Sonata Delray Beach

Mother moved into Sonata Delray, and I liked it because it's a small facility. She gets personal care. A majority of the staff has been there for a while, and there's not a big turnover. They have two buildings of 24 each separated by a garden area. They don't have as many activities as the larger places, but they have arts and crafts, games, storytelling, and take people on trips. They provide transportation to doctors' offices two days a week, have a hairdresser one day a week, convert one room into a gym so people can have physical therapy there, have a computer area, and showed movies. The food is not so good, but it's adequate. This place was closest to my home.

termination prorated refund for emergency medical departure. they are not flexible in their policy on termination

Brookdale Delray Beach is a much nicer facility than others I've seen, and it has better activities. They have very good staff, and the facility is beautiful. They have excellent facilities, programs, and food. The rooms are beautiful and much nicer than the ones at the other places.

My mother was at Brookdale Delray Beach. The staff was great. They were understanding. My mother was a little difficult, but they were very good with her. The place was clean. We couldn’t ask for anything more. My mother had an open room. She had a private bath too. The dining room was OK. The people that work in the dining room were very nice. They were very good too.

Brookdale Delray Beach was clean, and the people who assisted us were fine. The room was adequatly sized for two people. I didn't have any problems. I liked that it was convenient to everything, so we would be able to still maintain some of our regular lifestyle.

The Brookdale Delray Beach was very good. They were excellent. I like the way they handle these residents, as if they were individuals. They have varying abilities, from the very sedentary and just kind of chilling out, and then others were more active and talking and walking around.

My husband is already in Brookdale Delray Beach. It is very clean and neat, and it smells nice. It is small and well taken care of. The food is very good. The rooms are clean and large. The staff is very helpful. They have memory care and assisted living. I don't know if they have nursing, but they do have hospice too. They have exercise programs, memory programs, crossword puzzles, entertainment, and things like that.

My mother was a resident of Homewood at Delray Beach for 6 months, she was in the Clarebridge building. My mother had a special condition which required more care than the aides were willing to supply. 3 days after my mother moved in, I was told that we either were to get her a 24/hour private aide, or my mother would have to leave. Although it was very, very costly, we hired two12 hour aides. As my mother settled in we cut back on the aides and most of the time we had an early morning private CNA (from 7am to 11am) and another private CNA aide from 11am-11pm. The night crew was check on residents every 2 hours. This did not happen, in fact, the night crew spent most of their time watching TV or talking to one another. One night (during the 8 hours my mother was soley in the care of the Homewood staff), she attempted to get out of bed to use the bathroom. She fell and broke her pelvis and was found early in the morning on the floor, sitting in her own feces, until our private aide came on duty. I had great expectations for this facility, they have furnished it very comfortably and keep it quite clean -- they also keep the resident's room quite clean. Our private aide could not depend on the Homewood aides to assist her in anyway, and had to monitor what foods she was given due to her restricted diet. Even when I carefully completed the diet form, food servers often did not refer to it. The head chef was very good about provided bland chicken or fish for my mother at both lunch and dinner. However, the servers often gave these prepared foods to other residents, unless our aide was there to monitor and correct what was served to my mother. After my mother's fall, she quickly went downhill. She first was in hospital and then moved to a rehab facility where she passed away. I am no completely slamming the place, so many of the staff were compassionate and had good intentions, but I made sure that I was a daily ( or 2x per day) visitor in addition to our aides. When you place a loved one in this facility you must be vigilant and oversee their care completely, despite the "story" you get from the executive staff. I might also add that the nurses were lovely both to me and to my mother and took great care with her many medications -- and assisted the staff aide on duty with the dispensing of her meds. Homewood did make the monitoring of meds (when she was out & Rx were needed), easy by using their pharmacy service. They also (always for a fee) ordered diapers for my mother and were quick to supply them when she was out. A lot of good -- some bad. I've experienced a lot worse facilities with a lot worse staff, so for the most part I was satisfied, except for the night crew who I hold responsible for being negligent thus resulting in my mother's injury which led to her death.