Ella Springs Senior Living Community

I'm in Ella Springs Senior Living Community, and I would really love to stay here. It's a great place. They have six good home-care people, and they're all very friendly, very nice, and very helpful. They help tremendously. I have two dachshunds. There were times when my husband and I couldn't take them out because we were ill, so the homecare girls would come and take them out for us. The director and everyone are all just concerned about the people who live here. They're just very nice. They have a really good activities' director right now. They had several, but the one they have now is very, very good. They have information of everything that they're gonna do every day. It's a beautiful facility, but it's expensive. It's actually a better place for 2 incomes because it's pretty expensive for a single person. A lot of people have long-term insurance, and we didn't though we had assistance from the VA. I don't think that the food is that great, and my husband felt the same way. I don't think it's top-notch. It's not cooked from scratch. It's mostly frozen food. When they fix it (however they do it), it usually turns out pretty good. They have activities going all day long. There are some you like to do and some others you don't like to do. Right now they're doing a lot of painting since one of the residents is a painter. She's teaching painting. They play dominoes, bridge, and other card games. They have a lot of real good things going on. We have a pastor that comes every Sunday. He's a very good pastor. There's a Lutheran church next door, and they swap out every other Sunday for those who are non-denominational. I've met some really nice people here. I like to visit and talk to people when I see them. The cleanliness is magnificent. They have the greatest housekeeping you ever saw. One of the things that I wish we had is a chapel. It is always so comforting to go to a chapel to pray and meditate. We have a theater, and that's where we have our church services.

During my tour at Ella Springs Senior Living Community, they showed me both assisted living and memory care. They showed me two of the rooms in the memory care. If you would pick a private room I would rate it high, but I don't really like their double rooms compared to the double rooms in the other place I toured. The residents take their food in the eating area and there was a morning exercise when I got there. They have a calendar that lists everything they do every day. They showed me their dining area, which looked nice and open.

The visit to Ella Springs was extraordinary. They were ready for the visit. I liked the professionalism of the staff. They made me feel comfortable and confident that my loved one is going to be taken care of.

I had a great tour of Ella Springs Senior Living Community. I was very impressed by the person that provided the tour. She did a good job. I was pleased with the services and with the community. They have different types of rooms from a studio to a double bed, a single room, and double two rooms apartments. They have a community room, a cafeteria, and an activity room.

My father-in-law moved into Ella Springs Senior Living Community in October of last year. I went out there, had a meal with him, and the food was really good. The facility is lovely, and it's only about three years old. The apartments are really well laid out, and there is plenty of room. It comes with a refrigerator, a sink, and a nice bathroom. The showers don't have seats on them, which is good, because he doesn't like it. We're able to have a separate seat that we could put in when he needed it, and take it out when he doesn't need it. They have an atrium and kind of a walking path inside so they can go outside without leaving the facility. They have a movie theater with recliner chairs and a big TV in it, a library, and a game room. They have lots of separate spaces for activities, and hopefully when COVID is over, some of the things can pick back up. It certainly wasn't the most expensive that I looked at, but it's also not the cheapest, so it's just right in there.

My husband moved into Ella Springs Senior Living Community. It's a very nice facility, very clean, it doesn't have an odor, the food is excellent, and the care that he's receiving is excellent. I have nothing but good to say about the facility. My husband has adjusted well to be in there, and that's saying a lot, and for him to say the food is good, that's saying a lot. He never liked the food nowhere, so for him to tell me the food is good -- and he has to cut back on his eating so he doesn't gain weight -- that's really good. You're really not allowed to be out in the building. We can visit him in his room, and we had to have a COVID test before we could come in the building. They have a very nice garden area in the back, that was a big plus for my husband, because he likes to go outside. I would definitely recommend Ella Springs to anyone that's looking for a facility. The staff is fine, I haven't had any problems. One think that I liked is they have an ambassador program, with that program they call me once a week basically just to give me a report on how he's doing. If there are complaints they address them, anything that I've asked them. They have gone back with me, so I think everything is fine, the staff is wonderful. They have been very wonderful to me.

The rooms at Ella Springs are very spacious and clean. They have lots of activities, plus a weight room, a spa, a salon, theater room, activity room, private family gathering room, and an outdoor garden. The staff is very caring, very interested, and very helpful.