Wickshire Senior Living

We have had somewhat of a mixed experience with Horizon Bay Clearwater. The facility itself is very nice, it's got a warm homey feel and it is always clean and well kept. They also have some very nice, very accommodating people working here. The problem we have run into is that the communication between staff members could use a lot of work, the left hand doesn't seem to know what the right hand is doing. They're always happy to help with any requests, but sometimes you really have to stay on top of them and ask multiple times before something will get done.

I think Horizon Bay is a nice place overall, but there are also a few ways I think they could improve. The facility itself is well kept and clean, and the staff have all been friendly. However, for the price the apartments are a little small. I also believe they're a little too involved in the day to day lives of the residents. I'm not, nor is my loved one, entirely comfortable with things like scheduled wake-up times and bed times. They also tend to implement these sorts of things without consulting the the family first. But overall it is a nice enough place.

Larger facility - it's a large apartment style complex. Didn't have the right feel for what we were looking for. Just too large but the lady was very nice, and the building was nice. Everyone has their own idea of what they want when they go looking, and this was just too large for us.

The nurses were fabulous, but the admin was terrible. The care given by nurses was good-but seeing a doctor and getting meds was terrible. We were told there were monthly outings that never happened. We spent [fee removed] for two months of care and it was not good. We needed them in a pinch so we didn't have a choice at the time. It was great at first but quickly changed. They told us it was a Medicaid facility, which it is not. The communication was terrible. We never even received invoices or information on what to do when we were moving out. They charged an extraordinary amount of money for little to no service sadly. We have since moved my mom to[community name removed] and are so pleased! They are amazing!

My Dad pushed his call button on 3 occasions and he felt it took 20 minutes for them to respond. Once he had fallen and when the aid finally got there she asked him"What do you want me to do?" They run out of options for the main course at dinner and I spoke with the head of dining room and did not get any help. They nickel and dime the residents for everything. No I would not recommend them. I would however recommend Trinity Place in Pasco. Wickshire did seem to have several activities available but my Dad only went to the daily devotions.

My loved one was previously a resident at Wickshire Steele Creek. The admissions person was nice. Staff & communication: a few were friendly and answered questions. Most were lacking people skills, compassion, patience and seemed to want to get you off the phone or pass it onto another person only to get an answering machine most of the time. We were over 2 hours away and work full time jobs. Overall, the communication was bad. I left emails and voice messages with no returns. I had to keep calling. The move in process was medium. Half of the staff was rude out of 3 people: 2 rude. 1 helpful. The meals were fine. Clothing, upon leaving, my loved one only had 5-6 items of his to take with him. Shirts and jeans, 1 pair of socks and his shoes. Who knows what happened to all of his clothes! That's a problem in most facilities. Waste of an elderly person's and family's money. The facility smelled fine and seemed clean. Once checked out to relocate, I signed a form for medication that was left belonging to my loved one to be sent to the facility that he was moving to. Then I was billed for a month's worth regular prescriptions that didn't even leave with him. The bill wasn't paid for, over $400 to Omnicare, by my loved one as he didn't leave with what he was charged for. It's a beautiful facility, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

The food is mediocre at best. There have been times when my mother got her lunch that it was cold. They seem to serve a lot of Fish and Chicken repeatedly throughout the week. there are two women who I feel go above and beyond and taking care of my mother. The med tech is [name removed] and the aid is [name removed]. We trust them to give my mother the attention she needs. I have had quite a few meetings with the executive director. During the meeting she always assures us that the issues we are bringing to her attention will be taken care of, but that never happens. The billing I find to be a little exorbitant. My mother is sharing a room with another woman yet my mother's bill is thousands of dollars a month. I never seem to get a bill that's broken down it's just one lump sum. We have had many problems with the other med techs, whether it's giving my mother the correct dosage of medication, or the correct time that she's supposed to get her medication. Again speaking with the executive director this was supposed to have been taken care of and we went back and forth with them for over a month to finally get it straightened out. We don't know who changed it and we don't know why they changed it from the way it was when Mom first got there. That has been a huge concern, and quite frankly we are getting extremely concerned about this. Every time we go in to visit Mom we have to check to make sure that she has been getting the correct medication the correct dosage at the correct times I don't feel this should be our job. I don't even feel that all the med techs and AIDS are certified.

Staff kept changing without notice, incorrect meds given, pretended not to receive emails and ignored my phone calls. Made my Mom sick with bad food and was hospitalized with no notification to the family. I will never refer anyone here ever. The staff that cared for my Mom was good to her but the new Administrator was very flip and uncaring about my Mom and her overall care. Wickshire changed Administrators 3 times in one year. Not a good look and was a very unpleasant experience for family and my Mom. My Mom got e-coli from Wickshire and it was downhill for her from there. Then they rejected taking her back. She's was pretty okay prior to that.

