Savannah Court and Cottage of Oviedo

Savannah Court and Cottage of Oviedo have individual cottages where the staff members have a very limited number of people they're looking after and the facility itself only houses a small number of individuals. It's all been broken down to where they get better visual and hearing coverage because their residents are all in the small cottages. It's not one big building. The nurses who attend to the day to day needs are all in the small cottages. The senior staff has been there for a long time and that's important when you look at turnover of the administrative staff that is running the place -- there's continuity. The kitchen was spotless and the menu was outstanding. The other nice thing is that they allow the individual in a particular apartment to do a fair amount of decorationing with their own stuff. One of them even had their pet cat in there.

My mom was in Savannah Court #2. It was clean, beautifully decorated and activities going on all the time. The staff are caring, loving and attentive. The food is fresh and very good. I like that it's small and personable.

I went to see Savannah Court and Cottage of Oviedo, and the place seemed to be pretty active. It has a very pleasant and open feel to it. It was clean and organized. Their staff was readily available. With their dining area, it’s broken up where not all the guest could see each other at the same time, but I don’t think that is a bad thing. It seemed like there were two separate dining areas instead of one large dining area.

We only talked to Savannah Court and are getting started on putting my mother-in-law there. It’s clean, pleasant, and has activities every day. The staff is very friendly, and the residents seem to be reasonably happy. The apartments are fine, clean, and well maintained.

We are in the process of moving my mom into Savannah Court & Cottage of Oviedo, and we are absolutely thrilled. We like that it’s small and very personalized. They have a 24-hour nurse on duty day and night, and a consistent staff that have worked there for 10+ years, which tells me that they are happy and treated well. They have interesting activities designed for memory care residents. They have a little courtyard and covered and uncovered porches.

Savannah Court was able to accommodate me for the respite. They didn’t get my husband as involved in the activities as I would have liked, but I think that was his choice. It was OK for the short term. The rooms were adequate, but it was normally furnished by the patient, where in our case, they just put in a bed and a chair, and then we brought in a TV. The food seemed to be adequate.

I liked Savannah Court so much. It was set up like a little community. They had different areas for long-term care and one facility for dementia and Alzheimer's patients. They had them separated where they could get better care and keep closer watch on everybody. The place was spotless and had a very large kitchen where they made everything fresh. You could go sit in the kitchen or in the dining room where you ccould sit at the diner bar. Every building had a big living room. They were doing things like family cook-offs; patients would submit their favorite thing that they had cooked at home, and the families would make the person’s meal. They all got to eat the home-cooked meal and rotate turns. They had a lot of things like that going on plus entertainment like a guy that came and sang older songs. In one room I visited, all of the people in wheelchairs were playing volleyball with a balloon and having a ball. The facility seemed like it had a lot to offer. My dad was going to have a private room. The rooms were very clean; they weren’t too big but did have a shower and a toilet. You could bring everything in, like personal items, and set it up like their personal room. I think he would have really liked it there. The staff was fantastic, very friendly, and right on time when I got there. They took me through all of the buildings and showed me everything they had available. We went over the cost and how it worked.

Savannah Court and Cottage has a pleasant setting. They have two units that are for assisted living, and they have one cottage for memory care. My mother is in the assisted living in the Level 3 Care. She does have Alzheimer's, but she doesn't really need to go into memory care. She is doing well. It is a huge adjustment for her, but I can say she is happy as she can be. She is making friends a little bit. They have a lot of activities and things she won't go on. They go to the beach, or they go shopping, which is really nice. Every other week, they have someone come in to do hand massages and paint their nails. They pay a lot of attention to them. The food is average or a little bit better than average. This is the only one I have visited. The reason I went is because of the proximity to my home, and it was what she can afford. It is real close to my home, and what I like is having a nurse on duty all the time and things like that which are important to me. You can go sit out on the front porch. It's not on a heavily travelled street, and it is far back from the road, but you can sit watch the traffic go by. They have a lot of trees around it, and they have bird feeders, which is nice and calming.