Nursing Home Communities in Santa Fe, NM

"My mother is in a skilled nursing facility, Santa Fe Care Center. My first experience was not that great, but she is in for a second time. My second experience is much better now. Things are better. The staff are overworked and understaffed, especially on weekends. My mother has difficulty with one staff member, but the other five or six have been very nice. There were some things that they overlooked in her first admittance. Right now, my mother is in quarantine in a solo room. She likes her room, but it's difficult. They provide everything from nursing to physical therapy to regular care. It has a strange entrance into the facility, but it's very close to the hospital, which is nice. It's accessible. I've seen my mother's food and it's not that great. They have bingo and arts and crafts, but my mother hasn't been able to participate in that, but then again, she's probably too weak to participate. Medicare is taking care of the cost for the first 20 days, after that, it's going to cost us $170 per day. It's a difficult place and it's a difficult type of business to be in as well. One good thing I like about this place is that they allow us to Facetime and they have the window visits."

"My husband was at Casa Real for rehab. They did very well, even though they were short-staffed. They took excellent care of him and got him up and going, so I was impressed with that. The staff was cheerful and upbeat because they had some long-term residents there as well, so they needed to keep an upbeat attitude. The rooms were divided in two and my husband was near the window, so he was cold all the time. They had large rooms that were divided in two and there was a curtain between them. They had two beds, so my husband had a roommate. They leaned heavily toward New Mexico-style food and my husband doesn't like New Mexico-style food, but I thought they were well-prepared meals. I would have enjoyed them if I had been in his place. They had him doing physical therapy and they had occupational therapy as well. Somebody would come around with books from time to time. They were very caring and wanted to make sure that he was doing his exercises, so he could go home. It was a good value for the money."

"My wife is in Sombrillo Nursing Home. It's the best nursing home in the state. I took care of my wife until I could get her into Sombrillo because I want her in that one. She's very happy. She doesn't remember me or any in the family, but she is laughing, and she has lots of friends there. My daughter went up there last Wednesday and she didn't tell them that she was coming but my wife was clean, her hair was done, her clothes were clean, her bedroom was clean, and her bed was made, and they didn't know she was coming. Sombrillo is good. Sombrillo did not have a case during the pandemic. They shut everything down immediately. They checked all employees before they get in and they put plastic around and away from the building so that you could go and look at your patient. We couldn't get in for a year and a half, and now they're open. My wife has been there for two years now. She is there forever because she doesn't remember anyone. It's the best in the state as far as I'm concerned. They have the same activities as everybody else. They have everything they want to do."