Parkview Christian Retirement Community

This review is original, although I have sent it to multiple review websites. Parkview (assisted living) is comparatively great. Outside holidays, there are up to 5 optional well-attended activities per day. Large print activity calendars are set directly at patients' doors. A diminutive, charming male personal trainer comes to the door a few times/week, to promote condition-relevant assisted leg exercise. Food was in very good accordance w/ my food handler's training, although if you like your appetizers hot, you'll have to tell them not to serve soup until you are seated. During my career, I have seen even wealthy patients go without enough food. Well, not at Parkview, with the possible exception of pizza day (more later). Residents take meals in a cheerful basement dining room with working windows. Cereal, coffee, creamer, milk, juice & a very ripe banana are served with AM pills before breakfast. Then, for example, 2 eggs, 2 meats, & 2 breads plus a saucer of soft preserved fruit such as berries. Always at hand: Packets of natural raw honey, Smuckers fruit, fake/real sugar, salt & pepper. Syrup & red sauce when needed. De-caff, extra water & hand sanitizer did not appear. Lunch includes milk, juice, coffee, soup or salad, an entree, vegetables, & a starch plus another saucer of canned fruit such as pineapple. Lunch dessert is a half-cup of your choice ice cream & your optional choice syrup. Or 2 cookies, including sugar-free. On pizza day the cuts were small (gee, could someone have taken some?). This concerned me because pizza day does not include soup/salad or vegetables. But it does include one square of garlic bread. On Fridays the usually good food servers seem unengaged. Anyhow, two of the female evening servers stand chatting at length on opposite sides of the entrance isle as people enter, which is rude, then they convert to a Bosnian-style language. I always had to leave before dinner was served, though. The chapel feels extremely casual sometimes, due to the way chairs & clutter accumulate. Each resident has A/C, & many have decent landscaping views. Perhaps because of floor plans, A/C is sometimes horribly positioned to blow straight at patients' recliners. With the window view in mind, consider recliner placement carefully. Consider using a partition, if it's allowed, to change air flow or add privacy. Basement floors are padded and carpeted. However, even sedentary or lean patients will still need shoes with good arch support, because over the years, one just cannot deny that the under-surface of the basement level is concrete. The main lobby can be too warm even on cool days. Two strictly trained vendor dogs routinely sniff for bedbugs quickly. They do not enter rooms with cats. The whole building is secured from the public at night, but families can enter. There are some vibrant as well as many reserved residents; choose your friends well. The assisted living management style is quite reserved. That said, management can be sincerely warm when connecting, & is almost always available immediately, without question. Everyone knows everyone. Which could be a good reason why they seems quirky in their reserved professionalism. However, they have a very, very warm, caring, pleasant/cheerful assisted living team.

My mother has been living at Parkside for almost 2 years now. The staff are kind, caring and supportive in her care and quality of life on a day to day basis. They address her emotional well being and health issues. Thank you! Parkside.

Supplies excellent living for the retired.

I used to work here for many, many years and have since moved on. I do have to say that the staff does genuinely care for the residents. We had wonderful food and have never heard of anyone getting sick from it, like a previous reviewer said. Home cooked meals! We all took pride in our care for the residents. I would definitely recommend it. I do not work there anymore but I would most definitely place my family here if they needed it. That means a lot from an ex employee.