Assisted Living Communities in Auburn, MI

At Bay City Comfort Care, there are no compromises or hidden surprises when it comes to living life to the fullest. Our newest community was designed from the ground up to provide our residents with a feeling of spending every day in a luxury resort. Enjoy the carefree Comfort Care lifestyle with no hidden costs. Comfort Care assisted living services area ideal for residents that would like to maintain their independence but need assistance in activities of daily living. Residents are encouraged to maintain maximum independence with 24-hour personnel available to provide assistance. Comfort Cares memory care facilities are for residents who are cognitively confused or find themselves in the various stages of dementia. Our team is trained in delivering compassionate care to engage with our residents where they are.To learn more about this providers license and review other available state reports, please visit: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Adult Foster Care Search

"Bickford of Saginaw was very nice and very clean. When we first walked in, the staff wasn't as friendly to greet us. But once we were shown around, it was fine. The staff who showed us around wasn't the lady that usually gives the tour, so she wasn't as knowledgeable and able to answer my questions. The facility was nicely laid out. They had a microwave and a mini fridge."

"We actually went to the memory care. The way it was setup wasn't as cheerful, it didn't feel as happy, and it was more patriotic. There's also a big difference with the way the people were served at the dining table. The residents were just right across from the kitchen. I guess they have a menu that you can order off of, but it seemed that the kitchen was right near the dining room where the residents were eating. The staff was informative, gave us a full tour, but we only went to the memory care side, and didn't go into assisted living. It was clean, it didn't smell, it was decorated, but they used a lot of brown, and it was basically just one room size, which were more like studios."

"If only Charter Senior Living of Bay City wasn't so far out, my father-in-law probably would have been there. The staff was pretty friendly and the rooms were pretty decent and decently priced. Sandra was really sweet and she was the person that did our tour with us and what I liked the most about it was the atmosphere and it was very clean."

"We visited Vassar Fields, and it seemed very good. There were people my parents knew who were living there so they were considering it at that time. They had arts and crafts and bingo. They had a room where people could come in, have popcorn, and watch movies and shows. They also have entertainment coming in from the outside. We visited the assisted living part, and I noticed that the independent living places seemed to be larger compared to the assisted living ones. They also didn't have a full kitchen. It was more of a room with a bathroom like a hotel suite, which is nice, but it didn't have kitchen facilities. The facility is also older."

"My grandmother was very well taken care of, and we visited almost daily. This facility is small with only 20 bedrooms (even the small room was large enough for her to have her twin bed, a couple of end tables, a dining room table/with drop down leaf and two chairs, a recliner, a tv stand and tv, etc.). This small number of residents allows residents and their family members to become familiar with the staff and other residents. Staff is pleasant and caring. Residents are encouraged to take meals together in the dining room (but not forced to)...and sometimes when family members are present at a meal time...family members are invited to join them for their meal. Also, a separate eating area is available for family members/friends to bring something in to share, or to celebrate a happy event. Off-site activities: ball games, day-trip to Frankenmuth, etc. On-site activities: special music, church service, craft activities, hair salon, etc. One evening a week was "Take Out Night" with take-out food being brought in for residents. Also, if residents didn't want a particular meal being served, they could ask for something simple from the kitchen...grilled cheese, canned soup, cereal, etc. (Grandma did so when her stomach wasn't up to having certain things.) If I were to need assisted living care, I wouldn't hesitate to live at Plainview."

"Auburn Fields needed a little bit work. The administrator told me they were putting new carpet in the hallways and stuff. They were going to be a little under construction, but that was no big deal. The rooms were pretty spacious for a studio. It had a bedroom, living room area and a bathroom. It was nice. When I was there, they had people out in a circle and they were playing beach ball around. So I just stood there and watched them. We checked on the dining room and it was nice. "

"When my father had an extended hospital stay for COPD, that left him very weak, he needed an inpatient rehabilitation facility to help him get strong enough to be able to go home again. He stayed for five weeks at Stratford and was able to eventually return home. We had visited three area facilities before making our choice, and really liked Stratford Village Nursing Home, so we chose to place my father in that facility.My mother and I ate several meals there with my father, and the food was very good. The staff was friendly, even when my father got agitated and lashed out with some harsh words at times. Their response time, when my father pushed his call light, was rather slow (roughly 10 to 12 minutes each time), and the doctor was only there once a week, and doctors took turns, so the times when the doctor would be there varied, which made it very difficult to talk to the doctor if you had a question or problem, because you never knew when they would be there.Also, the doctors and the six residents took turns providing care at Stratford, so each one would have to have each patient repeat their history when they would see them on their week, because it was a different doctor almost every week, so the continuity of care was broken. I found it odd that any patient in the clinic or hospital affiliated with this nursing home would have both the resident and their supervising physician caring for the patient; whereas, at the nursing home, the resident physicians were allowed to see the patients without the supervising physician present, making one think that the nursing home patients are not as important as other patients.The staff did not bathe my father very often, and we had to request that they bathe him at least twice a week, after we found out that he had gone two weeks without a bath. The physical therapists were really good. They did a nice job in working with him and getting him strong enough to go back home to be with his family. My father did not like the fact that the social worker at the nursing home would hold meetings with him every other week and kept telling him he was depressed, when he was really just sad that he could not be home with his family. My father's mental capacity was fine, and he did fine on the all the tests for depression they would have him fill out, but the social worker still kept telling him she thought he was depressed.All in all, I still think Stratford Village was the best of the three facilities we toured and that we made the correct choice in placing him there. They did achieve the goal of getting him back home to be with our family, where he was able to stay for five more weeks until he passed away. We think the care my father received there was good care, and, we recommended it to my uncle, who is there now. "

