Baptist Village of Broken Arrow

Sylvia W

The Staff are Wonderful! Caring, Patient, Kind & loving. My loved ones been here 2 years. She says she wishes she'd have come sooner. She was Very resistant to moving to an Assisted living Apt. She had a VERY different idea of what it would be. The activity calendar has really been full, especially since Jan. There's lots of different things to do. A wide Variety of all different sorts of interests/ activities.

Sandra

I toured Baptist Village of Broken Arrow. What I liked best about it was the friendly atmosphere. The patrons that were there came up to us left and right, and volunteered how much they love living there, and that was very spontaneous and genuine from them. What didn't fit for us was -- which was to be expected -- was how much spiritual education goes on during the week. It is fine. I'm not trying to knock or put it down in any way, shape, or form, but it's just not a good fit for my mother. So she would withdraw from that, and that's not what we need for her. We need activities that would pull her out. It was friendly and lovely. They offer Sunday School classes and church on Sunday and different worship studies, which you would expect in a Baptist Village Living Center, which for me are things that totally would fit their name and their description, but that is not a good fit for my mother's personality. The rooms were nice. They were arranged differently than most of the others. They're not quite as open, but they were accommodating. Compared to the other facilities, it is a much older facility, too. They are remodeling, but they're not remodeling the rooms. They're remodeling their common areas this month. But the rooms themselves are an older floorplan. They have like their living area in the front and then a small hallway back to the bedroom, which is OK. The bathroom is huge and very accommodating. It has a lot of space in it. The community was very clean, very nice, and the people were very friendly. What they do just didn't fit for my mom. That's more of a personality or more of a personal thing. They're keeping it up to date and they're trying to make sure all are accessible and working well for the people that live there, so they were in the process of doing that too.

me-ma

The Apartments are very nice. There are 4 small neighborhoods so the feel is in style of a lovely private home, not a large facility. No long hallways or corridors. Outside of ea. Apt. is the living room, fireplace lounge, and dinning room for ea. neighborhood. Nice homey feel. There are larger common areas if you want to join in with games, activities, sing alongs, and much more. The staff is very caring and helpful. The environment is friendly and inviting. Great friendships are made & kept here. Living here is encouraging & loving. I hear often from residents here "I wish I would have moved in sooner". The food is VERY good.

Denise

I have my dad on a list at Baptist Village of Broken Arrow and so we're just waiting for them to have an opening. I was looking for dementia care. They have only 10 patients, so that's why I liked it the most. All the other facilities had at least 18 or more. The environment was small and was more hands-on, which is what I was looking for. It was clean, and it was friendly. They provided more hands-on care because they are limited to 10 folks at a time, and I think that's much more doable. They have smaller numbers of memory care since they need more one-on-one. The staff are very friendly. They seem very open to my questions. They did a great interview. The room was a little bit larger. It had a built-in cabinet for my dad's hanging clothes. The bathroom was a little more accessible. It had a little more cabinet space. It had a locked cabinet that I could have a key to so that I could keep things in there, and I could access that when I needed to do things with him when I was there. The dining hall was almost immediately outside of his room, which made it easier for the staff to see. It was circular pretty much, and then all the rooms kind of surrounded it, which was nice. Right now, my father has to walk a good bit of length to get to the dining hall three times a day. He's still mobile, but he's very slow. And so I like that because they can visually see him go back and forth to his room when they're in the dining hall doing things. It's just a smaller environment. They dine together. But I'm not sure what the activities were because we didn't speak directly with the activity director. The day that I went, they were kind of on lockdown because of COVID. They have a whirlpool bath that is used by memory care people, which I like. It's a heated room, and it would be fabulous. My dad has got a lot of arthritis in his knees, so that was something else that I thought would be very, very helpful for him.

Bev

Baptist Village of Broken Arrow only has about 20 beds. What we really liked about the facility was it was really open. Most of the facilities that we looked at were like motels where the hallways are long and they have handrails along the halls. My mom is in the position where it's kind of hard for her to walk, and Baptist has ten rooms on each side of the facility, so once she walks out of each room, it's all open. There are no long hallways for her to walk, each section has a common area with a couch and TV. They have their own dining area in that section too and it's basically all open. There are other parts of the facility that you can go to, they do have other common areas. They have a safe room, which we were interested in. It was just more of a home-type atmosphere. My mom toured the facility and felt like that, since everything was all open, she didn't have to walk very far to get to the lunchroom, and so on. It was just a better setup for her. We visited the assisted living but they do have another section on the other side which is their memory care. If my mom gets in the position where she needs to go into a nursing home type situation, she could just transition from assisted living over to memory care, which is basically like a nursing home also. It was very clean and the staff was very loving. Each section of the assisted part has its own nurse. Everybody was very personable, even the dining staff, and just basically everybody we met. They provided us lunch when we were there. Compared to where she's at right now, the food was wonderful.

L.R.

My mother was in Baptist Village of Broken Arrow. They had exercises, a big TV, it was interactive, and they sang songs on Sundays. It was a lot nicer than the other place, and the food there was fantastic; it was a good place to eat. The staff was caring and good. They had therapy dogs come in once a week, they played dominoes, they had balloons, they had puzzles, and they had a craft almost every day. They sang a lot.