Kirby Pines Estates

Fireside Villa's staff was amazing and extremely helpful in answering all of my questions and concerns. The facility is amazing and well maintained. The grounds are well groomed and beautiful. The residents are well cared for and are happy, bright and alert and most of all clean. There are many amenities here and your loved one can count on these services if they come to Fireside. All are included in the monthly fee. 24-hour care, Privacy and independence, Assistance with activities of daily living, Medication management, Social interaction and organized activities. Activities usually include fitness and wellness programs, educational, cultural, and social events. Daily meals, typically served in a cafeteria three times a day, Snacks throughout the day. Room cleaning and laundry services, Nursing services, Transportation to shopping, restaurants, and appointments. The cuisine is amazing and well planned menus will keep your loved one healthy and alert. The rooms are large and well decorated and of course the staff welcomes your loved one to bring their own touches of home to make it feel like their home. The staff will make sure you loved one feels safe and secure.

I would love to live at Kirby Pines, but I can't afford it. It's like a city with massive grounds. It had every kind of amenity you could think of. It's a large place with a lot of freedom. It goes from independent all the way to an Alzheimer's unit and skilled nursing. I saw the library, computer room, beauty shop, snack bar, dining room, and theater room. They have Cadillac and bus transportation for their doctor appointments and shopping trips. They've got it all. They have massive lobby areas and places to do puzzles and games. However, it's a buy-in. They have apartments all the way to independent housing. The grounds are wonderful. It's like paradise.

Kirby Pines is a five-star place. They treated us like royalty. We did have a meal there, and the food was absolutely fantastic. The place was spotlessly clean and was a very nice facility. Their apartments were beautiful and had more than enough room.

This location though it does provide some very nice amenities has a few major flaws. First is the constant firing and hiring of chefs. I know it is very difficult to make a large group of people happy with food choices but the constant firing of chefs is causing a unacceptable swing in type, style, and flavor of food. Secondly the lack of maintainence assistance. It is provided but takes far to long to respond to problems and do not solve them completely. The third main problem I can see is the lack of physical activities for the community. There are some items like water exercises but I feel as though there should be much more physical theorapies available to help improve the connections in the community and help with physical health.

The facility is clean and welcoming. My grandma is happy to live there. Her day is planned, but she has enough free time to do things that she wants to do. The food is surprisingly good! They have an excellent rehab center, and a skilled clinical staff. Everyone I met when I visited there was incredible and friendly. I know my grandma is in good hands at Kirby Pines. Memphis is a dangerous place, and the area around Kirby Pines is not the best, but inside the fence it feels safe and secure. I am happy my grandma found a place that she can live her life without fear and hatred. The staff is respectful to their clients, and it seems that the employees genuinely enjoy working there. It makes me so proud of our society and humanity in general to see them treat my grandmother with such loving care. I would recommend Kirby Pines to anyone searching for a new home in assisted living.