"We just put my mom into Stone Crest Assisted Living last week. I just spotted it from the road one day and I went to check it out. When I walked in the door, they took me on a tour, they gave me brochures and information, and it's a beautiful, beautiful facility. I was very, very impressed. She has been there only for a week, but from what we have seen, the staff is awesome. They are all about helping my mom get situated, getting her settled. They make sure that she has all of her needs taken care of. They are very attentive. I am just really, really impressed with them. I've dealt with their manager, and she is awesome; she is just fabulous. I call her on the phone just expressing our concerns or asking questions, and she is very accommodating. They all are. They have all kinds of activities that require the involvement of the residents, and my mom participates in them. This facility is just fabulous. They have numerous areas where the families can go and take their loved ones or go sit and visit like in a little family room situation where it is out of the way and doesn't disrupt anyone. It’s just really a fabulous place. She has a private room, which is quite spacious, and she has a bathroom all of her own. I had taken all the brochures home. I have four brothers and one sister, and I mailed all the information to them, asking them to go on a tour, to check it out and see what they thought about it, and they were all impressed. Another main reason is because this particular facility will accept Medicaid when my mother runs out of money. "

"My grandmother is in The Colonnades. It is a great experience for her. She is very happy. We were concerned that she was not going to happy and she wasn't going to like it, but she really likes it. One of the big things is that she is more active, and they actually have outings, and she's enjoying going on outings. That is great too. I think the rooms are pretty big. It has a nice living area, a really big bathroom, and a really big separate bedroom. So, I think they are a good size for the price. She is a very picky eater and she says the food is very good. I picked her up one day and she was eating salmon, and they had apple cake and it looked really yummy. I didn't taste it, but it looked good. I think that the one thing that I like about The Colonnades is that it really brought back my grandmother's independence and her being able to go out in the community again because from last June until she was placed there, she wasn't able to go out as much. So, I really like the fact that she is able to go out and to the casino like she used to in the past. I think the atmosphere is great. It is very well kept up and very clean. It seems all the other residents are happy. I do have one suggestion, and she complained about it one time. They can only take so many people who are in a wheelchair for outings, and she has to hurry up and rush to have her name on the list because there's always one person who's on the list before her. "

"My mother stayed in Caretel for two weeks. It was wonderful, she absolutely loved it. She was treated excellent. She still talks about going there and the fun that she had, the activities that they did, and the good food. The facility was nice. When we walked in, they didn't have any smell, it was clean, and it's a secured facility. "

"I visited The Caring Place. It was a very clean and a beautiful place. It had a non-evictus facility. It was probably a 10-room flat, and it was a house converted into a facility. My mom was on a waiting list there because it was a nice place and it was a small group home, so I thought my mom would be cared for a lot better. They had small rooms, and they don't have a private bathroom, but it was located just outside the room. They had home cooked meals which I really loved because where she's at right now, she doesn't had many home cooked meals. It had a pretty yard. They were watching TV and chatting with one another, and they weren't really weren't doing any doing activity at that time that I visited. "

"My Aunt lived at Barton Woods. She was diagnosed with dementia and the staff were extremely patient and caring, despite how difficult she was to work with. She was always clean and well groomed. She seemed to like the food that was served and the staff did a great job of including her in the activities despite her inability to actively participate. "

"King’s Daughters Home is very good. It's a small facility with a total of 60 beds, and so far it’s been pretty good. There's a smaller size in assisted living, which has one-bedrooms, studios, and a couple of suites. The larger the room, the more it costs. They don't accept any type of Medicaid payment at all. It's all private pay. The nursing home part of it is also single occupancy and from what I understand it has the lowest cost in the state. The dining room is pretty decent. Assisted living and nursing home are separate. They do outings for the people that can do it. They try and provide aides for anybody who wants to go. "