Marjorie McCune Memorial Center

Lindsay

My grandmother was at Marjorie McCune Assisted Living. The thing that rubbed me the wrong way was that their new administrator never returned my call, and she would just have other people get in touch with me when I really wanted to talk to her. I don't want to give her a bad review, I'm sure she was busy, but I never actually got to talk to her. I also can't say I could give them the fairest review because they did not specialize in memory care. They only did what they could, and they couldn't do everything that my grandmother would need them to do because of her condition. The assisted living there was great once my grandmother had her own little cottage on the property. They had a housekeeper, a nurse, a PT, and all the people would come into her house, and she was really happy over there. Then they started to notice that she would leave the stove on and other things that were a danger to herself, so they moved her into a room which was smaller than her bedroom. It was a shared room with someone else, they had one shared bathroom, and there was hardly any room to do anything in there. None of us were really thrilled about her new place. It was a very tiny room, and she was paying a lot for it. It's a good place for people to be living in an assisted kind of way; however, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone for long-term care. It's OK if you want $5,000 a month for one single studio room, but if you can't afford it and you need better care at the same time, then that would make things really difficult. I would just recommend that people should know that it's not really a memory care facility at all. The biggest problem there was that they had so many residents and so many employees, and with that number of employees coming in and out every day you're bound to get COVID. It just didn't seem like a home, it just seemed like a temporary place to be, and yet that was my grandmother's home, and none of us really liked that. They had activities, they had decent food, and the staff was really sweet. However, the facility's layout, even for me, was kinda confusing. They had these really long hallways filled with people in just about every direction, and for somebody who has dementia or Alzheimer's, you would really get lost.

Bonnie

My grandmother is living in Marjorie McCune's assisted living, but she was living in their independent living cottages before that. She really liked that she had her own space because she's not used to sharing a room at the assisted living level. The staff there is very devoted and they know everyone. It's pretty organized. The place isn't really brand new, not flashy or gorgeous, but it's perfectly nice. I ate there once and it's more like a cafeteria than a restaurant. There are no white tablecloths or anything like that, but it has a good sense of community, and it's still nice. It's one-story living, and it's not too big, so your family member won't feel like they'll get lost. It's not over-the-top, or too big, but it's well managed, it's cozy, and doesn't feel like a facility.