The Best Assisted Living Communities in Bell County, TX

At Mercy House, we believe the burden of long-term care should not just fall on you or your family. Thats why were here working alongside you, as an extension of your family, to provide the loving care your parent deserves. Our small, family-owned facility and family-oriented model of care, will ensure your parent feels right at home here. Our assisted living & Memory Care home is designed based on leading research. It is designed, built and decorated to look like you're walking into someone's home, because you are! We do not have an "institutional-type" feel to us. We more or less, have a feel of any middle-class, American household. We do not have apartments with private bathrooms, as we were part of a study about 10 years ago that found that 80% of the falls happening in AL/MC homes, were happening in the private bathrooms. So instead, we now have a wall of bathrooms; so that we continually have Staff available and on hand at all times, to assist our Residents. In addition, we have semi-private & private rooms available. Private Rooms cost an additional $300/month in addition to the Level of Care cost. We are not fancy, but we are very homey. If you want the newest, fanciest of places, with chandeliers in the dining room, then we aren't for you. But if you want your loved one to be cared for, laughed with & loved on, in BIG and small ways, in a nice, clean, comfortable & safe environment, then we are the place you want he/she to be! We are a secured home, inside and out. One must have a code to even have access to come/go in our place; our courtyard (on the back side of each of our homes) is surrounded by an eight-foot, privacy fence that is also secured with a code. This helps keep all of our Mercy House family safe. Furthermore, we truly honor the value of the aging process here. Our residents age in place and we get the privilege of caring for each one, until God calls he/she Home. Though it hurts when we lose a part of our MH Family, we truly count it a success as well. Because it's especially wonderful for memory care patients to be able to stay in one place throughout their care. They will thankfully not have additional changes that can cause them to have issues with more hallucinations and delusional thoughts, so we count it a real WIN when there is no interruption in his/her care. Our Staff has two main goals.... First, to give the VERY BEST care possible and second, to make our Residents HAPPY! Life might not look like it used to look for Mom or Dad, but that doesn't mean that there isn't still so much JOY to be had and that's what we are about at Mercy House! We staff our communities based on the number of residents and their needs, not based on minimum state requirements. This means at most times, our community has a higher staff-to-resident ratio than you will find elsewhere. We offer: medication management; at least, 3-homestyle meals plus snacks each day; dignity in personal care; quality, proactive medical care; a positive, nurturing environment; Staff specialized in training for memory care and programs to optimize quality of life through everyday activities in a meaningful way; laundry and linen services, housekeeping services, a variety of entertaining and social activities on the daily; assistance with ADL's, on-site barber/beauty salon services each week; professional and trained clinical staff available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week; pet-friendly atmosphere; a professional care team, who customizes a detailed plan to meet medical, physical and social needs of each resident. To learn more about this providers license and review other available state reports, please visit: Texas Long-Term Care Provider Search

"We visited the assisted living community of Sodalis Temple. The person who led us around the place was very nice and very informative. He just really explained everything. While we were talking, someone who is the person of the month came and greeted us. We thought she worked there, but she was just saying hello and was really friendly. We enjoyed seeing her. We went around starting from the office, then walking around from left to right. We went to a single studio room first, and it was very nice. Then we went to the duplex, and then to the 1-bedroom apartment. Both of them were very nice, and we liked the fact that they had their own bathrooms. The studio was a little bit small, but not impossible. The place also did not have wide hallways. They're a little narrow, but it was okay. The dining area was very nice and large, and I really liked the way it was laid out. It looked like the kitchen staff was over to the far right, so I think they were already through with their lunch. The place was enjoyable. It was really clean and nice, and the parking was good."

"I toured Brookdale Western Hills. I got good vibes when I went in there. The staff was very friendly. Alicia was very nice and very informative. It's a smaller home. It had a more cozy home feel to it. As I went around, most of the amenities were about the same, the appearance and all of that, but I focused on the people who were there. The ones that are being taken care of. It seemed to be a pretty close-knit group of people. Everybody seemed to be pretty happy. The staff seemed to be comfortable. They seemed to be very close as well. The community layout is pretty good."

"I thought it was very nice. The people there were very compassionate, and we were very happy. The rooms were great, and they had two kinds of rooms. One was just a room, and the other one had two rooms with a living room and a bedroom. We chose one room for my mommy and daddy, which would have been perfect if it was for just one of them, but the two of them tried to live in that room, so it was a little crowded. Otherwise, the room was nice and excellent. The bathroom and the little kitchenette were great. I tried the food, and it was good. What I liked best was the caring management and staff. "

"I toured Stoney Brook of Copperas Cove, and I liked the activities and the living areas. They had the laundry room there. They had the outside area. It's very comfortable and it's enjoyable because of the things that you can do there, the enjoyment, the association with one another and everything. It was just very nice, and the staff was very friendly and very helpful. They gave you the information. They answer the questions you ask. The menus were very nice. They have a beauty barber shop and they have a church service there."

"We saw the memory care section. It's very nice and very clean. I was impressed with it. It seemed very comfortable. One thing I noticed is that there wasn't any smell. A lot of times, when you walk in those types of facilities, you get the whiff of urine or whatever. This place smelt really good and looked clean. The person who assisted me was very sweet, very nice, and seemed very knowledgeable about the care of people with memory issues. I didn't try the food but I checked the dining area and it looked clean and nice. I remember seeing a TV area and an outside area too."