The Lantern at Morning Pointe Louisville

Linda

My cousin stayed in The Lantern at Morning Pointe Louisville. He was there for 12 days, and he had a problem breathing, so they sent him to the hospital. He was there 13 days, and he has gone in for rehab. He's in for rehab. He should be coming back fairly soon. It's clean. They have all kinds of activities. They just started a therapy group for people who have family in the memory care part. Allie is great. Every time I call, she answers the phone. She has helped me because I was thinking that when he'd been in therapy, they weren't going to let him go back. They didn't think he'd be able to go back, so I let them call Morning Pointe and talk to them. They sent the head nurse over to evaluate him. So, I called Allie, thinking I'm going to have to put him in a nursing home. And she said, "No, we're taking him back." And he thrived there. They have good food. They have a chef from the Brown Hotel. There's one lady over there who acts like she lives there. I mean, she is so concerned about the people who are there. They play religious stuff, and they try to get the residents to dance and sing. They try to keep them together and keep them entertained and busy. Everybody over there is super nice to me. The rooms are a little smaller, but they don't want people to stay in their rooms. They want them to be out, doing activities and stuff. They're always providing stuff to do. The employees are all good. The value is pretty good. I thought it would be more expensive here, but he's paying about half of what he was paying in a regular nursing home. It's a good value. They take care of him, get some therapy, not a lot, because that's not what they're there for, but they still do stuff. They wash his clothes, cook his food, and clean his room.

Brian

The Lantern at Morning Pointe Louisville had activities all the time. They would post stuff on Facebook showing the residents doing activities. When we were there, they'd have people come in and sing for them or play instruments. They had games that they played. My dad, of course, had Alzheimer's, so he would go around and steal anything he could, but it's just part of it. When they noticed that, they made him his own little junk drawer and made pictures of a pencil or scissors, and different items that he might like to take. They would put those around and he'd go pick those up and put them in his junk drawer. I thought that was genius. If he wasn't eating, they would sit down and try to coerce him to eat. If he didn't like his food, they would make something else and bring it to him, something that he would eat. They knew everyone in my family's name. I hadn't even met some of the staff yet, but when I would walk in to visit my dad, they called me by my name and said that my dad's over there, doing this or whatever. They knew where he was. They knew me. His room was bigger. The facility was nicer, cleaner, and the staff seemed to care. Every time I go in, they give me an update on how he was doing or what he was doing. It was great.