Care One At Livingston

If I knew now before selecting this facility. We would not be here! Patients ring the Nurse bell and it rings and rings. No one comes to see. Anything could be happening to a patient. It is just awful!

Careone is a great Assisted Living community. A family friend has lived in the community for quite a number of years. Careone happened to be the only community that would allow my friends grandmother to transition due to her high level of acuity. However, she has become more independent since she moved in and she now has a new lease on life. Thank you!

My brother was at the Care One Facility in Livingston, NJ from Aug. 22 to Sept. 8. Except for a few nurse's aides and one or two nurses, this facility was totally unacceptable!! My brother was sent there after a back operation for occupational and physical therapy. The therapy was very sparse but the care was worse. He was unable to get out of bed without assistance and waited many times to be taken to the bathroom. Of course, he waited so long so many times that he either wet himself or defacated in the bed. If the facility thinks it's easier to change the patient and the bed linens than to get the patient to the bathroom, that is just crazy. Even when he had blood in his urine, they took a culture and never processed it. They took blood work and never processed it. Because of this, he developed a UTI and sepsis! He had to be hospitalized again one week after leaving Care One. Someone needs to look into this place and clean it up.

I had dinner at CareOne at Livingston the other night, and it was quite good, but there was one time I had dinner there, and it was not so good, so I guess you cannot expect it to be good all the time. They had a very nice event for families to come, and it was very elaborate and open to the relatives of the residents. Overall, I'm reasonably pleased with it. The rooms were fine, very pleasant, and clean. My aunt's studio room has a decent sized window that has a drapery that can go up and down. The doorway is wide, and the bathroom is wide.

I liked CareOne the best. This one was the most organized tour I’ve had. I also liked the gentleman who gave me the tour. It’s very clean, and it didn’t have the old people smell, so this was a good one. The apartments were very nice and definitely acceptable to me. I think the most important thing is that it’s a clean facility; it doesn’t have the awful old people smell, and it looked like they maintained the outside as well as the inside because if the outside looks awful, I wouldn’t go inside. The staff was also very nice, very informative, and likeable.

My mother stayed at care one for a short period of time while she was receiving physical therapy. During this time she was neglected. At one point I found her lethargic, with a very high fever, unresponsive after a doctors appointment. My sister had been a sure that they would check in with , Yet no one had come to see her and they didn't even realize the condition she was in. Luckily I had come by or things could have been much worse. When we got to the hospital the nurses referred to Care One as "Care None". They hadn't helped my mother bathe and didn't give her PT as scheduled. I wish I had known their reputation before choosing the facility for my mother. She will never be back there.

CareOne at Livingston was very good. It served our needs well, and we were satisfied. They did everything that they promised. We chose it because they can accommodate us and the proximity to our home. We found them to be quite satisfactory, and I would recommend them.