Assisted Living Communities in Roanoke, VA

"My father will be moving into the assisted living of Runk & Pratt at Smith Mountain Lake, and my mother has been in their memory care. They are very caring, efficient, and concerned about the patients they are taking care of in all aspects of their health and well-being. They also ensure that they have physical activities that they need. It is a very good facility and I highly recommend them. They have just reopened the facility to family members. We can only sit in the room; we can't get out and see the rest of the facility because they are still worried about COVID and they are still making sure that all patients are safe. So they're opening slowly. The girl that goes and cuts hair there cuts our hair too, so they have haircuts, laundry, a library, and a courtyard. The room that my mom's in is mostly just a bedroom and a bath area, but they do have different levels of rooms. They have rooms that have the ability to have a kitchenette in them, there are rooms that are a little bit bigger with a work area beside the bedroom, a bath, and lounge area. So, they have different sizes of rooms. They go from independent living to assisted living to memory care, so all of it's a little different. My dad is moving into a bigger room. It does not have the kitchenette, but it is a nice size room that can accommodate both the bed and a sitting area, and it has a little nook where there is a desk and stuff for work, like a work area."

"My niece moved with her mom to Carriage Hill Retirement. The food is very good, and it's always presented very well on the plates. It's usually meat and a couple of vegetables. The rooms are very big and nicely laid out. You can take your furniture, or you can use it from there. If you can travel, they have a bus that takes people places. They have bingo and a preaching service on Sunday, which my sister and my niece enjoy. The staff is very good and very helpful. They take them out into the common area where there is a TV, and people can sit. The value for money is reasonable."

"It is very difficult to adequately express our appreciation for your wonderful care of Elvis during the past 3 months and we will be forever grateful to you. It is extremely painful to see a charismatic, charming, and courteous parent gradually lose ability to think for himself and to carry on daily activities. However, the staff made that process so much easier for us and even more importantly, for Elvis, always affording him the greatest dignity and treating him as an individual. Caring for the elderly cannot be an easy job, however, throughout his stay, every member of the staff team made a difference in his day. We know he is happier now and doing all the former things he could do. Thank you again for all the smiles, hugs, and love you showed Elvis. "

"My mother-in-law has moved into Cardinal Senior Living. What I like the best is the level of caring employees. They seem to care deeply about the residents. They have a lot of community involvement in their activities. They seem to be deeply connected and have community volunteers just to try and make life enjoyable for the residents there. They participated in the Christmas parade in Bedford and went to see Christmas lights one evening. They have pastors leading Bible studies and musicians leading singalong times and entertaining. The negative for me is the size of the rooms is small compared to other places that we've seen. It's an older building. They try and make it very cheerful. There are a lot of pretty paintings on the wall. They decorated a lot for Christmas. I think they try and make it as homelike as possible. It's near Downtown Bedford."

"Magnolia Ridge assisted living facility, located in Roanoke, Virginia, is one of the smaller assisted living facilities that I have ever visited. According to their website, they only host 34 beds in the entire place. The benefit of having such a small facility is that each and every patient admitted gets much more attention and care than they would be able to at a larger assisted living facility. This truly sets Magnolia Ridge apart as one of the best assisted living facilities that one can hope to find themselves in. Not too long ago, I had a relative who was admitted to the facility. Due to health complications, he was no longer able to care for and maintain himself, so an assisted living facility was one of the last options available. Due to the small size of the facility, he was able to receive the care and attention that he deserved, and up until his passing he was very happy to be staying at such a comfortable, homely place. "

"I have already placed my mother in Hermitage Roanoke, and this place is top notch. They have all kinds of activities; they’ve got a theater room. They’ve got good food and they are well cared for."

"I think that Our Lady Of The Valley is an excellent and inspiring place for people who need help to stay. Recently one of my relatives stayed here for an extended period of time, after being diagnosed with a chronic disease which kept her from being able to care for herself. Our Lady Of The Valley is special because it is rooted in the faith of Christianity, and it is also sponsored and funded by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Virginia. The employees all seemed nice and also seemed to have a genuine focus on the health and well being of all of their residents. Further, Our Lady Of The Valley is one of the most beautiful assisted living facilities that I have ever visited. It is my hope that if I ever find myself living in one of these facilities, Our Lady Of The Valley may be the one that I choose. "

