The Sarah Community

I had a cousin in The Sarah Community. She passed away a year ago. She was in nursing and she was on private pay and I think it makes a big, big difference. The staff was very friendly and they liked my cousin a lot. She was not able to get up on her own, they had to use a Hoyer lift, but when she was up, she could move around in the wheelchair on her own. They were very caring and they took pretty good care of her. She had no sores or anything on her, and she was happy with it. What was nice about it was, even though she was in skilled care, it's like you have a separate room, but you don't. They had a curtain in-between and they all had a big window in their rooms that they could look out to. All the rooms that I could see were like that so that was very, very nice for skilled care. It was fairly clean too.

I went to The Sarah Community. It was significantly more than the other place. The staff was very pleasant, and a resident also was in the lobby. She spoke up and said, "This is the best place in the world to live, I hope your mom comes here." That one is two-stories, and I would be uncomfortable with my mom and being on the second floor. Now maybe they would put the more mobile people there I would think, but I would feel uncomfortable having my mom going to long-term care, and being on the second floor.

Anna House was more on rehabilitation. They were wonderful to my mom. I couldn't ask for a better care.