This is NOT a 'nursing home'!!! It is a senior living facility! There are levels of care that are different for each resident. Some need help with medications, some need help with showering, & some residents don't need any help at all! For food, residents can choose from the main, sit down dining room, or a Bistro, which is more of a grab and go area. There are plenty of seating options & the counter is staffed 'til 3pm with a person making sandwiches, paninis, & pizzas to name just a few of the choices. There is a Memory Wing for special residents and I've not been in there but I do know the staff member in charge of their activities: Caleb. Caleb used to work the reception desk so I saw him more often then. He is one of the most caring & empathetic people who work there. I'm so happy he moved up in the company but I really do miss seeing him when I'm signing in every day!! Truly, it is the people (both the residents AND the staff!!) here that make this place amazing! Starting with the reception staff: Paula, Emily, Patricia, & Noya are SO nice and they're always willing to help if I have a question! The staff that cares for my father is OUTSTANDING! The dining room staff know all the residents by name, and a few of the wait staff have come up to my father's room to visit with him & see his cat! The staff members that assist the wheelchair-bound residents are wonderful people too! I'm forgetting some of them but Bree(sp?), Valerie, & Eleanor, make every day a better day - always with a smile on their faces and a cheerful disposition! The 2nd floor has a small workout room that is usually staffed with physical therapist but open for residents too. There is a salon, a library area, & a "great room" with a big screen tv and lots of seating. There is another room for exercise classes and poker tables, and a room for crafts and Bingo! (Bingo got so busy they had to change it to 2 sessions!!) There is a theater room & they show a movie/TV series every evening, and a matinee every Friday! All of this stuff is coordinated by the Activities Director, Giovanni, and his assistant, Darlene. My father ADORES Giovanni. Gio is the heart and soul of this place!! He is the one who got my father to play Bingo even though my Dad didn't play bingo! Gio got my Dad to attend the Disney matinee even though my 94 year old father doesn't like "cartoons". (In Gio's defense, he is currently showing all the Avenger movies right now - NOT "cartoons"!) Giovanni checks on my dad every single day before going home at the end of the day. Definitely above and beyond the scope of his 'duties'!!! Gio has formed a special bond with my father, and probably with every other resident too! He's just that kind of person. I call him an 'old soul'. He has TONS of vinyl records and he now has a weekly 'musical memories' hour in the theater room. It's in a 'name that tune' format. Music has the power to transport people to a different time and place - but NOT to a different multiverse!!!
Storypoint has a small van that fits the residents walkers & wheelchairs, and a Flex SUV- they just took the residents to the zoo the other day! And they have a couple of grocery store trips each week and many other group outings: restaurants, museums, etc. The main person who drives the residents on these trips is Jeff - also a SUPERB person! One resident told me yesterday how Jeff is a great driver and makes everyone feel relaxed, even when coming home from the zoo in rush hour traffic took almost 2 hours!
To sum this place up: it's the people here that make the residents lives more enriched during the sunset of their lives. They warm my heart read more