Assisted Living Communities in Sulphur, LA

"We placed my mom at Stonebridge. Overall, it was a bright facility. It did not have a nursing facility, and it turned out she needed skilled nursing. So we ended up putting her in a hospital and eventually hospice. However, the people at Stonebridge were wonderful. The food was very good. The room was like a little apartment. It was very nice, well-kept, and it was in good shape. As a matter of fact, I thought it was a fairly new wing of that particular facility. I would highly recommend it. "

"The Verandah was a very nice facility, very clean, and orderly. The food was good. The personnel that showed us around was excellent. I was considering it very seriously, but my son and daughter-in-law convinced me to seek other options."

"Brookdale Lake Charles is a lovely place. When you put your own furniture in the rooms, it looks like an apartment with a bedroom and a walk-in shower without a step over. They had a half kitchen with no stove, but had a microwave, mini refrigerator. They had a dining room and people who came to play music for them. The manager was very informative and helpful."

"I toured Sage Oak Assisted Living and Memory Care of Lake Charles. We did look at the memory care, it's good, and it's like a group home. The rooms are very, very small like I probably would have to borrow a twin bed. The only complaint I had was the room size. There was no place for privacy, if your family wants to come to visit, the open areas are completely open. She wouldn't have room to accommodate chairs for visitors and things like that. It's a nice facility, the ratio of caregivers to patients is very good. They have a chef preparing meals, and the cooking is interactive. I thought that it had a lot of good things about it. The common area is one big room. On one side, it's a kitchen with a very long counter, and on the other side, there's one TV. Everybody has to watch the same thing or whatever or go sit in that room, which is extremely tiny. She would have a twin-sized bed and her chair, and that would have been that. The staff was great. They were nice. The facility is good for some people, but my mother wasn't ready for that yet. There was no one in the building that we went in for memory care. It was a building they had just finished. They have 16 rooms in each building, so it's kind of like a group home. It was a fast and furious go-through, because we got a call at the same time, and we had to meet with the doctor at the hospital."

"Overall, this is a well run facility. The staff takes great care of the residents and makes sure that their needs are met. There are a lot of opportunities for the residents to participate in a activities and socialize with one another. However, there are some aspects of general cleanliness that could be addressed. It has been my experience that some of the residents, who may no longer have the mental capacity to clean up after themselves, have lacked some attention in regards to aiding them in cleaning up their living space. This is a small flaw that has been quickly and easily corrected when pointed out. Otherwise, the facility is fantastic and the residents seem well cared for, happy, and content. If you have a loved one or friend of a loved one who requires an assisted living situation, I would highly recommend looking into this facility. "

"We found one in Lake Charles for my mom -- Villa Maria. She is not in there yet because she had hip surgery, but when she recovers from therapy, she will probably be moving into it. I brought my mom to visit, and she loved it; she was very satisfied with the size of the rooms, the lay-out of the place, the security -- just everything. We didn't see anything that we didn't particularly like; everything that we saw was good. They offered us to eat lunch that day, but we didn't have the time. We actually went on the day that they had mass because it was more geared to the Catholic community. The Center was on the grounds of the Catholic Church, so we had already been there for quite a while, and we didn't have time for lunch, but they did give us the menus for the whole month to show us what they do and the activities they have, and she was really pleased with all of it. They have like a movie night, once a week they have bingo, two or three days a week they have Bible studies; they have all kinds of stuff. The staff was really nice. They even take them to the doctor when they need to go to the doctor, they go once a week to Walmart and take them shopping. So we were just really pleased with all of it. The only thing is they don't have a big courtyard -- an outside area. They have like a gym and an indoor swimming pool, and they do have the exercise stuff, but they didn't have kind of a nice courtyard, which is not that big of a deal for me, but they just didn't have the room for that. Everything else was just outstanding. "