Beech Grove Meadows

Catherine

We visited Beech Grove Meadows. The staff member who toured us was knowledgeable, friendly, inviting, and warm. They have shopping tours and go to museums and ball games.

Cheryl

The director at Beech Grove Meadows was very helpful and she talked to us quite a while. Their individual homes are rentals and my folks didn't want that. When we walked in, there were two entrances, so we didn't know which way to go. Unfortunately, we walked into the nursing home side, which wasn't very impressive. We had an appointment, but we weren't greeted. It was not a very good thing. We just waited there until somebody approached us and showed us to the other side where we were supposed to have gone in. We were brought to the director's office. She was so sweet and she softened us up after explaining to her our disappointment earlier. She showed us the individual cottages and they were very nice.

Debbie

The people that were running Beech Grove Meadows, including the nurses and the administrator, were very nice and very informative. I did not feel that was the right place for my aunt. It's an older place and resembled more of a hospital. Eating and activities were all in the same room, so there's not much separation. It was kind of dismal. The staff was very nice, very informative, and very willing to talk. They had a library in the assisted living. Everybody was so nice; even the maintenance people were really good, not only with me, but I saw them interacting with the other residents there.

ME

I just moved my dad from independent living to the assisted living section of Beech Grove Meadows last Friday. It's still a bit early, but I have saw that the community was clean. His room is small, but functional, and the dining area is nice.

Darlene

The people we saw at Beech Grove Meadows seemed happy to be there. The staff was very friendly and invited us to come back for a better tour since the woman who normally did the tours was not there. They suggested that we come back at a meal time so we could see what the food was like.

Debbie268686

Beech Grove was a wonderful place; that’s where my mom and dad are going to go. They’re actually apartments, but they’re separate, and they can transition to assisted living and into full care and nursing home. When you walk in there, it does not feel like a nursing home. They’ve got huge bird cages, ceilings that people can sit and watch the live birds and talk to them, and they can feed them. They’ve got several gardens where the residents can go and sit in. The people that worked there -- nurses, doctors, and therapist -- all take turns taking them out and sit with them all day while they enjoy the fresh air and sunlight. For the apartment mom and dad are going to live in, they tell my dad he can bring all of his bird cages and put them in the yard, so he can continue to watch those, which was one of the big thing because he loves to watch his birds. You can plant in the yard; he can bring part of his own world. My parents are on the waiting list; it probably would be available in November.

Lauren188482

The staff members at Beech Grove Meadows are great and a lot of them have been there for a really long time. They have a nice dining area with a patio for the residents. The surroundings are very attractive. They really have great activities for the residents.

Mary115989850

We took a tour, and I liked Beech Grove Meadows. The main reason why we chose this one was for the location and the cost, but my uncle is still trying to work things out financially. It's quite a bit less expensive than the others. For activities, I know they play cards and have weekly excursions.

Leslie45

At Beech Grove Meadows, it was a little bit cheaper to live. The houses were a little closer to live there, but that's alright. They have all the space that my mom needs. They were clean and well maintained, definitely what my mom could use, space-wise and all. It was very nice.

smashley346

I felt that the housing layout allowed residents to keep a feeling of independence. They also offered nurse and hospice care for residents who had health problems or needed any rehabilitation. The nurses were kind and came around often. However, I felt that they could have been doing more to help some people, including my grandfather. He refused to eat for a while and the nurses and others at Beech Grove Meadows seemed to do very little to try to get him to eat, simply brought him his food and took it away if he wouldn't eat that day. Aside from that, the dining rooms were nice as well as day rooms where residents could see each other and participate in different social activities. Groups of kids from local schools and churches were also allowed to visit to help out, which I thought was great. They also had transportation for residents who were able to go out for visits to their doctors, restaurants, or grocery and other shopping stores.

Larry2

My Grandmother was in a nursing home for a little while after we discovered that she had a variation of Parkinson's disease. My family is a large one, so somebody was almost always there at the nursing home with her. Because of this, my family got to know the staff quite well. Most of the staff was kind, efficient, and very personable. While there my grandmother improved, but not as much as she did once we brought her back home. I respect this nursing home and appreciate how they cared for my grandmother. I know what it is like to work in a nursing home and how hectic it can be, so I could relate to the aides in the facility more than most. The staff was always polite to my family and rarely treated us as if we were in the way. While a nursing home can never provide the same care as an actual home, where care is provided by one's own children, this nursing home was a suitable option.