The services are basic. Anything above food in restaurant, Laundry and house cleaning is an up charge. People need to be aware. For instance Level 1 is a $[removed] up charge. It should provide bathroom help, two showers a week, and putting to bed and getting up. They will only provide this if the resident pushes the button to ask for it. They are not proactive in getting resident up or into bed. My father didn't understand to push the button and slept and soiled in the chair many nights. People need to know they have basic services. No medical personnel on staff except for one who is the head of the department. We were sold on many things that did not come to fruition and learned after what was offered or not offered. My father has fell out of his chair and I wasn't told. He pressed the button this weekend to say he was having a hard time breathing. They have no medical staff but didn't even call hospice to let them know. Overall I am not impressed with the services, but I don't know if that's the same everywhere.

We picked this community, because It wasn't quite as expenisve as others, it was very close to my home,and they offered military discount. The biggest problem that we had is getting the sponsor to interact, with my loved one. We waited a few weeks, and there was one contact within two weeks. They could have done a lot more to make my loved one feel invloved. My loved one did not feel welcomed. In addition, the food was terribe. They have two elevators, and one was completely unusable for most of the time that we were there.

We had to move my grandmother out after only 5 weeks at Wickshire and I was highly disappointed. Prior to admission to their memory care unit, I was told they could handle her needs if she were admitted with hospice care for additional help and she would be able to age in place there. They sent out a referral for hospice (at that rehab center she was at) before transferring her and she was placed on hospice at this time. I was explained that this was "extra help hospice" not end of life hospice by the admissions person from Wickshire. This was not accurate. Hospice stated that she would not be able to have anything but palliative care. Immediately after she moved in, wickshire was not able to physically care for her properly. They were having trouble transferring her as a 2 person max assist and bathing her. Hospice started doing bed baths only and Wickshire staff started leaving her in bed most of the day. They were giving her finger foods because they could not provide the staff to feed her, yet staff was feeding two other people. My other huge disappointment was that we were informed she would be receiving physical therapy and they had the 3rd party company on site. This is one of the main reasons I chose this facility. PT was one of my top priorities which I made well known. This was also not accurate information sales team and they over promised and under delivered. They should have never admitted my grandmother as now I know she really needed a skilled nursing facility. They also have no activities on the memory care unit. They sit them in front of the TV and half the time it isn't even working. They also do not clean the tables after every meal only once per day. We had brought in a tervis with a straw for my grandmother to drink from and upon moving her out I found it was so disgusting and never cleaned and she was still drinking from it that day. The straw was literally filled with gunk. I am thankful for the staff that were caring and kind enough to be honest with me despite the administration telling me they should be able to handle her needs. I would never recommend this place to anyone. I am just happy I moved my grandmother out before she declined any further or she got hurt because they didn't have the staff trained or equipment to handle her.

Our family had an in person tour and Wickshire was not as bright when you walked in, and we did not see any staff members present.

I was not impressed with them at all. It really felt like a traditional nursing home. When you walk in, the smell of body odor hits you right in the face. I knew right away this wasn’t the place I would put my mom. Surprisingly, there was not that much of a difference in cost compared to the place that we chose, which was so much nicer.

The staff was friendly but only seen at the front desk. The lighting was dark. Never saw any residents it was mentioned that it was bought by a new company.

The front desk workers were always very nice as well as a couple of the nurses we dealt with, however the business manager was rude at times, almost insulting and if you had a question she would decide when she would want to answer. So anything but helpful, but the salesman who took us on the virtual tour was very nice and very helpful. We did see the food a couple of times and there was a very high carbohydrate content.

they wouldn't work with our price constraints...didn't even want to show it to me

We were told that my mother could be well taken care of at Wickshire. She needs transfer assistance to move around from her wheelchair, but no one in this facility was able or willing to assist her. They left her laying in the bed for hours at a time because it was easier for them. We were overcharged for days there that she wasn’t even there. I would not recommend this facility to anyone. The nursing staff are rude and disrespectful. My mother was there for 9 days and was not bathed or assisted to shower. It’s a disgrace that they would call themselves elderly care.

My loved one was sick with an infection and they sent her out to the ER and they said she had a stomach virus and sent her back to Wickshire. My loved one called me the next day to say she still didn't feel well and was throwing up until the next time and that she needed to go to the hospital again. The girl is going to say that all they can do is send her right back. Long story short it took my mom to continuously throw up and her blood pressure to sky rocket in order to be sent back to the hospital and now she is sick there. More staff and better doctors to check on the patients would be an improvement. They could also have a cleaner facility and cheaper prices for their care.

The meals were okay. The staff didn't call me when my father fell two separate times. I had to find that out when I came into his room and found bloody bandages. They were also more interested in eating their food than they were helping patients. This wasn't at meal times. It was just during the day or evening. The head of the ward my family member was in didn't know pertinent information about my family member, nor did the facility nurse. I would not recommend this facility to others. On the face, it appears a nice place. They do not take care of their patients in a caring manner.

I showed up for what their Website described as an “open Wednesday “ I.e. tour without appointment. They had nobody available to do a tour. The (legally mandated) bulletin board in the lobby had a notice from the state indicating they had lost their license in [date removed], reinstated in February. They are not currently taking new patients. They also do not accept Medicaid patients. I assume this is because they cannot meet the requirements. I had checked on this place a year or two ago. Medicare had given them an advisory back then. I’m stunned and confused that “A Place for Mom” gives them such a high rating.