Brookdale Columbia (TN)

William

Brookdale Columbia is a good place. The only thing was the apparent age of the people that were there. I didn't foresee myself as being in that kind of group. Other than that, it was a beautiful place. The room was comparable to other places, and I thought it was pretty good. They showed me the studio-sized and the single-bedroom-sized rooms. One room I looked at needed a microwave, but I've got one at the place where I am right now, and I would probably take that along with me. But they've got a refrigerator and a kitchenette. I thought that was pretty good. The staff who showed me around was very personable. The building was very good, too. They had two courtyards as well.

Buck

Brookdale Columbia was full care. The facility was very helpful. Megan was very willing to give us all of our needs that we had questions about. She was very knowledgeable. The physical tour of the facilities is nice. It's a great feeling knowing that there's something out there that will feel like a home instead of a medical facility. So, I'm excited and it is so far one of our top choices. The rooms were very, very spacious and very homey. It felt like a studio apartment and not a medical facility. It's very warm. We were looking at a room where they were in the process of painting the walls because somebody was moving out. So it's very, very maintained and very well kept. We walked to the dining area and everything looked very nice as well. I'm impressed across the board with this facility.

Jerry

Brookdale Columbia seemed to have a nice atmosphere to it. It seems to be a friendly place and I think it's going to be a good fit for my mother. The level of care that they have seems to fit better for her than some of the other assisted living places. She needs reminders to take her medicine, and they were willing to do that without any real problems. Also Megan, the manager of the place, is really friendly and really helpful. She's a super nice lady and that helped a lot. The facility seems to be really clean. The rooms are nice. They refurbed the rooms between residents, so they would repaint and do all the necessary maintenance. I didn't see anything that was really a problem or anything that stood out as being unacceptable. I thought everything was fairly nice. They got the community dining room, which I think would be really important for my mother because she has difficulty eating, and I think that being around with some other people would really help. They also have a nice common area for TV, reading, game playing, and things like that. It's not very large, but it's large enough, and there is plenty of seating. One thing I would like for it to have that I didn't find was I thought it would be nice if it was a little brighter, like having more light, but that was about the only negative thing that I really saw. The facilities were excellent.

Joan

Brookdale Columbia was excellent. That's where I would suggest people to go. I was very impressed with it. Whenever you went in, residents were sitting around talking and they were watching TV all together. It seemed like they were happy. The staff during the tour was excellent. She called and she kept me informed and told me that they would be glad to help me any way they could. It was clean. It didn't have an odor. I felt warmness when I went in there. I have heard other people say that the food is good. They showed me one room and it was being painted and cleaned up at the time, because they had just moved a resident out. I just felt good about it. It is an older building, but it looked like it had been renovated some.

MD

My tour at Brookdale Columbia was fine and the people were very pleasant. It's just too far away from my house. The apartment I was shown was also nice. And the staff that I've interacted with was very pleasant and helpful.

Charles

If ever my father has to go to assisted living, Brookdale Columbia is at the top of the list. We like it, he likes it, and everything about it (at least that we saw) was good. People that we know who have been there speak fondly about it. It's not the newest and most modern community, but everything else is good. We would put our father there. There was a group doing something, they have an activity room, and they have several different activities. None of those were going on at the time we were there, but the director gave us an idea of the schedule for the things they do as a community. It's of course optional to the individual, but it's there if they want. We saw them preparing for their noon meal and we saw some of the residents in the dining room. Everybody else was doing their job. The only staff we did anything with was the girl that was giving us the tour; she was a marketing manager. The rooms that we saw were individual rooms, and everything was fine.