Tampa Gardens Senior Living

Thomas

When we toured Tampa Gardens Senior Living, everything was nice. The facility was very well kept. But when we went to the dining area to look at it, there was a woman there who had her face planted into a plate of food, and everybody was just walking around her and not helping her or anything. The waitstaff there was walking around her, and I didn't like that part. The apartments were okay. They were nice. They had nice sitting areas outside. It looked like the inside was well organized. It was a very nice place.

Dennis

I went to Tampa Gardens Senior Living. It seems like a nice quiet place. The people there seem very friendly. The ones I met in the hallways were always pleasant, which is kind of important when I'm going to be staying in a closed area. They gave me a great tour and showed me everything that was going on there. They told me the cost or what it's going to cost if I want to move in. They have good nursing staff. They have four nurses on staff, which is kind of surprising because the other one I toured only had one. So, that was nice. The people who were giving the tour were very thorough. They showed me several different options, which is always nice. And, that's what I liked about the place. And it's a very comfortable-looking place. It almost looks like a home, like a house you move in yourself. It has pleasant surroundings, too. It's a pretty large area, a pretty large lot. So, you have plants, trees, and patios. You can have a variety of stuff to go to.

Judee

My Mom has been a resident at Tampa Gardens since 2012. Initially she lived in the Assisted Living Area. She is now living in the Memory Care Area . The staff have been great with my Mom. Rosamand gets her to do things that Mom won't to do for me. She also gets Mom to transfer from her chair to her wheelchair. She gets Mom to walk to the bathroom instead if taking the wheelchair. Mom does it happily for her. Rosamand challenges Mom and Mom trusts her. Staff are always willing to support Mom and keep her safe. They manage her medications, provide three meals a day and monitor intake. The staff also complete Moms ADL's and if there are any issues they will let me know and alert the nurse practitioner. I have been very pleased with the care and support Mom gets at Tampa Gardens.

Reviewer RC#0119c

Tampa Gardens Senior Living was very nice. The room and the layout were very nice, too. The director was very upbeat and very engaging. She loved her work, which is excellent. She knew all the residents' names that we met as we went on the tour. It was just very nice. The menus looked very good. The hallways were just very muted. There's no life in the color, but the entranceway and all that was very nice. The people were very engaging. Everybody looked happy and that's important. There was some life there because when someone's going into someplace like that, you don't want everybody to look half dead. I would have chosen that had the other facility not come up with a studio. The director was wonderful. She was very, very nice.

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Beatrice

My friend moved to Tampa Gardens Senior Living. We chose that place because my mother was there before and because she's going to get a hip replacement, and then they have their own rehab so she could stay in the same facility. The staff is excellent. Originally, they didn't have a private room, so she was in a semi-private room, and just recently they had a private room, so we're moving into a private room tomorrow. They do a lot of activities. First thing in the morning, they get bathed and get clean clothes on to get them all fresh. Then she goes down to their dining room in the memory care and she has breakfast. After that, they have activities. So, she went from doing nothing in rehab to getting up and staying busy all day long, and she's doing wonderful. The day that we were checking her in there, it just so happened that she hadn't had lunch, and we were waiting for her room to get ready, and they brought her her lunch. Where she was at before, she was malnourished and dehydrated because the food was so terrible. They brought lunch to her in the office, and she ate everything. She loves the food and she said everybody is really nice to her. They have more aides in the memory care than they do in the assisted living. I looked at a couple other places and I wasn't as impressed as I was with the amenities at Tampa Gardens Senior Living. The facility is immaculate. She's always changed. They started toileting her because when she was in the rehab, she had fallen and broke her femur on the right side, and then she needed a hip replacement on the left side. Now, they're taking her to the restroom like every two hours and she's not reliant on adult diapers anymore. It's really good. They are excellent. They're always informing us about what's going on and how she's getting along. They keep in touch with us all the time, so it's wonderful. She's very limited to what she can do because she can't stand up on her own, but they're really good about helping her get out of a wheelchair and sitting at the dining room table in a regular chair and then getting her up. So they're making a lot of progress with her mobility, in spite of the fact that she needs a hip replacement. They're all expensive. I knew what the expense was going to be because I went through this with my mother. So, we compared their prices with other facilities, and they're all very similar.

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Daniel

Tampa Gardens Senior Living looked fine when we first stepped in. The grounds were well kept. We didn't have a problem with the facility at all except my wife wanted an oven and a refrigerator, not a little box. The staff was very informative, and knowledgeable, and wasn't pushing us at all. She took us to see the units that they had, the layout, and how furniture was established in each one. Their dining area was nice, too.

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