The heart of McKenna is with the care providers, who are loyal, trustworthy, and invested in…read moreresidents. The building can benefit from upgrades, but the community within is rich is area that can't be bought. Unity, caring, engaging residents. True friendships between residents are formed. Truly amazing what takes place within the walls of McKenna. Also, connected to the YMCA and a Church, beautiful input from community.McKenna is a hidden gem,

The caregivers care for the residents (they do their best and it's pretty good) and the…read moreadministration has gone downhill in about the last 16 months. A lot of staff turnover, slow to respond to requests. Lots of pleasant nice-nice but something just seems off. And their chief administrator looks like she's with child and she'll be gone at some point, I'm sure. She's been at that job for maybe two years?

We moved our mother to an independent living apartment a couple of weeks ago and it has not been…read morebetter. First of all, the facility is great and staff are kind. Our mother was assigned an ambassador, Grace, who was teriffic at providing an orientation, and as a similarly aged resident, was a new good friend for our mom. The apartment is spacious and has enough, but not too much room, and is pet friendly for mom's cat. Mom likes the food served in the dining room and other residents are making an effort to sit with her, help her find her way to the dining room and back to her unit and help with her orientation. While it has only been a couple of weeks in, we can see that this will be a good move and our mom comments frequently, "This is a nice place."

Have both my mother and my mother in law at the facility. When they moved in 10 years it was…read morewonderful. Facility beautiful, well staffed with amazing people. LifeSpark took over a few years ago unfortunately. Now the facility is extremely short staffed. Office Staff, Nurses and maintenance are delivering meals in the Dining Room. Last week, many in assisted living did not receive their breakfast, and lunch came at 1:30 in the afternoon. Residents were told no chef was on duty. The Happy Hour that many look forward to with appetizers and social hour, has been reduced to bring your own beverage, and the appetizer last week was popcorn. The former Director was out on medical leave but thank goodness will be returning in October. The former Chef also out on medical leave but also will be returning in October. Both individuals ran their departments efficiently and cared about the morale and well-being of the residents. The social/event planner left last week as well as an additional administrative assistant. As for the residents, wonderful group of folks. Extremely frustrated with the situation which is no fault of their own. Many are seeking other facilities.

Clare Bridge is an unique assisted living home exclusively for Alzheimer's and dementia care. The…read moreenvironment and activities are very appropriate and stimulating. The staff are trained for this challenging population and we are extremely happy with the care they give to our mom and the way they include us in the home. They have a beautiful town square and courtyard plus other reminiscent rooms for our loved ones. I highly recommend.

Basically I have a car payment that was due on the 28th, car insurance due on the 1st, a phone that…read moreneeds a service plan, I have surgery coming up next month and won't be able to work for a while, as most of you know I have been diagnosed with HIV and it messes with my breathing bad, I'm up to the wazoo and bills even after raising all three of my credit scores by disputing unnecessary student loans and I don't know what else to do. So I'm going to give this a try and see if it works. The main thing is I need to get a new phone plan for the phone that my I think friend gave me so I can start doing these deliveries, like Postmates, Instacart, GrubHub, Doordash, Uber Eats, Shipt, Fresh Direct, Beelivery and many others that I have signed up for. I also want to add that this all came about when I was suspended for missing several shifts at work at My Brothers' Keeper in Shakopee which is a group home watching over fellows with developmental and intellectual disabilities. there were two primary reasons I was missing shifts. the first one is because my GPS was straight-up malfunctioning and because of all the detours in road closures in the cities, I was late. the second reason was because I was sick in a motel room for probably about 3 weeks or even closer to a month with what I thought was Corona. the company is nurse told me that it was not a priority at the time to get staff tested. a doctor told me that there is no use in getting tested because one in four tests came back with a false positive. a nurse practitioner told me that they were only looking after first responders and their own. The housing director told me that they would have a nurse or something along the lines of that position testing very shortly. I never heard anything back from any of them other than come back when you're symptom-free and without pain meds for three days. when it was time to come back I could barely speak but I was told that a lost voice was not a symptom and to go ahead and come back. I will continue to be sick and I would continue to miss shifts and in this whole process it was suspend me not only once for 2 weeks but again for a month. and then a client at the house overheard the house supervisor speaking about the fact that I would not be returning to work. that client then went and told me what she had said but the story got reversed and allegedly I told him that I would not be coming back and I did this while being suspended there for broke two rules. The funny thing is is there was another staff member and two other clients present but nobody vouched for me. I was told to come in again to the office and speak about boundaries and at that point I quit. earlier on in this process the head of HR and the housing director made a comment about me missing days. I explained to them it was because I was sick and they responded with why were you sick Steven? I responded with I don't know maybe HIV or Corona. they did this and said this with smirks on their face. when I confronted them with the fact that they had no reason to suspend me and I had done nothing before ordering work to ever jeopardize the health or safety of my clients, they had no response. So this is the position that I'm in an unemployment for whatever reason is not giving me a cent. I have 10 days to come up with five hundred bucks, and that's just for the car payment. Then there's car insurance which is 120 bucks, cell phone bill which is roughly 55 bucks, fuel costs which is probably a hundred bucks a week and just the usual toiletries food and honestly I'd like to be able to help out my mother and her fiance which I taking me in. I also would like to be able to pay back people that have loan me money even the ones that have said that I did not have to. My health insurance is covering next to nothing other than thank God, my $3,000 HIV med a month. other than that, they're only covering about 10% of my bills and my caseworker for whatever reason refuses to keep in contact with me. so guys just please help me. if need be I can give you the address of the company that loan me the car and I can give you the car insurance company for the cell phone bill company. I'm stuck. With that said, I do have great support and I thank those who continue to support me and keep me in their prayers.