Brightview Baldwin Park

Beth

I'm in Brightview Baldwin Park. They have quite a few people here, maybe 100, it's in a beautiful area, they have a dining hall, there are meals, and it seems to be well run. The food is excellent, although right now we're in a virus situation, and the food is delivered to the room. It's not the same as it would be if we had our dining hall in operation, and we had a very good dining hall. The food is very good, well delivered, and the staff is fantastic. I'm very happy with it. Before the virus came, we had a lot of activities in the afternoon where people could get acquainted with each other and enjoy each other, but that had to close down.

Jessie

When I got to Brightview Baldwin Park, they had already set up for one of the residents to have lunch with me, so I felt welcomed. The food was excellent. It's all-inclusive which means your meals and housekeeping are provided except your own telephone. The apartments are not as big as I would like, but they're sufficiently big enough. They do your towels, sheets and linens for you and have interesting exercise programs as well as other activities. It's the type of place that would make sure I come out of my apartment and participate. The food was excellent, and the staff was very personable.

Caring107827250

They were very compassionate, caring, friendly, and answered all of our questions. Brightview Baldwin Park was close to Lexington where we live. It had a beautiful setting, and the apartments in the independent living seemed very sufficient, clean and well kept. The dining hall and the general area were all clean, bright and cheerful. The residents came up to us and talked to us and told us how they had enjoyed being there. It was small and I like it when there's not a lot of patients. It was top rate.

Ronald9

I stayed at Baldwin Park for two months. My decision to move in there was based on the fact that they had occupancy when I needed it. They have one large living area. They also have one large dining room that they remodeled recently, but it doesn't feel as much like a home. It's more of a wide-open cafeteria than a home. I found the staff to be very cordial and very accommodating. They were very friendly too. They do have a bus facility that takes you to different parts of town; however, they only have a three-hour window every week to fit your doctor's appointment in. Another downside to Baldwin Park is that at that time, they were undergoing some major construction, which was disconcerting to me, and I was not made aware of it when I moved in.

Caring73744550

I visited Brightview Baldwin Park for me and my husband. It was a very clean facility. It smelled good. Everybody was very attentive. We have eaten there and the food was good. They did have a full list of activities. They did have a section there that is more assisted and dementia. I really haven't visited that particular complex but I have been more in their assisted living part. One thing about this facility though was that they're not all in the same building.

Caring74650650

My uncle is at Brightview Baldwin Park. It's a continuing care retirement community so there's an independent living building on site and then that's the assisted living and they also have a dementia care building. What impressed us the most was the cleanliness and it smells fine. The prices are a little bit high and the location was pretty good. The rooms are different sizes. They have a few 1-bedroom units and they also have the studios. Some of them are pretty large so they vary. We were very impressed with the quality of the staff, they seemed very competent. The food is fairly good. It's much better than any other places that we've tried. They have music, movies, field trips and exercises. I don't know about happier but at least my uncle is safe.

caring5335

I've looked into Brightview and it seemed to be a really nice place. Everything seemed alright, but it's just too expensive. It also seemed that you had to be in a better mental capacity, so you'd be able to get around better in their facility. They offered all kinds of stuff, they'd give it to you and everything, but my father wasn't capable of attending that type of stuff. That's one reason, I guess, why they were that expensive, and I simply couldn't afford their fees.

Dave1

I visited my grandfather at this facility many times over the 8 years he was here. The facility is clean and the staff always seemed friendly. My grandfather seemed to enjoy living there as they gave him his own small apartment. He had neighbors that were similar to his age and was able to have a social life. The facility has a cafeteria which serves regular meals. I know they also arranged shopping trips for their members. A couple years ago they forced him to move to the nursing home part of the facility because he became unable to bath and walk. My aunt was upset with the way the management approached them about the move but to me it seemed appropriate given his declining health. The facility is very expensive in my opinion. I think that if I was given the choice/money I would also want to stay at a facility like this in my old age.