Granite Farms Estates

Reviewer#RD0908g

I toured Granite Farms Estates. I was with two of my friends, and we noticed the same thing, that everybody seemed happy. It seemed to be a friendly place. There's a concept of continuous care. They go on trips, they give you transportation to stores once a week or something, and they take you to church, and that's important to me. The food was very good. The staff were professional and very pleasant. I especially like the outside which was very good as far as what it looked like with the flowers and the grass. Everything was very nice. Inside, they had a pool, and I like to swim. They have a nice theater where they show films, and they also have different activities there. I met these three women who had apartments right where I was going to be, and they were very nice and very welcoming. Every apartment had a balcony or a patio, one or the other. It was more modern and more pleasant than a lot of the places. The room that I'm going to get, they're going to do new floors, paint the cabinets, and paint the walls.

Provider Response

ggmeadow

My friend was initially accepted. He had his physical, financial review. Then they tell him they made an error in quoting the enterance fee. In the mean time they have him pick out his paint and appliances. Then they retract their acceptance offer. How sad. This is a very emotional decision and they led this person on for several weeks.

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Cheryl

Granite Farms Estates was pretty rural, but it's close to the little town of Media (which is a really nice little town). You get a certain number of meals per month. You can have lunch or dinner, and you can do more for a little extra. If you want less, you can just do whatever you want. You don't have to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day in their restaurant. It was a nice place. It had a pool, which I liked. The amenities were all very similar with the other places we looked at. They also had opportunities to watch movies, places where you can play cards or mahjong, crafts, dance lessons, and a gym. The woman who showed us around was Stacey. She was very pleasant, very nice, not pushy, and answered all the questions that my son and I had. It was just a beautiful place.

Bernadette

The Granite Farms Estates was very nice, very open, and had very large areas for people to meet. I have a friend there, so I saw what it was like too. She was in the memory care and she was alone by herself but her room was too small. The hallways and other areas were big though. I also had lunch with her and the food was good. The facility was just a rectangular-shaped building so it was not as attractive as the other facilities we looked at, but it's less than a mile away from the nearest hospital.

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Al

I think Granite Farms Estates is 100%, that's why I'm going there. They more than satisfied me. I liked that they have a giant indoor pool, a big, wonderful library, and a gym to support my activities. It was in a beautiful country setting and you don't even see or hear the city. It's the best I've seen. The staff is excellent, very concerned, and caring. The meals in the café were very good and reasonable cost-wise. It's wonderful and I'd be on the second floor, which I wanted, and it has a beautiful balcony. The place has nice landscaping. They have a lot of very good activities. I've talked to the people there and they're very happy. The lobby is just immense, new, bright, and welcoming. It's just a beautiful entrance. They're redoing my apartment completely so everything is going to be brand new.