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The Meridian at Waterways

3001 E. Oakland Park Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306

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8.4
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47 reviews
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8.4
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47 reviews
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  • 3 star
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5.0 out of 5 stars

The Meridian at Waterways

Everything. From day one till that lady day every single person truly loved my mom and took amazing care of her. They are very open and honest with the residents best interests and welcome input. I'm hoping this service continues as I heard it's gone corporate and things are changing.

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The Meridian at Waterways

The Meridian at Waterways redefines senior living. Our community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida delivers a distinctive lifestyle experience, from spacious, well-designed apartment homes with convenient features to delicious dining, spectacular views of the Intracoastal Waterway and daily activity offerings. Designed like a boutique hotel, The Meridian at Waterways impresses at every turn with elegant decor, floor-to-ceiling water views, and stunning artwork. Gather friends together for an afternoon of fun in the game room or enjoy happy hour at our eighth floor Sky Lounge. Treat yourself to a movie night in our theater or a spa day. Maintenance-free living allows you to spend your time how you wish, doing more of what you love.

Senior living options offered

  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

The Meridian at Waterways

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8.4 out of 10
Review Score47 reviewsWrite a review
Overall Experience
4.2
Cleanliness
4.5
Friendliness
4.4
Care Services
4.1
Staff
4.3
Meals & Dining
4.4
Activities
4.2
Value for Cost
4.1

A Place for Mom has scored The Meridian at Waterways with 8.4 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 11 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time, The Meridian at Waterways has 47 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 4.2 out of 5.

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Last Updated: 10/23/25

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GB

Assisted Living

Resident/client

October 23, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Everyone here is nice they work very hard and very helpful. I really like it here so beautiful.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

October 2, 2025

2.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review

Our Families Unfortunate Experience.

Most of the staff was great but at the time they head a man named [name removed] who was director of health. And due to his inability to do his job he put my mother in the hospital. I will leave it at that. Moved her out as soon as I could.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

September 22, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

The Meridian at Waterways

Everything. From day one till that lady day every single person truly loved my mom and took amazing care of her. They are very open and honest with the residents best interests and welcome input. I'm hoping this service continues as I heard it's gone corporate and things are changing.

Doris C

Assisted Living

Resident/client

August 1, 2025

4.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
4.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Overall I'm Happy Here

The phone system has bot worked properly since I moved in almost 3 years ago. More variety in activities. I'm very pleased with the new activities director!! He's doing a great job

Faith S

Memory Care

Family/friend

June 9, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Assisted living and memory care

The Meridian at waterways in Fort Lauderdale never disappoints! From the staff to the directors , amazing ! They are warm and care with gentleness, they make the residents feel like family : big shoutout to [name removed], memory care director. She is warm and engaging and takes her job of making the residents feel important, safe and comfortable.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Resident/client

May 30, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Outstanding, welcoming and thorough

The view cleanliness customer service friendly employees and highly capable staff are valuable to healthy aging process. The number of amenities offered are vast. The look of the facility and that incredible panama can not be beat!

Todd G

Assisted Living

Resident/client

April 17, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

[name removed] and staff have been wonderful to work with. They have kept the family informed of everything going an and we feel extremely comfortable without mother their care... We highly recommend Meridian to all families dealing with dementia. They are well equipped to deal with all the troubles that arise.

Jay W

Assisted Living

Family/friend

January 7, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

I wish my wife could have stayed longer

It’s a good place but I moved my wife because it was too far from where I was living. It’s a very friendly place because it’s small. I think about 80 rooms. The location is right on the water and that makes going outside a bit special. Also the view from the dining room is spectacular.

Robert E Adams

Assisted Living

Family/friend

December 13, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Incredible team

I looked at several assisted living facilities for my mother. I chose Meridian at the Waterways. Because to me, it was a small facility, and seemed much more like family. I watched the interactions of the employees, and they all help each other. I visit the facility all the time and I can't say enough about how my mother is taken care of. She is somewhat independent, but she does need help here and there and the staff goes above and beyond. I feel like I'm leaving my mother with a family member. My mother is encouraged to go to all the activities such as Chair yoga and Chair volleyball. All great to keep her physically fit and mentally alert. I can't go without mentioning the food and the staff that prepares the food and waits on the residents there.They serve an excellent variety of restaurant quality food. You can't beat the location. It's on the intercoastal, so you see yachts going by all the time, and you can see the ocean from the upper floors. In closing, my mom is 94 years old

Greg

Memory Care

Family/friend

November 22, 2024

1.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
3.0
Value for Cost
1.0
Care Services
1.0
Activities
1.0
Staff
1.0
Meals & Dining
1.0

Memory Care

My father in law suffered innumerable falls and died after hitting his head in one of them. Memory care facilities are small, claustrophobic, and understaffed. Although the facility is lovely, please look past the fact that memory care patients are locked behind a door and hardly ever leave. One instance of understaffing that we witnessed firsthand was when a son asked for assistance changing his father’s diaper and I don’t know if anyone ever came to help him.

