Brookdale Hamilton

Joann

Brookdale Hamilton is strictly memory care. It's an excellent facility. The only reason my brother did not go there is that an opening came up over at another place that's closer to me, but I would rate them five-star for everything. A lady gave me a tour of the whole complex. It's updated and it's a beautiful place. They have an outdoor facility where they've got drums and things where people could play instruments. It was nice. The place was spotless.

Thomas

My dad has been at Brookdale Hamilton for 3 weeks now. Everything is great there and we're so impressed, so far, with the way they're taking care of my dad. What impressed us the most is how nice everybody is and how they keep on reassuring us that they would do the best for my dad. One of the things that I like that we always notice is that when we enter the place, it does not smell like a nursing home. Other places smell like urine but here it does not. It's bright and airy. Everyone here is nice and willing to help. Other places are not like that, you'd have to go and say, "Hey look, my dad is wet, he urinated" and it would take 10-15 minutes for someone to come. With Brookdale, when we went to see dad one day, they're the ones who said "Oh he's wet, we gotta go change him" and that was impressive for us. They got him involved in putting green and trivia. They ask him what his favorite music is and they show a couple of videos up on the TV with these performers. They get him up by around 8:30 and they do activities all day. Around 2 or 3 o'clock they take a little nap and then get up for dinner. They do more activities after that like watching movies and then he's in bed by 9 or 10. He's only in his room when he's taking a nap or he's tired but most of the time, they have him out playing bingo or doing arts and crafts. He loves the food. He's a good eater there and he's had eggs, bacon, and salmon. He has no complaints. He's also a big ice cream eater and they make sure he gets it.

Ray

My mom is at Brookdale Hamilton. The reason why I picked Brookdale was for a couple of reasons. I put together a spreadsheet of all the facilities that I took a looked at, in terms of monthly cost, memory care cost, number of residents, staff to resident ratio, the additional cost for memory care, cause some of them are tiered by dollar amounts, as well as location, and community pick. I broke that list of about eleven facilities down to about five, and then reviewing them, I just felt that Brookdale had a good staff to resident ratio, how they handle their COVID, the kind of memory care programs that they had, as well as location. Mom lives in Hamilton township, so she wanted to stay in the area, as well as the fact that I'm only about fifteen minutes away from where she lives, so it was also a relatively quick trip if I had to get to the facility. They also have some additional things like weekly Zoom community calls, and until the latest lockdown by the state, they also had in site visits. All things considered, when I rated them in terms of the different criteria, they were the top facility I looked at. There are some others, but overall, they had the best rating. I worked with the staff, the sales people and the director were all very easy to work with. Mom likes them as well. Looking at all the options, based on location, staff to resident ratio, the programs they have, what the facility looked like, that was the top pick. They basically call me with any changes to mom's conditions or medical care, and it's very easy to reach them. They always keep me up to date if there's any change or any question about care that needs to be addressed. Some of the programs are kinda restricted and because of the way they are isolating the wings of the facility, but for the most part, I'm sure that will open up. They have a lot of different programs for the residents to participate in. She also has occupational therapy, as well as physical therapy. They have community activities, a movie night, gardening program, bingo, extensive reading and a library available. Some of them play cards and they have a group dining where they go eat together. Those are the top programs that I know my mother would be interested in, especially the gardening one. They also consider what foods mom likes, what food she doesn't like, in terms how to prepare on menu. They offer a variety of food. They have specials. They'll have certain sets of different foods that they'll prepare but they always have a baseline, should a resident not want the featured menu they have. So there's a variety of food that's available for the resident in case they don't want what's been made available, as like the day's special. There's a large community shared common area, where they were having inside visits. They're decorating it for Christmas, it's clean, they have enough staff available and there's a control entry to the facility. It's a good layout. The rooms are fairly spacious, depending upon how much furniture you may be bringing into the room. The room has a nice layout. Basically the room is, I don't want to say average, but it certainly is laid out well. They also have other opportunity should mom, once her funds are out, goes into Medicaid. They also have the ability to do shared rooms between residents. Right now, mom has a private room. She has her own room, and everything that she need to bring from the house was in the room. It's laid out really well so it can accommodate enough stuff from mom's house to make her comfortable. The cost has gone up, that's understandable. I think mom's memory care tier has just been adjusted. I think the memory care programs that they offer are great. The memory care tiered structured price is up, they just had a 5 percent increase in the memory care programs. It's not the best, it's not the worse, but it's a little bit better than average.

Family Exceeds Blood

Excellent Home like Environment Activities are Amazing Engaging Fun Staff truly cares and loves the residents Cleanest place ever Food is ok Totally Love it here

Make Lemonade

If you are given lemons make lemonade this beautiful home like exceptionally clean facility is the home of my mom she has lived there for over a year major changes occurred nursing has changed directors 3x current is uncaring and a narcisst ED who we love moved on but We all love Mary Food is poor in the beginning we told fresh baked items and fresh fruits vegetables etc no this is untrue no fresh baking The building is well kept which is amazing due to its all on one guy who is polite humble and attentive Sue the nurse is the only plus in nursing

EJ

I really liked Brookdale Hamilton. The rooms were a little bit smaller but very nice. The place and staff were very nice. They had a cool movie room styled like an old theater. It seemed like a fun place, and the staff seemed very caring.