Assisted Living Communities in Monongahela, PA

"Mom moved into Sterling Home last September. The place is nice and the rooms are decent. The only thing I have is that if you want a room with a bathroom, you have to pay more. If not, you have to use the community bathroom. I like the staff. They do care about the residents, and I've never seen them mistreat anyone. I know that my mother has never felt mistreated. As far as the services, they wash her clothes, make sure that she gets her meds, and they provide her with meals. I'm pretty much satisfied with the services that she receives. There are no activities going on there. They are indicating that most of the residents don't want to participate. The dining area is clean, but I think the selection could be better."

"We moved my father into Overlook Green on September 2, 2017 from another assisted living residence. The staff at Overlook Green treated my father with such compassion and respect. My father passed on October 26, 2017 from his illness, the staff and 365 Hospice could not have been more compassionate towards me and my siblings. I had previous experience with Overlook Green when my mother in law was a resident for two years. I would highly recommend Overlook Green when the time comes to place your loved one. "

"Paramount Senior Living-Bethel was very welcoming. The staff and residents seemed to have a great interaction with each other. The staff was very knowledgeable and wanted to show my daughter and me everything they had to offer. They have outdoor space, like a little courtyard area. They get three meals a day."

"I like it a lot, and that's why we chose it for my dad. He's been there for three days now and there wasn't anything that I didn't like about it. Their location is the best, the staff is pleasant, and it is clean. I talked to a few residents and they love it there. It was only a two-year-old facility as well. So far he's had mixed reviews about their food. He said he had some delicious ones, and then not-so-delicious ones. They have all kinds of outings and they have a game room where they play Wii bowling. There's a poker table there too. Every holiday, they have activities going on like Easter egg hunts, and just recently, they had a Cinco de Mayo day and I think they're going to have a dog show where family members could bring their dogs in if they have. Also, they have a little putting green right in the back, and a little bar where you can sit down, play cards, and get a glass of wine or something."

"We toured The Grand Residence at Upper St Clair and looked at their assisted living. I would say that the place itself, when you walk in, is magnificent. It's like walking into a five-star hotel. They patterned it after the Greenbrier in West Virginia, which is supposed to be some beautiful place. The dining room looks like you're in a fancy New Orleans bistro or something. The common areas are opulent, very glamorous, and very impressive. They have a room that looks like a library, and it's like a hotel. The common areas are very nice. The rooms are okay. They're good rooms, and they're solid. They weren't as nice as the other places I have visited, but they weren't bad. It's kind of funny that my overall feeling for the place is that this is a place where rich people go when they're too tired of taking care of their house. A lot of them had cars, and a lot of them were coming and going. They have a chef with their wait staff, and their cooking staff is the heart and soul of this place. They keep telling me about the finest food, and they keep showing me the menu. I just got the feeling that this place was super geared towards independence. The person who gave the tour kept stressing that they're family owned and that staff doesn't have turnover, but then when my sister asked him about their ratio of staff, he said they had so many of this one and that one, then he says they count the servers or the people waiting on the tables, as staff. For me, they're not cleaning people upstairs in assisted living. They're down there working with food. I don't think we want those people to be working with food and then going up there and wiping somebody. We sort of felt like there was maybe a little disconnect there. It was the most fancy of places you'd ever want to see. If you walked in there and somebody said that it was an assisted living place, you'd say you want to move in there because it's beautiful. The guy who talked to us was very nice and polite, but we just didn't feel like we were getting the answers we wanted. The place was just geared for people who could ambulate. That's kind of how I felt. I didn't think that it was geared towards assisted living."

"Whitetail Springs Assisted Living and Memory Care is very interactive. It is very clean and very new. As I was walking around, all the staff were out and about, and a great number of the patients were out and about, too. It's a small community of only 40 people."

"All new decorated rooms, floors, painted wall, new toilets, mattress, as well as kitchen, reading room, meeting room, every inch of this home has been touched and made more comfortable, more accessible, to its residence. The food is great, the care, the staff, all helpful, and at beckoning call when needed. Our 1st cousin has been there for five years. He needed more help than we could have given him,…. Sycamore Estates was the answer."

"I toured Celebration Villa of Lakemont Farms for my husband. I was impressed with their friendliness and the care they give to the residents. Everyone was very welcoming. They showed us the room he would use, but the only problem was that it doesn't have a hospital bed. The place seemed very clean and nicely decorated. They told me about some of the activities that they have but I didn't get to observe them. I thought it was very nicely laid out. It's also in a nice kind of rural area. They also told me about their menu."

"Brookdale Mt. Lebanon was very attractive. It was very clean and modern-looking. The staff said that the assisted living part had 60 people and the independent living part had 200, and that appealed to me. There seemed to be a lot of people who were just retired and living there and didn't have serious issues. They were kind of healthy-looking. The staff said there were numerous bridge games. I saw a nice-looking dining room there. The whole place is very clean-looking. We saw a studio, and it looked very nice. I just had a very positive feeling about it. They had a large library."

"Love, love LOVE the new dining room here. I came to visit my great aunt and was shocked at the transformation! What a difference from a few years ago! "

"The reason why I would choose Juniper Village was because my sister was into early dementia and I was looking for a memory care place. It was a very nice place, and I knew the care was very good. I had an acquaintance who was there, and she's very happy there. I thought my sister would be happy there if we had to go there. I knew they had activities and a crafts room. I talked to the director, and they said that they would take her, if need be, immediately. The environment was lovely. I just thought the care was very good there, and I didn't have that feeling that I was in a bad nursing home or anything because it was a lovely place and it was in a nice environment. "

"I liked Woodcrest Senior Living Community very much, but you have to share washers and dryers, and that didn't make me very happy. The staff was all very personable and the clients seemed very happy. The one-bedroom apartment was more than enough and I was pleased with it. I would highly recommend the facility. It's extremely well kept, and the staff and clients were extremely pleasant. Everybody seemed happy. It seemed to run very smoothly. They have a very big activity list. They have three levels of care. If you go to the next level of care, the care comes to you in your apartment, but if you need skilled around-the-clock nursing, they don't have that. It's nice financially. This is in Southwest, Pennsylvania, so it's very economical. Everything is on a single floor, so you don't need to go outside, but it's also off the main street/a highway, so you can walk outside. Everything was very good about it. I was very pleased with the staff, the clients, the facility, and all that they had to offer."

"To me, Abode Care of Monroeville has more of a nursing home/hospital kind of a vibe to it. It's more of a sterile kind of environment. It's all hard flooring. There's no carpeting. It was clean, though. The director was very nice and very knowledgeable. She was receptive to what we were looking for. No complaints about her."

"I looked here. It's a smaller facility than the other one I toured, they only take like 25 people. But it's very, very pleasant and very friendly. The person I talked to, whose name was Jill, was very accommodating, very pleasant, and forthcoming as to their services. They were getting to play bingo when we were there. I thought the rooms were a nice size, they accommodate a queen bed, which was surprising. A person looking for a smaller facility would probably like it."