Jack S

Assisted Living

Family/friend

November 21, 2024

2.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
2.0
Friendliness
1.0
Value for Cost
1.0
Care Services
1.0
Activities
1.0
Staff
1.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Resident

Staff needs more training Never smile always complain about someone or there job not enough things happening call light always on cleaning people never want to come back can’t get something if not on the menu

Stephanie C

Assisted Living

Family/friend

August 14, 2024

1.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
3.0
Friendliness
3.0
Value for Cost
1.0
Care Services
1.0
Activities
3.0
Staff
1.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Do not trust this place

At first, I was very happy with The Meridian. However, after about three weeks when I needed help with my mother’s pacemaker The Director of health, whose name is [name removed] didn’t even care. Didn’t respond to any of my messages nor did he follow up. Then when I gave them sufficient notice that I was traveling with my mom back to New York City so that they would have enough time to get all of her medication together. Messed that up. They had two weeks to make sure I had everything. After being gone for three days, I realize she did not have her blood thinner, and he had shorted her unto her medication’s. All resulted in emergency surgery. Once I realized that I was missing the blood thinners I reached out to [name removed] immediately and absolutely no response. They need to get their act together. Let our time there be a warning to you.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

June 24, 2024

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
4.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Care Services
4.0
Activities
4.0
Staff
4.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

they were kind, patient and caring.

the staff at Meridian at Waterways allowed our loved one to adjust and were kind. Our loved one has gotten seriously injured and not there currently. We would recommend this community to other families who's loved ones are not very active, there was not much going on there which was good for our loved one.

S C

Assisted Living

Toured community

May 18, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Staff
5.0

Tour and Move in

My mom and I have been working with [name removed] for about a month now. He did our original tour and followed up and has been very attentive. During our tour he was very kind and caring. He understood our needs and made my mom laugh more than I had seen in a while. He visited her 2 different times while she was in rehab and made her move in as smooth as possible. Thank you!

Michelle C

Memory Care

Family/friend

February 24, 2024

1.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
4.0
Care Services
1.0
Activities
1.0
Staff
1.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Multiple Falls

My Father fell many times at Meridian at Waterways. He sadly passed away from his last fall, hitting his head and developing a brain bleed. This review is for the Memory Care floor. The space feels cramped, lack of activities for all levels of residents. Staff is minimal. There is not really anywhere to walk except around the hallways on the Memory Care unit. On the plus side the location is nice, beautiful views, and facilities. However, if you are on the fourth floor you will rarely get to utilize these.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

February 14, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Review for The Meridian at Waterways

I would recommend Meridian at Waterways.It's small and easy to get around.

Jacqueline

Memory Care

Toured community

October 4, 2023

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review

tour review

We were able to have an in person tour with The Meridian and although we liked the place and it was a little more affordable, it was a bit outdated, and I like the way the staff appears at Belmont versus most of the other facilities that we looked at as far as not feeling like you're in assisted living facility

Joyce W

Assisted Living

Resident/client

October 2, 2023

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Dining at The Waterways

I love everything about the dining experience at the Waterways from the professional staff who also care and show compassion with my fellow seniors. The chefs are very prideful and take take the job of preparing & plating our meals to look like a five-star restaurant. The meridian waterways dining program is made for seniors who love a elevated dining experience all 7 days of the week.

nicole s

Assisted Living

Industry reviewer

October 2, 2023

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Staff
5.0

all around - wonderful place to be!

From the first time we walked into Meridian, we immediately were welcomed by a incredibly friendly and helpful staff. [name removed] went above and beyond to make sure our every experience here is wonderful!

Tai

Assisted Living

Industry reviewer

October 2, 2023

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
4.0
Care Services
5.0
Staff
5.0

Best for Residents!

Meridian at Waterways truly does all they can to provide the very best for residents. We love them.

The Meridian at Waterways

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