Sunlit Gardens Assisted Living

Jaime

We had a very pleasant tour of Sunlit Gardens Assisted Living. The gentleman who we spoke with was very knowledgeable and quite pleasant. He knew most of everybody by name including the residents. It was a large place, located in a nice area. We saw an exercise program in a big room going on. The rooms were bigger compared to other places. We saw both furnished and unfurnished studios, and they seemed big enough to put your furniture in. It also looked very homey. It had separate buildings for different levels of care. The dining area for each building was separate. Each building also had a good staff-to-patient ratio. All the grounds were kept well, and everything looked in tip-top shape.

Greg

We've chosen Sunlit Gardens Assisted Living. We gave a deposit for my parents. My brother and I sat down, and we went over all the ones that we visited. We compared them. What we liked about Sunlit Gardens is they had two rooms right next to each other. Instead of putting them in one small room, we got two rooms. We felt that was best for them at their stage right now. I've only had interaction with two of the staff. They were great, so was the director; he was fantastic. He showed me several different options for my parents. I felt like there were lots of choices there. I met the head nurse in charge of all the patients. We talked to her briefly, but mostly with the director of sales. It was homey. It was kind of set up like a ranch style. They had a building with a dining room and some rooms in the building, but you go out to a courtyard.It has lots of green to look at. My parents would have something to view and would enjoy that. However, it just wasn't shiny and new like some of the other ones we went and saw.

Tiffany

I visited Sunlit Gardens Assisted Living. The staff seemed nice, it's smaller, so it's like more personable. It's clean, and I like the area that it's at; out of all the places I have seen, this is the best area. It's in a good community, and it's in Rancho Cucamonga, so it's nice there around; the streets and the stores and the shops nearby are in a good area. They have bingo, exercises, and everything. It felt homey. The staff members were very nice and informative.

Julie

Sunlit Gardens was extraordinary. But when my dad passed away, I went to remove all of his things out of the room, and they handed me my deposit check, the check that I had written for the two weeks left in the month, and said they weren't charging me a dime and they had taken care of him for a few days. They took good care of him. They were pureeing his food because he was having problems swallowing. It was going to be a great place for my dad. I was very impressed with them. Their executive director has been there for 18 years, and that tells you a lot. They're also five minutes from here, which is another plus for them. I knew he was in good hands. I went to see him every day. I called and I immediately got put through to someone that could tell me how my dad's night was. The staff members were very present. My dad got so much more attention there. They were taking care of him. They were very competent and very knowledgeable. When my dad was dying, they were very compassionate and explained the process and what was happening to him during the last few hours. They were great. The sales manager that signed me up and took me for the tour and all was very, very polite. He was just extremely nice and I just loved him. The nurse of the facility was right on top of everything that was going on with my dad. I don't know how she does that with all the people they have there, but she was on top of everything, and she knew exactly what was going on with my dad. And then the executive director, who I never even got to meet until my dad had already passed, she's the one that came in while I was cleaning my dad's room out, and she handed me my checks back. She said, "I just can't believe this happened so fast. We were looking forward to taking care of your father." They're very nice. You could tell that the staff really cares about their patients. People love it there, and they're there for a very long time, and that said a lot to me, that's why I ended up putting him there. They were very, very careful about the COVID. They were being very diligent about that. I was impressed with everyone. The facility itself was clean and it didn't smell. The floors were clean. My dad's room was clean. I was impressed. I told them what he liked to eat, and that's what they gave him. They couldn't get him to eat the first day he got there, and I had told them, he liked the peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, he doesn't want any hot food or anything like that. They couldn't get him to eat what they were serving, and then they said, "Give him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, his daughter said that he likes those." And sure enough, his face just lit up when they brought it in. He couldn't eat it, but the gesture was there, and I could tell that my dad was happy.

Cindy

We really liked the Sunlit Gardens in Alta Loma for my mom because my mother-in-law was also there. She was in assisted living, and she was there until she passed. They were just amazing. They did every single thing they possibly could to help my mom, and they were really, really good. I was very comfortable with my mom being there. The staff was all very caring. I can't really base the food on her because she just stopped eating once she got there. I've eaten there before, and the food was really good. They had music in the living room, and they had lots of stuff going on. The place was also very clean and very nice.

Stacey

Sunlit Gardens Assisted Living was nice. The staff was amazing. The room was nice but didn't have a closet. It was a studio, so it was just a room and a hanging space, where you could only fit five things. The dining area looked nice. It was lunchtime and everyone was eating.