Sunrise of Highland Park

I went to see Sunrise of Highland Park. What I liked about it was that all the elderly people have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In between meals, you can go to the bistro corner. You can have freshly baked muffins and cookies. They always have fresh fruit out, too. I think it's important to be able to have that option, so I really liked that. I think that was cool. Many of the staff have been working there 17 years and up, which means that they're happy with their job. They don't have a turnover, which is very important. I liked how it was a small community, so pretty much everybody knows and is willing to help each other. They're also a dog-friendly community. Usually when you say dog friendly, it means that the elderly people or their families can bring in pets; however, they have it where the staff can also bring their dog every day. It's bizarre, but it's pretty cool. Like a nurse had this dog roaming around, and it was a friendly dog. It's no big deal. If you're a dog person and/or a dog lover, I think it would be a great facility for someone to feel welcome going there. They showed me a model studio room. It was beautiful, but very small. My friend's mother is already in a 1-bedroom, so it's kind of overwhelming to start looking at studios. If it was a 1-bedroom, and we were like, 'OK, we're starting at $4000.' When it's a studio, it's depressing. I really like that it's a smaller community, but I'm not sure that would be a good place for my friend's mom because she has often expressed her opinions, and she can be kind of loud. Overall, I thought they were very nice and clean. I told the lady that she liked eating muffins, and they had homemade double chocolate chip muffins that they made for me before I left, and I thought that was really sweet of them. Overall, it was a very nice visit. I was there for 2 hours, but their parking could be tough. I went on a cold day. The staff had to come outside to show me where I could park because there were signs like, 'Park, Don't Park, Park.' It was inconvenient. I really like the cleanliness and the friendliness of the place. I would say that it was not very updated. It was not as upscale as I assumed it would be. It wasn't as new, and there were scratches on the elevators. It looked clean, but it was older.

I visited Sunrise of Highland Park, and it was a very beautiful facility. They couldn't accept my sister because she requires a two person assist. I thought that it was a beautifully equipped facility with very pleasant surroundings, very pleasant staff, and ideally located. The staff was friendly and very accommodating. My sister wasn't accepted as assisted living. They weren't going to go much further with me, and I didn't expect them to. They showed me the entire facility. They showed me the rooms and how they were decorated. It was very nicely done. I don't recall them discussing any of the personal amenities, but they have activities and transportation. The staff were very nice and friendly, and the building is very nicely kept.

I moved into Sunrise of Highland Park. It's excellent. When I first started looking, I started talking to the sales and marketing person here, Kathy, I fell in love with her, I fell in love with the place, she was good to me, and she helped me all the way. She's awesome, and she just helped me with everything. The staff is excellent, very attentive, my room is small, it's a studio, it's the smallest one in the building, and it's the only one they had when I wanted to move here. But I've got plenty of room. It's very homey and cozy, and has a very big window. We have to eat in our rooms, the food comes in styrofoam containers, but I've been here a month, and I've never had the same thing twice; the food is excellent. Right now, we're getting ready to have a casino party, and they have exercise every day, and movie nights, and all of these activities are within the social distancing, we all are masked, we're all six feet apart, but they provide a lot of activities.

Sunrise of Highland Park was clean and very nice, and it's in a very nice area. The rooms were well decorated with high-end furnishings. The staff was excellent, too.

I had a great experience when I took a tour of Sunrise of Highland Park. The staff was great and I didn't have any complaints. The rooms looked like hotel rooms, and the dining area was like a restaurant. The facility was a bit smaller, so you'd have to consider if you want lots of potential friends with your loved one, but it was more intimate.

I visited Sunrise of Highland Park. They had a lot of activities for family who came in and out all day long. They could have meals with them. They could go for walks. It was close to places downtown. They showed me the library. They had an activities board. They served two or three meals a day, and they had like a bistro bar where you could get something like in between snacks. The staff was very informative. They showed us around. They had a tour guide, and I met the manager of the facility. I had a good idea of the offerings that they had. There were many doctor's offices that were very close. It was very convenient for us and a lot of residents there had families that were living close. That's very good for the community itself.

Sunrise of Highland Park was nice. They did not have many independent living rooms; it was mostly assisted living. The staff was OK. He gave me some information, but I felt like he could have showed me more. He just told me what I needed to know. The dining area was OK. Some of the people, even when it’s not meal time, were sitting there and talking. It was just a regular dining room, nothing too special. I wasn’t happy with the rooms because they seemed small and closed off. Also, there was not much to the kitchen area.