Communities in Sheboygan, WI

"It was wonderful. I thought the staff was extraordinary. They were very professional, very welcoming, and very warm. "

"I toured Countryside Manor Assisted Living and Memory Care. The dining room was very beautiful. They had a fireplace. The rooms were kind of small, from what I remember. It looked like a very nice place, but it was just too big. We were looking for something smaller and quieter. The staff who gave the tour was very nice. They had their activity calendar, a real big one in the dining room, which I liked. They also had the menu for the week. I don't remember their activities, but they sounded like fun activities. The facility was well kept, too."

"We toured Gables on the Pond Assisted Living for my mom. It was very welcoming from the time that we walked in. The activity director was the one that ended up giving us a tour. It was very clean and very inviting. She was very energetic, and she got other residents involved in the tour. We were able to go into a resident's room who invited us in to see how it was decorated, and we could personally ask them how they liked living there and if they would recommend it from one resident to another. I think that that person's testimonial was very telling. It was very well kept and didn't feel like a nursing home. It was very nice. We did not try their food as it was in the middle of the day, and it was between meals, but I did ask the resident if the food was good, and she said yes. We got handed a menu and we could tell what a monthly menu looks like and what kind of food offerings they give. It was just an open area. Just off the kitchen, is the activities area as well as dining. So, just a very open concept. Shannon, the activity director who toured us, was a great representation of the company. She's upbeat and got a ton of energy. One of the amenities is that they have entertainment, and I think she is just the key to the success of the place. She knew all the residents and personal stuff about them. She individualizes things for them. I think she made the tour. I would think every assistant living could use a Shannon. I think she makes the program, and the residents love her, they just have a big smile when she comes around in the room. It looked nice externally, as well as internally."

"My mother was at North Ridge Medical & Rehab for 6 weeks. The layout of the facility and the food was good, but I didn’t like it because she wasn’t well taken care of. We had to take her by ambulance to the hospital for a drug overdose. They had either given her too much or the wrong drug."

"I toured. It was really small. They only had 8 or 10 rooms, so it's limited on the number of people there. The people that I spoke with were friendly, courteous, and cordial. But what I didn't like was, because it was so small, it would be limited with activities and interaction with other people and stuff."

"The negative about Harbor Campus is it's a rehab of an old hospital, so the facility is not as nice. They did a reasonably good job of revamping it. When you go in, you feel like you are going into an old hospital. I don't think you can cover that up. The atmosphere in there was not as nice. One of the things that is a benefit is you didn't have to move into an assisted living room when you need more assistance. They said they could service you in your independent living room for quite a lot of nursing care like doing pills and physical therapy, all that kind of stuff. I think as long as you were mobile enough, if you weren't mostly bedridden kind of thing or anything like that, you didn't have to move out of independent living. All the staff was nice."

"We toured Lincoln Village Senior Living. They have a chef, so the food tastes good. There's also an activities director, and there are activities. They provided a calendar with all the activities for the month, whether field trips, activities, exercise classes, or art projects. So, there are lots of different things for them to do. I like that they keep them busy, and they also take field trips. The rooms we toured looked clean, and the hallway and common spaces looked clean. The one person that we talked to is no longer there. He has recently left. So, I talked to somebody different today. She seems very kind and concerned. I mean empathetic to our situation and helpful. My sister tasted the food, and she thought it was very good. The day my mom, her friend, and my sister went, my mom didn't care for it, but my sister said it tasted good."

"It was very nice, clean, and pretty modern. The people I talked to seemed very caring and nice. The rooms are clean, pretty modern, and have plenty of room. I saw they were playing bingo and cards. Some were doing some kind of craft."

"My husband is in ABridge Care Cottage of Chilton. He's only there for 28 days to get therapy. It's small, so he gets good one-on-one care. The meals are very good. It's close to home. They come in several times a day to ask him if he needs water or things like that. They're always willing to get anything he asks for. There is a beauty salon/barbershop, but they don't have anyone on staff who does that, so someone would have to come in to do that. They arrange for transportation for him if he has to go to the doctor. The drivers come in with a wheelchair van and take him to his doctor appointments. The staff is very friendly and very dedicated. They know what they're doing. They've got a lot of experience. It's very clean, very pretty, and very well decorated. They have bingo and things like that, but he doesn't do any of that. It's more expensive than it should be."

"I liked that Serenity Villa V was a smaller community. It had private baths with showers. It had a lot of activities where the residents not only participated in the community but outside of the community as well. They had a therapy pet. I just really, really liked it. The rooms were fine and adequate. They were very similar to other communities I viewed. They had a dorm-size refrigerator in each room. What was very important to us was the private baths. They had a very cozy gathering space with a fireplace. They had a very inviting dining room. They had a very open community space that looked out onto their patio. Beyond the patio, which was very nice, was a little body of water. So, it was very picturesque."