Red Springs Assisted Living

This facility is clean, well run, and the staff is very friendly and caring. The primary attraction of the facility is the low price and quality of care for what you pay. It is not for everybody, but it is perfect for residents who are too ill or incapable of living an "active" retirement lifestyle. My husband had advanced Parkinson's and dementia. He needed a great deal of physical assistance because of the Parkinson's. He was almost unintelligible and could not feed himself. He was also incontinent. He did not require a nursing home because all his needs were considered by medicare as "custodial." Red Springs assisted living did an excellent job of caring for his physical needs. He did not want to live any more in his physical state and always refused flu shots and pneumonia vaccination. I had kept him at home until my own health was failing because of the stress and physical requirements of caring for him. He contracted pneumonia and died 3 weeks after I put him in assisted living. He was not neglected at Red Springs. His relatives visited him and called him (with the assistance of staff) several times during his stay there. He was just ready to go.

I did visit Red Springs. I just went there, talked to the lady, and looked it over, but I didn't spend a lot of time there. The facility looked OK. It looked good that day. It's in a good location right at the edge of town. I had an aunt there about 20 years ago, and I would give it a 1 then. But it's under new management now. They residents seemed to be OK that day. I talked to the director, and she seemed OK too. I did smell an odor when I went in, but that is understandable when you are in assisted living.