Heritage Hill Senior Community

Best staff and service available. The best place for your loved ones.

I have visited Heritage Hill many times to see people very dear to me and they love it here. The atmosphere is inviting. As soon as you walk in the doors, you are greeted with many smiles from employees like Dan, Shannon, Michele, Julian, Tara, Alicia,April, and Ronnie to name a few, and also many pleasant faces of residents living there. The employees are very pleasant and ask 'can I help you'. Jody at the front desk is very helpful no matter what we needed. Denise (the executive director) door is always open and she is the first person you see when you walk in and the last person you see when you walk out of the building. She too, is always pleasant and willing to listen at any time. I have had loved ones at other facilities and you can never find an administrator, executive director anywhere. Their offices are usually hidden. Lisa Perla's door is always open too and if we ever needed anything she attended to it right away and always made sure things were taken care of. I would recommend this assisted living facility to EVERYONE without thinking twice.

Alice Mamounes Karamanol February 20, 2018I have been volunteering at Heritage Hill Senior Community for about 12 years. I am a retired Registered, Board Certified Art Therapist. I volunteer there two times per week; on Wednesdays I hold an art class for residents, and on Sundays I play piano and guitar for the Sunday Devotional Service. I have been very involved in all aspects of the facility. I attend many activities and field trips in addition to my volunteering activities. I feel uniquely qualified to evaluate the facility.I have experienced other similar facilities in my own personal life; my mother spent considerable time in an assisted living home prior to her death. Heritage Hill surpasses others I have experienced in many ways. As a volunteer, I spend a lot of time there. Heritage Hill is clean, well kept and attractive. It is a facility that really cares for their residents, for their physical needs as well as their psychological needs. Each resident is cherished and respected for their individuality, and treated as such. I have attended community meetings where the residents are encouraged to voice their opinions freely. The employees of the facility are kind and caring, both to the residents and to the volunteers. I have always felt welcomed and appreciated, and I love being a volunteer there.Recently, I was asked by a professional organization I belong to, the Art Therapy Credentials Board, to write an article about what I am doing in my retirement. In the article, I wrote a section about my experience as a volunteer at Heritage Hill. I would like to include a section of that article for this evaluation' it will give those who read it 'a window' into what I experience when I'm there.'In 2007 I retired from the Jersey City Schools, and my husband and I moved to a new retirement home in the Pennsylvania Poconos. Naturally, I missed my work, and my students, and I yearned for something that would fill that void. One day I visited an assisted living facility, Heritage Hill, with my friend Josephine Amoroso, who was a hospice worker. She mentioned that I was an Art Therapist, and Debbie Hauze, the Activity Director, overheard her. Debbie came up to us and asked if I would like to volunteer there. I have been volunteering there ever since that day.I work with the seniors, men and women, in art therapy one day a week; it is the highlight of my week. These dear folks are so eager to work with various art materials, and talk about their work, and their everyday activities and cares. We share stories from their past lives and their childhood memories. I look forward to seeing them each week, and they have become very precious to me, more friends than clients. Recently we did a tree project, and when it was completed, I took each finished tree, and talked about it. I told them that a tree is a symbol of the self. I explained how each tree was individual and unique, and represented the characteristics of its creator ... strong, flowing, playful, graceful or searching. They loved how the trees told me about who they were. I also use 'music therapy' at Heritage Hill on Sundays, and volunteer as Music Director for their devotion services ... I play piano for hymns and guitar for praise choruses. My art therapy 'students' sing along with me and worship God. I accompany my seniors on field trips, go to their parties, and celebrate holidays with them. I have become a part of their lives, and they have become an invaluable part of mine'. As a senior citizen myself, the best compliment I can give Heritage Hill is that if the situation arose when I needed assistance in my daily living care, I would happily 'check in' there myself.