Brookdale Medical Center Kingsley

I love the layout of the rooms that Brookdale Medical Center Kingsley had. It's amazing how the accommodations were beautiful. What I liked most about this place was it's all on one level. I love the space. It's only 410 square feet, but it just seems a whole lot bigger when you walk ...

I love the layout of the rooms that Brookdale Medical Center Kingsley had. It's amazing how the accommodations were beautiful. What I liked most about this place was it's all on one level. I love the space. It's only 410 square feet, but it just seems a whole lot bigger when you walk in. It didn't feel small, even though it is small. They have two types of rooms. They have one room that doesn't have a walk-out and another one that has a walk-out into the courtyard and you have the option of enclosing it. So, you can walk away from that back door right into the courtyard. That was amazing. The front door is inside the building. It's a nice long corridor. The facility was easy to remember. It's a rectangle, so you really can't get lost. It's nice. They have a wonderful library, too. Everything they have is pretty much updated. You can step right into the shower easily, not having any problems as far as trying to get in by yourself. I like that it also has benches that you can actually sit on to have your shower. They showed me one room that had wonderful tiles in the bathroom (the lady gave a disclaimer that some rooms only have all white as opposed to stone-looking tiles on the inside). So, it was nice to see a variety. They had shown me a nice amount of shelving for you in the bathroom. It was just quaint. As for the staff, they have the right representative walking around to show you the area. They even made an apple pie for us.

We visited Brookdale Medical Center Kingsley. The staff all seem to be positive and probably the best you could find. They were all dedicated and were all pretty much long-term workers. It was more modern. It has the basic fireplace in the regular dining room. I thought that the memory care people...

We visited Brookdale Medical Center Kingsley. The staff all seem to be positive and probably the best you could find. They were all dedicated and were all pretty much long-term workers. It was more modern. It has the basic fireplace in the regular dining room. I thought that the memory care people didn't care because they can't remember anything, I thought. It was beautiful and it's a modern-style building. They have their own chef. I have to say the food was excellent. I've never had better food anywhere. They offer food choices. It was smaller in the memory care area. It was nice. I just experienced the regular dining area, that's where we ate, which is large with a big fireplace. The memory care was a smaller room, but it was nice. They do not have too many memory care patients there. We only saw the front grounds as we went in, and it was well-kept. They offered a lot of activities. While we were there, many of the residents were watching a movie. They offered arts and crafts, and regular opportunities. In the memory care, they did show us a bedroom set up and there was a lady who was watching a movie at the time. She had a stack of books on her bedtable that her family had provided in case she wanted to read. I don't know if she was able to read or not, but there is that opportunity that was there. So, I believe they give their residents all kinds of different opportunities. The people who are living there can go out and make some decisions. They have caregivers who will go out to a store to help them if they want to buy things for special occasions. So, they're very flexible. It's a modern design, and I'm not crazy about the way the bedrooms are designed. They didn't have any single rooms; they were all double rooms. They could put a single person in there, but it costs a lot more because that other part of the room isn't being used. Also, the way the room is set up, I wasn't crazy about it. They probably have enough closet space, but I wasn't sure about that for both patients. They encourage the doubles. But they did say if somebody wanted or needed a single, it could be done, but it costs a lot more.