"My grandmother was a resident at Brandon Oaks from 1989 until her death in 1991. It is my opinion that she received excellent care during her time at this assisted living facility. I remember visiting her on a regular basis and being pleased with the friendliness of the caregivers and staff, the cleanliness of her room and the facility at large, and the care taken to beautify the surroundings of the facility. My grandmother loved nature and the outdoors, and I remember being able to look outside the window of her first-floor room and see trees in bloom and an array of flowers for her to look at and enjoy, and how happy this made her. All, in all, I while I still miss my grandmother tremendously, I am thankful she was able to spend her last years at Brandon Oaks, where I know she received the loving care she needed and where the staff really cared about her as a individual. "

"My husband is currently at the Virginia Veterans Care Center. They've done a very good job with him, and they're doing regular, weekly COVID testing, and they've been very diligent in keeping that out of there. Even though they have a lot of cases now, they've actually done a very good job. Everybody's been fine, everybody's been very professional, and there's good communication with everybody up there. He seems satisfied with the food."

"My tour of Woodland Hills Community was very good. It was a very lovely facility because it's quite new, so it's very beautiful. And they have some unique features for their residents that are quite nice. One is that they offer enrichment classes for their residents. The residents can learn about all kinds of things while they're there during these enrichment sessions. They have a beautiful facility. The rooms that they used for respite were lovely. They were like one-bedroom apartments. The kitchens in the entrance area of the room were a little bit cramped, so we weren't quite sure how that would work with a wheelchair or a walker. That was one concern we had about the rooms in that facility. But the dining area was lovely, and the menu looked like gourmet food. The chef was from Italy. We talked with a couple of residents, so that was helpful. Overall, it was a very nice facility, but they required a 30-day respite stay."

"I have visited this facility two times per month of a couple of years. I have from one to 3 residents at a time that are hospice patients of mine. I am a hospice social worker and I usually visit patients in their rooms or sometimes in a den-like area that has a table, couches and a tv. The administrator is always open to having a meeting whenever my hospice requests it in order to discuss a resident's situation, to problem solve, discuss safety concerns, etc. there are different levels of care at this facility, depending on how much assistance a person needs,. The facility is willing to keep residents until their death when hospice is involved, as long at the resident's needs are being met. They have activities and a dining room and are willing to bring meals to the room if a resident is not feeling well. They also provide transportation. The staff is mostly friendly, welcoming and helpful and we work together as a team usually. "

"We have known Friendship Manor for years because we've kind of grown up in this community since the 60's. It's a massive facility now all over the valley. The people that we talked to were excellent. They answered all our questions regarding Medicaid, the facility, and services. I can't say anything bad about the staff. The staff interacted with residents. The lady who took us around was very informative. However, the whole facility is basically a hospital floor. Residents are only allowed to have a hospital bed. They cannot bring in any chairs or recliners or anything from their home. They were well taken care of, that was obvious. It was clean, but the actual facility offered nothing as far as homeyness or being welcoming. It literally was a hospital floor that they left exactly the same and put a memory care residence in. The staff who toured us was very accommodating. She worked with our schedule, and she was extremely knowledgeable. She knew what mom would need and what they could offer. She was very helpful with Medicaid, with any of the processes there, and guided us as if we were going to need that to help supplement her being able to pay for this. Honestly, it was $8,400. We were just flabbergasted. It would have been very sad because there was nothing there: no flowers and no garden. They had a 4th-floor balcony as their outdoor area that was completely concrete, nothing inviting or welcoming at all with it. I was just very disappointed with what we saw there. We would never have considered it for her. I felt like the care level was very good though. The staff interacted with the residents. I didn't see anyone sitting alone like what you think of people doing in a nursing home in memory care. You'd kind of think of them being pushed aside. The residents in Friendship were all in various areas where they could be monitored by staff. I don't feel like there was any problem with actual care. I think they were very well taken care of."

"My 64 year old brain-injured, bipolar brother lives here and they are very patient and caring with him even though he sometimes screams at workers for the least thing that displeases him. He has been in other more upscale locations that did not tolerate his idiosyncracies. This facility is clean, the staff approachable, and the caretakers are vigilant without being oppressive. Also, the price has not increased in the 6 years he has resided there! "

"We did find a place at Joseph C. Thomas for my husband’s parent. We chose it because the rooms are large, the staff is very good and welcoming, and it’s strictly for dementia patients, which is what we wanted. We like this community's lighting. It seems to get a lot more daylight through the windows. We felt like she would do better at this facility. "