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Cottages of Madison
5555 Burke Road, Madison, WI, 53704
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Cottages of Madison
5555 Burke Road, Madison, WI, 53704
Welcome to Cottages of Madison, an Assisted Living community located in Madison, Wisconsin. The cost of the assisted living community at Cottages of Madison starts at a monthly rate of $2,800 to $6,504. There may be some additional services that could increase the cost of care, depending on the services that you may need. This community does not allow pets of any kind or size.
There are 6 hospitals within 25 miles of Cottages of Madison. The two closest hospitals are Unitypoint Health – Meriter which is 7.6 miles away and Ssm Health St Mary’S Hospital – Madison which is 7.9 miles away.
Some of the key amenities available at Cottages of Madison are:
- Outdoor Areas
- Clubs & Communities
- Beauty & Barber
- Activity Center
Services and Amenities
Services
- Social Outings
- Housekeeping
- English
Activities & Fitness
- Allowed Outdoors
- Karaoke
- Live Musical Performances
- Birthday Parties
- Dances
Dining & Nutrition
- All-Day Dining
- Vegetarian
- Meals Provided
- Low / No Sodium
- No Sugar
Accommodations
- Wheelchair Accessible Showers
- Respite or Short Term Stays Offered
- Wi-Fi/high-speed internet
- Cable or Satellite TV
- Air Conditioned
- Beauty Salon
Care
- Diabetic care
- Memory care
- Incontinence care
- Ambulatory care
- Medication management
- Hospice available on-site
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5555 Burke Road, Madison, WI, 53704
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I would not recommend The Cottages because of our experience in December 2020. My brother had terminal cancer. He was placed at The Cottages of Madison's Elmwood building for nearly the entire month of December, the last month of his life. Here are some of our worrisome experiences that hap...
I would not recommend The Cottages because of our experience in December 2020. My brother had terminal cancer. He was placed at The Cottages of Madison's Elmwood building for nearly the entire month of December, the last month of his life. Here are some of our worrisome experiences that happened last December. My interactions with the manager and administrator were confusing, with them answering my concerns a number of times with solutions that actually never materialized. For example, we complained about there being no call buttons. My brother was not mobile, and was bedridden for most of his stay. The plan was for residents to yell for staff. He had nights when help never came all night long, though he would yell loudly and often. In fact, one night he had to sit on the edge of his bed the entire night because no one answered his shouting all night for the help he needed to lie down. The administration said he would get a monitor twice, but one was never placed in his room. My brother said there were staff that were mean to him. The staff bickered loudly among themselves. The bickering and swearing was so loud I could hear it in the background of phone calls with my brother. It was disturbing. In Dec. 2020, there were no activities at all, nor an activities director. Most alarming were mistakes and neglect when administering medicine. One day, as my brother was deteriorating, an aid judged he could not swallow his pills anymore, so that aid just skipped administering two doses in a row of all my brother's meds (that means at least 8 hours when dozens of medicines were simply skipped.) Even worse, our family and my brother's physician were not notified. I only learned about the missed meds afterwards. I immediately expressed my alarm, but the aid and manager claimed there had been no orders to crush medicine. I looked into it -- I discovered that there had always been orders to crush his medicine if necessary, from the day he arrived. Twice my brother went to the ER because of medicine not administered while in the care of this facility. My husband and I were told that, because of COVID, residents could only have window visits. On our Christmas visit, for which we'd called ahead for an appointment, the kind staff member on duty went to a lot of trouble, getting my brother to the window, using a lift, dressing him etc. This took 45 min. while we waited outside. We thanked her and didn't complain but she volunteered that the delay was due to her being the only staff member on duty for the entire building (the Elmwood building usually had many aids per shift). Privacy locks on patient's doors had been turned around so patients could be locked in their rooms. When challenged on this, the manager said she thought it was an allowable"form of restraint". I am sad my brother had to spend his last days in such a chaotic sometimes dangerous facility. I recommend staying away from this facility at least until county inspections find that The Cottages are meeting the minimum standards. (note: reports and citations on residential care facilities in Dane County are public records you can view as part of your research when making choices for care)
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