Orangeburg Manor

Orangeburg Manor is very nice and welcoming. The staff is very caring. The rooms are nice; we like them. They're well furnished and clean. They do have daily activities for the residents, but my parents don't participate too much of their own choice. They have a dining room, an activity room, and a nice courtyard. The menu is fair. I think Orangeburg Manor is a fairly good community. Each room is equipped with alarms that the residents can pull if they have an emergency. However, the caregivers don't have a way of knowing exactly which alarm is pulled first. Often times when I'm there, there are several different alarms going off, and some residents have to wait longer than others. I think they're a little short-staffed. They do the best they can with the staff that's there, but it is a little short-staffed.

We did not like Orangeburg Manor. It was more like a convalescent hospital environment, so very not personal. The facility was clean, but the staff wasn’t friendly when we did the tour.

Orangeburg Manor was a nice place. The price, I thought, was reasonable, but we would not be able to afford it for too long. I liked it. It was the first place that I visited. The environment was appropriate for someone that actually could afford that. The rooms were clean. The people that I met seemed nice and polite. The patients that were there seemed happy. Some of them were doing exercises. Some of them were watching TV. Some were playing table games, and some were just wandering around.

I visited Orangeburg Manor, and it actually had a nice room, but the common area was really nothing. There was hardly anything in the common area. The other thing is they have a lot of smoking residents, so it just smelled terrible in there with all the cigarette smoke. The staff was very helpful, and I think the people were actually great. I liked them. I went to the room, and they were nice and fairly spacious. The staff is very helpful, and they have a single room available. I didn't choose it because I didn't like the facility other than the room. The room was nice, but the rest of it was not too nice. It was probably partly because of the odor of cigarette smoke. The common area is very small, and it wasn't homey. I think they have a lot of wheelchair residents so I'm sure it had been cleared out so people could come in with wheelchairs. So if you are my dad and ambulatory, there is no place to sit or hangout that really looked pleasant. It is circular shaped, so it is almost impossible for someone who has memory issues to get lost because if they just keep on walking, they will get to their room. It is surrounded by a very nice courtyard area, so that is rather pretty as well.