they would go there, and they would move back into their home. The other care facility is called the Harvest Home, which has twelve rooms and is assisted living. If they needed to go there, that's there. These people move the seniors who live within this complex themselves, so families don't have to go in and move. If they get to the point where two bedrooms is too much for them and they want one bedroom, then when a one-bedroom opens, they get the first chance to pick it, and they can move very easy. The staff there will move them, and they're very accommodating. If it's a bathtub that's in the apartment and you want a walk-in shower, they'll install a walk-in shower for you. Every bathroom and bedroom have emergency pull cords. Everything is all handicap accessible, very home-like, just very pretty, and very updated. It's a little country-farming community. They just don't have enough staff there to keep the facility because it's so big, but it really was nice. Every place that we looked in, I couldn't believe that they still had yet to clean it, and it still looked very nice and very good. You would have thought that they had just built it. Everything was really impressive. They're right by a park, so even their view out the windows was really nice. They have more communities and housing in Hutch and somewhere else as well, and I know they have in-home health care and physical therapy who will go to their rooms and work with them one-on-one, too."

"This facility is located in a very small and friendly community that is about 20 miles away from Wichita, one of the largest cities in Kansas. The staff was extremely friendly and seemed very knowledgeable. The facility itself was very clean and well maintained with a very cheerful environment. Each room included its own kitchen, bath and showers as well as their own heat and air units. Laundry, housekeeping and other services are included with the monthly rent payment and there is even an on-site beauty salon for the ladies. I would have to give this facility a four stars based on cleanliness, setup and overall environment of the facility. "

"I've seen Country Place Senior Living Lyons. It's fine. Right now, it's full, but I've had a father-in-law living there. They're nice and very accommodating trying to get you in, but they're too expensive, and not everyone can afford that kind of a price. My father-in-law was there until he passed about three years ago. It was a good experience. He had a private one-bedroom suite. You bring in your own furniture. It's very nice, beautiful, and well cared for. Back then, the staff was very good and took good care of him. I don't know now, but I don't hear anybody complain. A friend's mother is in there right now, and she's very pleased, so I'm sure that the staff is still just as good now as it was then. They had so many activities. They would do fireworks on the Fourth of July. They would do movie night, and they had a big patio out there. They would have ice-cream socials a lot, they celebrated each individual’s birthday, and they would have holidays like a Thanksgiving dinner. They would make it very nice, and they opened it up for all the families who wanted to come, and it was beautiful. They made it very fancy and very classy. They would have a lot of different schools and programs come in and perform for them. They would host Chamber Coffees, so people would come and do coffee, and they would have ice-cream-and-pie socials. They would open it up to the whole town, so people would come in and sit with the residents and do that. They would have exercise activities, bingo, and all kinds of activities and things going on for the residents in there all the time. My father-in-law had some problems with the food, but most of the time, they seemed to do a pretty good job with cooking."

"Our impression of Schowalter Villa so far has been very good. There were very few complaints and my mom's stay there is progressive. My mom is totally dependent and the staff transfers her to the walker. They only have private rooms there, there were no shared rooms. It's a very large community, and they have all kinds of activities for people with Parkinsons to dementia and every illness you could mention. They're the best ones in the area. In terms of the place's layout, they have expanded a lot. They're non-profit so I'm sure that they're just charging what they need to charge."

"My mom and handicapped sister have been at Colwich Gardens for 3 years now. We chose it because of the positive and warm staff, the inviting atmosphere and the level of care. We've not disappointed and appreciate the tremendous care and attention the staff have provided. They both consider it "home" after having been there a few months."

"While the nursing home is very large, it also has a great staff that works well with the people living within it. They work to make the families of the residents feel comfortable and they keep the family in the know of their family member's condition. They are willing to always help and are great at working with you. Their staff are knowledgable and their facilities are well kept with many different rooms to help the residents be sociable. They have the wii and many other fine things for them to do, like Bingo. They keep the place fairly clean. However sometimes I do feel the staff tends to avoid the family members and can seem upset about having to do their job. It kinda takes me aback, but these tend to be mostly the younger nurses and such and are not a representative of the whole. I really like this nursing home and would recommend it whole heartedly. "