Vista Gardens Memory Care

Beautiful, very clean, caring and accommodating. We toured with Elsie, she was great! We had many questions and she spent a lot of time with us. We found her to be very professional and honest. We’ve toured many places, and some were more of a cattle call, but not the case here. This is a place you Do want your loved one. Thank you Elsie!

I worked full time in activities for a few months and then worked part time in the evenings for about a year. Loved the family vibe and the residents and staff. Great place to work and the residents are treated very well and the whole community is kept up very well!

Dad was here 2 and a half years. This is a very, very special place, privately owned by three Christian men who really do ‘care’. What a difference between the nursing homes owned by big corporations! Decisions are made locally. Menus aren’t created by a dietician sitting in Kentucky who designs menus for 100 nursing homes owned by Big Corporate; they are created by the local chef and the facility even has an organic garden. Individual tastes and requests are accommodated. Nothing was too much trouble when it came to my dad. They really tried to please. Like all facilities, sometimes they were short of staff, but overall they did a great job. The staff appears to have been well educated in the disease of Alzheimer’s/dementia. So no matter the employee — office staff, housekeeping, maintenance — when interacting with a resident they understand the ‘disease’ and when a resident is cussing, yelling, screaming obscenities, they are unphased because they know ‘it’s the disease’. When my dad first arrived he was screaming and breaking plates and lamps. I don’t think any other facility would even have taken him. Somehow they were able to relate to him and get him settled in. They have a wonderful Doctor «A» who comes around once a week to check on residents. So very knowledgable and caring. If your loved one needs a geriatric psychiatrist, they have Doctor Keri who visits a few times a month. He is superb, very empathetic. He safely weaned my father off a drug he felt was dangerous. You will not see residents lying isolated in their beds and ignored. Vista Gardens tries to get residents out of their room and involved, reasoning that this is good stimulation for the brain. They have a theatre room with movies and t a large activities room run by an energetic group of women with caring hearts. Frequently they bring in outside entertainment. One year they even had a luau with a full-​on polynesian show and live music. Large well-​landscaped grounds with many little private areas to sit. The facility itself is absolutely beautiful, inside and out, like an upscale hotel. Even the hallways are unusual in that they are very wide and have glorious high ceilings. There is a library and lots of pleasant lounge areas. Very high quality construction throughout; the builder is one of the owners and the quality is visible for all to see. Excellent sound insulation, very important for dad because his TV was always turned up to the max. No expense spared on the rooms. The furnishings, draperies and cabinetry are all high quality and the colors are pleasing. Does not have that ‘nursing home feel’. Somebody wanted to create the ideal facility for Alzheimers and spent a small fortune. We think they succeeded.

Vista Gardens has been our Mom’s home for the last year and a half and we have always been so pleased with her care. So many fun activities for Mom to participate in and beautiful surroundings. Mom’s sudden health issues got to a point of needing hospice care. We have always been impressed with Mom’s caregivers, nurses, CNA’s and all the staff at Vista Gardens. They all took care of ALL of us these last few weeks as we were by Mom’s side. Staff was bringing us waters, coffee, cookies and grandkids/​great grandkids got to have ice cream parties with their Grandma. We will all miss the wonderful staff and cherish our memories of how well taken care Mom was at Vista Gardens, as well as the family parties we had in the beautiful community room.

The most caring staff in the most beautiful place. I hope I can retire here myself one day.

Came to visit MOM during Dinner I honestly am not sure how this company has not been sued for wrongful termination. Management like to pass the dirty jobs to caregivers and when they make a mistake. The company needs an extreme leadership makeover full of kids running round who’s don’t care about they’re JOBS… We are paying lots of money for this facility to get good care of my MOM.

absolutely the best place for dementia/​alzheimer patients. Beautiful high quality facility, and has the nicest staff — it is unusual because it has many places to wander, many rooms to sit in, all safe and well-​monitored, a chapel, a media room, a private dining room for families to have little parties for their relative, beautifully designed with much thought for needs of memory care patients who have very special needs; normal residences and skilled ursing cannot handle well these types of patients-​it takes a special focus and this place has it. Its VERY CLEAN no smells, the rooms are regularly and frequently shampooed – the carpet being some of the most expensive around since it has been designed not to absorb spills, fluids.
This facility has won several awards and Nancy Reagan herself has put her seal of approval on this facility. The owner is a Catholic doctor and the charitable care and respect for the patients is reflective of Catholic attitudes. You can put your loved one here and not worry about the aspects and problems that plague many rest homes.
I have to say the Care Corner is NOT empty contrary to what one reviewer says, showing 2 photos of empty station. I am there all day when visiting and the caregivers are accessible, there is one person at least in the Care Corner usually more… the only time they are busy and out on the floor instead of in the corner is in the evening when they are doing rounds giving medications or assisting at dinner.